Apple launches legal challenge against UK government demand to access data
The Home Office has made a fresh request for ‘back door’ access to encrypted iCloud data belonging to British users
Fred Stone obituary
Other lives: Engineer whose company made parts for toys and machines, and who was also an expert model maker
Vincent Pastore obituary
American actor best known for his role as Salvatore ‘Big Pussy’ Bonpensiero in the US TV crime drama series The Sopranos
Justin Hardy, director of Wicker Man sequel, dies three weeks before its premiere
Hardy, a Bafta-nominated film-maker, has died aged 61, having completed a sequel to the cult 1973 folk-horror made by his father Robin Hardy
Spider-Man: Brand New Day makes $932m at box office in second biggest opening weekend in history
Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige hails ‘phenomenal’ opening, which followed box office already buoyed by The Odyssey and Toy Story 5
Children using social media at younger age appear to do worse in school tests
Pupils who open accounts aged 11 to 12 score lower in some subjects than those who wait a few years, study finds
Kmart sells out of low-cost rival to Meta camera glasses across Australia amid warnings of ‘privacy nightmare’
Expert says people face being filmed without their consent as $89 Anko smartglasses sell out in stores and online
Best TV shows and movies streaming in Australia this month
Discover what’s coming to Netflix, HBO Max, Disney Plus, Prime Video and others in August, including new Ted Lasso, My Brilliant Career and Masters of the Universe
Lonely planet: why are we addicted to the social media scroll when it is so clearly harming us?
I am hanging on to a product that makes people I loathe more super-rich while they trash the world
Spider-Man: Brand New Day: new characters, new flaws, new tech and brain-exploding future consequences – discuss with spoilers
Now you’ve seen the new Spidey, let’s talk about new baddies (or are they goodies?), X-Men alumni, painful relationships and a potential Spidey-pig
Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
For the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present – and future. The hyperactive result is a dismal, mindless mess
Nolan’s film could make The Odyssey the most sought-after book in the US
The nearly 2,700-year-old epic poem is flying off shelves at bookstores and libraries after the blockbuster film came out
‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice
This Tempting Madness review – watchable psychological suspense offers Mexican standoff of gaslighting
Pleasingly potboilerish tale of a woman trying to make sense of a traumatic fall that left her comatose slightly loses track of its toxic mind games
Nolan’s Odyssey shows what happens when a leader’s violations are rewarded
The Greeks learn at Troy that breaking the rules works, then carry the lesson home. Nolan’s film shows how an exception becomes a habit of power