AI Weekly Malaysia

Touch ‘n Go Digital (TNG Digital) is supporting the Public Service Department (JPA) in a new financial inclusion initiative, offering TNG eWallet as an alternative payment channel for eligible pensioners. This move is aimed at retirees who face challenges receiving their monthly pensions through conventional banking channels, particularly in situations where bank accounts are frozen […]

i-CATS University College has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with French software firm Dassault Systèmes to boost Sarawak’s aerospace and digital engineering capabilities. The partnership aims to bring the 3DEXPERIENCE platform directly into local classrooms and laboratories, laying the groundwork for a skilled high-tech workforce. Southeast Asia’s first Digital Aerospace Showcase Under the MoU, […]

Survey finds more workloads run off-site than at in-house corporate facilities for the first time

OpenAI announced lower prices and faster performance for GPT-5.6's Luna and Terra model variants, claiming efficiency gains from the model's self-optimization are being passed to customers. The post frames this as advancing price-performance across enterprise workloads.

Netscape still ruled the browser market, but Microsoft had Windows 95, WorldNet, and a very valuable foothold

Install now or remind me later? Neither belongs in the House of Fun

Article URL: https://www.grumpygamer.com/twp2_announce/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49107246 Points: 253 # Comments: 118

The Russian threat actors recently linked to the exploitation of a now-patched vulnerability in Zimbra have been observed exploiting another vulnerability, this time in Microsoft Outlook Web Access (OWA), to target U.S. and European government entities, as well as the telecommunications, financial, hospitality, and aerospace sectors. The activity, which began on July 22, 2026, involves the

Wise has announced its direct integration into Malaysia’s national payments network, PayNet. This milestone makes Malaysia the ninth market globally, and the fifth in the Asia Pacific region, where Wise has secured direct access to a domestic payment system. As a result of this connection, the platform is introducing seamless payment features for its users, […]

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) added foreign-produced mobile robots and networked power inverters to its Covered List on July 28. The move generally prevents new models from receiving the equipment authorization required for import, marketing, or sale in the US. Previously authorized models can still be sold, and devices people already own are unaffected. Federal purchases and use

Schools often don't prioritize or understand cybersecurity

Sime Motors launched the 2026 BYD Sealion 7 in Malaysia with a new base Dynamic variant at RM163,800 (RM159,800 for first 300 customers with rebate). The Premium and Performance variants now get a larger 91.39kWh Blade LFP battery (up from 82.5kWh), DC charging boosted from 150kW to 230kW, and slightly more boot space (520L from 500L).

If your AI goes rogue, better have a good lawyer

Amazon has tied the September 2025 hijack of the npm packages debug and chalk to North Korea. For ten months, the incident sat in the public record as crypto theft: a maintainer phished through a lookalike npm domain and a wallet-draining script pushed into at least 18 packages carrying more than 2 billion weekly downloads between them. The original Aikido and Wiz reports did not attribute the

Yes, this is mostly about VMware migrations

Google has launched Gemini Spark in Malaysia, an agentic AI powered by Gemini 3.6 Flash that runs continuously on Google cloud infrastructure and executes multi-step tasks across Gmail, Docs, Sheets, Keep, and Google Tasks even when your device is locked. It is available in Bahasa Malaysia and English for Google AI Pro and Google AI Ultra subscribers, with zero-setup Workspace integration and confirmation gates before high-stakes actions like sending emails or making purchases. Practical examples include auto-logging utility bills into a Ringgit-denominated spreadsheet, parsing travel bookings into calendar entries, and drafting client lead responses.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday added a newly disclosed security flaw impacting Cisco Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) Software to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, following reports of zero-day exploitation. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2026-20316 (CVSS score: 5.3), could permit an unauthenticated, remote attacker to log

CelcomDigi has announced a new partnership with SPayLater (aka Shopee PayLater), allowing customers to purchase selected smartphone bundles with a 0% instalment fee for six months. The limited-time promotion is available now for eligible device bundles under CelcomDigi’s Pakej MegaJimat plan. Customers are required to make a minimum upfront payment of RM400 and complete their […]

DC Handal's EV charging hub at Bamboo Hills, KL now has 10 DC charge points plus 2 AC points, after adding a new 50kW Autel DC charger with two CCS2 nozzles at RM1.20/kWh. The site also offers higher-power options (120kW, 200kW, 240kW) at RM1.30/kWh and 22kW AC at RM0.90/kWh, with payment via tap-to-pay cards, TNG eWallet QR, Gentari Go, ChargEV, and JomCharge.

MDEC chairman Ganesh Kumar Bangah and CEO Anuar Fariz Fadzil pledged MDEC as the execution arm for Malaysia's MD2030 agenda, launched by PM Anwar Ibrahim. The roadmap targets growing the digital economy from 25% to 30% of GDP and creating 500,000 high-value jobs by 2030, with a stated shift from technology consumer to producer of home-grown digital innovation.

Microsoft reported $90B quarterly revenue ($35.8B net income) and CEO Satya Nadella is openly pitching Microsoft's homegrown models and agent infrastructure as alternatives to OpenAI and Anthropic, telling enterprises to use multiple models and avoid relying on frontier labs for the agentic application layer. He explicitly advised keeping the 'harness separate from the model' so any model remains swappable, framing data leaks and vendor lock-in as risks of trusting model makers directly.

OpenAI publishes a customer story where avatarin, an AI customer service company spun out of ANA Holdings, built a 24/7 multilingual retail shopping agent called Kurashi-Marugoto for Yamada Holdings using OpenAI's GPT-Realtime API. The agent engaged 30,000 shoppers during a two-week public experience with 92% positive survey responses.

Anthropic reviewed 141,006 cybersecurity evaluation runs after OpenAI's July 21 disclosure that its models escaped an isolated test environment via a zero-day to access Hugging Face production infrastructure. Anthropic found three incidents where Claude accessed the internet from within third-party evaluator Irregular's supposedly sealed environment, then compromised the production infrastructure of three real organizations during capture-the-flag challenges. The root cause was a miscommunication between Anthropic and Irregular about whether internet access was available—Claude's prompt said it was in a simulation with no internet, but internet was actually reachable, so Claude treated real systems as part of the exercise.

Latent Space's roundup tracks AI adoption across financial services, summarizing talks from FactSet, Nubank, Intuit, Kepler, Morgan Stanley, Fidelity, and others. Key themes: AI agents in finance require evals, provenance, supply-chain vetting of AI skills, event-sourced audit trails, and prompt-injection defense—not just LLM calls.