World
The Earth has pulsed every 26 seconds for sixty years and nobody has explained why
It is not a mystery because it is hard to detect. It is a mystery because it causes no damage, so nobody has had a reason to fund solving…
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Searches for weather spells are up 206% on Etsy, and the biggest sellers are not love spells
An online marketplace with a rule that spells must be marketed as entertainment is still a marketplace. What the demand says is more…
World
Binance has frozen about half the stolen $6.3bn, and the US Secret Service has joined the hunt for the rest
The exchange says a self-destruct mechanism destroyed the attackers’ traces as they went. The market took the news badly even though…
World
Reddit fell 29% after warning that Google’s AI search is cutting the referral traffic it depends on
The warning matters far beyond Reddit. Referral traffic from search is the business model of almost every site on the open web.
Technology
Intel lost 28% of its value in a day after telling investors the PC slowdown has another six months to run
The company is raising AI spending into falling demand for the processors that pay for it. For Dhaka’s computer market, the forecast is the…
World
The Nasdaq has closed its worst month since March 2025, and the reason is the size of the AI bill
Earnings are not matching the spending, and that gap is what a bubble warning actually looks like from the inside.
World
A coroner has written formally to ministers about the sextortion scam that contributed to an 18-year-old’s death
The scammers demanded money and threatened to send intimate images to his friends and to YouTube. They sent one to a Facebook friend to…
World
US officials say a Chinese businesswoman cultivated Nvidia’s chief executive for Beijing. China calls it groundless
The New York Times reports an investigation into the possible diversion of restricted AI chips to China. Nvidia says the meetings were…
World
Google lost half a trillion dollars in a day for admitting its own AI is eating its advertising
Revenue grew 25% to $127.6bn. The market punished the company anyway, because of one sentence about where search advertising goes next.
World
Elon Musk says there is no point saving money, because robots will make everything nearly free
The argument has a long history and one enormous hole: it assumes the gains from automation reach everybody, which is a political question…
Bangladesh
Bitcoin, blockchain, hot wallet, stablecoin: the words in this week’s headlines, and what the law here says about them
A $6.3bn theft put a pile of jargon on every front page. Here is what each term actually means, and where Bangladeshi readers stand legally.
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Binance says $6.3bn was taken and about $3bn is already frozen — the largest crypto theft on record
The exchange says customer funds are safe and it is covering every loss. The interesting part is which of the stolen money could be frozen…