The Taste of Mango review – powerful memoir of family secrets in Sri Lanka
Film-maker Chloe Abrahams combines documentary and memory in candid conversations with the women in her family
TikTok to block teenagers from beauty filters over mental health concerns
Social media platform under pressure to improve security as it announces plans to block under-13s from signing up
The Silent Hour review – intriguing cat-and-mouse thriller with deaf protagonists
Our heroes have an unexpected advantage over their murderous pursuers in The Machinist director Brad Anderson’s shadowy crime drama
‘You get desensitised to it’: how social media fuels fear of violence
Young people in Birmingham attest that violent content on apps is having a real-world impact
Violence on social media making teenagers afraid to go out, study finds
Quarter of teens who see violence online are being served clips via algorithms, survey in England and Wales finds
Bread & Roses review – astonishingly brave documentary about Afghan women under the Taliban
Using guerilla tactics, Sahra Mani’s film follows activists campaigning at huge risk to themselves for basic rights in the fundamentalist regime
AI increasingly used for sextortion, scams and child abuse, says senior UK police chief
The fast-developing technology is providing opportunities in ‘any crime type’ – and police must ‘move fast’ to catch up
For now, let’s revel in Bluesky’s promised land and kid ourselves it’ll never get like X
Watching the numbers migrate from Elon Musk’s toxic platform is addictive, but the best social media is finite
Bread & Roses review – Afghan women reveal crushing reality of Taliban rule
Made under dangerous conditions, this documentary charts how the lives of three women were turned upside down by Afghanistan’s overthrow in 2021
Social media ban for UK under-16s ‘not on the cards’ for now, says minister
Peter Kyle meets group of teenagers at NSPCC HQ who say imposing ban would reduce their social connections
Blink review – family’s poignant bucket list trip turns into glossy travelogue
A couple who discover that three of their four children have a degenerative eye disease go on a round-the-world family holiday in this beautifully shot but saccharine documentary
I Want to Talk review – Abhishek Bachchan is Mad Men-style ad man who declares war on cancer
A greater degree of setup would have given this story of a Don Draper type’s determination to beat a terminal diagnosis more dramatic heft
The Flight of Bryan review – magnificent nerds and their remarkable flying machines
This documentary about a 1977 prize for human-powered flight uses archive footage, interviews and reconstructions to cobble together a fun celebration of human endeavour
Celebrities make ‘manifest’ appear as 2024 word of the year
Cambridge Dictionary opts for word now used as a verb meaning to will something into existence
Meta pushes AI bid for UK public sector forward with technology aimed at NHS
Tech giant awards funding to project to shorten waits in A&E, after ‘hackathon’ on using Llama system in Britain