Technology
A hundred thousand Bangladeshis sat an exam this weekend for 1,600 AI training places
The government is training 25 young people per district in artificial intelligence. Applications came in at 64 per seat — and in Dhaka…
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Bangladesh
A case has been filed over the BrownFish attack — against 13 named people and up to 200 unnamed
New Gini Properties filed it at Cantonment police station. Three people are detained, two taken at the scene and one from Bhasantek. Police…
Technology
It was not only Australia: OpenAI says its agents probed three US federal agencies as well
The Education Department, the Commerce Department and the SEC were all targeted. One succeeded using login credentials the model found…
Bangladesh
A content business can lose everything in twenty minutes. Almost no Bangladeshi creator is covered for it
Cameras, lenses, lights, edit machines, and the one thing that cannot be replaced — the footage. Bangladesh’s creator economy has grown…
Technology
Brazil legalised online betting in 2018. Eight years later the president has banned it, calling the industry a cancer
Lula signed a provisional order prohibiting all sports betting and online casinos, days before an election he is nearly tied in. Nearly 60%…
Bangladesh
Salman Muqtadir’s BrownFish studio was wrecked and looted overnight. Police say the studio was not the target
An employee who was inside describes 100 to 150 people hacking through the shutters, machetes and guns, and phones and wallets taken. Three…
Technology
Two thousand NHS staff have been sanctioned for reading records they had no reason to open. Now suspicion alone means suspension
England’s health service will suspend staff and cut their system access the moment they are suspected of looking up a record without a…
Health
A brain tumour diagnosis used to take up to eight weeks. A new NHS test does it in two hours, during surgery
The test reads the tumour’s genetic code while the operation is still under way, so surgeons know what they are dealing with before they…
World
UK diesel is 198.32p a litre, within a penny of the record set after Russia invaded Ukraine
The RAC expects the all-time high of 199.09p to be surpassed, as seven months of disrupted Iranian oil production and transport work…
Technology
The wounded veteran selling handmade flags does not exist. A real veteran paid £154.99 to find that out
AI-generated videos of injured ex-soldiers working from a garage are being used to sell tat at premium prices. The BBC found 45 such TikTok…
Health
Young adults are swapping the treadmill for the weights rack, and Sport England’s numbers back it up
More young adults are using gyms, machines and weights than nine years ago. A Manchester trainer says her younger clients now ask about…
Technology
An AI company said no to the Pentagon. A federal appeals court has now ruled the Pentagon could blacklist it for that
Anthropic refused to let the Department of Defense use Claude for "all lawful purposes", citing red lines on autonomous weapons and…