Comedian and former Britain’s Got Talent judge alleged to have groomed fans he met when they were as young as 15 and harassed women in the workplace over a number of years. He denies the allegations <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/ng-interactive/2026/nov/10/david-walliams-accused-sex-grooming-allegations-young-women">Continue reading...</a>

Comedian and former Britain’s Got Talent judge alleged to have groomed fans he met when they were as young as 15 and harassed women in the workplace over...

‘It wasn’t long until he asked me if I’d ever had sex before’: David Walliams accused of preying on young women for sex

Met says several people have been in contact since start of disgraced comedian’s rape and sexual assault trial<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/nov/09/russell-brand-sentenced-rape-sexual-assault">Brand sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assault</a></li></ul>Police have received further criminal allegations against Russell Brand since the start of his trial.The Metropolitan police said several people had been in contact during and since the conclusion of the 51-year-old’s rape and sexual assault case. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/news/2026/nov/10/lucy-powell-russell-brand-cross-examination-victims">Continue reading...</a>

Met says several people have been in contact since start of disgraced comedian’s rape and sexual assault trial

Police receive further criminal allegations against Russell Brand

Former builder got his big break after restoring the home of a producer who was working on a precursor to the show Tommy Walsh, the building and DIY expert who appeared on television shows including Ground Force, has died aged 69 after a long illness.Walsh started his career as a professional builder before rising to fame alongside Alan Titchmarsh and Charlie Dimmock on the popular BBC garden makeover show from 1997 to 2005. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/nov/09/tommy-walsh-co-presenter-of-bbcs-ground-force-dies-aged-69">Continue reading...</a>

Former builder got his big break after restoring the home of a producer who was working on a precursor to the show

Tommy Walsh, co-presenter of BBC’s Ground Force, dies aged 69

As Hollywood begins to adopt the technology, the professionals in most direct jeopardy are the illustrators mapping out directors’ first visions. They sketch out what could be lostA film industry dominated by AI is a dystopian prospect: stories and dialogue generated by large language models, populated by <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/apr/16/first-trailer-released-for-ai-val-kilmer-western">reincarnated screen icons</a> and <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jul/11/ai-actor-tilly-norwood-movie">uncanny humanoids</a>. That is in the future, but the real-world impact of AI is already directly affecting jobs behind the scenes, as Hollywood’s biggest film-makers begin to adopt the technology. James Cameron – long an advocate for emerging technologies in film-making – is <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://stability.ai/news-updates/james-cameron-joins-stability-ai-board-of-directors">on the board of a gen AI firm</a>, citing his interest in how AI will intersect with CGI; Steven Soderbergh used Meta-powered tech to create animations for his <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/may/16/john-lennon-last-interview-review-steven-soderbergh">recent documentary about John Lennon</a>; even Christopher Nolan, while dismissing the idea that AI will replace humans as “nonsense”, conceded that it will create some useful “imaging tools”.The current canary in the coalmine however is the storyboard artist, whose work gen AI appears to have directly in its sights. Storyboard artists are the illustrators who draw the panels of images with notes and diagrams that map out scenes before they are filmed. Storyboards are used to work out how a film will look, and as a blueprint to communicate a director’s vision to cast and crew, and are one of the first steps in bringing a script off the page. Now they appear on the verge of replacement by programmes that use text prompts to create illustrations instead. Even an old-school diehard like Martin Scorsese has got on board; in June <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/jun/03/martin-scorsese-accused-of-throwing-artists-under-bus-with-ai-storyboards">he announced a partnership with an AI firm</a> whose text-to-image model he used in the storyboarding process for his next movie. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/nov/10/storyboard-artists-ai">Continue reading...</a>

As Hollywood begins to adopt the technology, the professionals in most direct jeopardy are the illustrators mapping out directors’ first visions. They sk...

Even Martin Scorsese uses AI for storyboards. Can the art survive?

Seven films in Seville programme highlight how Roma are creating their own narrativesGrowing up in Romania, whenever Alina Șerban spotted Roma people on television or in movies, they were usually cast as villains or depicted as somehow exotic.But this week the Romany actor and film-maker is part of a cohort pushing back against this stereotyping, joining forces with Romany film-makers from across Europe in a landmark screening of seven films during the Seville European film festival. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/nov/10/roma-romany-film-makers-seville-film-festival-showcase">Continue reading...</a>

Seven films in Seville programme highlight how Roma are creating their own narratives

