AI Weekly Malaysia

From 16 November 2026, Discord will create public web pages for eligible Discoverable Servers with AI-generated conversation summaries, and from mid-December individual messages in participating public channels may become searchable on Google. The new 'Show me message content from Discoverable channels on web pages' setting is ON by default for adult accounts in Malaysia, the US and most of the world, while it is OFF by default in regions such as the EU, UK, South Korea, Canada, Brazil and Australia, plus verified teen accounts. Past messages sent before the mid-December rollout will not be crawled, but turning the setting off later only protects future posts and does not remove messages already indexed.

In a Guardian interview published 3 Nov 2026, Geoffrey Hinton, 78, said it “might be that we would have been better off never developing” AI and warned a major incident—such as a temporary blackout of financial or power systems—could happen this year or next. He said humanity should know within a decade whether AI risks can be managed, framing the outcome as either “radical abundance” or massive unemployment and societal breakdown, and said he does not trust OpenAI CEO Sam Altman “at all,” naming Zuckerberg and Musk as leaders who understand the risks but prioritize money. The piece precedes a documentary, AI: Probably Nothing to Worry About, whose title Hinton says was suggested by an AI chatbot.

DC Handal has switched on a 60kW Autel DC charger with two CCS2 nozzles at Level G of the indoor carpark at TMG Mall Bandar Indera Mahkota in Pahang, priced at RM1.20 per kWh. It sits near ChargEV's 60kW DC charger at the Starbucks Indera Mahkota drive-thru, and bays are covered. Activation works by tapping a credit, debit or prepaid card at the contactless terminal, via TNG eWallet QR, or through the ChargEV, JomCharge and Gentari Go apps.

A Hacker News post reports that personal Google AI subscriptions to Gemini can use saved chat history for model training unless 'Keep Activity' is turned off or temporary chats are used. It cites Google support pages saying a subset of chats is human-reviewed, reviewed chats are retained for up to three years even after activity deletion, and Google warns against entering confidential information; disabling activity means chats are lost after 72 hours. The thread drew 356 points and 99 comments.

GitHub's status page opened an incident titled "Incident with Pull Requests, Git Operations and Issues" (dated 2026-11-04 in the feed), naming three surfaces at once: PRs, git operations, and issues. The supplied text is only the status page's notification sign-up boilerplate — country-code dropdown and OTP fields — so it contains no start time, duration, root cause, affected regions, or error rates. The Hacker News thread drew 263 points and 133 comments, which is the only substantive signal available here.

Google says its first Malaysian data centre at Elmina Business Park in Sungai Buloh is now operational, and it has named three more sites—Puncak Alam, Serendah, and Port Dickson—under an RM61 billion (USD15 billion) investment. Google gave no opening dates for the new sites but said Selangor infrastructure will anchor its upcoming Google Cloud region in Malaysia, serving clients including AirAsia, Gamuda, Hong Leong Bank, Maxis, and the Ministry of Digital.

Kitty 0.50 has been released, and the changelog link drew 298 points and 191 comments on Hacker News. The page text captured here is only the site's navigation menu, with no actual 0.50 changelog entries, version numbers, or feature descriptions included, so there are no concrete changes to report from this source.

SoyaCincau's first impressions of the Samsung Music Studio 5, the compact half of Samsung's 2026 Music Studio line, priced at RM999 in Malaysia against an RM1,299 RRP. The unit is a 2.4 kg, 2.0-channel speaker with two tweeters flanking a central woofer, 70W total amplification, Hi-Res decoding up to 24-bit/96kHz, and support for Dolby Atmos Music, Dolby Digital Plus and Dolby 5.1 bitstreams, plus a proprietary 'AI Dynamic Bass Control' that monitors woofer excursion in real time. The piece is unboxing plus setup only, with no listening verdict yet, and notes the box includes no remote and no optical cable despite the rear optical input.

Mercedes-Benz Malaysia has opened pre-booking for the C 300 4MATIC electric AMG Line Plus at an estimated RM360,888 (Peninsular Malaysia), with no final retail price or delivery date announced. Claimed specs: 415hp/800Nm dual-motor AWD, 0-100km/h in 4.5s, up to 690km WLTP range, 320kW DC charging, a 39.1-inch MBUX Hyperscreen, and an Agility+ financing estimate from RM3,988/month. Notably, the car actually shown at the preview was a C 400 Electric with a triple-display Superscreen and 19-inch wheels, not the C 300 variant being taken for pre-booking.

A hands-on write-up of dual-booting Linux on the MSI Prestige N16 Flip AI Plus (Nvidia RTX Spark) found that Linux works — desktop, GPU acceleration via Nvidia's open kernel driver, 4K 120Hz, audio, touchpad — but the GPU locks to roughly 780 MHz when plugged in versus about 2.2 GHz on Windows. The cause is Nvidia's Platform Controllers and Framework, a Windows-only component whose power table is encrypted and unreadable by Linux. On GPT-OSS-120B the gap is stark: Windows 65.4 tokens/sec, WSL 65.1, DGX Spark 61, native Linux 13.9; a second blocker is that the laptop reserves 96GB of unified memory for the GPU by default and only Windows exposes the setting to change that split.

Russian police arrested three people suspected of being VasyGrek hackers and dismantled associated criminal infrastructure, according to The Hacker News. The supplied text is headline-only: it names no malware family, victim sector, tooling, CVE, or indicator of compromise.

