Police say alleged filming by Ioannis Aidinidis with a camera hidden in a sock was believed to be on behalf of IranA Greek national has been accused of spying on an Iranian journalist in the UK by using a covert camera hidden inside a sock, a court has heard.Ioannis Aidinidis, who was born in Georgia and lives in Germany, is alleged to have carried out surveillance on a London-based journalist working for Iran International, a Persian-language TV channel. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/may/29/greek-man-ioannis-aidinidis-court-charged-spying-iranian-journalist-london">Continue reading...</a>

Police say alleged filming by Ioannis Aidinidis with a camera hidden in a sock was believed to be on behalf of Iran

Greek man appears in court charged with spying on Iranian journalist in London

Fleet Street’s first female advertising director rose to the top of a male-dominated industry and championed other women throughout her careerCaroline Marland, the Guardian’s trailblazing former managing director who broke glass ceilings and helped others do the same, has died at the age of 80.Marland, who became Fleet Street’s first female advertising director, was a pioneer in spotting the potential of the classified ad market for newspapers. She rose to the top of the male-dominated newspaper industry and championed other women throughout her career. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/29/caroline-marland-trailblazing-guardian-executive-dies">Continue reading...</a>

Fleet Street’s first female advertising director rose to the top of a male-dominated industry and championed other women throughout her career

Caroline Marland, trailblazing Guardian executive, dies aged 80

The births, fledgling flights and even first dates on Robert Fuller’s site are about to hit a million global subscribersHaving enjoyed setting up bird boxes with his father as a child, the wildlife artist Robert Fuller wanted to go one step further. While he happily spent hours making the boxes and dotting them around the Yorkshire Wolds, he found it tantalising that he was unable to see exactly what the nesting owls, kestrels and kingfishers were up to.It transpires Fuller was not alone in his curiosity. His YouTube channel, which livestreams footage from his artificial habitats and documents his love of British nature, is about to hit a million global subscribers. His channel now generates on average 2.8m monthly views. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/may/30/wildlife-artist-robert-fuller-nestboxes-youtube">Continue reading...</a>

The births, fledgling flights and even first dates on Robert Fuller’s site are about to hit a million global subscribers

‘Nature’s soap opera’: how a wildlife artist’s nestboxes became a YouTube hit

From The Twits to The Gruffalo and an angry bear in search of his hat… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how they bring children’s books to lifeSpread across a sprawling 17th-century industrial complex in London’s Clerkenwell, the Quentin Blake Centre for Illustration, which opens next month, is being billed as the largest institution of&nbsp;its kind anywhere in the&nbsp;world: a permanent national home for an art&nbsp;form that shapes everything from children’s books and political cartoons to animation, fashion, advertising and digital&nbsp;culture. Part museum, part gallery and part creative laboratory, the centre represents an extraordinary attempt to drag illustration out of the margins and finally place it at the heart of British cultural life.Eventually the centre will become home to Blake’s own enormous archive: 40,000 drawings created by one of the UK’s best-known and most immediately recognisable artists. Now 93, Blake has spent three-quarters of a century bringing the words of some of our most beloved authors to life. Roald Dahl is the big one, of course – it’s impossible to think of Dahl without seeing&nbsp;Blake’s energetic, dip-pen pictures – but the list&nbsp;also includes Michael Rosen, John Yeoman, Sylvia Plath and Voltaire, as well as Blake’s own books. In&nbsp;other&nbsp;words, it’s difficult to find anyone with the same authority. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/may/30/i-am-very-serious-about-being-silly-childrens-illustrators-on-the-art-of-storytelling">Continue reading...</a>

From The Twits to The Gruffalo and an angry bear in search of his hat… Quentin Blake, Cressida Cowell, Axel Sheffler, Lauren Child and more reveal how th...

