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…
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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.
Bangladesh
Re-scrutiny or re-evaluation? The portal and the notices do not use the same word
Two Bangla words describe two different things, and Tk 150 a paper is being charged without either document explaining which one you are…
Bangladesh
The re-scrutiny portal is shut until Sunday — four things to settle before it opens
Visiting rescrutiny.eduboardresults.gov.bd today returns a holding page. The useful work tonight is deciding which papers, and on which…
Bangladesh
How to apply for HSC re-scrutiny: the portal, the seven days and the Tk 150 a paper
The Dhaka board has published the rules. Everything happens on one website, nothing is accepted manually, and the fee cannot be returned…
Bangladesh
How result day actually works now: three channels, an EIIN download, and no counter anywhere
A system that used to mean crowds outside a board office is now three digital channels. The change is almost complete, and it has moved the…
Bangladesh
Board by board: Cumilla at 48.04%, Sylhet at a 13-year low, the technical board at 49.43%
Eleven boards, and the ones that have reported sit in a narrow and uniformly low band. The madrasah board is the one that breaks the…
Bangladesh
Inside one education board, the pass rate runs from 66.20% to 29.85%
The board average hides a gap of more than 36 points between the city and the hill districts in the same examination.
Bangladesh
Girls passed by 8.56 points more than boys, and boys took GPA-5 by 642
The two statistics point opposite ways, and the gap between them is the interesting part rather than either number alone.