AI Weekly Malaysia

Article URL: https://blog.laserphile.com/2026/08/aliexpress-webpage-keeping-multipoint.html Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49372583 Points: 1012 # Comments: 328

A US federal judge struck down the ATF's 'ghost gun' rule covering 3D-printed firearm parts, ruling that the restrictions violate the Fifth Amendment and conflict with the historical tradition of DIY gunsmithing. The article text itself is mostly site navigation boilerplate with no further substantive detail.

Tan Chong Ekspres Auto Servis (TCEAS) launched a mini-program inside TNG eWallet, letting users book and pay for car servicing across 40+ centres nationwide. Launch Rahmah bundles start at RM109 (semi-synthetic) and RM129 (fully synthetic), covering engine oil, filter, inspection, and labour with a 6-month warranty.

A console modder fitted working Switch 2 Joy-Con internals into original Wii Remote shells, with motion-sensing controllers that snap magnetically onto a Switch 2. The article text itself is mostly site boilerplate with no additional technical detail beyond the headline.

NASA and Katalyst Space abandoned plans to grapple and reboost the Swift gamma-ray observatory into a higher orbit after Katalyst's LINK spacecraft lost two of three reaction wheels to a post-launch spin. Engineers used electric thrusters and a software update to regain control, but the diminished attitude control made the reboost unsafe. LINK will still attempt a rendezvous for data-gathering, but Swift is expected to re-enter Earth's atmosphere later this year.

Winnie Ong founded Singapore fashion brand Young Hungry Free in 2012 at age 19, funding it by asking for her S$1,400/month retail salary in advance. Over 14 years the side project grew into a recognized homegrown brand whose designs were eventually worn by Blackpink's Jisoo.

A viral video shows an Amazon Prime Air delivery drone dropping a customer's package directly into her swimming pool in Texas, surfacing the same week Amazon announced plans to expand Prime Air to 500 cities. The article text itself is mostly site boilerplate; the substantive detail is limited to the title.

Binance launched Agent OS, a platform letting AI agents analyze markets and execute trades on users' behalf via Binance's APIs, Wallet Agentic Hub, x402 payment facilitator, and Skill Hub, with new MCP support. It integrates with ChatGPT, Codex, Claude Code, and Cursor, but Binance places responsibility for agent oversight largely on users through configurable sub-accounts with withdrawals blocked by default.

SparkyLinux 8.4, a Debian 13 derivative, has restored 32-bit installation images roughly a year after version 8.0 dropped them. The 32-bit minimal GUI edition uses a command-line installer and offers desktop environments including the original CDE, running on kernel 6.12 with modest requirements (259 MB RAM, 6.9 GB disk in a VM).

Socket Threat Research identified 40 malicious Firefox extensions impersonating Web3 wallets like OKX, Rabby Wallet, and TronLink to steal recovery phrases, private keys, and clipboard data. The campaign, active since March 2026, used Supabase projects as remote switches and Cloudflare Workers for exfiltration, with some extensions initially published as innocuous sports-score utilities before being repurposed into wallet-stealing malware under the same Firefox ID.

Article URL: https://dontpastetheai.com/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371857 Points: 1034 # Comments: 576

Volvo Car Malaysia has opened order books for the upgraded 2026 Volvo EX90, which switches from 400V to 800V architecture, boosting DC fast charging from 250 kW to 350 kW (10-80% in 22 minutes vs 30) and power to 680 hp. The refreshed model uses dual NVIDIA DRIVE AGX Orin SoCs for enhanced ADAS features, and VCM is offering existing owners a free one-time core computer hardware upgrade. Local pricing is unconfirmed; the current 400V model retails at RM442,888.

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OpenAI launched 'AI Futures,' a blog for its new Strategic Futures team, which will explore how society should restructure to preserve individual rights and agency amid transformative AI. The inaugural post frames 'concentration of power' as the largest long-term AI risk, arguing that political and military power has historically depended on human labor and consent, and that transformative AI could disrupt this foundation.

