Tech

The social media algorithm has left me behind. I’m unc and I’m chopped

If you have to Google an internet or gen Z/alpha slang term, you absolutely shouldn’t be using it. I’m accepting this milestone with quiet dignity

Nazis and Happy Feet collide in Penguin Colony, a psychological horror game set at the world’s end

Explore Antarctica as a flightless bird – and dodge some earthly monsters – in this surreal adaptation of HP Lovecraft

Trump's AI Exemption Isn't an Oversight Gap. It's a National Security Masterstroke

The Trump administration made a sound distinction this week when it told leading AI companies that open-weight models would remain outside a new voluntary federal safety-testing framework.

‘The first time I felt art in my nose’: why a critic missed the point when he called my exhibition meaningless

Projects like London’s Backyard Biennial East are collective endeavors aiming to reach people who feel excluded by art galleries

Practical Magic review

Preceding a long-awaited sequel, Griffin Dunne’s supernatural suburban romance gets a big-screen rerelease. With its romcom quirk, buttery cinematography and stabs of black comedy, it remains a zany gem

How Theory Took Over the World

The French writers of the postwar era argued that the author's life is irrelevant. Emily Eakin's lively new book proves them wrong.

Tech companies know everything about me – so why do they try to sell me so much rubbish?

No, Amazon, I do not want to buy another version of the thing I just bought, or any other random object I don’t recognise or understand

The Shards review

Murphy is back on form with this gorgeously curated, shot and scored adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel – about a serial killer stalking privileged LA teenagers

Restaurants, pubs and theatres ban Meta’s ‘spy glasses’ over privacy fears

Meta says safeguards are in place to prevent surreptitious filming, but some UK venues now prohibit them from being worn at all

FAA orders inspections on hundreds of Boeing 737 Max jets for fuselage cracks

Federal regulators have ordered nearly 500 Boeing jets in the U.S. to be inspected for cracks in the fuselage. Kris Van Cleave has the details.

Metroid at 40: happy birthday to Samus Aran, gaming’s greatest badass and my personal heroine

Being a woman who loves video games has often felt lonely, like being on a hostile planet – but Metroid’s female space hunter has been with me all the way

Google is expanding its AI empire

Google’s cloud boom is testing the company's commitment to frontier AI as commercial returns take priority.