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GWM Malaysia is offering a RM15,000 Merdeka 2026 discount on the Ora Good Cat Ultra EV, bringing the price from RM109,800 to RM94,800 until 30 September 2026, plus a free AC wallbox charger, 5 years of free maintenance, and a free Touch 'n Go x GWM RFID. The 2026 model uses a smaller 57.7kWh SVOLT LFP battery (down from 63.1kWh NMC) with NEDC range dropping from 500km to 480km, and adds My GWM app support for remote monitoring and control.

CISA added CVE-2025-62593 (CVSS 9.4) for Ray, the open-source Python distributed computing framework for AI/ML workloads, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog due to active exploitation. The flaw enables browser-based remote code execution via DNS rebinding—simply visiting a malicious site or ad while running Ray in a dev environment can trigger arbitrary shell code, and the browser can be used as a confused deputy to attack network-adjacent Ray instances. The fix is in Ray version 2.52.0.

Microsoft MVP Loryan Strant created The Microsoft Rebrand Registry, a site listing 72 Microsoft products and the 158 names they've collectively held over the years. The site notes that Microsoft product names survive an average of 2 years and 11 months, identifies 8 products that have undergone three name changes (including Azure AI Search, Azure DevOps, and Microsoft Defender for Endpoint), and even predicts which products are likely to be renamed next based on naming frequency patterns.

Waze's new 'Less Chatty' mode is now available in Malaysia, reducing voice prompts while retaining essential navigation alerts. The update also introduces AI-powered personalized routing, an AI-driven motorcycle mode rolling out early in Malaysia, and expanded Gemini-powered conversational reporting for hazards.

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Kaspersky blocked 75 million attacks across APAC in H1 2026, including 250,000 ransomware, 3.4 million backdoor, and 2.4 million password-stealer attacks. The company warns threat actors are increasingly using AI to automate reconnaissance and accelerate malware development, and that nearly one in three organisations globally experienced a supply chain incident in the past year.

The Xen Project has formed a Safety Committee and created a new 'Premier Plus' membership tier to pursue formal safety certification (IEC-61508) for its open-source hypervisor, targeting embedded use cases like cars and robots where workload isolation prevents non-critical apps from crashing safety-critical functions. Founding contributors are AMD, EPAM, and Renesas, and Boeing has quietly joined the project. The initiative aims to maintain shared engineering evidence alongside the code to reduce duplicated certification effort across organizations.

OpenAI published a customer case study describing how NVIDIA's GTM and solutions architecture teams use ChatGPT Work to automate recurring workflows, track external AI developments, and prototype faster. Reported metrics include 16 hours saved per week during GTC planning, prototype creation in 3–5 days (down from 2–3 weeks), and 5–8 actionable signals surfaced weekly from 25–40 external AI updates.

Anthropic engineer Sachin Malhotra describes how Claude Tag acts as the first responder for CI/CD failures at Anthropic, publishing initial situation reports within 15 minutes of incidents. The agent holds memory across a dedicated on-call Slack channel, uses a service account with tool access to investigate, and accepts natural-language scheduling prompts like 'run CI handoff every Monday at 9:00am EST.' In one example, Claude identified that 44 missing tests were caused by a feature flag turned on that morning and recommended reverting it.

Anthropic published a product guide for Claude Science (beta), an AI workbench for life sciences research that runs a local daemon to keep data, compute, and agents on the user's own machines while dispatching heavy jobs to their own GPU box, SLURM cluster, or cloud account. The guide covers which Claude surface to use when—Claude Science for analysis, Claude Cowork/Microsoft 365 for documents, Claude Code for pipelines—and includes a three-phase adoption roadmap with metrics.

Sentence Transformers v6.0 introduces a fourth model type, MultiVectorEncoder, for ColBERT-style late interaction retrieval. Unlike single-vector models, it keeps a vector per token and uses the MaxSim operator to preserve token-level matching, improving retrieval accuracy at the cost of a larger index. It supports PyLate, Stanford-NLP ColBERT, and colpali-engine models for OCR-free visual document retrieval.

Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index, matching GPT-5.6 Luna (max) and trailing GLM-5.2 (max) and DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (max) by just one point—despite being 27B parameters versus 753B for GLM and unknown-but-larger for Luna. Simon Willison calls it 'truly astonishing,' though a prior post notes it 'defaults to wildly overthinking things.'

Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate hit $65 billion at end of July 2026, up from $47 billion in May and $9 billion at end of 2025, with investors projecting $100-120 billion by year-end. OpenAI's revenue doubled to $40 billion over the same period. Both companies have filed confidential IPO paperwork, with Anthropic potentially going public this fall seeking a $2 trillion valuation.

South Korean retail investors net bought $4.5 billion of U.S. stocks in July while fleeing a correcting home market, with roughly $840 million going into a major chipmaker's U.S.-listed ADRs. Many are retaining exposure to AI and leveraged products through U.S.-listed securities rather than changing their investment thesis. Analysts say these flows are unlikely to move broad U.S. markets but could amplify volatility in individual stocks and thinner trades.

Stripe is acquiring OpenRouter for approximately $7B, roughly 90 days after OpenRouter's $1.3B Series B. OpenRouter was generating $140M annualized revenue at ~70% gross margin ($100M annualized gross profit), routing 250 trillion tokens/month across 8 million developers—up 5x from 50T tokens/month in February.

Bluesky's iOS app hides its logo during normal use and only reveals it on screenshots by rendering the 'Follow' button inside a UITextField with isSecureTextEntry set to true, leveraging iOS's screenshot-blanking behavior for secure fields. The implementation lives in a file called GrowthHack.tsx, introduced in January 2026 by mozzius, using their own expo-privacy-sensitive package. The logo is always present underneath; iOS blanks the secure field layer on screenshot capture, exposing the logo.

CNBC's Jim Cramer argues the AI boom has structurally changed the memory chip industry, citing Sandisk (+653% YTD), Seagate (+261%), Micron (+254%), and Western Digital (+211%) as still worth owning. He claims memory makers are showing more supply discipline this cycle, and notes Elon Musk has publicly called memory a key bottleneck for data center growth.

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Fabien Sanglard's write-up details how id Software's 1996 Quake shareware CD-ROM packed encrypted full versions of their game catalogue onto a 640 MiB disc, intending to let players unlock games via an 800 number and credit card—cutting out retailers. The scheme collapsed 39 days after release when hacker group GNOMON published QCRACK.EXE, which decrypted every game on the disc. id had already lost control of distribution and order fulfillment by then.

A community developer wrote a working main camera driver for the Fairphone 6 running PostmarketOS, including auto focus and color correction, building on prior work by another contributor on the wide lens. The image quality is still grainy compared to a Galaxy A16, and emergency calling verification is being tested with Dutch 112 authorities on August 18.

Independent developer Théo Ducreux's ValidateHTML project crawled the 5,000 most-visited web domains (per the Tranco list) and found 87.2% have at least one HTML spec violation, with only 2.6% returning zero errors and zero best-practice warnings. Over a third failed accessibility checks—20.4% are missing image alt text and 41.6% lack ARIA labels for page regions—making pages broken for screen readers even when they render fine in Chrome.

Relay, an AI workflow automation startup launched in 2021 as a 'new Zapier,' is shutting down. Paying customers lose access September 14 (free users already lost it August 15). Founder and CEO Jacob Bank, who previously spent 6+ years at Google after his scheduling startup Timeful was acquired, is rejoining Google as VP of Product for Chrome, leading product and developer relations, with plans to integrate AI agents into the browser.

Nvidia will provide credit and compute for a new OpenAI data center in Ohio, backing $105 billion in financing. SB Energy will build and manage the facility at the PORTS-Pike Technology Campus in Pike City, Ohio, under a 20-year lease to OpenAI, with initial capacity of 4.25 GW and an option for 3.75 GW more, coming online in phases starting 2028.

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OpenRouter has cut GPT-5.6 Sol pricing by 50%, bringing input to $2.50/M tokens and output to $15/M tokens, with cache reads at $0.25/M. The model has a 1M token context window, was released July 9 2026 with a Feb 2026 knowledge cutoff, and is positioned for complex reasoning, coding, and agentic workflows including multi-step command-line tasks.