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Gentari has installed a 220kW DC fast charger with two CCS2 nozzles at Petronas Mutiara Damansara, priced at RM1.60/kWh with a RM0.40/minute idle fee after 15 minutes. It supports Gentari Go, JomCharge, ChargEV, and AutoCharge plug-and-charge, with a 15% opening discount via code GO15MD valid until 25 September 2026.

The UK's Trades Union Congress (TUC) wrote to AI and Future of Work ministers Kanishka Narayan and Kate Dearden, demanding workers get a right to negotiate before employers deploy AI, algorithmic, or surveillance technologies that affect jobs or conditions. TUC general secretary Paul Nowak and assistant general secretary Kate Bell argued the government's AI strategy lacks a practical plan for workers, calling for three principles: voice, rights, and a fair share.

Windows 11 introduces 'Cloud Rebuild,' a feature that lets a broken system reinstall itself from the cloud without needing a USB or secondary boot media, wiping the old installation and downloading a fresh OS copy. The article text itself is mostly site navigation boilerplate with no additional technical detail beyond the headline.

BYD Sime Motors launched the BYD Atto 3 Performance AWD in Malaysia, limited to 69 units at RM149,800. It features a dual-motor AWD setup producing 330kW/560Nm, 0-100 km/h in 4.0 seconds, a 74.88kWh LFP Blade Battery, 530 km NEDC range, and unique additions like a W-HUD and built-in mini refrigerator.

Asus ROG Malaysia launched the ROG G1000 pre-built desktop at RM29,999, featuring an AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D, RTX 5080 16GB, 64GB DDR5 RAM, and a 1TB NVMe SSD in a 104L Ultra Tower chassis with holographic fan lighting and an isolated cooling chamber. A bundle with the ROG Strix OLED XG32UQWMS monitor is available for RM32,999, saving RM2,650 versus separate purchase. The system supports up to 128GB RAM and four M.2 SSDs.

Learn how OpenAI evolved Habitat from a Python library into a globally distributed storage platform serving 1 billion ChatGPT users and 22M requests per second.

Anthropic claims Claude blocked state-sponsored actors from conducting bioweapon research, with covert accounts using U.S. proxies to attempt engineering deadlier viruses while evading identification and regional blocks. The article itself is largely inaccessible due to Tom's Hardware paywall/navigation boilerplate, so details beyond the headline are unavailable.

Malaysia recorded 8,833 EV registrations in August 2026, a 155.2% YoY jump and a new monthly record, bringing EVs to 11.43% of total vehicle registrations despite a 2.15% decline in overall TIV. YTD EV registrations hit 47,508, already surpassing the full-year 2025 total of 44,813. The Proton e.MAS 5 dominated with 4,770 units (54% of all EVs), nearly double its July figure, while Tesla Model 3 surged to 659 from 135 in July.

NATO reportedly foiled a Russian plot to sabotage undersea cables using a 'secret weapon,' uncovering a clandestine training exercise that simulated deployment against infrastructure in Norway. The article text itself is almost entirely boilerplate with no substantive technical detail beyond the headline.

Slovenian developer Tomaž Štih has ported Digital Research's GEM—the 1980s GUI originally for Atari ST and MS-DOS PC compatibles—to Linux, deriving it from OpenGEM/FreeGEM source code released by Caldera in 1999. It runs via Linux framebuffer or an SDL2-based emulator called Rasta, and is described as secure, optimized, and source-compatible with Atari ST GEM.

Article URL: http://www.iaea.org/newscenter/news/what-is-cherenkov-radiation Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49655286

The Register's satirical BOFH column describes a corporate CMS that uses AI to dynamically generate document tags and keywords nightly based on frequency matching. The AI regenerates tags every night without human review, causing cross-contamination—e.g., associating 'Manila' (the city) with 'manila' (the folder), and 'stationary traffic' with 'stationery,' so searches return completely wrong documents. The system has no proper index, and the AI overwrites corrections on each nightly run.

Singapore Hawker Haven’s offerings are stocked in Australia and the US For Singaporeans who’ve moved abroad, a craving for fishball noodles is never just about food. It’s a memory that reminds them of home—the kind of hunger that other food can’t seem to satisfy. It’s a craving shared by a growing number of Singaporeans scattered […]

Wiz observed attackers chaining two patched JFrog Artifactory flaws (CVE-2026-42018 and CVE-2026-42016) on unpatched self-hosted servers between August 15 and September 8, 2026. The first flaw hands an internal anonymous-user token even when anonymous access is off; the second lets that token be swapped for admin scope, with admin actions logging as 'token:anonymous' — making detection harder. Attackers created persistent admin accounts, installed malicious Groovy plugins for code execution, and established C2 channels, sometimes going from zero to admin in under five minutes.

