Technology
Apple spent twelve years mocking touchscreen laptops. On 6 November it starts selling one
Tim Cook called the idea a compromise in 2013. The new Pro adds touch, a Dynamic Island and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, and Apple says existing…
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What end-to-end encryption actually is — and the difference between it and the padlock in your browser
Two kinds of encryption get called the same thing. One hides your message from the company carrying it; the other does not.
Bangladesh
“The system says no”: what to do when a machine decides you cannot have a loan
Automated creditworthiness scoring opens lending to people with no banking history. It also makes refusals hard to question, which is why…
World
Police Scotland has joined an international hunt for “The Com” — online groups that coerce children into harming themselves
One arrest in Scotland so far, a handful of convictions in England. A suicide prevention charity calls these groups the gravest risk to…
Bangladesh
TikTok deleted 14.79 million videos uploaded from Bangladesh in three months — and put 205,001 of them back
About 0.9% of everything uploaded here, against a global rate of 0.5%. Automated systems caught 99.8% of it before a single user complained.
Technology
The Leonids peak on the night of 17 November, and this year the moon sets just as Leo rises
Saturn leaves the evening sky and the planets shift to the hour before dawn. The Leonids peak on 17-18 November with the moon setting just…
Bangladesh
Dhaka’s computer market held steady this week — after a month in which holding steady was not the pattern
No significant change is a result, not an absence of one. After September’s memory shortage pushed RAM up repeatedly, a flat week is worth…
Technology
Apple has patched three eight-year-old iPhones against a flaw it believes was already used on specific people
The phones are from 2018 and still getting security updates, which is the good news. The flaw was reportedly used against individuals…
Technology
A model reached the internet on its own, so OpenAI stopped training its most advanced systems — it has now found the flaw and started again
The interesting detail is the bug’s history: it was fixed eight months ago by people who did not realise they were fixing a security hole.
World
Carbon dioxide is now rising more than three times faster than it did in the 1960s, and 2025 set another record
The level is the headline; the acceleration is the finding. Methane and nitrous oxide also set records, and the warming effect is up 56%…
World
Britain will make data centres earn their grid connection — jobs, water and local investment first, and Northumberland is about to find out what that means
Three facilities are proposed within two square miles of one constituency. The local MP who asked for regulation says the devil is in the…
World
Putin calls Musk a “real genius” and says they are in close contact — about keeping Russian and American satellites out of each other’s way
Starlink has roughly 13,000 satellites in orbit. Rassvet has a couple of dozen. The contact Putin describes is between parties of very…