AI Weekly Malaysia

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CelcomDigi and HELP University announced a partnership to develop Malaysian digital talent through Work-Based Learning (WBL), a 2U1I model (2 years university-based, 1 year industry-based), and corporate mentorship connecting students with CelcomDigi professionals. The collaboration targets students across different years of study and aims to improve graduate employability in Malaysia's digital economy.

The Register's BOFH humor column Episode 16 features a satirical exchange where sysadmins outwit a junior accountant over petty cash reimbursement, using reflected spreadsheet reading and PIN observation. The joke centers on petty cash policies being stricter than tax authorities, with receipts under £5 scrutinized for lack of vendor detail.

PaperCut has confirmed active zero-day exploitation affecting all versions of PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF print management software, with emergency patches released for v25 and v26. The company shared specific IOCs including suspicious post-exploitation activity from 'pc-app.exe', missing or truncated server.log files, and particular JDBC/database error entries in logs, but has not yet disclosed the flaw details or threat actors involved.

Recorded Future's Insikt Group attributes a new Windows batch-script backdoor called HOOKEDGE to APT28 (aka BlueDelta/Fancy Bear), deployed against government and diplomatic organizations in Romania, Spain, and Türkiye between late September 2025 and early April 2026. HOOKEDGE is delivered via macro-enabled Word documents with diplomatic-themed lures, uses webhook.site for C2 and exfiltration, and is described as a direct evolutionary successor to the earlier HEADLACE backdoor, with significant code and tradecraft overlap.

Chelsea Chan started Candy Cottage in May 2022, selling imported pick-and-mix candy via Shopee livestreams from her family home in Singapore. Four years later, the business has nearly 35,000 TikTok followers, eight full-time family-member staff, over 500 candy varieties, and has shipped well over 100,000 bottles, packing up to 300 orders daily from six-hour daily livestreams.

OpenAI leaders, including Sam Altman and Jakub Pachocki, claim the unreleased Astra model acts as an 'Automated AI Research Intern' and that they will declare AGI achieved internally by December 2026. Meanwhile, Hugging Face and Pollen Robotics launched Microduck, a $399 open-source bipedal robot with 15 actuators and a rich sensor stack that supports sim-to-real reinforcement learning training.

Maxis has been appointed by Melaka ICT Holdings (MICTH) as Strategic Infrastructure Partner to fiberise 151 state-owned telco towers under a RM30 million project, part of the Smart Melaka Blueprint 2035. The upgrade migrates microwave backhaul to fibre, increasing tower fibre connectivity from 40% to 80%, and Maxis will offer wholesale mobile backhaul services to other MNOs using the infrastructure.

The Register's On Call column shares a reader-submitted anecdote from a former UK food company facilities manager who was summoned because a 'fax machine wasn't working'—only to discover the Company Secretary had been trying to fax from the photocopier, which had a similar numeric keypad but no fax capability.

A Register 'On Call' column recounts a reader's story about a UK food company Company Secretary who tried to send an urgent fax by placing a document on a photocopier's in-tray, dialing a number on its keypad, and hitting Enter. The user was unaware she was using the wrong machine entirely.

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Charge+ is offering 30% extra EV charging credit on 31 August 2026 only, when users reload a minimum of RM100 into their Charge+ wallet via the app using credit or debit card. A RM100 reload yields RM130 in total credit, usable beyond the Merdeka period.

Our decision to wind down our contract providing OpenAI models to Cursor following its acquisition by SpaceX.

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PaperCut's print management products (PaperCut NG and PaperCut MF) are under active zero-day attack after a university security team reported incidents. The company released an unofficial emergency patch that bypassed its normal release process, but advises customers to either restrict web interface access to trusted internal IPs or take servers offline entirely. The advisory is unusually silent on the nature of the flaw, though indicators of compromise include altered log files and alerts from IDS/endpoint/network monitoring tools.

Gentari is running a 'Penang Lagi!' campaign from 28 August to 30 November 2026, offering 15% off EV charging at 21 participating locations across Penang island and mainland. Users must start sessions via the Gentari Go app with a minimum spend of RM20, bringing DC charging down from RM1.60/kWh to RM1.36/kWh.

ChargEV is offering a 31% discount on EV charging at 31 selected locations across Malaysia from 29-31 August 2026, activated via the ChargEV app using promo code MERDEKA31. Participating sites span Klang Valley, Penang, Johor, Sabah, Sarawak, and several other states.

PT Infra Fiber Teknologi (IFT), a joint venture between Arsari Group and Indosat Ooredoo Hutchison, has launched RAIA Grid—an 86,000-km open-access fibre network spanning Indonesia that connects 5G, FTTH, and data centre-to-data centre links. The platform claims to embed machine learning and agentic AI into network planning, deployment, and operations, targeting telcos, cloud providers, hyperscalers, and enterprises. The launch is positioned as foundational infrastructure for Indonesia's AI and compute growth.

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Rockstar Games released a 26-minute preview of Grand Theft Auto VI on Netflix, ahead of a November 19 launch after months of delays. The game is set in Vice City and follows protagonists Jason and Lucia, with Rockstar pursuing legal action over recent leaks.

Australian Federal Police, assisted by the FBI, arrested two men in Perth (aged 21 and 23) allegedly behind TeamPCP, a cybercrime crew that inserted malicious code into open-source repositories. Their Shai-Hulud worm specifically targeted npm packages, harvesting credentials to public clouds and GitHub, and could wipe environments after replication. The AFP estimates over 1,000 organizations were compromised, 500,000+ credentials stolen, and 300GB+ of data exfiltrated, with global remediation costs in the hundreds of millions.

OpenAI has introduced ads on ChatGPT for free users and those on India's 399 rupee ($4)/month 'Go' plan, ahead of a planned IPO next year. The ad feature is already live in 38 countries including the U.S., Japan, Korea, and 31 European nations. OpenAI frames ads as supporting broader access through free and lower-cost tiers.

Meta agreed to pay up to USD 18 billion (~RM72.48 billion) over 10 years and enforce strict teen safety controls on Facebook and Instagram, settling US state lawsuits alleging addictive design for minors. Teen accounts will get a mandatory 2-hour daily limit, midnight-to-6AM access blocks, and school-hour notification suppression. Notably, the settlement does not require Meta to drop personalized recommendation algorithms or targeted ads, and 29 states separately alleged Meta harvested data from children under 13 to train its generative AI models.

A federal judge in California vacated the Pentagon's supply chain risk designation of Anthropic, ruling the action violated the First Amendment and the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. Judge Rita Lin ordered the DOD to rescind all guidance and directives issued against the company, writing that 'the empty invocation of national security is not a blank check to punish and retaliate against government critics.'

DeepSeek, the Chinese AI lab behind the model that gave China its 'ChatGPT moment,' is seeking fresh outside capital because its long-time funder High-Flyer Quant (the hedge fund co-founded by Liang Wenfeng) can no longer bankroll its growing needs. High-Flyer has been taking pre-IPO placements in China's hard-tech IPOs (chips, robotics) but has faced sharp drawdowns from AI-chip stock volatility.