OpenAI published a prototype pipeline that statically scans the Linux kernel, reproduces candidate findings in an isolated environment, writes PoC exploits, and generates candidate patches. In a mid-October 2026 run using an upcoming cyber model it produced 2,308 candidate findings, dynamically reproduced 1,724 vulnerabilities, and generated 948 working local privilege escalation exploits for a commonly used Linux distribution, at a total API cost of $1,213,430 (about $1,279 per LPE), with human researchers reviewing outputs before reporting them upstream with patches under the Patch the Planet initiative.

The Hacker News headline states Google has issued patches for a critical Android flaw that could allow remote code execution without user interaction, published 4 November 2026. However, the supplied article text contains only site navigation, newsletter links, and ad markup — no CVE identifier, affected component, Android patch level string, severity score, or exploitation status is present. The only verifiable facts are the headline claim and the publication date.

OpenAI says GPT-5.6 Cyber is now available to approved customers in AWS GovCloud (US-East) through Daybreak Red, using Amazon Bedrock. Access requires OpenAI Daybreak Red approval and separate AWS provisioning; Daybreak Red approval does not automatically enable model access. OpenAI says inference data is not used to train models and customers do not need to share Daybreak Red data with OpenAI.

Solarvest Holdings appointed Joseph Wong Aik Peoy as CEO, engineering & operations, and James Lee Chung Min as chief energy transition officer, as the group pushes beyond solar generation into energy storage, grid modernisation and intelligent energy solutions. Wong's stated priorities include an "AI-powered operating framework" covering automation of reporting, project monitoring and early risk identification across a growing project pipeline. No figures, budgets, timelines or vendor details were disclosed.

The Hacker News headline states that CISA has confirmed attackers are exploiting a WordPress core vulnerability, with exploitation reportedly occurring in the context of software upgrades. The supplied text is almost entirely site navigation and boilerplate — the article body is cut off before any CVE ID, affected WordPress version, patch version, exploitation details, or CISA advisory reference appears. There is nothing here to verify beyond the headline claim itself.

Transport Minister Anthony Loke, in a written parliamentary reply dated 2 November 2026, said the government is studying targeted EV incentives that weigh total cost of ownership rather than sticker price, with any decision deferred to Budget 2027. Measures under review include purchase incentives for affordable EVs, support for locally assembled (CKD) EVs, and assistance for public charging infrastructure. However, Budget 2027 tabled last month contained no direct EV purchase rebates and scaled back tax shields for commercial charging station operators, even as Loke named charging expansion a pillar of adoption.

EloElo, the Indian company behind the Story TV microdrama app, raised an $80M Series C from Hornbill Capital and NBCUniversal, bringing total funding to $130M at a $500M valuation. Story TV claims 33 million active users and a catalog of over 5,000 titles across six languages, with founder Saurabh Pandey saying users average 95 minutes per day across multiple sessions. TechCrunch cites 118 million monthly microdrama viewers in India and analyst expectations of $3-4B in annual industry revenue by 2030.

A Sao Paulo state court ordered Meta to stop collecting content from Brazilian media outlets for AI training after a lawsuit by three national press associations. The court said Meta’s demand for free access under terms of service effective November 20 was an abuse of rights. It set a daily fine of one million reais (about US$180,000 or RM733,000) and gave Meta five days to comply.

Bridge Data Centres appointed Drew Chen as co-CEO effective 1 November 2026, working alongside existing co-CEO Eric Fan. BDC says it surpassed one gigawatt of capacity in 2026 and has a presence across Malaysia, Thailand, Singapore, and India. Chen previously spent over 20 years in private equity, including as a senior partner at Bain Capital and a founding member of its Asia Pacific private equity team.

Day 01 of Codevember 2026, titled "Fold", is a browser-based interactive cloth simulation hosted on mrdoob's GitHub Pages: you drag the cloth and press Space to pause, with a "Preparing plastic…" loading state. The page is a minimal demo shell — the fetched text is a cached snapshot containing only the title, controls, and loading message. It drew 301 points and 77 comments on Hacker News.

NBC News projects Democrats will take control of the US House with roughly 255 seats — well past the 218 needed and possibly their largest majority in nearly two decades — and also flip the Senate. The report names a string of GOP incumbent defeats (Fitzpatrick, Mackenzie, Bresnahan, Perry in Pennsylvania; Kiggans and Wittman in Virginia; Kean Jr. in New Jersey; Spartz in Indiana; Evans in Colorado; Hudson in North Carolina) and frames the result as a referendum on immigration enforcement, an eight-month Iran war, and tariffs on US allies that raised prices of gas, groceries and other goods. The only technical detail in the text is that the page displays an 'IE 11 is not supported' notice.

Singapore's Ministry of Manpower published its 2027 Shortage Occupation List covering 147 job titles across 7 industries, including agritech, energy & chemicals, and green economy roles; foreign Employment Pass applicants in these jobs get bonus points. The article notes unemployment rose to 64,700 and redundancies hit 4,800 last quarter despite AI-hardware-driven growth. The excerpt does not list software, AI, or startup roles.

On November 4, Binance detailed a US$6 billion hack attributed to North Korea-affiliated hackers who used fake job interviews and malware to breach the exchange. The attack occurred on October 29, 2026, and US$2.85 billion of the illicit funds was frozen; Binance says it replenished 98% of affected assets.

Proton e.MAS sold 3,763 units in October 2026, bringing its year-to-date total to 35,730 and an estimated 33.2% share of Malaysia's xEV segment. The e.MAS 5 led with 2,437 October deliveries and 23,189 YTD, while the e.MAS 7 PHEV and e.MAS 7 added 710 and 616 units respectively. Electrified models accounted for 19.58% of Proton's 182,510 YTD sales, meaning nearly one in five new Protons through October was an e.MAS.