Matt Bradley and crew assaulted while interviewing woman who said settlers had driven family out of homeA Palestinian woman and an NBC News team are reported to have been attacked and injured by masked Israeli settlers in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Saturday, amid worsening confrontations in the area.Benjamin Netanyahu said he condemned the violence committed “by a handful of rioters”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/29/nbc-news-team-attacked-west-bank">Continue reading...</a>

Matt Bradley and crew assaulted while interviewing woman who said settlers had driven family out of home

Palestinian woman and NBC News team reportedly attacked in West Bank

Ex-Breitbart editor has vocally supported immediate deportations for anyone who can’t prove US residencyFar-right British media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos has been deported from the US after being <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/28/milo-yiannopoulos-detained-ice">detained</a> on Thursday by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in New Orleans in connection with what the agency said was expired authorization to be in the country and a deportation order.Yiannopoulos’s deportation to the UK occurred on Friday, said a statement on Saturday from a spokesperson for the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which oversees ICE. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/milo-yiannopoulos-deported-us-to-uk">Continue reading...</a>

Ex-Breitbart editor has vocally supported immediate deportations for anyone who can’t prove US residency

Far-right media provocateur Milo Yiannopoulos deported by ICE from US to UK

Its moguls are ripe subjects for drama, and there is huge anticipation for forthcoming features The Social Reckoning and Artificial. But other projects have failed as the film industry is increasingly colonised by IT empires• <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/ng-interactive/2026/aug/30/the-best-films-of-autumn-2026">Tom Cruise, Olivia Colman and the return of Rocky: the best films of autumn 2026</a> • <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/series/autumn-arts-preview-2026">See all of our unmissable autumn arts recommendations here</a>‘I know there are easier enemies to make,” tech reporter Jeremy Allen White tells his colleague in a recent trailer for The Social Reckoning. “The mafia would be an easier enemy to make,” comes the reply. They’re talking about Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, but they might as well be discussing big tech as a whole. As The Social Reckoning promises to underline, it’s become clear that these people are not on our side – “us” being the whole of humanity except billionaire tech overlords and their mates. But for an industry that loves a clear-cut baddie, Hollywood has barely landed a blow on the tech industry. Now it finds itself in mortal danger of being absorbed by it. Is it too late to fight back?The Social Reckoning’s predecessor, The Social Network, showed how this kind of thing is done. It was pacy, buzzy and full of weirder-than-life characters – not least the young Zuckerberg, portrayed by Jesse Eisenberg as an obnoxiously smart mogul-in-the-making, whose mission to connect the world stood in stark contrast to his own social deficiencies. Directed by David Fincher and co-written by Aaron Sorkin, it was also a commercial and critical hit, winning three Oscars. But a big part of what made The Social Network work, and makes its sequel such a threat, is that it was about the actual, real-world Silicon Valley, which is where a lot of recent entertainment has gone wrong. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/30/big-tech-hollywood-the-social-reckoning-artificial">Continue reading...</a>

Its moguls are ripe subjects for drama, and there is huge anticipation for forthcoming features The Social Reckoning and Artificial. But other projects h...

Big tech goes to Hollywood: is Silicon Valley ready for a silver-screen reckoning?

Penalties for travel to blacklisted countries have recently risen, while aid workers and activists say they have also been caught up in the lawShortly after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, freelance photographer Jang Jinyoung crossed from Poland into Lviv and travelled on to Kyiv, where he spent a fortnight documenting the war.South Korea’s foreign ministry had designated Ukraine off-limits days earlier, making unauthorised visits a criminal offence. He knew he was breaking the law but went anyway, as no Korean journalist had yet reported from inside the country. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/29/in-south-korea-it-is-to-travel-to-dangerous-countries-journalists-say-its-making-their-work-impossible">Continue reading...</a>

Penalties for travel to blacklisted countries have recently risen, while aid workers and activists say they have also been caught up in the law

In South Korea, it is illegal to travel to dangerous countries. Journalists say it’s making their work impossible

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companiesThe Trump administration has been deploying an obscure legal maneuver to try to obtain private information on journalists, non-profits and unions, raising alarm over a power the government has asserted without judicial oversight.In one instance, the government obtained six months of telephone records for <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/apr/16/minnesota-journalist-charged-ice-protest">Georgia Fort</a>, a Minneapolis journalist. Fort was not notified of the request for her information, nor was she given a chance to contest the government’s effort to obtain them, her lawyers <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/28584281-77419080-d795-4a75-9969-d90351bda90d/">said in court papers</a>. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/29/trump-dhs-1509-summons-records-journalists-nonprofits">Continue reading...</a>