‘We are human too’: the Roma film-makers striking back at stereotypes

The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/09/m-john-harrison-booker-prize-end-of-everything">Guardian fiction editor Justine Jordan on M John Harrison’s win: A visionary writer gets the recognition he deserves</a></li></ul>Eighty-one-year-old M John Harrison has won the Booker prize for <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/09/the-end-of-everything-by-m-john-harrison-review-near-future-visions-from-an-sf-master">The End of Everything</a>, a postapocalyptic novel set on a near-future Kent coast, becoming the oldest winner in the award’s history.Gaby Wood, chief executive of the Booker Prize Foundation, said that while plenty of previous winners had dabbled in science fiction, Harrison’s was “the first Booker winner to have emerged from the bona fide SF world”. She called it “a historic win, for a writer whose decades of work are lightly worn on every page”.The End of Everything by M. John Harrison (Profile, £16.99). To support the Guardian, order your copy at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.guardianbookshop.com/the-end-of-everything-9781800812949/?utm_source=theguardian&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;utm_content=endnote">guardianbookshop.com</a>. Delivery charges may apply. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/09/m-john-harrison-the-end-of-everything-wins-2026-booker-prize">Continue reading...</a>

The 81-year-old’s postapocalyptic novel The End of Everything takes home the £50,000 award

M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize

Dunagan was six when he voiced the young deer in the classic cartoon, with an assistant director instructing him to pretend his own mother had diedDonnie Dunagan, who voiced Bambi in the Walt Disney classic, as well as playing the son of Frankenstein opposite Basil Rathbone and Boris Karloff, has died aged 92.Dunagan was six when he was chosen to provide the voice of the young deer in the animation’s most heartbreaking chapter. He recalled the experience in the recording booth as easy and relaxed, with rudimentary technology and notes from an assistant director instructing him to pretend his own mother had died when voicing Bambi’s reaction to his mother being killed by a hunter. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/nov/09/donnie-dunagan-bambi-voice-triple-purple-heart-marine-dies">Continue reading...</a>

Dunagan was six when he voiced the young deer in the classic cartoon, with an assistant director instructing him to pretend his own mother had died

Donnie Dunagan, original voice of Disney’s Bambi and triple Purple Heart marine, dies aged 92

President says it was ‘just a little fun’ to picture White, UFC boss and Trump’s friend, in briefing room with fighters<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/donaldtrump">Donald Trump</a> said on Sunday that he “was only kidding” when <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/07/donald-trump-dana-white-press-secretary">he announced</a> a day earlier that he had offered the job of White House press secretary to Dana White, the chief executive of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/ufc">UFC</a>).Speaking to reporters on his way back to the White House from his beach club in Florida, Trump explained the premise of his joke, that if the UFC boss, a devoted fan of the president, took over the briefing room, flanked by six fighters, reporters “wouldn’t mess around with him so much”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/nov/08/trump-dana-white-press-secretary">Continue reading...</a>

President says it was ‘just a little fun’ to picture White, UFC boss and Trump’s friend, in briefing room with fighters

Trump says he was ‘only kidding’ about making UFC’s Dana White next press secretary

A lifestyle podcast or brief TV clip is less taxing than a full press conference – but No 10 insists the PM is not ducking accountability In an interview this week Andy Burnham said he believed the traditional media was less relevant and the world was “not like that any more”. But some people are now asking: does this change in approach mean less scrutiny?The question was in part prompted by Burnham’s decision to travel to the Commonwealth heads of government meeting (Chogm) without the usual accompanying pack of reporters, instead bringing just one TV crew and a news agency journalist. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/08/andy-burnham-social-media-traditional-media-scrutiny-at-risk">Continue reading...</a>

A lifestyle podcast or brief TV clip is less taxing than a full press conference – but No 10 insists the PM is not ducking accountability

Does Andy Burnham’s pivot from press to social media put scrutiny at risk?

Workers in music, film, TV and theatre may not feel they can speak up about abuse, but the authority I lead is able to help them<ul><li>Helena Kennedy KC is a Labour peer and the chair of the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority</li></ul>Russell Brand was sentenced to more than 10 years in jail yesterday, after being convicted of raping one woman and sexually assaulting three others. The details that emerged from his case have been shocking and at times deeply disturbing. We have witnessed the bravery of the women who came forward to seek justice – and the brazen and brutal sense of entitlement exhibited by a pampered star at the height of his fame.The Brand trial brought into sharp relief many of the victim-blaming attitudes I have spent my professional life as a criminal barrister trying to challenge. Old tropes emerged about victims not screaming out during rape and not reporting immediately. This is why lawyers who conduct sex cases should be required to hold a certificate that they have undergone recent additional training. The justice system has to provide women with a fair opportunity to obtain justice, without subjecting them to discriminatory assumptions and further trauma.Helena Kennedy KC is a Labour peer and the chair of the Creative Industries Independent Standards AuthorityDo you have an opinion on the issues raised in this article? If you would like to submit a response of up to 300 words by email to be considered for publication in our<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tone/letters"> letters</a> section, please <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="mailto:guardian.letters@theguardian.com?body=Please%20include%20your%20name,%20full%20postal%20address%20and%20phone%20number%20with%20your%20letter%20below.%20Letters%20are%20usually%20published%20with%20the%20author%27s%20name%20and%20city/town/village.%20The%20rest%20of%20the%20information%20is%20for%20verification%20only%20and%20to%20contact%20you%20where%20necessary.">click here</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/10/russell-brand-jailed-sex-attackers-music-film-tv-theatre-abuse-ciisa">Continue reading...</a>

