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Most family bizs don’t last this long, but Yong Seng Coffee is still roasting after 5 decades For more than five decades, Yong Seng Coffee has been a fixture at Tiong Bahru Market. It has weathered the rise of instant coffee, the café boom that’s transformed the neighbourhood in the 2010s, and, more recently, the […]

Armed with a 300-club regional network, the gym chain sees plenty of room to grow here If you’re a regular gymgoer in Singapore, you’ve probably noticed a growing number of 24/7 Fitness outlets popping up across the city-state. The Hong Kong-born gym chain has been steadily expanding its local footprint since entering the market in […]

This post is brought to you by Eastspring Investments. If you are a regular reader here, chances are you know your way around a hardware spec sheet. You understand the impact of next-generation silicon architectures, you track the rollout of massive data centres, and you have witnessed how quickly generative AI has shifted from a […]

BYD will be bringing its latest EV charging technology to Malaysia which allows users to top up their battery as quick as refueling a petrol car. BYD Malaysia Managing Director Jacob Ma has confirmed that BYD Flash Chargers will be deployed in Malaysia very soon and it will be open to all EVs including non-BYD […]

Move over, Harness Engineering, it is time for the harness of harnesses!

A new OpenAI research paper shows how AI agents are transforming work, enabling longer, more complex tasks and expanding productivity across roles.

simonw/browser-compat-db Inspired by Mozilla's new MDN MCP service - source code here - I decided to try converting their comprehensive mdn/browser-compat-data repository full of browser compatibility data into a SQLite database. This new GitHub repo includes a Claude Code for web (Opus 4.8) generated script for doing that using sqlite-utils. I wanted the resulting ~66MB SQLite database to be available via the GitHub CDN with open CORS headers. GitHub releases don't have those, but any file stored in a regular GitHub repository does - so I had Codex Desktop (GPT-5.5) build a GitHub Actions workflow that builds the database and then force-pushes it to a db "orphan" branch. You can download the resulting database from here, and since it's hosted with open CORS headers you can also explore it with Datasette Lite. Tags: github, mozilla, projects, github-actions, datasette-lite, ai-assisted-programming, model-context-protocol, mdn

Backed by Mayfield and Aramco Ventures, Vishal Sikka’s new venture brings together veterans from SAP, Infosys, and VianAI.

While AI dominates the layoff narrative, engineers are actually making up a larger share of new hires, according to SignalFire data.

While there was probably a moment when Slate’s leadership had to green-light the switch from one battery type to another, the momentum toward that decision had been building for years.

In a rare double-interview, the Databricks technical leaders riff on what it will take for every company to build Agent Clouds

In the last few months, I've started to see [job applications] that were clearly cowritten by an LLM, link to an LLM-generated portfolio site, which then links to LLM-generated GitHub projects, with purely LLM-generated commit messages. [...] My other reaction is that I don't know anything about these people. They haven't put themselves out there. They haven't said anything true. [...] The perfected, generated, prompted resume is generic and impersonal. It tells me nothing about this person, other than that they use particular tools. — Tom MacWright, Accidental anonymity Tags: careers, ai, tom-macwright, ai-misuse

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New details have emerged about Valor's latest fund, which last year announced it was raising an unspecified amount of capital.

The Jeff Bezos-backed startup finally revealed more pricing details for its debut EV, including a $29,950 starting price for the SUV variant, and boosted the base range to 205 miles.

Watch now | 🎙️I ran GLM-5.2, the open-weight model from Z.AI, through codebase audits, UI redesigns, and a 45-minute autonomous bug-hunting task in Cursor and Claude Code, and it cost me $3.36

Disclaimer: Unless otherwise stated, any opinions expressed below belong solely to the author. For the past few years, my commentary on regional ecommerce has revolved around the competition between Shopee and Lazada. The ambitious upstart from Singapore ended up pushing out the former market leader, even though it received backing from Chinese Alibaba. And just […]

Claude finally gets a Slackbot upgrade

Self-Managed OAuth is now available to all developers on Cloudflare. Here's how we executed a zero-downtime migration of our core OAuth engine to make it happen.

OpenAI and Broadcom introduce Jalapeño, a custom AI chip built for LLM inference to improve performance, efficiency, and scale across AI systems.

Inokom Corporation Sdn Bhd (Inokom) has grown into one of Malaysia’s established automotive contract assemblers as it has earned the confidence of global automotive brands through its consistently high standards across close to 30 years. The contract vehicle assembler, which operates a 200-acre manufacturing facility in Kulim, Kedah, revealed that annual production volume grew from […]

Superhuman, which also has an AI detection tool as part of Grammarly, has snapped up GPTZero.

Release: datasette 1.0a35 I'll write more about this one soon, but it's a big release. Three highlights from the release notes: New "Create table" interface in the database actions menu, backed by the /<database>/-/create JSON API. It can define columns, primary keys, custom column types, NOT NULL constraints, literal defaults, expression defaults and single-column foreign keys. (#2787) New "Alter table" table action and /<database>/<table>/-/alter JSON API for changing existing tables: add, rename, reorder and drop columns; change column types, defaults, NOT NULLconstraints, primary keys and foreign keys; and rename the table. The alter table dialog also includes a "Drop table" button. (#2788) New Template context documentation listing the variables available to custom templates for Datasette's core pages. Variables documented there are treated as a stable API for custom templates until Datasette 2.0. The documentation is generated from dataclass definitions next to the view code, with tests that compare the documented fields against the actual contexts rendered by the database, table, query and row pages. (#1510, #2127, #1477, #2803) Here's a rough video demo I made of the new create/alter table feature as part of reviewing the PR: Tags: datasette