AI Weekly Malaysia

CNBC reports, citing four unnamed people, that Chinese lab Moonshot AI — maker of the Kimi model family — discussed renting capacity this year from neoclouds hosting Nvidia Blackwell GPUs at facilities in Europe. U.S. export controls block shipment of Blackwell-class chips to China, but the article notes remote access through overseas data centers is a loophole; it also says the White House previously accused Moonshot of accessing advanced Nvidia chips remotely in East Asia. No deal is confirmed and no deal size, price, or named counterparty is given.

Issue #105 in the PrivSec-dev/banking-apps-compat-report repo tracks the Dutch ASN Bank app (v2.40.2, Netherlands): filed July 2022, it first reported the app working fine on Pixel devices including a Pixel 6 Pro with no Google Play or Play Services installed, then a later comment reported that login fails without Google Play Services. The issue was closed as completed in August 2022, and the visible excerpt does not actually contain the recent evidence behind the 'blocks non-Google Android, including GrapheneOS' headline. The thread drew 326 points and 206 comments on Hacker News.

The Hacker News headline (published 6 Nov 2026) reports that Chainalysis suffered a breach exposing credentials for all of its users and was forced to shut down key services. The excerpt supplied contains only the site's navigation and boilerplate — no incident details, no timeline, no affected-service list, and no Chainalysis statement — so the specifics behind 'all users' credentials' and 'key services' cannot be verified from this text.

OpenAI is partnering with Hacktron to find vulnerabilities, test connections with third-party services, and strengthen defenses with frontier AI.

BUI is a GPL-3.0 project that lifts Blender's GPU-accelerated UI out of the Blender codebase and ships it as a standalone library usable from Python, Rust, JavaScript (React, Svelte), C, C++, and Dear ImGui, with a Qt backend also in the repo. The repo sits at 701 stars, 17 forks, and 115 commits, and the README's headline claim is that it is 'twice as good as GPUI.' It drew 383 points and 154 comments on Hacker News, but the excerpt contains no benchmark numbers behind that claim.

Reuters headlines that Britain will make salary disclosure in job ads mandatory; the article body was not retrievable, so the scope (employer size thresholds, enforcement, effective date, whether it covers contract and remote roles) is unconfirmed. The Hacker News thread on it drew 351 points and 295 comments, making it one of the more-discussed policy items of the week despite the thin sourcing here.

Aeon Credit launched FacePay, which it calls Malaysia's first facial-recognition payment, live only at the Aeon Supermarket KL Midtown self-checkout counters. Users enrol their face once in the Aeon Wallet app and set a six-digit Face Code that is required for transactions above an undisclosed limit; the system uses liveness detection to block photo spoofing and falls back to QR/card if FacePay is unavailable. An adoption campaign runs 5 November to 31 December 2026, giving an extra 1 Aeon Point per RM1 (up to 6x points with existing card rewards) but capped at a total pool of 300,000 Aeon Points.

Since this summer, at least 10 US local governments and police departments have moved to curb, restrict, or end their use of Flock Safety technology — including Monroe, Ohio; Newburgh, New York; Richmond, Virginia; Hopkinton and New Bedford, Massachusetts; and Lansing, Michigan, with East Bridgewater and Grafton, Massachusetts police also announcing plans to stop. League City, Texas residents voted this week against their police department's continued use of Flock license plate readers, and the cameras are now set to be removed. Flock, founded in 2017, sells license plate readers, drones, and microphone-based edge devices that detect gunshots and other sounds, with more than 100,000 cameras in use nationwide; cited concerns range from privacy and data-sharing to procurement.

Palo Alto Networks is reportedly in talks to acquire Clutch Security — a three-year-old startup securing AI agents' access to company systems — for $500M cash plus milestone payouts. Clutch was valued at $85M in its January 2025 $20M Series A (Lightspeed, SignalFire) and is approaching $10M ARR, putting the price near 50x ARR. It would be Palo Alto's seventh acquisition this year, following Console ($500M, AI agents for IT help desk), Embrace ($325M), Chronosphere ($2.95B), and Koi ($231M); Upwind also reportedly rejected a DataDog offer at ~40x ARR.

The Hacker News reports that attackers hid a Linux backdoor inside a Control Web Panel (CWP) server so they could execute commands without leaving logs. The excerpt provided contains only the headline and site navigation — no CVE ID, affected CWP version, patch status, indicator-of-compromise list, or timeline — so the mechanism and scope cannot be described from this text.

The Hacker News headline claims researchers demonstrated an exploit chain against Barracuda's Email Security Gateway that yields root access without logging in. The supplied text is almost entirely site navigation and boilerplate — no CVE ID, affected firmware versions, researcher names, patch status, or technical mechanism appear in the excerpt. As a result, nothing in the source can be verified or acted on beyond the headline claim itself.

