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AI & ML 5 min NVIDIA Says the Agent Inflection Point Has Arrived — and Jensen Huang Credits Claude Code NVIDIA launched its open-source Agent Toolkit at GTC 2026, citing Claude Code as a trigger for the enterprise... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 6 May ASEAN Tech 5 min Indonesia's Digital Economy Nears $100 Billion — And SMEs Are Finally Getting Their Share Indonesia's digital economy was on track for nearly US$100 billion in 2025, according to the e-Conomy SEA repo... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 6 May Cybersecurity 5 min AI Is Now Writing Malware: How LLMs Have Become the New Hacker's IDE Large language models are now being used to write functional malware, generate exploit code, and automate atta... CY Cyber Team 6 May Cybersecurity 5 min Bank Syariah Indonesia Ransomware Attack: LockBit's 15 Million Record Claim and the Lessons It Left LockBit ransomware attacked Bank Syariah Indonesia in May 2023, disrupting services and claiming data on about... CY Cyber Team 6 May Cybersecurity 4 min South Korean Coupang Breach Hit 33.7 Million Users — What It Means for ASEAN E-Commerce South Korean e-commerce platform Coupang disclosed a data breach affecting 33.7 million customer accounts in l... CY Cyber Team 6 May Cybersecurity 4 min ASEAN Cyberattacks Doubled in 2024 — Manufacturing, Government and Finance Were the Targets Cyberattacks in ASEAN doubled in 2024 vs 2023, with 67% of all incidents concentrated in a single year. Here i... CY Cyber Team 6 May Cybersecurity 4 min Malaysia Topped Southeast Asia for Web Threats in 2024 — 19.62 Million Detections in Six Months Kaspersky detected 19.62 million web-based threats in Malaysia in H1 2024, the most in Southeast Asia. Here is... CY Cyber Team 6 May Cybersecurity 6 min Qilin Ransomware Hit Kuala Lumpur International Airport — Malaysia Said No to $10 Million Qilin ransomware hit Kuala Lumpur International Airport in March 2025, demanding $10 million. PM Anwar Ibrahim... CY Cyber Team 6 May Cybersecurity 5 min Prasarana Malaysia Breach: RansomHub Claimed 316GB From the Company Running KL's Buses and Trains RansomHub ransomware group claimed to have stolen 316GB from Prasarana Malaysia, the company running Kuala Lum... CY Cyber Team 6 May Cybersecurity 5 min Singapore Lost S$1.1 Billion to Scams in 2024 — AI Voice Cloning Is Making It Worse Singapore lost S$1.1 billion to scams in 2024. AI voice cloning and deepfakes are making traditional awareness... CY Cyber Team 6 May Developer Tools 5 min AI Is Writing 30% of Code at Google — What This Means for the Software Industry Google CEO Sundar Pichai said well over 30% of code checked in at Google now involves accepted AI suggestions.... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May ASEAN Tech 5 min Singapore's S$37B RIE2030 Plan — What It Means for Tech Startups and Researchers Singapore's Budget 2026 committed S$37 billion to the RIE2030 Research, Innovation and Enterprise plan. Here i... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Developer Tools 5 min AWS, Azure and Google Battle for Southeast Asia's Enterprise Cloud Market How AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud are competing for ASEAN enterprise cloud contracts, from data centre... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Cybersecurity 5 min Nation-State Hackers Are Now Using AI — What It Means for ASEAN Critical Infrastructure State-backed hackers are using AI to speed up reconnaissance, vulnerability research and attack development. H... CY Cyber Team 5 May AI & ML 5 min Qwen3 Brings 119 Languages to Open-Weight AI — Alibaba's Bid for the Multilingual Race Alibaba's Qwen3 family, released under the Apache 2.0 licence, supports 119 languages and dialects including I... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Developer Tools 5 min The 10,000 MCP Server Milestone — How Model Context Protocol Is Rewiring Software Integration Over 10,000 public MCP servers were deployed by late 2025. Here is how Model Context Protocol is changing soft... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Finance 5 min Western Union's USD Stablecoin Is Coming in May 2026 — What ASEAN Remittance Senders Need to Know Western Union is launching a USD-backed stablecoin in May 2026 for faster, cheaper cross-border transfers. Her... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Cybersecurity 5 min AI Is Making Phishing Emails Harder to Tell Apart From Legitimate Ones Large language models let attackers write fluent, personalised phishing at scale. Here is what employees and b... CY Cyber Team 5 May Cybersecurity 6 min Sonatype Counts 454,600 New Malicious Packages in 2025 — And AI Coding Agents Widen the Risk Sonatype identified more than 454,600 new malicious open-source packages in 2025. Here is what developers need... CY Cyber Team 5 May AI & ML 5 min OpenAI Raises $4B for The Deployment Company — The Business of Selling AI to Enterprises Has Arrived OpenAI raised over $4B for The Deployment Company, a new JV helping businesses adopt OpenAI tools. Here is wha... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Finance 5 min Robinhood Gets MAS Approval for Singapore — What It Means for Retail Investors Robinhood received in-principle approval from MAS to launch brokerage services in Singapore. Here is what this... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Cybersecurity 5 min Anthropic's Project Glasswing Found a 27-Year-Old Bug in OpenBSD — Before Hackers Could Anthropic's Project Glasswing used an unreleased frontier model to find thousands of high-severity vulnerabili... CY Cyber Team 5 May Developer Tools 5 min The SaaS Business Model Is Under Threat — And Agentic AI Is Why IDC predicts 70% of software vendors will refactor pricing around consumption, outcomes or capability by 2028... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May Developer Tools 6 min Salesforce Agentforce Operations Fixes the Workflow Problem Breaking Enterprise AI Salesforce launched Agentforce Operations to fix the workflow gaps that are breaking enterprise AI deployments... RE RECATOOLS Editorial 5 May