Bangladesh
The photo of tourists sleeping on Cox’s Bazar beach was generated by AI, and four detectors agree
An image of stranded holidaymakers bedding down on the sand spread through Facebook and TikTok this week. The hands give it away, the…
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World
She is 96, has 15 million followers, and pays a $12,000 monthly nursing home bill with brand deals
A cohort of women in their seventies, eighties and nineties have turned late-life social media into a business. The interesting part is why…
World
A barber in Bengaluru wears a camera for six hours a day so a robot can learn to hold a razor
Physical AI cannot be trained on scraped text. It needs footage of human hands doing real work with the right amount of force — and that…
World
Two thirds of what the world streams is at least five years old, and 100,000 new songs arrive every day
More music is being made than at any point in history, and less of it is being listened to. The numbers behind the nostalgia, and what…
World
Ukraine cannot replace Starlink, and Europe will not have an answer until 2029
One company, owned by one man, supplies a capability Ukraine depends on and does not control. The alternatives are slower, bulkier and five…
Technology
The PHP panic produced millions of attack attempts, no confirmed breach, and a lot of intelligence that turned out to be rubbish
The flaws were real and serious. The reports that criminals already had working attacks were not — and the people who lost a week of sleep…
Technology
One volunteer turned the PHP fix into something you could actually install — and earned a year’s donations in a week
The PHP Foundation published source code. Someone still had to turn it into packages a hosting company could install without expertise. For…
Technology
Webb has found a reservoir of metals around the Milky Way’s black hole — and it may explain why ours eats so slowly
Our galaxy’s supermassive black hole feeds far more slowly than others of its kind. Knowing what the surrounding gas is made of is a step…
Bangladesh
An AI conference in Dhaka, and a sewing operator finishing a shift in Gazipur the same night
The argument that Bangladesh does not need to build the world’s largest model is right, and incomplete. What it needs is the training…
World
Three in four jobseekers do not know they can demand a human look at an automated rejection
The campaign is about transparency, but the finding that lands hardest is the one about concealment — people editing out their country of…
World
The US froze the green-card route at eight big tech firms — and the Indian engineers’ standard career script just broke
A degree, a tech services job, a US posting, visa renewals, then permanent residency. That sequence has been the plan for a generation of…
World
The UK spent £13,000 on AI to audit its own systems and found 500 vulnerabilities — its AI minister wants the state to build capability, not just rules
The number is small enough to be awkward. If a government can audit its own estate for the price of a used car, the argument for doing it…