Workers in music, film, TV and theatre may not feel they can speak up about abuse, but the authority I lead is able to help them

Russell Brand has been jailed. Now we have the power to identify more sex attackers like him  | Helena Kennedy

As the demand for information and transparency about our lives increases, these brilliant books dealt with shadows, mystery, privacy and intimacy The first box of submissions for the 2026 Booker prize arrived by courier a few days before Christmas. As I made my way through 19 books over the next six weeks (they start you off at a leisurely pace) I spotted a theme: God is back. In novels set from antiquity to our contemporary world, from romances to comedies to thrillers, characters reached for transcendence and absolution and found themselves mired in all manner of sin, or at least spiritual confusion. Priests were popping up everywhere; people sought comfort in the ancient texts; near-biblical bouts of extreme weather would prove either cleansing or calamitous.The boxes continued to arrive month after month, making me feel as though I was part of a very generous but exacting book club. There was the excitement of – as was the chair of this year’s judging panel Mary Beard’s method of choice – reaching your hand into the box, playing lucky dip to choose your next adventure. There was the joy of spotting recurring themes. Publishers decide which of their books to submit for consideration, and I’ve heard that it can lead to agonising second-guessing about what the judges may like (the preponderance of priests may have been due to the poet Patricia Lockwood, who wrote the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/apr/27/priestdaddy-by-patricia-lockwood-review">wonderful memoir Priestdaddy</a>, being on the panel). I heard reports of one publisher declaring: “Mary Beard hates sex scenes.” “I don’t hate them,” she said when I told her this, “but they can’t be bad.” She was true to her word. In our first meeting, I made the case for a novel I enjoyed. She later emailed us a description of a penis in it that was admittedly clumsy. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/10/booker-prize-judging-algorithms-data-books">Continue reading...</a>

As the demand for information and transparency about our lives increases, these brilliant books dealt with shadows, mystery, privacy and intimacy

Judging this year’s Booker prize taught me our humanity cannot be captured by algorithms and data | Rebecca Liu

After years on the margins, Harrison’s win for this resonantly disturbing dystopia brings the visionary writer the recognition he deserves<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/09/m-john-harrison-the-end-of-everything-wins-2026-booker-prize">M John Harrison becomes first science fiction author to win the Booker prize</a></li></ul>A Booker prize for M John Harrison, at 81 the oldest ever winner, symbolises an extraordinary 60-year journey from the margins into the limelight, without ever compromising on a literary vision that remains deeply weird and unique. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/jun/09/the-end-of-everything-by-m-john-harrison-review-near-future-visions-from-an-sf-master">The End of Everything </a>is baffling, unnerving, confusing – very purposefully so. It follows two lost souls on the Kent coastline, beachcomber Phillip and his artist aunt Marnie, decades after alien entities called the iGhetti have leaked into our world and triggered a slow-motion social collapse. The City of London is a battle zone; strange biological “artefacts” are washing up from the sea; people are unpredictably affected by episodes of psychic rupture that they call, with classic British understatement, a “bad patch”.But in the midst of catastrophe, what can one do but try to keep calm and carry on? In the real world, we’re currently supposed to be gathering our government-mandated three-day stockpile, though we’re not sure for what emergency – take your pick. And you can take your pick as to what the iGhetti might symbolise – late-stage capitalism? We are told they became more forceful in the 1980s, and cluster around the financial district. Brexit? In this novel, the continent does indeed appear to be cut off from England. Climate degradation? AI? The artefact that Phillip pulls out of the sea, hoping to sell it on the black market, shows the mimicry and uncanny self-actualisation of a large language model.The End of Everything by M. John Harrison (Profile, £16.99). To support the Guardian, order your copy at <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.guardianbookshop.com/the-end-of-everything-9781800812949/?utm_source=theguardian&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=article">guardianbookshop.com</a>. Delivery charges may apply. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/09/m-john-harrison-booker-prize-end-of-everything">Continue reading...</a>

After years on the margins, Harrison’s win for this resonantly disturbing dystopia brings the visionary writer the recognition he deserves

M John Harrison’s Booker prize-winner is weird, challenging and strikingly topical

