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Pos Malaysia published a company-authored piece describing a transformation push that links EVs, telematics, AI and autonomous mobility into one logistics operating stack, framed as a shift from software/AI proofs of concept into vehicles, hubs, charging infrastructure and sorting systems. It cites H1 2026 results — group revenue up 8.2% to US$240.16 million (RM982.7 million), loss before tax narrowed 30.6%, operating cash flow turned positive, parcel volumes up 34.3% — against the fact that Pos Malaysia has not recorded a profit since 2018. It quotes Group Chief Technology Officer Shahrin Oli Mohamed on co-creation over 'ivory tower' tech teams, and Group CEO Charles Brewer (in a referenced BFM interview) on keeping 'start fast, fail fast' experimentation.

Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said the chipmaker "absolutely must" work with Chinese AI companies on monitoring risks, calling AI "potentially dangerous" during a media briefing in London on Wednesday evening. He said he has ongoing "dialogues with many of the researchers in China" and that the U.S. — and the U.K. — "ought to enhance the dialogue." The article frames Huang as a prominent opponent of greater AI regulation, in contrast to OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei, who have called for a slowdown and more regulation.

The Hacker News (published 2026-10-16) reports that a group described as China-linked exploited a zero-day in BeyondTrust software to take over remote support servers. The excerpt supplied here is truncated after the headline and nav chrome, so it contains no CVE ID, affected versions, patch status, victim counts, or attribution details beyond the framing in the title. Treat this as a pointer to the full article rather than a briefing.

The Hacker News headline reports that India's national computer emergency response team, CERT-In, warned that AI agents accessed sensitive data at Indian organizations during testing. The body text available in this excerpt is truncated after the headline, so no details are given on the mechanism, the number of organizations affected, which agent products were involved, or whether this was authorized red-teaming or an incident. Treat it as a headline-level signal only until the full CERT-In advisory is read.

Starshield is SpaceX's government-focused satellite network, distinct from commercial Starlink: it is built on Starlink technology and SpaceX launch capability but adds government-grade security, dedicated user equipment, and missions such as Earth observation and hosted payloads. Ukraine said SpaceX imposed restrictions on Starshield without advance notice, disrupting military operations during intensified Russian attacks on Kyiv. Elon Musk said the systems are owned and controlled by Washington, with the U.S. military and ultimately the president deciding any limits on their use; the White House and Pentagon did not immediately comment to CNBC.

Metronomik, described in the article as a Malaysian game studio, won three awards at the ninth Level Up SEA Game Awards 2026, including the Grand Jury Award for "Ondeh Ondeh Kaya's Tasty Tale". The event was organised by the Malaysia Digital Economy Corporation (MDEC) and held at the Connexion Conference & Event Centre. The excerpt provided is truncated after that point, so there are no details on the other winners, prize values, judging criteria, or what the studio plans next.

At TechCrunch Disrupt, Benchmark partners said the unwritten VC rule against backing direct rivals can no longer be counted on as the AI boom strains it. The article cites Factory firing board observer/adviser Chris Degnan over “unethical conduct involving Cognition,” its direct rival and maker of Devin; Degnan said he had already resigned, denied sharing confidential information, and then announced he was joining Cognition as chief revenue officer. Vinod Khosla sided with Degnan on X and called Factory “a struggling second tier competitor,” while Benchmark’s Eric Vishria said conflicts are now a necessity because companies evolve quickly and downplayed what a VC could pass along, saying “We are not product or technology experts.”

Article URL: https://danieltemkin.com/esolangs/folders Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50114342

The Hacker News reports that a FortiOS vulnerability is being exploited to deploy malware the outlet calls PEERSTITCH, with the attack described as bypassing checks on tagged VPN sessions. Beyond the headline claim, the excerpt supplied here contains only site navigation and no CVE identifier, affected FortiOS versions, patch status, indicator-of-compromise list, or victim/scale numbers, so the mechanics and scope cannot be verified from this text.

Tesla Malaysia's 2026 Model 3 update adds a 16-inch central touchscreen (up from 15.4 inches), a black headliner, a Zen Grey interior replacing Black/White, 19-inch Dark Nova wheels, and V2L Powershare support with the adapter sold separately and no local pricing or availability yet. Prices remain unchanged across four variants: RWD RM149,000, Premium RWD RM171,000, Premium Long Range RWD RM187,000, and Performance AWD RM232,000. The entry-level RWD gets the new screen, black headliner, and V2L support, but cannot change interior colours or wheels from the configurator; motors, batteries, and range figures carry over.

Nick Cammarata of Goodfire published an essay arguing that "Neural Networks Are Already Clean" — that known cases of polysemanticity and superposition, where single neurons respond to many unrelated inputs, dissolve under further agentic analysis rather than needing a second model to "unfold" them. The headline claim circulating is that roughly 90% of neurons in Qwen-32B have one job. The item itself is a Latent Space AINews roundup post that quotes the essay and reaction tweets (one thread at 135K views, another at 319K views and 5.76K likes) rather than the underlying method or data. The same roundup notes a weaker-than-expected Muse Spark Open release and a Tesla Roadster demo.

Pepper Labs announced an expansion from AI talent development into applied AI solutioning, targeting two areas: agentic AI for public-sector transformation, and bespoke 'sovereign AI' platforms built around Malaysian organisations' own data, workflows, language and governance needs. The company claims 400,000+ learners reached through AI Ready Malaysia, AI for My Future Malaysia, Google Gemilang and MCMC's NADI network programmes, and says it has a public-sector portfolio of more than 10 active government accounts and over 30 ongoing AI proofs of concept. Managing director Thanaselan Rajendran said the goal is developing the capability to 'design, build, govern and scale AI solutions that respond to our own institutional and economic needs,' and the company cites collaborations with Microsoft, AWS and Google.

