AI Weekly Malaysia

Meta released Glimmer this week, an open-weight AI model anyone can download and run on their own hardware — a contrast to Muse Spark, the company’s more powerful model that stays locked behind its own APIs. The release landed alongside a letter from Mark Zuckerberg arguing AI should be “for everyone” rather than controlled by a handful of labs, but as Equity’s […]

Turns out this space thing really is hard

Virgin Galactic has delayed its return to commercial spaceflight to February 2027, blaming hundreds of small avionics and systems installation tasks taking longer than expected. The company posted a $56M net loss for Q2 2026 on just $0.1M revenue, and plans to raise ticket prices above the current $750,000 after demand exceeded the first batch of seats.

The U.S. Administrative Office of the Courts told Senator Ron Wyden it will begin tracking a new 'spyware/hacking' surveillance category in its annual Wiretap Report starting with the 2028 report (published 2029), disclosing how many times judges authorized wiretaps carried out with hacking tools the FBI calls network investigating techniques (NITs). The FBI has used such tools since at least 1998, but no public data has existed on their deployment frequency.

Cloudflare announced new Cloudflare One capabilities to detect and control MCP (Model Context Protocol) traffic on corporate networks. The core problem: employees can connect AI agents (Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, VS Code) to arbitrary MCP servers with a single line of config, and the resulting HTTPS traffic has no distinguishing hostname or path pattern, making 'shadow MCP' usage hard to spot. Cloudflare Gateway now uses protocol signals to identify this traffic and enforce routing through approved MCP Server Portals.

Tom's Hardware reviewed the Samsung Odyssey G80HS, a 6K gaming monitor, awarding it Editor's Choice for image quality, gaming performance, and build. The review highlights increasing pixel density in the gaming monitor space.

The threat actor known as HoneyMyte (aka Mustang Panda) has been observed deploying an updated version of the CoolClient backdoor with a signed Windows kernel-mode rootkit that can hide and protect malicious processes, files, registry objects, and command-and-control (C2) network information. Russian cybersecurity vendor Kaspersky said it identified victims in Myanmar, Mongolia, Pakistan,

In early July, suspected Chinese operators used a near-autonomous attack framework built on Hermes and OpenClaw AI agents to run 12 attack waves against Taiwan, deploying up to 8 sub-agents that compromised a government email system, the nuclear safety agency, IT supply chain vendors, and at least seven energy companies. FBI Cyber Division assistant director Brett Leatherman named critical infrastructure targeting as the bureau's top concern at Black Hat, and autonomous AI attacks on infrastructure was the dominant worry across Hacker Summer Camp conferences.

Cloudflare now lets you attach Access authentication policies directly to a Worker or across an entire account, so every preview URL, custom domain, workers.dev subdomain, and route is behind company login by default—no per-hostname configuration needed. You can scope protection to preview URLs only or all hostnames, and authenticated user identity (email, name, groups) is injected directly into your code without JWT validation.

A plaintiff attempted to hide prompt injection instructions within a court filing, instructing any AI model reviewing the document to rule in their favor. The scheme was discovered due to unusual white spaces in the text that tipped off reviewers to hidden content.

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TNB Electron has activated a 120kW DC fast charger with two CCS2 nozzles at the McDonald's Drive Thru in Seri Austin, Johor Bahru, priced at RM1.50 per kWh. The charger supports tap-to-pay via credit or debit card at a JuiceUP terminal with no app required, and TNB Electron offered free charging for one day only on 15 August 2026.

Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao is holding early, high-level investor meetings ahead of a potential IPO, though no specific financials or valuation figures were discussed. Separately, OpenAI revenue chief Denise Dresser is departing less than a year after joining, and Databricks closed a $5 billion funding round at a $190 billion valuation to invest in enterprise AI. Investor Steve Eisman warned the broader AI boom is now dependent on the success of OpenAI and Anthropic, calling it an 'Achilles' heel.'

Microsoft is merging its consumer and work Copilot applications into a single entity, and pulling Mico—the anthropomorphic blob introduced less than a year ago as the face of Copilot Voice—out of the spotlight. Mico is being relocated to Learn Live, a voice-based study mode for tutoring, rather than being killed entirely. The move echoes Microsoft's history of abandoned persona assistants like Clippy, Cortana, and Microsoft Bob.

The US has imposed tariffs of up to 100% on foreign-made drones and components, primarily targeting China, as part of a push to reduce reliance on overseas suppliers. The article itself contains almost no substantive content beyond the headline—only site navigation and membership boilerplate.

TalkTalk Business and UK managed services provider ARO plan to merge, creating a combined entity with ~£200M annual revenue and 70,000+ business customers. Megabuyte notes ARO is the larger business by earnings, while most customers are TalkTalk Business small-business clients, with cross-selling of ARO's mobile, Microsoft, and cybersecurity services as the strategic rationale.

Intel says older Raptor Lake CPUs (LGA 1700 socket) will remain a core part of its portfolio for years, driven by a sudden surge in demand as DDR5 prices make these platforms cost-effective. The company is positioning the older generation as a viable long-term option rather than end-of-life.

TNB Electron launched its largest EV charging site at Wisma TNB Seberang Jaya, Perai, with 480kW shared across 8 bays using a TELD DC Charger solution. Each nozzle is rated at 250A, capping 400V EVs at 100kW and 800V EVs at 200kW. Charging costs RM1.50/kWh via tap-to-pay at a JuiceUP terminal with no app required, with free charging offered on 15 August 2026.

SpaceX filed FCC plans for a constellation of up to 1 million satellites forming an orbital AI data center, with Elon Musk claiming solar-powered space computing could undercut terrestrial data center costs within 2-3 years. Blue Origin has also filed plans for orbital computing on a longer timeline. Insurers like Marsh see a major underwriting opportunity but face unresolved questions around regulation, capacity, and pricing for a risk that has never existed at scale.

Cybersecurity researchers have detailed a post-exploitation technique that enables the Chrome DevTools Protocol (CDP) inside a running Google Chrome or Microsoft Edge process on Windows, allowing an operator to access cookies, saved data, and authenticated browser sessions. The technique assumes that an operator already has code execution on the Windows host and does not involve

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Arm co-founder and Amadeus Capital investor Hermann Hauser told CNBC's The Tech Download podcast that AI will create more value than any prior technology revolution, but warned of bubble risk. He also argued Europe should maintain its U.S. partnership without becoming 'a technology colony of the U.S.,' and discussed semiconductors, quantum computing, and Europe's technological sovereignty.

Intel VP Robert Hallock gave a rare interview to Tom's Hardware setting expectations for the upcoming Nova Lake platform and teasing a return to Raptor Lake for DDR4-based platforms, coming months after the Core Ultra 200S Plus CPU launch. The full transcript is behind a Premium paywall (£25/year).

Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered a large-scale, global recruitment-themed phishing campaign that uses fake interview scheduling pages and Browser-in-the-Browser (BitB) windows to steal Google and Facebook credentials and, in more advanced cases, relay multi-factor authentication (MFA) prompts in real time. CTM360, which detailed the activity in a new report titled RecruitTrap, said it