Even after judges rejected the same ploy, the Trump administration is going directly to social media and telecommunications companies

Trump’s DHS is using an obscure law to secretly snoop on journalists, non-profits and unions: ‘It’s outrageous’

After 50 years the annual shindig is heading to Manchester – but a new rival could keep the industry’s fringe link goingThe summer sojourn to Edinburgh has been a highlight of TV executives’ calendars for half a century, allowing them an annual trip to the UK’s most spectacular city during the world’s biggest arts festival.So there was sadness when it was announced that this year’s 50th Edinburgh TV Festival would be the last to be held in the Scottish capital. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/29/edinburgh-tv-festival-heads-south-manchester">Continue reading...</a>

After 50 years the annual shindig is heading to Manchester – but a new rival could keep the industry’s fringe link going

Switching channels: will the Edinburgh TV festival’s magic survive the move south?

From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumnThink about the last book you bought. How did you choose it? Was it from a recommendation, a review, a TikTok video? Did the cover grab you, were you swayed by the quotes on the front, or did you just happen to spot it on an appealing table as you walked into the shop? Did you think about all the nudges that led you to that decision – by the publisher, the bookseller or that person you follow on Insta?The reality is that our reading choices are directed and massaged at every turn. “It’s all about the art of persuasion,” says Philip Gwyn Jones, who was a publisher for more than 30 years and is now a literary agent. And who are the persuaders? They’re the booksellers, the supermarket stock buyers, the publishing houses and their ranks of marketers and publicists. And, more recently, persuasion often comes from BookTokers and online influencers, social media videos, podcasts and Instagram posts. How is all this changing publishing? <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/ng-interactive/2026/aug/29/how-to-make-a-bestseller-insiders-reveal-the-tricks-of-the-book-trade">Continue reading...</a>

From cover design to shelf placement and influencer partnerships … how publishers will persuade you to buy their books this autumn

How to make a bestseller: insiders reveal the tricks of the book trade

Christian Drogan’s Invading Britain shows former builder turned journalist trying to travel from France to England in small boatRupert Murdoch’s online channel TalkTV is facing criticism after it did not disclose that a journalist who travelled to Britain in a small boat for a documentary was a Reform party member and activist.The channel revealed the “world exclusive” this week, stating that the treacherous journey had made the former builder turned journalist Christian Drogan the first British man “to invade his own country”. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/aug/28/talktv-journalist-small-boat-crossing-reform-member-christian-drogan">Continue reading...</a>

Christian Drogan’s Invading Britain shows former builder turned journalist trying to travel from France to England in small boat

TalkTV under fire for not disclosing reporter’s ties to Reform UK in Channel crossing film

A new series has finally been confirmed, with Carr rumoured to be the next Clarkson. But there are others ready to take the wheel, including a Cbeebies host, a Celebrity Traitors favourite and a motor-head modelTop Gear is the show that cannot die. Nothing can kill it; not the dryness of the original, the violence that ended the Clarkson era, or <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2022/dec/13/freddie-flintoff-airlifted-to-hospital-after-crash-during-top-gear-filming">the horrifying crash that brought its most recent incarnation to a halt</a>. And so, inevitably, yesterday the <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/27/bbc-top-gear-speculation-next-presenters">BBC confirmed that Top Gear was being resurrected once again</a>. The corporation’s director of entertainment, Ed Havard, told the Edinburgh TV festival: “There has been a lot of speculation about this, and we can confirm that Top Gear is coming back. I’m not going to talk about talent today.”Which is fair enough – but I can. Casting a show like Top Gear is a dangerously tricky proposition. Whoever the BBC picks to host needs to be funny, charismatic, good at driving and knowledgable about cars. Lots of people are good at one of these things, but few are good at more than that and almost none are good at everything. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/aug/28/a-kids-tv-star-to-jimmy-carr-who-will-host-the-new-top-gear">Continue reading...</a>

A new series has finally been confirmed, with Carr rumoured to be the next Clarkson. But there are others ready to take the wheel, including a Cbeebies h...

A kids TV star to Jimmy Carr: who will host the new Top Gear?