‘I am very serious about being silly’: children’s illustrators on the art of storytelling

Bushra Shaikh, from Surrey, who appeared in The Apprentice, ‘ highly active’ in spreading regime messageA UK television personality went on two state-sponsored tours of Iran this spring where she met senior officials and was “active” in spreading the regime’s message, according to an investigation by a Iranian factchecking organisation.Bushra Shaikh, from Surrey, owned a luxury clothing <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.instagram.com/iila_official/">brand</a> and finished ninth on series 13 of The Apprentice in 2017, where she <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/profiles/2DgD8l2qmXg63MTmfcG2kTG/bushra-shaikh">described</a> herself as “inspired by Coco Chanel”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/29/bushra-shaikh-uk-influencer-met-senior-officials-state-sponsored-tours-iran">Continue reading...</a>

Bushra Shaikh, from Surrey, who appeared in The Apprentice, ‘ highly active’ in spreading regime message

UK influencer met senior officials on state-sponsored tours of Iran, factchecking body finds

Santiago Campos says he felt obligated to criticize the network’s direction, which ‘stains legacy of Mike Wallace’Standing in front of the most powerful and well-known people in the television news business on Wednesday night, in a glitzy New York City ballroom, 18-year-old high school student Santiago Campos shocked – but also delighted –&nbsp;many in attendance when he called out the network that funded the scholarship he received: CBS News.Campos, a graduating senior at the District of Columbia international school who had traveled to New York for the 47th annual news and documentary Emmy awards with his mother and teacher, was awarded the Mike Wallace memorial scholarship, honoring the legendary television interviewer. Campos was given the award by veteran 60 Minutes correspondent Scott Pelley, who said: “Mike would see something of himself in this year’s recipient.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/may/29/student-cbs-scholarship-winner">Continue reading...</a>

Santiago Campos says he felt obligated to criticize the network’s direction, which ‘stains legacy of Mike Wallace’

Student awarded CBS News scholarship explains why he called out network at event: ‘I had to do it’

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’Jurassic World Rebirth and Rogue One director Gareth Edwards has enthusiastically endorsed the use of generative AI in film-making, saying “it is a fucking genius at helping you” and “it’s going to be better than CGI”.Edwards was speaking at AI on the Lot, an event in Culver City, California, organised by Amazon, and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/gareth-edwards-excited-ai-filmmaking-1236608376/">in remarks reported by the Hollywood Reporter</a> said: “I can’t see a reason why you wouldn’t become interested in this stuff as a film-maker. It’s so clearly a tool that might be up there with the camera. It’s going to be better than CGI.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/29/star-wars-rogue-one-director-gareth-edwards-praises-ai-film-making">Continue reading...</a>

Speaking at Amazon’s AI on the Lot event, the Rogue One film-maker Gareth Edwards said ‘it’ll do anything you ask’ and ‘it’s going to be better than CGI’

‘Like a billionaire on acid’: Star Wars director Gareth Edwards comes out in favour of AI

The actor’s alleged clashes with colleagues have sparked rumours about his future on the hit show – which others dispute. But these aren’t the first accusations of him being a tricky colleagueIf you’re at all familiar with the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/mar/30/mobland-review-tom-hardy-guy-ritchie">Paramount+ series MobLand</a>, these past few days will have come as an absolute revelation. At long last, just when everyone thought it wouldn’t ever be possible, something exciting has happened. Unfortunately, it didn’t happen onscreen.Instead, rumours are swirling that Tom Hardy has been fired. Almost a week ago, Puck reported that Hardy had departed the MobLand set after clashing with cast and crew. As things currently stand, that has been walked back a little – partly because Paramount has yet to greenlight a third series at all – but the takeaway remains the same: Tom Hardy sounds like an absolute nightmare to work with. 
 According to the Hollywood Reporter, his MobLand behaviour has involved a greater insistence on creative control – delivering script notes to producer Jez Butterworth and creator Ronan Bennett – while generally arriving late and locking himself in his trailer for hours on end. “He kept the cast waiting, [which is] a power play,” a source told the outlet. “Keeping Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren and others waiting is career suicide, I would wager.” This appears to be a wager that the source has lost, given that Mirren posted a photo of Hardy’s face on Instagram last night, captioned “Love you now and always”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/has-tom-hardy-been-fired-from-mobland-paramount">Continue reading...</a>

The actor’s alleged clashes with colleagues have sparked rumours about his future on the hit show – which others dispute. But these aren’t the first accu...

