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France’s biggest literary prize dropped a bestselling novel over an AI accusation made by an anonymous account
The Académie Goncourt removed Thelyson Orelien’s debut from its longlist after an X account ran it through a detection tool. He denies…
Technology
A $500-a-month chatbot read victims’ inboxes and wrote the scam for them. Microsoft found 12,000 accounts hit
EvilTokens was sold on Telegram as a complete service: break into a mailbox, let AI work out who matters in it, then impersonate them…
Technology
BASIS gives Bitopia three days to answer allegations that freelancers’ NIDs and passports were used without consent
The allegations are marketplace policy breaches, fake identities and misuse of personal documents. BASIS has promised suspension…
Bangladesh
The Play Buttons were smashed too. Salman Muqtadir says losing the work hurts more than the equipment
Cameras, recording gear and furniture destroyed, and the YouTube Silver and Gold Play Buttons with them. He says he was not the primary…
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…
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…
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…