Those who said Meta harms children struck a blow, but the ability of big tech to gouge profits and cause harm is barely diminished. That’s the battle to comeFollow the money. If you want to know how the tech giant Meta really feels about the $18bn it agreed to fork out to end a landmark lawsuit against it – an outcome widely hailed as a victory for campaigners – just <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.barrons.com/articles/meta-stock-price-trial-settlement-fc06babf">look at its share price</a>. It didn’t go down when word came on Wednesday that Meta had settled with the 29 US states that had argued that the company’s Facebook and Instagram platforms harmed children. On the contrary, Meta stock went up, initially surging by 5%, before levelling out at a gain of just over 1.25%. There could be no clearer proof that the money men reckon Meta dodged a bullet.To be sure, there was plenty to hearten those who have long believed that social media damages teenagers especially, whether by exposing them to content they shouldn’t see or by sapping their self-esteem, offering them filters that show how much prettier they would look if they had cosmetic surgery or giving them a metric of their popularity – and unpopularity – in the form of a running tally of “likes” and views.Jonathan Freedland is a Guardian columnistDo 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/aug/28/meta-18bn-settlement-mark-zuckerberg-tech-titans-power-harm">Continue reading...</a>

Those who said Meta harms children struck a blow, but the ability of big tech to gouge profits and cause harm is barely diminished. That’s the battle to ...

An $18bn settlement – and Zuckerberg barely blinked. The tech titans must be stripped of their power, and soon | Jonathan Freedland

News that Scott is working on a follow-up to his maligned 2017 film leaves me worried the franchise has run out of shocksIf any science-fiction saga looked beyond recovery, it was the Alien franchise. For the 38 years that followed James Cameron’s Aliens, film-makers contrived to find every imaginable way of not making a good Alien film. They tried killing everyone the audience cared about before the opening credits, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2022/may/22/alien-3-movie-1992-david-fincher">marooning Sigourney Weaver on a planet populated entirely by bald British character actors</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/alien_resurrection">cloning Ripley</a>, <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/News_Story/Critic_Review/Guardian_review/0,,1332436,00.html">pitting xenomorphs against Predators</a>, and sending scientists across the universe to ask an enormous, hairless space bodybuilder <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2012/may/30/prometheus-review">why he made them</a>. They even ponied up the thick end of $100m for a film in which <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skppRyDy2Ng">Michael Fassbender teaches himself to play the flute</a>.And then in 2024, we got <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/article/2024/aug/14/alien-romulus-review-lack-originality-fede-alvarez-ridley-scott">Fede Álvarez’s Alien: Romulus</a>, in which actual xenomorphs chase actual human beings down actual corridors for the clearly defined purposes of either killing them or putting smaller xenomorphs inside them. Better still, a year later we got <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/aug/13/alien-earth-review-tv-disney-that-bristles-with-bone-deep-dread">Noah Hawley’s Alien: Earth</a>, which reminded us that giant, murderous space insects are in fact less awful than tech trillionaires. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2026/aug/28/ridley-scott-alien-covenant-follow-up">Continue reading...</a>

News that Scott is working on a follow-up to his maligned 2017 film leaves me worried the franchise has run out of shocks

Memo to Ridley Scott: no one needs more Alien: Covenant movies – get the franchise back to stalk’n’slash

Led by the nose from game to terrible game by increasingly disturbing and terrible adverts, I feel like I’m in the cinema scene from A Clockwork OrangeWe’re all escaping something when we play video games. Mostly it’s the drabness of real life, where we don’t get to command kingdoms using armies of dragons, win Champions League trophies with our local team, or inhabit the body of an improbably speedy hedgehog.Sometimes I play them because I want to escape from the version of me that gets paralysed by depression, and boy has the black dog been sniffing at my bits recently, because the Atlantic Ocean is separating me from my wife for a few months. For 30 years she has been the light that banishes that darkness, and I am honestly lost without her. If that sounds pathetic, you haven’t met her. She leaves everybody she meets feeling better. It’s a superpower that warrants a call from the X-Men. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/aug/28/horrible-mobile-gaming-adverts">Continue reading...</a>

Led by the nose from game to terrible game by increasingly disturbing and terrible adverts, I feel like I’m in the cinema scene from A Clockwork Orange

Help! I have disappeared down a rabbithole of horrible mobile gaming adverts | Dominik Diamond

The site once paired news and scores with distinctive voices. Its overhaul under Sinclair Media is the latest sign that serious tennis writing in the US is becoming endangeredA few weeks ago, as I often do, I went to the Tennis.com site to get an update about a match and to check out the commentary from my fellow tennis journalists. I was taken aback when, instead of the usual colorful graphics and info, I was greeted with a rudimentary-looking homepage that displayed only scores and rankings.At first I thought it was a glitch of some sort. But sadly, no. As it turns out, Tennis.com, originally the online site of Tennis Magazine, is under a complete overhaul and will no longer be the home of esteemed writers such as Steve Tignor and Pete Bodo, robbing fans of unique and personal takes on the sport. It appears the longest running American tennis-specific publication is no longer alive in any form. <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" href="https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2026/aug/28/tennis-com-american-tennis-journalism-decline-sinclair-media">Continue reading...</a>

The site once paired news and scores with distinctive voices. Its overhaul under Sinclair Media is the latest sign that serious tennis writing in the US ...

