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Published Thu, Sep 4, 2025 · 06:30 PM[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysian automaker Proton launched its first electric vehicle assembly plant on Thursday (Sep 4), as the South-east Asian nation looks to boost development of its EV industry.The facility, located in western Perak state’s Automotive High-Tech Valley – Malaysia’s main automaking hub – will have initial annual capacity to produce 20,000 cars. But that could be scaled up to 45,000 units per annum, Proton said in a statement.The first model to roll off the assembly line will be the e.MAS 7, Proton’s first EV, followed by its entry-level option, the e.MAS 5,…

GPS interference affecting aviation over the Baltic Sea region has risen sharply since 2023 and now occurs almost daily, Sweden’s Transport Agency said on Thursday, pointing the finger at Russia. The number of interference incidents with global navigation satellite systems (GNSS), such as GPS, in Swedish airspace has risen from 55 in 2023 to 733 this year as of August 18, according to new data presented by the Transport Agency. “We have done analyses over a longer period and collected data. We can conclude that the interference is originating from Russian territory,” Andreas Holmgren, in charge of aviation issues at…

The head of Britain’s main banking lobby group has warned the chancellor against a budget raid on the industry, arguing that it would undermine her aim of delivering sustainable economic growth.In a letter to Rachel Reeves seen by Sky News, David Postings, the chief executive of UK Finance, said renewed speculation about increases to banks’ tax burden risked undermining their international competitiveness. Mr Postings’ letter was sent earlier this week, just days after shares in the largest UK banks – including Barclays, Lloyds Banking Group and NatWest Group – slid amid fears of a renewed tax raid on the sector.”Both…

[LONDON] British lender Lloyds Banking Group will put about 3,000 people deemed among the bottom 5 per cent of performers at risk of dismissal, the Financial Times reported on Thursday (Sep 4), citing unidentified sources.The British bank intends to overhaul how it manages the performance of its 63,000 employees, with the bank’s lowest performers set to be told their work must improve or they face the axe, the newspaper said.A Lloyds spokesperson told Reuters in an emailed statement that it was “transforming” its business and “striving to embed a high-performance culture”.“In line with wider industry practice, we continuously look for…

AI was 2024’s hot topic, so how is it evolving? What are we seeing in AI today, and what do we expect to see in the next 12-18 months? We asked Andrew Brust, Chester Conforte, Chris Ray, Dana Hernandez, Howard Holton, Ivan McPhee, Seth Byrnes, Whit Walters, and William McKnight to weigh in.  First off, what’s still hot? Where are AI use cases seeing success? Chester: I see people leveraging AI beyond experimentation. People have had the opportunity to experiment, and now we’re getting to a point where true, vertical-specific use cases are being developed. I’ve been tracking healthcare closely…

WASHINGTON — Democratic Rep. Jerry Nadler of New York says he will not run for reelection next year, according to an interview published Monday night by The New York Times.Nadler told the Times that watching then-President Joe Biden’s truncated reelection campaign last year “really said something about the necessity for generational change in the party, and I think I want to respect that.” He suggested a younger Democratic lawmaker in his seat “can maybe do better, can maybe help us more.”Nadler, 78, is serving his 17th term in Congress. He was chairman of the House Judiciary Committee from 2019 to…

Published Tue, Sep 2, 2025 · 06:48 PM[KUALA LUMPUR] Malaysia’s government has approved 13 large-scale solar projects with a total capacity of 1,975 megawatts, the energy transition ministry said on Tuesday (Sep 2).The large-scale solar generation projects – including one of Malaysia’s largest floating solar projects with a capacity of 200 megawatts – will begin generating and supplying electricity in 2027 and 2028, the Ministry of Energy Transition and Water Transformation said in a statement.The ministry, through the Energy Commission, in January opened a bidding process under its fifth large-scale solar programme for contracts to supply a combined total of…

Arlo Technologies has announced the addition of Event Captions and Video Search features for subscribers of its Arlo Secure 6 home security service. The latest updates expand the functionality of Arlo Secure by incorporating artificial intelligence-driven enhancements, allowing users to more efficiently access and interpret their security camera footage. The Event Captions feature is already available, with Video Search expected to be introduced soon. Event Captions The Event Captions tool utilises AI to provide concise descriptions of motion-triggered events detected by Arlo cameras. This means users can quickly identify incidents, such as a person approaching their entrance or the drop-off…

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sept. 4, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — IDEAYA Biosciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: IDYA), a leading precision medicine oncology company, today announced they have enrolled their first patient with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) in the ongoing Phase 1/2 combination trial of IDE397, a potential first-in-class, small molecule adenosyltransferase 2a (MAT2a) inhibitor, and Trodelvy® (sacituzumab govitecan-hziy), a Trop2-directed antibody-drug conjugate (ADC), in patients with methylthioadenosine phosphorylase (MTAP)-deletion solid tumors. IDEAYA is conducting the trial pursuant to a clinical study collaboration and supply agreement with Gilead, where the initial focus was in MTAP-deletion urothelial cancer (UC). In April 2025, the companies…

The United States will keep assets positioned in the Caribbean and strike anyone “trafficking in those waters who we know is a designated narco terrorist,” Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth said Wednesday morning, a day after President Donald Trump said the U.S. military had attacked and destroyed a drug-carrying vessel in the region. Mr. Trump said Tuesday that the U.S. had struck the boat in international waters after it had departed from Venezuela. The president later said on Truth Social that 11 people were killed in the strike. He said the attack targeted members of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuela-based organized crime group that…