Ex Machina review – dazzling sci-fi thriller
Alex Garland’s directorial debut is full of confidence and wit, with Alicia Vikander blurring the lines between human and machine, writes Mark Kermode
Cybercrime and hacking are even bigger worries for small business owners
Hacks cost the American economy $100bn a year, and it’s not just the Sonys and Targets of the world. Some experts offer advice on how small businesses can fight the wave of cybercrime
Grool! Get in losers, an official Mean Girls mobile game is on the way
Upcoming ‘tiara defence’ title is being made for iOS devices by the aptly-named developer So Much Drama
Alex Garland on Ex Machina: ‘I feel more attached to this film than to anything before’
Alex ‘The Beach’ Garland has directed his first film, the sci-fi thriller Ex Machina – and feels, he tells Tim Lewis, that he’s found his true metier at last
Don’t know who to blame for the Sony hacks? Make it up
Satirical site Sony.Attributed.To pokes fun at the continued failure to conclusively identify the movie studio’s hackers
FBI director stands by claim that North Korea was source of Sony cyber-attack
James Comey says hackers ‘got sloppy’ and revealed undisguised IP addresses but other studies have challenged FBI view and pointed finger of blame elsewhere
Hawking the fiction of a smoke-free past
Peter Bradshaw: The 20th century looks wonderfully clear in retrospect – but only because films such as The Theory of Everything have scrubbed out all the fag smoke
The good, the bad and the ugly: technology immortalised in film
From the story of Facebook’s beginnings and the dangers of selfies, to action-packed hacking narratives and robot intelligence, we explore technology imagined on the big screen
Sony CEO calls Interview hack the most ‘vicious’ attack in recent history
Addressing the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Kaz Hirai said staff worked 24 hours a day to ensure the movie could be seen
Kanye and Macca, nuclear catastrophe and hoverboards: all the news you missed at Christmas
Stuart Heritage: While you were indulging yourself, the world kept turning and events kept happening. Here is is a quick primer to help you get back up to speed
Obama imposes new sanctions against North Korea in response to Sony hack
US president signs executive order leveling targeted sanctions against North Korean officials after cyber-attack on Sony Pictures
Sony hackers may still have access to computer systems
News report says investigators are unable to confirm eradication of those responsible for cyber-attack linked to The Interview
Glasgow to host festival of cat videos
Programming originally shown at the Internet Cat Video festival in Minneapolis will be shown during city’s film fest in spring
15 things to look forward to in 2015
Benedict Cumberbatch’s Hamlet, smartwatches, the return of the Large Hadron Collider, the rugby World Cup in Britain, a flood of classic drama on TV and a critical climate summit – some of next year’s highlights