Technology
Four websites go up every second, and only one in seven is alive
The web passed 1.47 billion sites this September. The number that matters is the second one: 85 per cent of them are parked, abandoned or…
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Bangladesh
55% of Bangladesh’s private-sector workers already use AI, and only 58% of employers formally allow it
The survey covers garments, NGOs, banks, FMCG, telecom and retail. The gap between what staff do and what companies sanction is the finding.
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…
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
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.
Bangladesh
293 colleges where nobody passed, and 139 where everybody did — both tails moved the wrong way
The average tells you less than the distribution does. One end quadrupled in two years; the other lost three-fifths of its members in one.
Bangladesh
GPA-5 has gone from 145,911 to 40,084 in two years — a 72% fall in the top grade
A 42% fall on last year, which was itself less than half of the year before. The top of the grade distribution has changed shape twice…
Bangladesh
HSC 2026: the pass rate has fallen to 52.12%, the lowest in 22 years
Last year 58.83% passed. The only lower figure on record is 2004, when the examination was held under seven boards rather than eleven.
World
A crime map drawn from where police already looked: researchers warn AI policing can prove itself right
Predictions of future crime are trained on past police records. Where those records reflect where officers were sent rather than where…
World
A barber in Bengaluru wears a camera for six hours a day so a robot can learn to hold a razor
Physical AI cannot be trained on scraped text. It needs footage of human hands doing real work with the right amount of force — and that…
Health
A children’s health survey is asking about AI and food security for the first time
Jersey’s 2026 survey of Year 4 to Year 12 students adds questions on social media apps, generative AI, caring responsibilities and whether…