The hollowing out of Tennis.com is a warning for American sports journalism

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The U.S. is shutting out more foreign-made drones and robots. China’s scale means the global competition may simply move elsewhere.

The U.S. is building barriers around drones and robots, but China has scale to get around them

George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&#038;A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controversial $350-plus EDGE tier, and a bet on healthcare and long-distance matchmaking are turning Grindr into the "gayborhood in your pocket" he's been promising since 2022.

George Arison is done letting Wall Street's "Grindr discount" go unchallenged — in a wide-ranging Q&#038;A, the CEO walks us through how AI, a controvers...

Grindr wants to be the everything app for gay men; investors are still deciding whether it can pull it off

The Liux Big microcar is made in Spain. The startup thinks it can compete in a crowded market with its tiny electric car built around sustainability.

Liux’s Big microcar bets on sustainability to take on Chinese rivals

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but it's a bet on a fuel source that's already triggering lawsuits and health studies everywhere his (and others') turbines have gone in.

Elon Musk says a secretive new SpaceX foundry will let him cast his own turbine blades and get gas power online 18 months faster than anyone else — but i...

Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility, your hub for the future of transportation and now, more than ever, the role AI is playing in it. 

TechCrunch Mobility: The hidden human cost of robotaxis

Caterpillar has spent decades putting autonomous machines to work at remote mining sites. It's now bringing that experience to AI deployment.

Caterpillar is bringing to AI deployment what it learned from automating mining

This latest lawsuit is particularly broad and homes in on accusations of illegal piracy.

Sony Music, Warner sue Anthropic, alleging a “brazen campaign” of intellectual property theft

Investors, founders, and operators from across Europe arrived for the annual Nordic TechBBQ conference to talk about how humans can have agency over AI. 

At TechBBQ, Europe’s AI conversations kept coming back to: Who’s actually in control?

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finally shifting from a "discovery" science to an "engineering" one, why clinical trials are still brutally expensive, and why he thinks open, shared datasets (not walled-off ones) are what will actually let AI transform medicine.

Vijay Pande — who left a16z's roughly $4 billion biotech practice last year to start the much smaller, AI-native VZVC — talks about why biology is finall...

“We’re not doing 30 bets a year”: Vijay Pande on betting small after running $4 billion at a16z

Several Hollywood celebs are ditching the massive eight-figure checks and exotic movie sets for a rising format: microdramas. 

Hollywood celebs are getting into microdrama apps

The Theragun Sense, which retails for $299, is a wellness-focused massage gun that’s designed for everyday aches, muscle tension, relaxation, and soreness. 

The Theragun Sense makes everyday recovery surprisingly easy

The new generation of data center systems is increasing efficiency with smarter traffic control instead of just more processor cycles.

Nvidia’s AI advantage is moving beyond the GPU

Technical progress has encouraged a new batch of companies to jump in on the promise of profits from humanoid robots. And they're all Chinese automakers. 

Chinese automakers are following Tesla’s bet that robots are the next big profit machine

Are XREAL's smart glasses the way of the future for home entertainment? 

Is the best way to watch a movie on a pair of sunglasses?

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the high cost of the AI boom. 

Neocloud Lambda has raised $1B in private debt to buy Nvidia AI chips and lease them to Microsoft. It's the latest in a string of loans, underscoring the...

Neocloud Lambda secures $1B in debt to buy more chips

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overall performance.

Given 10 benchmarks for specific misaligned behaviors, the automated systems were able to improve performance on every single one without degrading overa...

An Anthropic researcher just gave us a peek at self-improving AI

The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email addresses.

The feature, announced this week, allows Brave's users to sign up for websites and other online services without having to share their personal email add...

Brave’s browser one-ups Chrome with its new support for email aliases

There's a lot of capital pouring into the business of giving models away.

Open-weight AI companies are the Valley’s hottest acquisition targets

Sophia Bendz, general partner at Cherry Ventures, stopped by Equity to break down the latest in the Swedish tech ecosystem. 

How Sweden built one of Europe’s hottest startup ecosystems 

The backlash against license plate readers comes amid a wave of police abuses of surveillance cameras.

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