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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis settle legal dispute with Mail Online

Hollywood couple reach ‘satisfactory resolution’ over publication of images taken of their baby daughter during outing

Samsung: leaked texts shed light on company’s manipulation of press

SMS messages revealed in corruption trial show South Korean journalists requesting favours for positive coverage, as watchdogs decry company’s power

Experts sound alarm over news websites’ fake news twins

Kremlin supporters suspected to be behind fraudulent articles designed to look like they came from Le Soir and the Guardian

Message showing apparent hack appears on neo-Nazi Daily Stormer website

Twitter account linked to the Anonymous network of hackers says apparent hack might be a stunt initiated by neo-Nazi site

Journalists to use ‘immune system’ software against fake news

Full Fact software backed by George Soros and Pierre Omidyar fact-checks statements in parliament and news media in real time

Mary Beard abused on Twitter over Roman Britain’s ethnic diversity

Classicist says her assertion that there was at least some diversity under Roman rule led to ‘torrent of aggressive insults’

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos – briefly – becomes world’s richest man

Share price jump of 40% in 2017 made founder worth $91bn – for a short while leapfrogging the fortune of Microsoft founder Bill Gates

City of Ghosts director Matthew Heineman: ‘Imagine seeing people crucified – every day’

Their families have been killed, they live in hiding, but a brave group of Syrians continue to defy Islamic State by reporting its atrocities to the world. The director of a new documentary explains how he told their shocking stories

Press Association wins Google grant to run news service written by computers

News agency gets €706,000 to use AI for creation of up to 30,000 local stories a month in partnership with Urbs Media

Boris Johnson praises Donald Trump’s tweets for ‘engaging people’

Foreign secretary suggests he might like to follow US president’s approach to Twitter, saying it has gripped imaginations

Barry Norman: ‘His enthusiasm and love for film always shone through’

The face of the BBC’s Film programme for almost three decades was an accessible, unpretentious surveyor of cinema

Rebel Wilson has landed a blow on the relentlessly aggressive media

The actor’s defamation win is not a victory against Australia’s tall poppy syndrome, but a turning of the tables on the media culture towering over us

Mail Online story about alleged cause of Grenfell fire prompts around 1,300 complaints

Press watchdog will assess complaints about article focusing on man whose faulty fridge allegedly started west London blaze

Farewell Walt Mossberg, the scourge of Silicon Valley

His pioneering journalism held the industry to the same standards as other manufacturing sectors

Trump, fake news, and shrinking newsrooms: does journalism still matter in 2017?

Discussions about the future of journalism have broken out of the newsroom and into Australia’s public debate. How will society adjust its information needs?

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  • Canadian mother sues OpenAI, alleging ChatGPT led her daughter to kill herself
  • The Guardian view on the analogue resurgence: the shock of the old
  • Helen Mirren speaks out about being called ‘evil Zionist’ on the street in London
  • Musk’s xAI fired engineer for raising concerns about Grok chatbot, lawsuit claims
  • SpaceX heads for record $1.78tn float amid fears it is overvalued
  • Playing with payphones: how the ubiquitous orange booths have been gamified by fans
  • Cassette tapes were the voice notes of my youth, bringing tales from the diaspora to our living room
  • ‘I’m not bad, I’m just drawn that way’: Kathleen Turner’s best films – ranked!
  • AI wealth boom sending San Francisco home prices surging: ‘It’s ridiculous’
  • ‘This is honest art. Like Dostoevsky’: Tim Allen and Tom Hanks on Toy Story 5, tech peril and the joy of rusty nails
  • AI absolutism is breaking our brains. The apocalyptic future we’re being sold isn’t inevitable
  • ‘Now they can’t afford me’: Steven Spielberg was turned down to direct Bond – twice
  • Who you gonna maul? Why Paul Feig’s derided all-female Ghostbusters dazzles a decade later
  • Stop! That! Train! review – RuPaul-led zany drag comedy is a riot
  • The best robot vacuums in the UK to keep your home clean and dust free, tested
  • Strictly Ballroom review – Baz Luhrmann’s dizzying, dance-tastic swirl of fun is a classic ugly-duckling tale
  • Met police chief calls for law to make stolen phones ‘unusable bricks’
  • ‘They kissed, and the audience roared’: the new musical about gay activists and striking miners
  • French star Patrick Bruel charged with rape and sexual assault
  • Labor to set terms for datacentre and AI growth as it vows not to repeat mistakes of resources boom
  • Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir receives lifetime achievement award at Sydney film festival
  • Stephen Ogilvie’s family appeal for calm on second night of disorder – as it happened
  • Elon Musk’s X not facing action from UK government over posts inciting violence in Belfast
  • Glenn Close and Ridley Scott among names set to receive honorary Oscars
  • The Guardian view on far-right violence: digital radicalisation is threatening democracy
  • Sales of Meta whistleblower’s memoir soar after Hay festival ‘silencing’
  • How to Talk Australians: The Movie review – viral web series lampooning Aussie culture gets big-screen adaptation
  • First trailer for Aaron Sorkin’s Facebook sequel The Social Reckoning
  • Actor Tyler Mane reveals he is having treatment for rare male breast cancer
  • Under the Shadow review – Leila Farzad is fantastic in this nerve-shredding tale of 80s Tehran

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