Turning up late and making Helen Mirren wait: has Tom Hardy been fired from MobLand?

The creator of It’s a Sin is back – and he’s furious. His new series, Tip Toe, explores the rise of homophobia through a feud between two Manchester neighbours. He and stars Alan Cumming and David Morrissey talk death, fear and ‘joy as a form of protest’Late at night on Manchester’s Canal Street, the heart of the city’s famous queer scene, two neighbours are at war. An escalating feud between gay bar manager Leo (Alan Cumming) and reserved, judgmental neighbour Clive (David Morrissey) shows no sign of abating. Yells from Leo are so loud they echo down the canal. The street is not closed to the public as their altercation plays out, so you can’t tell who in the background is an employee at Leo’s bar, Spit &amp; Polish, who is a regular, and who is a member of the public out for their midweek pint. In the background, an ambulance’s lights flash while unflappable drag queens continue to flyer for their neighbouring bars.Russell T Davies’s Tip Toe, a new Channel 4 drama, looks at how political rhetoric, toxic online bullying and misinformation can add jet fuel to a feud between neighbours. The location of the series won’t be lost on viewers of Queer As Folk. The 1999 classic, which regularly featured scenes shot in Canal Street, followed the lives of three gay men, in a way that not only made being gay seem cool, it also reflected a new era of tolerance. Viewers took from it that the future could only be bright. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/inside-russell-t-davies-tip-top-drama-alan-cumming-david-morrissey">Continue reading...</a>

The creator of It’s a Sin is back – and he’s furious. His new series, Tip Toe, explores the rise of homophobia through a feud between two Manchester neig...

‘How often I’m called a paedophile online is shocking’: inside Russell T Davies’s horrifying drama about rising hatred

The Department of Justice’s blatant disregard for the constitution and attempt to hide the law is disturbingOn Tuesday, a federal judge unsealed records showing that the Department of Justice tried and failed to get search warrants targeting journalists <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/02/don-lemon-georgia-fort-arrest-first-amendment">Don Lemon and Georgia Fort</a>, as well as three protesters involved in the Cities church demonstration in St Paul, Minnesota, last winter.A court rejected the search warrants – twice. In strikingly blunt opinions, magistrate judge John Docherty said officials <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141.1.0_2.pdf">didn’t meet basic legal standards</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141.4.0_1.pdf">chastised them</a> for failing to mention a federal law that may have made some of the warrants illegal. The Department of Justice later <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141/gov.uscourts.mnd.232141.9.0_1.pdf">withdrew</a> the requests. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/29/journalists-search-warrants-justice-department">Continue reading...</a>

The Department of Justice’s blatant disregard for the constitution and attempt to hide the law is disturbing

Why are journalists being subjected to search warrants in the US? | Caitlin Vogus

