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Time bomb found in car heading to Phuket
News, Online Reporters, Published on 24/06/2025
» Two men were arrested after police found a homemade time bomb in their car at a checkpoint in Phangnga province early Tuesday morning. They were heading to Phuket.
Free wi-fi soon for passengers on long-haul trains
News, Post Reporters, Published on 28/04/2025
» The State Railway of Thailand plans to provide a free wi-fi service on long-haul trains to the North, Northeast and South, starting late this year.
Myanmar to stay in the dark
News, Mongkol Bangprapa, Published on 11/02/2025
» The government insisted on Monday its priority is to protect Thais from call-centre gangs, and it will not be influenced by protests calling for a boycott of Thai goods following the cutting of power, fuel and internet services to the five border areas where these criminal networks are based.
Police bust two Chinese syndicates
News, Wassayos Ngamkham, Published on 23/11/2024
» Police have dismantled two Chinese scam networks responsible for more than 700 million fraudulent calls and one million fake SMS messages over just three days.
Pushing banks towards green finance
News, Sarinee Achavanuntakul, Published on 02/10/2024
» In an earlier article in this space, I mentioned that "the Bank of Thailand should integrate [Thailand] taxonomy into its reporting and disclosure regulations for the financial sector, as the EU has done, because the public scrutiny of activities in the banking sector can and should be part of the learning process on the journey towards greener finance".
The debate about AI safety gets everything wrong
News, Daron Acemoglu, Published on 07/08/2024
» A huge industry has emerged in recent years as China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and the European Union have made the safety of artificial intelligence a top priority. Obviously, any technology -- from cars and pharmaceuticals to machine tools and lawnmowers -- should be designed as safely as possible (one wishes that more scrutiny had been brought to bear on social media during its early days).
AI's brain fog no defence for arts
News, Parmy Olson, Published on 05/07/2024
» Ever notice how science fiction gets things wrong about future technology? Instead of flying cars, we got viral tweets that fuelled culture wars. Instead of a fax machine on your wrist, we got memes. We're having a similar reality check with artificial intelligence. Sci-fi painted a future with computers that delivered reliable information in robotic parlance. Yet businesses who've tried plugging generative AI tools into their infrastructure have found, with some dismay, that the tools "hallucinate" and make mistakes. They are hardly reliable. And the tools themselves aren't stiff and mechanistic either. They're almost whimsical.
Bungalow killing puzzle, Wi-Fi pest, ill-prepared knifeman
News, Mae Moo, Published on 06/08/2023
» He couldn't let her go
Getting a grip
News, Published on 27/03/2023
» Re: "Government must get a grip on guns," (Editorial, March 25).
Roll with change
News, Published on 23/01/2023
» Re: "Don't ban ChatGPT in schools -- teach with it," (Opinion, Jan 21).