Rise in talk about killing in films raises health concerns, researchers say

Study finds small but significant increase in characters talking about murder or killing over past 50 years

TikTok has opened the door to a new age of medical misinformation – and I’m seeing the results in A&E

I am now seeing patients who have chosen not to take medication on the advice of online wellness influencers, says doctor Ammad Butt

Lisa Nandy urges YouTube and TikTok to promote better content for children

UK culture minister says government wants to ‘open a dialogue’, but will intervene if platforms do not comply

How I beat overwhelm: I deleted my email app – and my sleep suddenly improved

Checking my emails at every possible opportunity had become distracting and draining. So I set myself new boundaries

‘Why are my biceps so small?’ The boys and young men turning to steroids

A generation of young people are being raised on a vision of masculinity that glorifies muscular bodies. Performance and image enhancing drugs offer a quick – but potentially risky – way to achieve their goal

Are young people’s attention spans really shrinking? It’s more complex than you might think

Distractions long predated today’s fast-moving online world, says culture and technology professor Marion Thain

Blind people excluded from benefits of AI, says charity

New president of the Royal Society for Blind Children calls for better design of AI-driven technology

I’m ashamed of what I said about Blake Lively. Her allegations should shock us all

A complaint filed by the actor against her It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni paints a disturbing picture, says Guardian deputy music editor Laura Snapes

How far do Elon Musk and Reform UK share a political vision?

Immigration, culture wars and shrinking the public sector all feature highly on their agendas

The Six Triple Eight review – true story of heroic black women’s battalion fails to deliver

Kerry Washington is the saving grace in Tyler Perry’s plodding drama about the US army corps tasked with clearing piles of undelivered second world war mail

Can I survive for 24 hours without GPS navigation?

Spatial memory is a use-it-or-lose it commodity, so I gave life without Google Maps a try

Cutesy goths and McMansions: the viral 2024 trends you didn’t know about

This year’s TikTok microtrends drew on mid-2000s screensavers and Tuscan kitchens, romanticizing (supposedly) better days

‘Pick and mix of horror’ online pushes young people to violence, UK police chief says

Counter-terrorism leader says there is often no ideology behind ‘grotesque fascinations’ with extreme content

If you’ve got children, you need to watch Swiped – and see how sick their phones are making them

A TV documentary has revealed the toll of smartphone use on 11-year-olds’ mental health, and the consequences of addiction, says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

Standing Up review – autism gets sappy treatment in didactic family road movie

Familiar worries about how to raise a neurodiverse child are played out with empathy but little subtlety