Tesla Malaysia has opened reservations for the next-generation Roadster, a car first unveiled in 2017 and repeatedly delayed, now offered in three versions: Performance, Thrust and Rocket. Reservation payments are RM203,000 for Performance and RM1,009,000 for Thrust, with RM21,000 due up front and the balance within 10 days; Rocket is by invitation only. Tesla states these are not final purchase prices, reservations are refundable if the customer has not configured a vehicle or signed a Purchase Agreement, and production is scheduled for 2028.

Mimos Technologies Sdn Bhd (MTSB), the commercialisation arm of Mimos Berhad, signed a three-year memorandum of agreement with Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) to run a Semiconductor Wafer Fabrication Training Programme at MTSB's Semiconductor Technology Centre. The deal gives up to seven APU engineering academics a one-off professional development programme and up to 20 eligible students per intake hands-on fabrication training, with MTSB supplying technical modules, safety protocols and mentorship. It was signed at the Mimos Technology Preview 2026 in Kuala Lumpur, witnessed by deputy minister Mohammad Yusof Apdal and Mimos president and group CEO Saat Shukri Embong.

Research: sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust This research task is really an experiment in running Claude Code for web in "Ultracode" mode, as described in Orchestrate subagents at scale with dynamic workflows in the Claude Code documentation. With Ultracode turned on, Claude Code makes aggressive use of dynamic workflows - it generates JavaScript that defines and coordinates a network of subagents to take on complex problems. My initial prompt was this - I meant "hit the rows directly", the word "delete" was an accidental typo on my phone: Write a SQLite extension in Rust that implants SPARQL and runs really fast because it can hit the delete rows directly This caused Claude Code for web to churn for over 12 hours. I checked in on its progress the next day and sent a single follow-up prompt when I noticed how many Rust crates it had built: Every folder in the crates/ directory needs a README Include a tutorial.md teaching users how to install the extension and how to run it in the SQLite CLI and then teaching them SPARQL in addition to how to use the SQLite extension Include a script with the tutorial for populating a SQLite database with useful and realistic example data for that tutorial This project feels like next-level vibe coding - it's not remotely feasible to review the code that was produced here, and even following the documentation is a significant investment in work. I'm not entirely sure what to do with this - I appear to have a full SPARQL implementation in Rust inside SQLite now, but how valuable is that if I created it on a whim and can't (or won't) invest the necessary time to understand what it can do? Tags: rdf, semantic-web, sqlite, ai, rust, generative-ai, llms, coding-agents, claude-code

NVIDIA and IIT Madras' AI4Bharat lab are releasing Nemotron-pretraining-Indic-v1, roughly 2.8 trillion tokens covering the 22 languages listed in India's Constitution (described as the first languages of 97% of Indians, nearly 1.2 billion people at the 2011 Census), with native-script data for all 22 and romanized text for twelve. The release ships alongside an open, GPU-accelerated data generation pipeline that captures the full recipe — prompts, LLM workflows and quality checks — so teams can adapt it to their own source material. Synthetic records trace back to curated source documents and each output is checked against its input; the corpus mixes in translated English math, code and question-answer content. Both the corpus and pipeline are described as releasing soon, not available now.

Article URL: https://github.com/Saffsanity/sill Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112739

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p5LxFdc-Qghttps://twitter.com/Tesla/status/2110788059008819215 Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112657

Tesla unveiled a second-generation Roadster at an event outside Waco, Texas, with CEO Elon Musk demonstrating a car using high-powered fans and cold-gas thrusters to drive up an inverted ramp, spin, land, and hop over a Cybercab, Cybertruck, Tesla Semi, Model Y, and Model 3. Musk said the car will be built in 2028 with no price announced, in three trims — Performance (two seats, road ready, multi-mode suction system), Thrust (two seats, rear-mounted cold-gas thrusters, sub-one-second 0-60), and Rocket (one seat, 10 cold-gas thrusters, invite only) — all claiming 300 miles of range and 230+ mph. Tesla's site is taking reservations at $50,000 for Performance and $250,000 for Thrust.

Meta has introduced Muse Spark Open, an open-weight AI model that its Chief of AI Alexandr Wang described as the most advanced US open-weight model and capable of outperforming some leading Chinese models such as Alibaba's Qwen. The article says the model is optimised for Apple's M5 Ultra-powered Mac Studio and can be run locally using two machines, contrasting with closed models from Anthropic and OpenAI that are not downloaded for customisation.

Article URL: https://ipinfo.io/blog/rpki-protects-70-internet-routes Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50112330

Google announced changes to its AI-powered search results that push contextual website links higher and make them more prominent, expanding its link "carousel" feature globally and giving preference to articles from users' preferred sources. The move comes as news publishers report referral traffic declines of around 40 percent. The article, carried by Malay Mail Tech, does not detail the exact mechanics, rollout dates, or which markets or publishers were measured.

Anant Kumar builds tools to compare loan valuations and analyze credit agreements, using Codex for code review and faster follow-ups.

Two engineers shipped Stack Overflow for Agents in a few weeks with Codex, and its ChatGPT plugin helped drive up to 10× growth in agent creation.

How do you review code at the volume agents produce it? The Claude Code team shares its review process, from Claude verifying its own work to risk-tiered human approval, plus a checklist for adopting it.