TNG eWallet launched overseas ride-hailing inside its app, covering 47 countries and over 12,000 cities through Alipay+, with access to DiDi Travel, AMap, Bolt, Lyft, Kakao T and GO. Users can see fares upfront and pay in Ringgit from their existing TNG eWallet balance instead of setting up another payment method. For China, DiDi Travel and AMap mini-apps are available with English and Chinese interfaces, and first-time DiDi users must register with a +60 Malaysian mobile number; TNG is also offering 50% off a first AMap ride.

Article URL: https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/from-linux-to-wikipedia-how-volunteers-build-the-internet/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50388122

Grand Theft Auto VI is scheduled to launch on November 19 after nearly eight years of development and reported spending above US$1 billion. The article says it is projected to break sales records and become the biggest entertainment release of all time, with protagonists Jason, a former drug-runner, and Lucia, an ex-con and GTA's first female protagonist.

Malay Mail's tech-gadgets slot previews Grand Theft Auto VI ahead of its November 19 release, noting the game is set in the Miami-inspired Vice City inside the fictional state of Leonida, with two protagonists — Jason Duval and Lucia Caminos — pursuing criminal activity. The piece cites enhanced graphics, a larger explorable area and a more varied soundtrack as headline changes, and references online previews plus a Netflix teaser and a large GTA VI billboard on the Mercuriales towers in Bagnolet, on the eastern outskirts of Paris. The excerpt is cut off mid-sentence at 'With a base', so pricing, platforms and system requirements are not stated in the text available.

Article URL: https://pwn.college/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50387796

Tesla fell about 11% and SpaceX about 9% on Thursday afternoon, taking combined market-cap losses to over $420 billion since Tuesday's close, after Democrats won control of the House and Senate and Texas flipped blue. Investors expect new congressional probes and steeper regulatory hurdles for Musk's AI and merger ambitions; he was the biggest donor to GOP candidates and causes in the midterms and most candidates he backed lost. Forbes puts Musk's wealth below $800 billion, down roughly $90 billion in a week, after topping $1 trillion following SpaceX's June IPO.

Malay Mail Tech reviews the Apple iPhone Duo, calling it the writer's new favourite iPhone and arguing the folding design is a necessary evolution. It highlights productivity and portability, notes some missing camera features, and says performance, pocketability, and app adaptations make it compelling for some users. It encourages potential buyers to try the device in-store.

Blue Origin announced rocket upgrades and says it is building a higher-performing Northstar rocket engine at one-quarter the cost. The article's caption states Blue Origin is building a Northstar engine about every 10 days. The excerpt does not include independent verification or a technical breakdown behind those claims.

The New York Times Company has reportedly entered exclusive negotiations to acquire Letterboxd for $330 million, per a report in the Times itself. Letterboxd grew from 3 million users in January 2021 to 28 million by April of this year, with more than half its users under 35, and projects about $15 million in earnings this year — roughly 4.5% of the reported purchase price. A24 and Sony were reportedly interested, but A24 was priced out, and the Times declined to comment.

Meta, Google, and TikTok each sued California Attorney General Rob Bonta to block AB 1709, signed in September and set to take effect at the start of the new year. The law bars social platforms from offering autoplay video and personalized feeds to users under 16 and requires deleting those accounts if the features are not turned off, with fines up to $50,000 per affected user. The companies argue the law violates the First Amendment and is preempted by Section 230.

OpenAI introduces BioBasicsBench, a 100-task benchmark measuring how well AI agents interpret raw experimental data and handle everyday wet-lab science.

Hugging Face's Open ASR Leaderboard added two new private held-out splits from data provider Liva AI: Egyptian English (1.34 hours) and Nigerian English (1.55 hours), both conversational, spontaneous speech transcribed with punctuation, casing, and disfluencies preserved. The leaderboard now reports accent breakdowns using Kachru's Three Circles — Inner Circle (US, UK, Australia, Canada) vs. Outer & Expanding Circles (India, Nigeria, Egypt) — with plans to split Outer and Expanding as more accents arrive. This follows earlier private splits from Appen, DataOceanAI, and Voice Arena for Indian-accented English.

On Thursday, November 5, 2026, the Magnificent 7 lost $1 trillion as AI-linked tech led a broad selloff: the Nasdaq fell 5.5% into correction territory, the S&P 500 dropped about 4.4%, and the Dow fell roughly 1,833 points, or 3.4%. The S&P 500, Dow, and Nasdaq posted their steepest one-day declines since the April 2025 tariff shock, with investors worried that data-center developments could slow after the midterm election results.

CNBC's Jim Cramer said AI stocks are hard to value because of uncertainty over the data center build-out, after a two-session sell-off. The iShares Semiconductor ETF fell 3% Wednesday and 10% Thursday, while GE Vernova dropped 7% and Sandisk 22% on Thursday. Cramer cited Nvidia trading at roughly 12 times next year's earnings with an expected 70% growth rate, but said regulatory hurdles and opposition to new data centers could undermine those projections.