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Taylor Swift: I Knew It, I Knew You review – giddy up! Song for Toy Story cowgirl Jessie is Swift’s best in years

Full of handcrafted care and the rootsy soul of her country origins, this gently elated song is a reminder of what fans love about Swift … and the film series

A disease of deforestation: how Ebola is linked to the smartphone in your pocket

As demand for cobalt, gold and other minerals grows, mining is accelerating deforestation in the Congo basin – and increasing the risk of deadly Ebola outbreaks

Hoppers to Nomadland: the seven best films to watch on TV this week

The latest Pixar is a gloriously cute eco-tale packed with neat gags, robotic beavers and shark assassins named Diane … plus, Frances McDormand is astonishing in the Oscar-winning drama that is an instant classic

Sex, austerity and mugs of vodka: how the Greek myth Iphigenia became a Welsh-language film sensation

The movie adaptation of Gary Owen’s acclaimed play Iphigenia in Splott, Effi o Blaenau, is released this month. Here, its director and crew explain why they relocated the film to a post-industrial mining town – and refused to make it in English

Gary Lineker’s Goalhanger named UK’s fastest-growing business

Producer of The Rest is … podcasts reports sales of £37.9m, boosted by rise in subscriptions and live events

New claimants seek to sue Elon Musk’s xAI after Labour MP’s test case

Jess Asato’s lawyer says others want to take action over demeaning sexualised material created by Grok AI tool

James Handy, known for roles in Top Gun: Maverick and Jumanji, dies at home after stabbing

Son of actor’s girlfriend arrested after 81-year-old found unconscious in his front yard in Tarzana, Los Angeles

Tech companies invoke possibility of Trump’s wrath in fight against Labor’s media laws

Tech giants claim Australia’s free trade agreement with US will be violated as they try to kill a proposal to force them to pay news companies

A uni professor admitted using AI to write an opinion piece. Here’s what it revealed about trust in the technology

Without disclosing that work has been generated using the technology, faith in existing industries will continue to be undermined

Office Romance review – Jennifer Lopez’s romcom return is too much like hard work

Star makes for reliably charming lead in Netflix’s basic throwback, but co-star Brett Goldstein, and his co-written script, lack in fizz

Microsoft to tighten human rights measures after inquiry into Israel’s use of its tech

Announcement seeks to close a difficult chapter for the company after the Guardian revealed its platform was used in mass surveillance of Palestinians

Why is Hasan Piker ‘not conducive to the public good’? Because on Gaza, we punish the witness, not the crime

The UK has banned Piker and Cenk Uygur from entry – but the objectionable things they’ve said are not more dangerous than Israel itself

SpaceX will get off the ground – but a descent from a silly valuation must follow

Investors will buy into the market-leading tech and cult of Musk despite a price that is defying gravity

Starmer accuses Musk of trying to ‘whip up division’ in UK over Henry Nowak murder

PM says Britons are ‘reasonable, tolerant people’ and backs MP’s legal action against Grok firm over fake sexualised images

The Guardian view on NHS records: patients are not raw material for big tech

Editorial: Ministers should end Palantir’s contract before medical confidentiality is sacrificed to Silicon Valley’s appetite for public data

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  • George and Amal Clooney evacuate from French house: ‘We do not know whether our beautiful home will survive’
  • George and Amal Clooney evacuate from French house: ‘We do not know whether our beautiful home will survive’
  • Black people in the US: have you used AI for health-related questions?
  • Black people in the US: have you used AI for health-related questions?
  • ‘It’s the Meryl Streep of the orchestra’: why cinema loves the cello
  • ‘It’s the Meryl Streep of the orchestra’: why cinema loves the cello
  • Raids across UK in crackdown on nuisance car finance texts
  • ‘The crude language of Maga folks’: Joyce Carol Oates criticises Emily Wilson for criticising Nolan’s Odyssey
  • Lloyds Bank to cut £2bn in costs as part of AI-powered strategy
  • ‘Kind of like a fairytale’: documentary tells the unusual tale of Flaco the Owl
  • The best cordless vacuum cleaners in the UK for a spotless home – tested
  • ‘They played noughts and crosses on the PM’s huge forehead!’ An Indian standup picks his favourite gen Z protest memes
  • One big chart: deaths in the Odyssey
  • Hollywood producer charged with seven counts of wire fraud in $100m scheme
  • Meta misses earnings forecasts after Zuckerberg media push to promote AI
  • Hackers steal sensitive data from UK Department for Education and police
  • Excessive time spent online linked to stress and worse mood – study
  • Tony review – knives out in tasty reheat of Anthony Bourdain’s memoir
  • FTSE 100 hits record high despite AI sell-off
  • Atlassian tightens tracking of staff AI use as other technology firms encourage ‘tokenmaxxing’
  • Can’t hear what’s playing on TV? It’s not your ears, it’s the flat screen. These affordable soundbars can help
  • After 40 years, Aliens is still shaping the way video games are made
  • Andrew Scott’s Oscar-tipped Ian Charleson biopic to open London film festival
  • Jared Leto denies accusations of criminal sexual conduct against teenagers
  • Rogue OpenAI agent that hacked startup tried to attack other firms
  • Glen Hansard, Oscar-winning Irish singer-songwriter, dies aged 56 in motorcycle crash
  • Boris Karloff’s unlikely love of cricket lives on with foundation in his name
  • Billy Liar review – Tom Courtenay is superb in classic study of a young man and his quixotic dreams
  • Personal Problems review – an exhilarating lo-fi epic of Black working-class life in 80s New York
  • Datacentre projects face fees for grid access to ease connection queue, Ofgem says

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