As its third season ends, Sam Levinson’s HBO show reflects the grim future that gen Z faces. Its rage-bait is precisely the pointThe <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/13/euphoria-season-three-review-sydney-sweeney-zendaya-hbo">third season</a> of Euphoria has been almost impossible to ignore for anyone with a smartphone. The <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/hbo">HBO</a> drama, which started off in <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/aug/06/euphoria-review-zendaya-rue-sex-drugs-teen-drama-skins">2019</a> following a group of hedonistic, privileged teens, has evolved into television’s answer to rage-bait, creating moments that are specifically designed to dominate the news feed with memes and outrage. Even before we reach the season finale, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/apr/29/euphoria-season-3">we’ve seen</a> OnlyFans storylines, pup play, sugar daddies, mummification fetishes, a disastrous wedding, fingers and toes being sliced off, venomous snake attacks, cockatoo assassinations (RIP Paladin), gangster shootouts and (several) characters being buried alive.In season three, Euphoria picked up its story five years after the characters graduated from high school. At times, the show has felt lost outside of the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/jun/25/the-sadness-of-euphoria-how-the-show-captures-teen-melancholy">high school setting</a>, exploring a confusing mishmash of genres and plots, some of which have been <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.vogue.co.uk/article/euphoria-season-3-misogyny">called out</a> for glamorising misogyny and violence. Yet despite these criticisms, the show has a track record of taking bold artistic risks, which is becoming rarer in a content landscape that values quantity over quality. It turned Sam Levinson, its creator, into one of Hollywood’s most exciting (and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/jul/04/tedious-pointless-cringe-inducing-why-the-idol-was-a-failure-from-start-to-finish">polarising</a>) visionaries, and catapulted a new generation of actors into the A-list to the point where it now seems like they have outgrown the show). As season three concludes, Euphoria represents a strange – and very “2026” – contradiction, where it feels both ridiculous and undeniably influential. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/30/euphoria-season-three-gen-z">Continue reading...</a>

As its third season ends, Sam Levinson’s HBO show reflects the grim future that gen Z faces. Its rage-bait is precisely the point

Euphoria mirrors the nihilism of a generation raised on Andrew Tate and Bonnie Blue

After the politically incisive late-night host said his final goodnight last week, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed offered a grim look at where TV is headingThe applause, dear God, the applause. It has you bracing against the headboard and groping for the remote when Comics Unleashed detonates on to the screen just before midnight. A soulless barrage of whoops, cheers and apparatchik-grade terror clapping, it hits like a jet engine at takeoff, swallowing the show’s disembodied announcer in a silo of his own manufactured zaniness.The applause snuffs out introductions to the guests, all standup comics – a who’s who of who’s that – and upstages a modest studio audience that appears to have been rounded up from pamphlet-clutching LA tourists. It even leaves the host himself, 65-year-old Byron Allen, limply shuffling to reclaim the frame as the show’s cameras whip around him from every conceivable angle. In the reverse shots, you can already see the night’s guests parked in the makeshift waiting-room set up at stage left, apparently settled in for Allen’s monologue. But there is no monologue. Comics Unleashed has no writers, no comic sensibility, no discernible point of view – because CBS bent the knee to Donald Trump, and Allen makes Jimmy Fallon look like Eugene Debs. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/stephen-colbert-late-show-replacement-byron-allen">Continue reading...</a>

After the politically incisive late-night host said his final goodnight last week, Byron Allen’s Comics Unleashed offered a grim look at where TV is heading

Stephen Colbert’s Late Show replacement is a depressing sign of the times | Andrew Lawrence

Much like Heated Rivalry, the romantic drama is tender and honest – and so goddamn sexy I tried to provide my age verificationIn the past few years, the world has destroyed my interest in surprises. I can’t do thrillers. I don’t want suspense. I don’t even like it when ads don’t show the product until the end. I want to know exactly what’s going to happen at all times, which is why I just rewatch <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/oct/07/rapid-fire-chats-wisecracks-and-pancakes-how-gilmore-girls-became-tvs-greatest-mother-daughter-duo">Gilmore Girls</a> (eight times), <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2020/mar/26/new-girl-screwball-comedy-gets-funnier-and-smarter-and-is-best-when-binged">New Girl </a>(six) and Parks and Recreation ( … 17).So it was with some trepidation that I started watching Off Campus. A twentysomething friend recommended it. “It’s ruined sex for me forever,” she yelled in my face. “I can’t stop yearning. I’ll never be happy again.” <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/may/29/off-campus-tv-show-series-prime-video-global-hit">Continue reading...</a>

Much like Heated Rivalry, the romantic drama is tender and honest – and so goddamn sexy I tried to provide my age verification

Off Campus is a global hit because it is a perfect, horny show, and I won’t hear a word against it | Anna Spargo-Ryan

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The golden age of Microsoft's Github Copilot appears to be at an end.