The clear-out at the newspaper seems driven less by politics than by a shift towards AI – and journalism will pay the priceNigel Farage has been writing columns for <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/06/29/nigel-farage-the-next-leader-of-the-conservative-party-must-have/">the Daily Telegraph since 2016</a>, most of which have promoted the previously Brexit and now Reform UK party he leads, or <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2018/04/19/tory-brexiteers-forget-millions-voted-leave-action-not-cuddly/">accused his rivals of going soft on immigration</a>. For this privilege the paper’s cash-strapped bosses paid him around <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://members.parliament.uk/members/commons/interests/publications">£4,000 a month</a>, adding up to nearly half a million pounds over the past decade.News broke this week that Farage’s services are <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/nov/02/nigel-farage-telegraph-column-ends">no longer required</a> by the Telegraph’s new German owners, Axel Springer, though sources close to Farage say that he resigned. The paper is also reported to be negotiating the exit of Allison Pearson, who has been complimentary of far-right activist Tommy Robinson’s “<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/oct/28/allison-pearson-daily-telegraph-job-cull-newsroom-cuts">rough-diamond charisma</a>”, which together have prompted rumours that Springer has called a halt to the paper’s rightwards shift, calling it back to the basics of its Conservative party bible past.Jane Martinson is an academic and Guardian columnist. She is a board member of the Scott Trust, which owns the Guardian Media Group, and writes in a personal capacity <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/nov/06/nigel-farage-telegraph-story-newspaper-ai">Continue reading...</a>

The clear-out at the newspaper seems driven less by politics than by a shift towards AI – and journalism will pay the price

Nigel Farage's exit from the Telegraph may be cause for cheer. But there’s a sobering side to this story | Jane Martinson

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Apple TV's new accessibility feature lets viewers turn on sign language interpretation within supported titles.

Apple TV makes sign language interpretation a built-in accessibility feature

Google's new tensor processing units (TPUs) broaden its chip portfolio to more use cases: confidential model training and more memory capacity.  

Google broadens its AI hardware portfolio with two new specialized chips

The remote access giant also urged its self-hosted customers to take down their own servers amid a "critical security incident," fearing the possibility of cyberattacks.

The remote access giant also urged its self-hosted customers to take down their own servers amid a "critical security incident," fearing the possibility ...

N-able takes its remote access service offline after researcher publishes dozens of zero-day bugs

Users can now interact with Meta’s AI assistant through voice calls, text messages, or dictation on their Apple Watch.

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Reddit's new AI-powered reviews summarize what users like and dislike about 10,000 products, helping shoppers research purchases ahead of the holidays.

Reddit is turning user conversations into AI-powered product reviews

Kunal Shah said that AI on WhatsApp will remind people of their appointment than booking

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Adobe is taking on Figma with a new prototype builder tool in Firefly.

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Anthropic sets IPO price range of $70 to $78 per share to reach an implied valuation of $1.404 trillion

Aura is unveiling a new product: a 10-inch digital e-ink frame that can blend in seamlessly with printed photos.

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Kora is set to launch as a free-to-use alternative to Windows, targeting users who rely heavily on AI models and agents.

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Spotify Premium users can now customize their AI DJ with new voices with different personalities, or turn off the commentary between songs.

Spotify’s AI DJ gets new voices, personalities, and an option for less chatter

Amazon-owned Ring is pushing into robotics with the launch of a home security drone and a rolling robot designed to patrol and protect businesses. 

Ring, known for its doorbell cameras, launches a home security drone and an enterprise security robot

Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the accessibility that makes open-source communities valuable to developers worldwide.

Hugging Face executive Irene Solaiman warns that growing cyberattacks on open AI platforms could force tighter security restrictions, threatening the acc...

Cyberattacks threaten to make open-source AI a little less open, Hugging Face exec warns 

Otter AI just added support for 27 languages and revealed an upcoming feature that can follow along if speakers switch between languages.

Otter AI can now follow conversations across 30+ languages

California voters rejected Proposition 40, the one-time 5% tax on billionaires, the AP reported Monday. Tech leaders outspent backers roughly 10 to 1 to defeat it, and the founders and economists TechCrunch interviewed before the vote were split on whether it would have driven out wealthy residents or just trimmed their fortunes.

California voters rejected Proposition 40, the one-time 5% tax on billionaires, the AP reported Monday. Tech leaders outspent backers roughly 10 to 1 to ...

California’s proposed ‘billionaire tax’ fails to pass

The internet is having a field day with Nvidia's Jensen Huang's alleged honeypot scandal.

Jensen Huang’s alleged honeypot scandal has inspired some top-notch memes

The AI company is expected to set its valuation range this week, the Wall Street Journal reported.

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The PR firm was enlisted shortly after an October 2025 New York Times report described Alice Huang's business dealings with Jensen Huang, Wired reported.

Jensen Huang reportedly engaged a PR firm with a history of handling  high-profile sex scandals a year ago

Exclusive: Wyndham left a hardcoded credential in its customer app, allowing anyone to access customer data. The hotel giant wouldn't say if it has the ability to check for any past unauthorized access.

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