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A dental practice's contractor secretly created an admin account with access to 4,000 patient records, then left the company without telling anyone. The account stayed active for at least three years after the scheduling vendor relationship ended in 2021, creating a HIPAA compliance risk. The auditor, Chris Kirksey, has since found similar orphaned admin accounts at six other healthcare practices.

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TSMC posted record August revenue of NT$514.8B ($16.35B), up 53.3% year-on-year and 10.1% from July, driven by AI server processor demand. Its advanced 5/4/3nm capacity remains fully booked, and TrendForce data shows TSMC holding 72.5% global foundry market share in Q2.

Global insurtech bolttech has appointed Emma Butler as CEO of APAC, succeeding Philip Weiner, who moves to CEO of North America. Butler was previously regional general manager for Indonesia, Malaysia, and Vietnam, and has been with the company since its AmTrust Mobile Solutions Asia days (2015).

Framework is refunding customers who paid inflated prices for its Framework 13 Pro laptops after LPCAMM2 memory costs more than doubled between Q2 and Q3, forcing the company to ship 32GB instead of ordered 64GB. Framework has since secured a limited quantity of Micron 32GB and 64GB LPCAMM2 modules at lower cost and is rolling out price reductions across shipped and pending orders.

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Malaysia is evaluating Huawei Ascend 910C chips for its RM2 billion sovereign AI project, with Telekom Malaysia selected to operate the backbone infrastructure. The push is driven by data sovereignty concerns and US Cloud Act risks, but Washington has warned that Ascend 910C processors could violate US export regulations. Malaysia's National Security Council is scheduled to discuss concerns with US officials this month, and the government is also considering an additional tender that would let Nvidia and AMD compete.

Microsoft launched a public preview of 'Dynamics 365 Activate,' an AI-powered tool that profiles Salesforce CRM environments—data, entities, relationships, dependencies, and customizations—to generate a migration blueprint for moving to Dynamics 365. Additional CRM and ERP migration scenarios are promised later this year, and Microsoft is positioning partners as the primary users of the tool.

Kojima Productions will continue developing 'PHYSINT' under a new partnership with Xbox after PlayStation Studios cancelled the project in mid-June. The collaboration spans both games and film, with Xbox providing future updates on the project.

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Apple Watch Series 12 launches in Malaysia with pre-orders starting 11 September 2026 and in-store availability on 18 September, priced from RM1,799 (42mm Aluminium GPS) up to RM6,799 (Hermès 46mm). Key upgrades include the S11 chip derived from the A20 Pro, a redesigned Health Sensing System with continuous 5-second heart rate sampling, and Ceramic Shield 2 on Aluminium models.

Apple's AirPods 5 will be available in Malaysia from RM599, with Active Noise Cancellation now standard across all variants instead of requiring the pricier RM829 model as with AirPods 4. Pre-orders start 11 September 2026, with retail availability on 18 September, via Apple's store, Lazada, Shopee, Machines, and Switch. The RM699 variant adds a wireless charging case, on-stem volume controls, and up to 22 hours total playback with ANC.

Meta has begun testing Community Notes in 16 Spanish-speaking Latin American countries, moving toward replacing its professional fact-checking program with crowdsourced notes. Professional fact-checking continues during the pilot phase, with no timeline given for full transition.

VMware quietly removed public downloads of its Virtual Disk Development Kit (VDDK), an SDK used for VM backup and recovery that also underpins most VMware-to-rival migration tools, including Nutanix Move, Red Hat's virt-v2v, and Apache CloudStack workflows. VMware says VDDK remains available to select Technology Alliance Partners for its 'licensed use case' of backup/recovery, but smaller consultancies, open-source projects, and self-migrating customers are left with broken links and no support channel.

Samsung reports that iOS users switching to its Galaxy Z Fold8 series were 1.6x the rate of the previous generation, and 30% of U.S. Galaxy Z Flip8 buyers came from competing brands. Counterpoint Research projects Samsung to lead the foldable market with 32% share this year versus 25% for Apple, which just unveiled its first foldable iPhone under new CEO John Ternus.

I've always wanted to make a visualization where the speed of light was scaled down to human speeds, so that we could intuit relativistic effects with everyday objects. Here is the first version of it! Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49637385

Apple unveiled its first foldable phone, the iPhone Duo, priced at $1,999, at a September 9 2026 event at Apple Park — the first keynote under new CEO John Ternus. The article is a brief consumer hardware announcement with no developer platform, SDK, or API details.

Calif Research demonstrated WeWorm, a zero-click worm that spreads through WeChat calls on iOS and Android without the victim answering or interacting. Their team used AI to find the bug and write the first RCE exploit in about two days, then built the worm in one more week—work that previously took a larger team months.

Listen Labs, a 3-year-old AI voice-interview market research startup with ~$30M annualized revenue, signed and then walked away from a $125M Series C term sheet at a $1.5B valuation led by Menlo Ventures — likely because of acquisition talks with Salesforce at around $2B. The deal is not finalized, and if it falls through, VCs expect Listen Labs to re-enter the market targeting $2B+, a benchmark set by competitor Simile's recent $200M Series B at $2B from Greenoaks.

Lowyat.NET reports that Grab is in talks to acquire a majority stake in Atome, the buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) brand under Advance Intelligence Group. The article body was not captured—only the headline and site navigation are available, so details on deal value, timeline, or regulatory implications are absent.

Anthropic's Head of U.S. SMB Lina Ochman summarizes the Claude SMB Tour, which ran free half-day workshops across 10 U.S. cities reaching 1,000+ small business owners. The tour promoted Claude Cowork, a plugin integrating with QuickBooks, PayPal, HubSpot, Canva, and DocuSign for back-office automation, plus an AI Fluency course co-created with PayPal. 80% of registrants ran companies with 5-50 employees.

Anthropic published a customer story announcing T. Rowe Price is expanding Claude usage across its investment organization: analysts use Claude Cowork for research synthesis and multi-step knowledge tasks, while developers use Claude Code to build internal investment tools. The deployment is governed by an AI leadership model announced in August, with human accountability kept central.

OpenAI launched the Agents API in public beta, exposing the same harness and infrastructure behind Codex to developers. You can create an agent in a single API call specifying model (e.g. gpt-6-astra), MCP-connected tools, multi-agent orchestration with configurable max_concurrent_subagents, vault-based secrets, and a choice of compute environments (OpenAI-hosted sandbox, your own infra, or sandbox partners). A customer reported eval scores rising from 0.71 to 0.85 and a 4x latency reduction on subagent flows.