‘What a joke’: Github Copilot’s new token-based billing spurs consternation among devs

Meta seems to be making big bets on AI-powered hardware.

Meta is reportedly developing an AI pendant

Gemini Spark helps automate everyday tasks, from inbox summaries to local event planning, but it’s unclear why Google made it a separate product.

I put Google’s 24/7 AI assistant Gemini Spark to work, and it’s actually pretty useful

"If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh my God, this means you're really good; you might already have a Series A [offer]," said one, half-kiddingly.

"If you're 22 years old in San Francisco and building something in AI, there may be a seed term sheet in your inbox — but if you're 19, oh my God, this m...

The groupthink boom: what three top VCs really think about the AI frenzy

We’ve compiled an overview of some of the top alternative browsers available today aiming to challenge Chrome and Safari.

As the browser wars heat up, here are the hottest alternatives to Chrome and Safari in 2026

The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or wood pellets, unlike many other pizza ovens.

The Ninja Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven is aimed at people who want delicious pizza nights without having to deal with things like propane or wood pellets, ...

This $300 pizza oven can easily help elevate your summer pizza nights

TikTok may be working to become the app that people use for most of their digital activities.

TikTok’s road to becoming a super app

The ruling drew support from founders, while lawyers said it could force platforms to revisit how they handle trademarked keywords.

Founders seize on Indian court ruling to revive criticism of Google’s ad business

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business model that the tech industry is ready to embrace. 

The Enhanced Games — a singular sporting competition where a majority of the athletes were on performance enhancing drugs — may herald a new business mod...

I went to the so-called ‘steroid Olympics,’ to understand why Silicon Valley is obsessed with peptides

SpaceX already generated one-fifth of its 2025 revenue from government contracts, the company revealed in its IPO filing.

SpaceX awarded $6.45B in Space Force contracts ahead of IPO

While AI is helping coders produce code faster, it may not be producing better code, researchers warn. And that could cause problems down the road for them. 

Coders are refusing to work without AI — and that could come back to bite them 

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you might encounter.

The rise of AI has brought an avalanche of new terms and slang. Here is a glossary with definitions of some of the most important words and phrases you m...

So you’ve heard these AI terms and nodded along; let’s fix that

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaron Levie, who pointed to this as an example of &#8220;AI psychosis.” Indeed, ClickUp recently cut 22% of its workforce for AI agents, tech layoffs in 2026 are already nearly matching all of 2025, [&#8230;]

The people deciding that AI can replace your job are also the ones least likely to understand what your job truly involves, according to Box founder Aaro...

What happens when companies become too AI-pilled?

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the way AI models respond to prompted requests, per Axios. 

Chipmaker Groq is looking to raise $650 million in internal funding as it pivots from hardware to focus more on AI inference, the process of refining the...

After Nvidia’s $20B not-acqui-hire, AI chip startup Groq reportedly raising $650M

A public spat between Microsoft and an independent security researcher reopens a long-running debate over who is responsible for securing software.

Microsoft under fire for threatening security researcher with criminal investigation

Cognition makes Devin, the first and arguably most successful AI coding agent. But famed coder Wu says it isn't designed to supplant human programmers.

Cognition’s Scott Wu says AI coding agents shouldn’t replace humans

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If you're looking for a fun way to connect with nature while collecting bird species on an app like Pokémon, give this smart feeder a try.

Kiwibit’s AI-powered bird feeder is my new backyard buddy

South Korean chip startup XCENA is betting that AI's real bottleneck is not compute, but memory.

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