Bangladesh
Dhaka University’s IBA is opening a six-week AI certificate for working professionals
Entry needs a bachelor’s degree and five years of work experience, relaxable for exceptional candidates. Sections start on 27 and 28…
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Bangladesh
55% of Bangladesh’s private-sector workers already use AI, and only 58% of employers formally allow it
The survey covers garments, NGOs, banks, FMCG, telecom and retail. The gap between what staff do and what companies sanction is the finding.
Technology
Virgin Media O2 is cutting thousands of jobs, with £27.2bn of debt and cheaper rivals taking its customers
The numbers have not been finalised, but the BBC understands it will be a sizeable share of the workforce. Most of those affected are not…
Technology
Two US senators have sent Sundar Pichai nine questions about what Google’s AI is doing to schoolchildren
The letter sets a deadline of 2 November. One question asks whether classroom AI has failed to spot signs of suicide or self-harm in a…
Technology
A Yorkshire village has had queues outside its shops every weekend for six weeks, and nobody planned it
A shop worker of nearly twenty years describes the change. The visitors are not coming for the museum; they are coming for the shopfront.
Technology
Samsung has cut up a green apple in an advert, nine days after the iPhone Duo went on sale
Apple has acknowledged a problem with a small number of units and says affected customers can get a replacement through AppleCare.
Technology
Free or paid? How to work out which AI subscription you actually need in 2026
A freelance writer paying about Tk 7,000 a month across three chatbots is a common situation, and usually an avoidable one.
Bangladesh
Three Bangladeshis are among the four founders of Tilion, which has just got into Y Combinator
The web was built on the assumption that a human is clicking. Tilion is trying to fix what breaks when thousands of agents click instead.
Technology
Claude now grades its own conversations for harm after every reply, and the user is not told
The check has been running since June 2026. It flags conversations for human review without interrupting them or warning the person typing.
Technology
Where the Binance theft sits: the biggest crypto hacks ever, and what happened to the money afterwards
The headline losses are enormous. In several of these cases users were made whole afterwards, and in one the hacker simply gave the money…
World
Crypto theft is only part of it: how North Korea earns foreign currency when the banks are closed to it
Sanctions cut the country out of conventional banking. What replaced it is a revenue operation with two arms, and investigators link the…
Bangladesh
The name on the Binance hack is the same one the FBI put on the 2016 Bangladesh Bank theft
For Bangladesh this is not a distant story. The group now blamed for the largest crypto theft ever is the one blamed for the raid on the…