World
Google lost half a trillion dollars in a day for admitting its own AI is eating its advertising
Revenue grew 25% to $127.6bn. The market punished the company anyway, because of one sentence about where search advertising goes next.
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Elon Musk says there is no point saving money, because robots will make everything nearly free
The argument has a long history and one enormous hole: it assumes the gains from automation reach everybody, which is a political question…
Bangladesh
Bitcoin, blockchain, hot wallet, stablecoin: the words in this week’s headlines, and what the law here says about them
A $6.3bn theft put a pile of jargon on every front page. Here is what each term actually means, and where Bangladeshi readers stand legally.
World
Binance says $6.3bn was taken and about $3bn is already frozen — the largest crypto theft on record
The exchange says customer funds are safe and it is covering every loss. The interesting part is which of the stolen money could be frozen…
Technology
Apple spent twelve years mocking touchscreen laptops. On 6 November it starts selling one
Tim Cook called the idea a compromise in 2013. The new Pro adds touch, a Dynamic Island and M5 Pro or M5 Max chips, and Apple says existing…
Technology
What end-to-end encryption actually is — and the difference between it and the padlock in your browser
Two kinds of encryption get called the same thing. One hides your message from the company carrying it; the other does not.
Bangladesh
“The system says no”: what to do when a machine decides you cannot have a loan
Automated creditworthiness scoring opens lending to people with no banking history. It also makes refusals hard to question, which is why…
World
Police Scotland has joined an international hunt for “The Com” — online groups that coerce children into harming themselves
One arrest in Scotland so far, a handful of convictions in England. A suicide prevention charity calls these groups the gravest risk to…
Bangladesh
TikTok deleted 14.79 million videos uploaded from Bangladesh in three months — and put 205,001 of them back
About 0.9% of everything uploaded here, against a global rate of 0.5%. Automated systems caught 99.8% of it before a single user complained.
Technology
The Leonids peak on the night of 17 November, and this year the moon sets just as Leo rises
Saturn leaves the evening sky and the planets shift to the hour before dawn. The Leonids peak on 17-18 November with the moon setting just…
Bangladesh
Dhaka’s computer market held steady this week — after a month in which holding steady was not the pattern
No significant change is a result, not an absence of one. After September’s memory shortage pushed RAM up repeatedly, a flat week is worth…
Technology
Apple has patched three eight-year-old iPhones against a flaw it believes was already used on specific people
The phones are from 2018 and still getting security updates, which is the good news. The flaw was reportedly used against individuals…