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‘We were all pretty privileged’: Allison Williams on Girls, nepo babies and toxic momfluencers

She made her name in Lena Dunham’s landmark series, then starred in Get Out. As she returns in M3gan 2.0, the sequel to the hit horror about a murderous AI doll, she talks about parenting in an age of smartphones, Botox and her famous father If you had wandered the set of the film M3gan …

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Is this the antidote to the housing crisis? The YouTube series showcasing chic – and tiny – abodes

On Never Too Small, there are cabins that split in two and apartments straight out of Wes Anderson. It feels like we’re all one reclaimed wood table away from complete bliss Read more in the Internet wormhole series I’ve been invited into the homes of architects in Buenos Aires, voguish designers in Hong Kong, community …

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Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to Booktok’s next trend

Readers are sharing how they write their predictions into novels, colour-code their emotional responses and even gift annotated books to friends. Is it actually fun, or just a bit like homework? There are two kinds of readers: those who would choose death before dog-ears, keeping their beloved volumes as pristine as possible, and those whose …

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‘Have you heard of this BDSM trend?’ What I learned recording thousands of hours of teens on their phones

When documentary-maker Lauren Greenfield immersed herself in the online and offline lives of 25 teenagers, she unearthed a world of sexually explicit images, rape culture, bullying and suicidal ideation. Adolescence, she says, has become like the wild west Reactions to Lauren Greenfield’s documentary series Social Studies tend to fall into two categories. Young people think …

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‘It’s thieving’: impersonators steal elderly people’s TikToks to hawk mass-produced goods

Fraudsters are manipulating content of older adults as ‘sadness bait’ to push sales. The videos are going viral In April of this year, Daisy Yelichek was scrolling TikTok when something unusual appeared in her feed: a video of her 84-year-old father, George Tsaftarides, who runs an account sharing sewing videos from his small tailoring business …

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Internet users advised to change passwords after 16bn logins exposed

Hacked credentials could give cybercriminals access to Facebook, Meta and Google accounts among others What to do if your email account is stolen – and how to stop it happening again Internet users have been told to change their passwords and upgrade their digital security after researchers claimed to have revealed the scale of sensitive …

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Amazon under UK investigation over alleged failure to pay suppliers on time

Regulator says it has ‘reasonable grounds’ to suspect company breached groceries supply code of practice Business live – latest updates The UK’s grocery industry watchdog has launched an investigation into Amazon over allegations that the retail and technology company is failing to pay its suppliers on time. The Groceries Code Adjudicator (GCA) said it had …

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Chris Brown enters not guilty plea over alleged bottle attack at London club

US singer appears in court accused of attempting to cause grievous bodily harm after arrest last month over incident in Mayfair in 2023 The American singer and actor Chris Brown has pleaded not guilty to attempting to cause grievous bodily harm in an alleged bottle attack at a London nightclub. Brown, 36, is accused of …

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