GiveDirectly plans to pilot a program using Google's AI-based Flood Hub, which provides disaster warnings, to send early aid to at-risk families in Bangladesh
Such a program is being tested in Bangladesh …
SILQ, a B2B e-commerce platform formed by the merger of Bangladesh-based ShopUp and Saudi Arabia-based Sary, raised $110M co-led by Sanabil and Valar Ventures
now the largest B2B commerce platform across the Gulf and Emerging Asia. …
Bangladesh orders a nationwide shutdown of its mobile internet amid student protests that killed dozens of people to “ensure the security of citizens”
Daryna Antoniuk / The Record :
Access Now: 2023 was the worst year for internet shutdowns since monitoring began in 2016, with 283 shutdowns across 39 countries, led by India at 116
highlighting an alarming and dangerous trend for democracy + human rights. Read here: https://www.accessnow.org/... Alexia Skok / @alexiaskok : Internet shutdowns: - enable violence - protect attacker...
Pro-government news outlets and influencers in Bangladesh are promoting AI-generated disinformation created with cheap tools ahead of the January 2024 elections
Benjamin Parkin / Financial Times : X: @1br0wn , @areeqchowdhury , @tobywalsh , and @valayism X: Ian Brown / @1br0wn : “It's easy for a politician to say, ‘This is deepfake’, or 'This is #AI-generate...
OpenAI releases ChatGPT for Android in the US, Bangladesh, and Brazil, and plans to launch in more countries next week
According to a company tweet, it's available first in the US, India, Bangladesh, and Brazil, with other countries set to follow later, mimicking the staged rollout we saw for the iOS version.
Bangladesh's Computer Incident Response Team took down citizens' sensitive data exposed via a government site, claiming to have “promptly” addressed the breach
Computer Incident Response Team (BGD -GOV CIRT) serving with responsibilities … Twitter: @pry0cc : Viktor Markopoulos, a researcher who works for Bitcrack Cyber Security, found the data at the end of ...
A researcher says a Bangladesh government site is leaking data of millions of citizens, including names, phone numbers, email addresses, and national ID numbers
Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch : Twitter: @lorenzofb and @lorenzofb Twitter: Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / @lorenzofb : We verified the data thanks to a sample shared by @vict0ni, who f...
Amnesty International: Meta's algorithms “proactively amplified and promoted content” on Facebook that incited violent hatred against the Rohingya in Myanmar
With roosters crowing in the background as he speaks from the crowded refugee camp in Bangladesh that's been his home since 2017 … Source: Amnesty International .
Instagram-based thrift stores in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Nepal are making used clothes popular, even desirable, among young shoppers
Rest of World : Tweets: @fogginsophie , @cengizyar , and @itikaspunit Tweets: Sophie Foggin / @fogginsophie : Years ago, running a successful thrift store would have been unthinkable in most of South...