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Child sex abuse is all around us – and online it can start with legal porn

Men not originally sexually attracted to children sometimes seek more extreme content, research shows

Why health trackers can push you off the road to wellness

As we know more about our bodies, from wearable tech to data feedback, so our health anxiety increases. So is it better not to know?

Maya Hawke: I’m OK with having a life I don’t deserve due to nepotism

Actor, daughter of Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, says she rejected path of ‘changing name and getting nose job’

UK mother of boy who killed himself seeks right to access his social media

Ellen Roome says firms should be required to hand over data in case it can help parents understand why their child died

Could AI help cure ‘downward spiral’ of human loneliness?

One computer scientist says we should embrace human-machine relationships, but other experts are more cautious

More than 300m children victims of online sexual abuse every year

First global study of its kind exposes ‘staggering scale’ of crime, with one in nine men in the US admitting to the offence

MPs urge under-16s UK smartphone ban and statutory ban in schools

Commons education committee chair says online world poses serious dangers and parents face uphill struggle

Call for stricter rules to stop UK MPs repeating conspiracy theories

Demos report come after two ministers publicised unverified claims about low-traffic neighbourhood schemes

Campaigners ‘thrilled’ as St Albans aims to be smartphone-free for under-14s

Daisy Greenwell from Smartphone-Free Childhood says move likely to have domino effect in other parts of UK

Everyone’s so intolerant online. Am I right to stay silent?

Call-out culture has left many of us afraid of posting. Africa Brooke offers suggestions for navigating online hostility

‘It’s basically inaccessible without a phone’: are kids losing their love for music?

Children used to obsessively put CDs and 7-inches on repeat, but streaming means they need digital devices and parental permission to play music. And there’s little being done to help

In Flames review – Pakistani horror mines the patriarchy for terror and despair

Societal threats are already heavy for medical student Mariam when bereavement leaves her undefended and the story untethers from realism

Anora review – stellar turn from Mikey Madison in sex work non-love story

Sean Baker’s tragicomedy features Madison as an escort betrayed by a bratty oligarch’s son who she marries in a film that offers a more realistic take than Pretty Woman

Slow review – intimate portrait of asexual romance unfolds at unhurried pace

Shot on 16mm, Marija Kavtaradze’s quiet drama tells a mature and moving story about the many ways people can be in love

I have finally mastered a TikTok recipe for bao buns – but they take almost five hours

What am I doing with my one wild and precious life? Struggling to follow fast, frantic cookery instructions and developing a whole new swearing habit, writes Zoe Williams

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  • Starmer says he hopes social media ban for under-16s will come into force next spring – UK politics live
  • UK under-16s social media ban: which apps will be blocked and how will it work?
  • The Toymaker’s Key review – steampunk sci-fi animation is eclectic if overwrought
  • How Australia’s social media ban has affected families six months on
  • ‘Loving our country sounds like an abused spouse saying they love their abuser’: Robert De Niro leads crowd in rallying cry against Trump
  • Social media firms hit back as Starmer announces ban for under-16s in UK
  • The man who bought Diane Keaton’s nail clippers also owns Whoopi Goldberg’s teapot: ‘It will have her fingerprints on it’
  • Disclosure Day: alien conspiracies, car chases and a jaw-dropping climax – discuss with spoilers
  • Familiar Touch review – Kathleen Chalfant is wonderful in subtle, sensual memory loss drama
  • Angel’s Egg review – Mamoru Oshii’s dazzling 1985 anime is an eerie philosophical adventure
  • The problem with ‘loneliness influencers’ isn’t their friendlessness – it’s the air of cosy defeatism
  • Dry Leaf review – three-hour amble around the football pitches of Georgia in search of a daughter
  • ‘More relevant now than ever’: how Virginia Woolf recaptured the cultural zeitgeist
  • ‘Distressingly beautiful and disorienting’: the Willem Dafoe film that only one person can see at a time
  • Europe is starting to break up with US big tech. But it’s still abiding by the Silicon Valley rulebook
  • Starmer to announce ‘Australia plus’ ban on social media for under-16s
  • A day in the life of a dancer who went viral for pretending to be a parakeet
  • Why is the UK launching an ‘Australia plus’ social media ban and how will it work?
  • Scientists are working on headphones that block annoying noises and allow the ones you love? I can’t wait!
  • Readers reply: Experts say we should use passkeys, but can a smartphone pin really be safer than a password?
  • Elon Musk and co may relish march of the robots but there must be AI boundaries in the workplace
  • ‘Have I been influenced, or is this actually me?’ How personal taste fell out of fashion
  • X accused of giving racists ‘impunity’ after refusing to bar N- and P-word posts
  • NHS staff battling wave of food supplement disinformation
  • ‘I should know better’: tech expert lost £70,000 in one simple phone call
  • Make platforms that promote violent content pay towards riot costs, Streeting says
  • UK government announces £132.5m after-school clubs package
  • Pioneering UK Nerve Lab harnesses AI to map effect of children’s screen time
  • ‘Loneliness influencers’ are racking up views. After a breakup, I see the appeal
  • ‘Why would you put a toxic product into the hands of a young child?’: director turned activist Beeban Kidron on why big tech needs its ‘tobacco moment’

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