DeepSeek released V4.1 Flash, a 763B parameter model (2.5x larger than its predecessor) that nonetheless slashes KV cache consumption to 13-25% of the previous Flash model, supporting 4-8x more concurrent users in the same memory footprint. Key architectural changes include a new causal encoder-decoder (CED), attention mechanism updates, and 196B of the 763B parameters being N-gram 'conditional memory' weights that decouple memory from computation to improve intelligence without proportional resource costs.

A China-linked hacker-for-hire group UNC3569 exploited a flaw in Sogou Input Method (455M+ monthly users, ~70% of Chinese input method market) to deploy the GRAYRABBIT backdoor via crafted sgbiz: links on Windows. Tencent patched the specific entry point in April 2026, but the underlying built-in browser engine remains a 2020 version with its sandbox still disabled. The group has targeted government, education, technology, and finance sectors mostly in East and Southeast Asia since at least 2021.

PaperCut released maintenance releases (versions 26.0.5, 25.0.13, 24.1.10) that supersede three emergency patches for two actively exploited flaws, CVE-2026-81578 and CVE-2026-82078, which allow authentication bypass and arbitrary code execution. GreyNoise and Blackpoint Cyber reported a suspected Russian-speaking threat actor used hundreds of AI agents powered by OpenAI's Codex harness and a DeepSeek model to breach at least 395 organizations across 48 countries, mostly U.S. education sector, while deliberately avoiding targets in Russia, China, Hong Kong, Thailand, Iran, and 23 others.

Former MDEC CEO Yasmin Mahmood received the Pikom Tech Luminary Award 2026 for her three-decade career in Malaysia's digital transformation. At the same event, Digital Minister Gobind Singh Deo called for Malaysia to move beyond consuming foreign tech and hosting data centres toward owning IP, building localised AI models for ASEAN, and becoming a 'full-fledged AI Nation by 2030,' while urging industry to submit proposals ahead of Budget 2027.

The Register's weekly On Call column shares a story from 'Lucia,' who was summoned by a company director claiming IT deleted all his files. The files were simply in the Documents folder, not the Home folder the director had navigated to via the 'Up' directory icon. The director refused to learn the one-click fix and ejected Lucia from his office shouting 'make sure it doesn't happen again.'

Microsoft has elevated Rust to a 'Tier 1' internal language alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript, giving it full tooling and lifecycle support across the company. Principal engineer Victor Ciura announced at RustConf in Montréal that Microsoft built a custom rustc code-generation backend (rustc_codegen_utc) that wires Rust directly into MSVC's toolchain for native Windows compatibility. Rust already appears in 100+ Microsoft repositories and underpins M365 core services via the Oxidizer crate set, with the Copilot tech stack also relying on Rust.

Article URL: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/9/7/astra-why/ Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49654229

Cisco disclosed that three threat clusters—two state-sponsored and one crimeware—exploited two recently patched Secure Firewall Management Center (FMC) vulnerabilities (CVE-2026-20079, CVSS 10.0, and CVE-2026-20316, CVSS 5.3) to deploy web shells, reverse shells, credential-harvesting scripts, and Qilin ransomware. One cluster used legitimate FMC tooling for living-off-the-land reconnaissance before encrypting endpoints. Cisco urges customers to apply available hotfixes, with a comprehensive hardening release expected next week.

Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan told CNBC at YC's annual Demo Day that he would 'do nothing' about Chinese companies distilling OpenAI and Anthropic's frontier models, even as some Silicon Valley leaders and national security experts push for a regulatory response. Anthropic has specifically accused companies like Moonshot AI and DeepSeek of illicit distillation—using a more capable model's outputs to train smaller ones. Tan said he prefers focusing on near-term AI risks over extinction-level concerns, and views job displacement as decades away.

True Fitness and True Yoga are shutting all 10 Singapore outlets under parent company Kontafarma China Holdings, which is pursuing creditors' voluntary winding-up. The business generated S$30M revenue in 2025 but posted S$5.7M losses, with liabilities ballooning to S$89.8M against S$24.2M in assets; by Aug 2026 net liabilities reached ~S$72M. Kontafarma blamed boutique gyms, condo-based gyms, and online training programs for eroding demand for large-format gym memberships.

Oracle Co-CEO Mike Sicilia used Oracle's Q1 FY2027 earnings call to argue AI agents will strengthen rather than cannibalize its SaaS business, positioning agents as a way to handle workflow execution so employees shift to oversight and exception-handling. Oracle promised an 'agentic AI accelerator' in October that it claims will compress SaaS deployments from years to months and months to weeks. Oracle's SaaS revenue grew 10% while overall software revenue slipped 3% to $5.5B, and cloud infrastructure revenue grew 60% YoY, with Sicilia framing SaaS as a lead-generation funnel for IaaS.