AI Weekly Malaysia

A CVSS 10.0 vulnerability in SAP Commerce Cloud (CVE-2026-58231) allows unauthenticated remote code execution via a default authentication client and insufficient input validation. Exploitation attempts appeared in honeypots just three days after SAP released the patch, despite no public PoC. Onapsis recommends patching to fixed release levels and re-deploying, with an IP filter set as a temporary workaround.

The Register reviews Lego's new 1,252-piece Icons Hubble Space Telescope set, priced at £119.99 and measuring 32 cm tall. The reviewer praises the internal detail (gyroscopes, mirrors, instruments) but criticizes the all-grey plastic and single-sided solar arrays as feeling cheap compared to earlier Lego Hubble models that used silver bricks.

A critical macOS Screen Sharing flaw (CVE-2026-65400, CVSS 9.8) allowed attackers to authenticate to the built-in remote desktop service without valid credentials. The Netherlands NCSC reports active exploitation on Macs with port 5900 exposed to the internet, where attackers gained root access and installed Monero miners. Apple patched this in emergency updates for macOS Tahoe 26.6.1, Sequoia 15.7.9, and Sonoma 14.8.9 on August 6, 2026, alongside related Screen Sharing Server bugs CVE-2026-43779, CVE-2026-43777, and CVE-2026-43760.

SOCAR will cease Malaysian operations on 31 August 2026 after 8 years, having commanded 90% of Malaysia's car-sharing market with 1.9 million members as of 2023. SK Inc, the largest shareholder, is buying out financial investors via a USD6 million (~RM25 million) debt swap after a planned IPO failed to materialize. The P2P service TREVO continues operating in Malaysia.

Vibe Mobile, a new Malaysian MVNO on U Mobile's ULTRA5G network, has launched prepaid plans from RM17 to RM47/month, with data split between mobile and hotspot usage. They also offer daily (RM3/3GB), weekly (RM10/15GB), and yearly (RM150) options, alongside a loyalty points program.

Mercedes-Benz launched MB.Charge Public in Malaysia, giving EV and PHEV owners in-car and app-based access to 3,000+ chargers across 1,000 locations via 7 CPOs (CarputZap, Charge+, ChargeSini, ChargEV, DC Handal, Gentari, JomCharge) with no markup on charging fees. Cross-border charging between Malaysia and Singapore is also supported through Charge+, CDG Energy, SP Group, and Volt. Only Mercedes-Benz and Tesla currently offer both in-car and app-based charging in Malaysia.

Apple denied developer Sean Byrne access to App Store Connect after an automated match against a U.S. government Consolidated Screening List entry for a 'Sean Byrne' in County Sligo, Ireland — an entity that appears to be a fabricated employee from a 2009 aircraft-parts export prosecution. Despite Byrne providing his passport, driver's license, and pointing out he has no connection to the listed address or company, Apple has not responded to his appeal.

Simon Willison posted a bird sighting of a Northern Gannet named Morris, the only known individual of that species in the Pacific Ocean, spotted at Pillar Point Harbor, CA. Morris has been a local celebrity for 14 years since first appearing at the Farallon Islands.

A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck 68 km NNW of Ende, Indonesia, recorded by USGS. The event page provides standard seismic data including ShakeMap, PAGER impact estimates, aftershock forecasts, and waveform data.

Ploopy has announced the A+, an upgraded version of its open-source, 3D-printable Adept trackball. The A+ adds two buttons (now eight total, two of which are knobs for scrolling), a detachable wrist rest, and QMK-based gestures, layers, and on-device configuration. Preorders for the kit open August 19, 2026 at 10am ET for $99 CAD.

Anthropic announced a text watermarking scheme for Claude that modifies inconsequential word choices (e.g., picking 'cold' over 'gray' when meaning is unchanged) to comply with the EU AI Act, based on Google DeepMind's SynthID-Text technique. The watermark uses a separate randomness source detectable with a digital key, and other AI model makers are expected to deploy similar approaches.

Jonathan Bartlett's 2018 paper argues that first-year calculus is taught with too many redundant processes and proposes simplifying and refactoring the curriculum so fewer concepts yield more flexibility for students. It was published in Communications of the Blyth Institute (1:1, 2019, pp. 17-27).

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OpenAI CFO Sarah Friar met with investors following a week of turmoil in the C-suite that included the sudden departure of revenue chief Denise Dresser.

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PayPal is still reportedly negotiating a potential sale to Stripe and private equity firm Advent, as the fintech firm's new CEO attempts to turn the company around.

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Don't classify. Hallucinate! I still have quite a bit of older content on my blog that I never got round to tagging. My blog has 1,856 tags - likely too many to feed to an LLM in one go and say "which of these tags match the following content". Doug Turnbull has a neat solution. Tell the model to output tags without any details of the existing vocabulary, then use vector embeddings against the existing corpus to find the concrete tags that are closest to the ones the model imagined might fit! His example prompt suggests including an example of the shape of your tags to help the model make a more useful guess: Your task is to create novel, never seen before, furniture, home goods, or hardware classification that best fit a search query. Product classifications might look like: Furniture / Living Room Furniture / Coffee Tables & End Tables / Coffee Tables Décor & Pillows / Decorative Pillows & Blankets / Throw Pillows Furniture / Bedroom Furniture / Dressers & Chests Kitchen & Tabletop / Kitchen Organization / Food Storage & Canisters School Furniture and Supplies / School Furniture / School Chairs & Seating / Stackable Chairs Baby & Kids / Toddler & Kids Bedroom Furniture / Kids Beds Here's the query to generate classifications for: brown coffee table Tags: search, ai, generative-ai, llms, embeddings, doug-turnbull

Nvidia's stake in SpaceX, which came through an investment in xAI, was worth about $21 billion at the end of the second quarter.

Hint: It’s really not a distillation story.

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Aurora Innovation and Kodiak AI, two companies developing self-driving trucks, have received permits from the California Department of Motor Vehicles.

Chinese AI labs keep moving forward while US labs play defense

The U.S. is looking to scale defense manufacturing and chip away at China's drone dominance.