Tech

A Ghost in Your Ear review

Hampstead Theatre, LondonWith shades of MR James and Inside No 9 Jamie Armitage’s innovative recording studio haunting is a good old-fashioned fairground-ride chiller

Four months and 40 hours later: my epic battle with 2025’s most difficult video game

When Hollow Knight: Silksong came out last summer I was in so much pain that I didn’t know if I’d be able to play it. Could a video game teach me anything new about suffering?

The Guardian view on regulating big tech: politicians must back Ofcom’s challenge to Musk

A flood of non-consensual deepfake bikini shots on X is putting the UK’s Online Safety Act to the test

‘A celebration of the carefree’: why Ferris Bueller’s Day Off is my feelgood movie

The latest in our series of writers celebrating their favourite comfort watches is an ode to John Hughes’s 1980s classic

JD Sports plans to let shoppers buy through AI platforms

Retailer to allow ‘one-click purchases’ through assistants such as ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot, beginning in US

From street stalls to startups

With criminals in the digital world becoming ever more sophisticated, Mastercard is working relentlessly to keep smaller, and potentially more vulnerable, enterprises out of their clutches