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AI is writing code faster than anyone can check it, and that is Bangladesh’s export problem
An argument from the president of the Bangladesh Software Testing Board that buyers are purchasing trust, not lines of code — and that…
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Your index fund quietly became an AI fund, and last week showed you what that means
The Dow, S&P 500 and Nasdaq each had their worst day in nineteen months. The lesson is not about AI — it is that a portfolio can become…
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Earth picked up a second moon in April, it is two metres wide, and it leaves next year
Announced by the Minor Planet Center, first observed in August. It orbits about 353,000 miles out, and would have burned up entirely had it…
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A pink rock found on a Mali salt flat is 4.1 billion years old, and it came from Mars
Eight fragments totalling 798.5 grams, dated from zircon crystals by a laser technique that cut the work from a month to a day. It carries…
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Nintendo remade the highest-rated game ever made by refusing to change it
Still the highest-rated game in history on Metacritic, 28 years on. The remake declines to reinvent it — which will please those who grew…
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The EU says TikTok’s feed traps users in a loop, and ByteDance could pay 6% of global turnover
Preliminary findings under the Digital Services Act say the For You feed keeps showing similar videos, with depression, loneliness and body…
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A phone market survey from ৳9,999 to ৳3,63,000, and the word that decides the price
New models from Apple, Samsung, Vivo, Xiaomi, Tecno and Honor reached the market in the past month. The listing marks each price official…
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Greenpeace dropped nine two-tonne boulders on the seabed to make trawling impossible
The organisation says it has now cleared 116 square kilometres of a protected area of trawling. It acted without permission, and then…
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House-hunters say AI photographs in listings are false advertising, and have named it “housefishing”
One Brighton flat-hunter compared it to buying a Mercedes from a photograph and arriving to find a Skoda with one wheel. Staging a property…
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A Suffolk village has been offline for two weeks, and it happened to them once before
Two weeks without a connection, poor mobile signal as the fallback, and a resident who has to stand at a window to reach her 96-year-old…
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When Lancaster lost power in 2015, two things kept working — and both are being switched off
The UK is planning for the kind of failure that takes out power, water and communications together. The 2015 Lancaster flood is the worked…
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Jersey’s cyber chief is not telling you to unplug — he is asking why your fridge is online
Matt Palmer is careful about what he is and is not saying. The question he raises is the one the whole smart-appliance category has…