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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…
Technology
The FBI has formally blamed North Korea for the Binance hack, and Binance says it has already replaced 90% of the money
Until Saturday the attribution came from two private analytics firms. It now comes from the FBI, which named the unit TraderTraitor.
Technology
The companies renting out AI computing have $35bn of debt, and Gartner expects 80% of them to be gone by 2030
They are called neoclouds: warehouses of expensive computers leased to OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta. Several began life mining cryptocurrency.
Bangladesh
Re-scrutiny or a re-sit? For most of the 594,113, only one of the two doors is open
A paid re-check and a re-sit answer different problems. Choosing by how disappointed you feel is the expensive way to decide.
Bangladesh
Tk 150 a paper: the re-scrutiny arithmetic, and the two rules that cost people money
The fee is charged per paper, which is not how students think about their subjects. Here is what a realistic application actually comes to.