An engineer at Softjourn asked an AI agent to recommend a package for a common task; the agent returned a plausible-sounding name that turned out to be a malware package recently registered by attackers exploiting AI-hallucinated package names—a technique now called 'slopsquatting.' The engineer caught it only because company policy required checking GitHub source code and download counts before installing anything an AI recommends.

Gentari and MBPP have activated a 120kW DC fast charger at Kompleks Pasar Awam dan Penjaja Taman Terubong Jaya in Paya Terubong, Penang. It has two CCS2 nozzles, costs RM1.60/kWh (less with Gentari Go subscription), supports Gentari Go, JomCharge, and ChargEV activation, and imposes a RM0.40/minute idle fee after 15 minutes post-charge.

Chinese space startup LandSpace successfully landed a Zhuque-3 first-stage booster on land, making it the first Chinese company to achieve the feat—previously only SpaceX and Blue Origin had done so. The rocket, which can carry 21,300 kg to a 450km orbit, launched at 7:35 AM, separated stages at 137 seconds, and landed the first stage six minutes later about 250km from the launchpad. LandSpace has designed its engines and first stages for up to 20 flights but has not yet demonstrated actual re-use or turnaround time.

Article URL: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030825-00/?p=42803 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49371006 Points: 353 # Comments: 136

A critical unauthenticated remote code execution flaw (CVE-2026-32475, CVSS 9.0) in Elementor Pro's Forms module allows attackers to bypass file extension blocklists and upload arbitrary PHP scripts. The vulnerability affects versions up to 4.2.1 and requires only a published Elementor form with a file upload field enabled, which is a common configuration for job applications and support tickets.

Z.ai CEO Jie Tang argues that parameter count alone is no longer a useful model metric, stating it's only meaningful alongside data volume, compute allocation, and deployment conditions. GLM-5.3's improvements come entirely from RL on long-horizon environments—tasks that simulate days of real engineering work, including diagnosing ML infrastructure bottlenecks and delivering measurable speedups. The entire environment, judging, and verifier process is synthetic end-to-end.

YTL-backed Ryt Bank has surpassed 1.5 million customers in its first year, overtaking GXBank (1.4M in May 2026) as Malaysia's largest digital bank by customer base. Its AI banking assistant Ryt AI, running on ILMU—a homegrown LLM from YTL AI Labs—has been used over 10 million times, handling conversational banking tasks in English, Bahasa Melayu, and Chinese, including receipt/image reading and multi-step requests. Ryt Bank also became the first Malaysian digital bank to offer account activation via ATMs and over-the-counter at physical branches.

IBM revealed modular rectangular cryogenic cabinets—three times the size of a domestic fridge, with 0.53 sqm wiring area and 2.75 cubic meters of vacuum chamber volume—that can be connected via shielded 'cryogenic tunnels' to link multiple quantum processors. The design addresses IBM's scaling limit on single-chip qubit counts and reduces the noisy long connections that plague its current cylindrical coolers.

Zeekr EV owners in Malaysia get free JomCharge Platinum membership (normally RM39.90/month), granting 25% off at over 1,000 JomCharge charge points nationwide. The promo runs until 31 December 2026 and requires owners to register via the JomCharge app and submit an online form with a 1-2 day onboarding process.

Zetrix AI (formerly MyEG) and Autzen Marketing launched RideNow, a closed-bidding motorcycle marketplace in Malaysia that restricts transactions to verified dealers only, aiming to curb e-commerce scams that cost Malaysians over RM430 million in early 2026. Sellers submit bike details online, get a free on-site inspection, set a minimum price, and verified dealers bid twice daily on weekdays; payment is processed within 1 working day and vehicle ownership transfer is handled on-site by MYEG TwoCar.

Apple's macOS 26.7 release candidate accidentally leaked model identifiers for nearly 40 unreleased devices, including a foldable iPhone Ultra (V68), OLED touchscreen MacBook Pros (K114c/K114s/K116c/K116s), camera-equipped AirPods with infrared cameras for Visual Intelligence (B790, targeting 2027), a smart home hub running homeOS codenamed Pebble (J490/J491), and a Luxo Jr-inspired tabletop robot (J595).