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Khairul Aming has introduced a new booking system for his restaurant Rembayung in collaboration with Grab, hoping to reduce the issue of reservation scalpers. Under the new system, verified Grab users can only make one reservation every two weeks. Bookings are also non-transferable to prevent people from reselling their slots. Customers must bring the phone used to make the reservation and open the Grab app for verification before entering the restaurant. Screenshots will not be accepted. The new booking system is available starting Monday (Nov 2), with Khairul Aming hoping the changes will help make reservations fairer for customers.

The future of #ArtificialIntelligence is not pre-determined. As a technology developed by human beings, its future depends on the choices we make. We therefore have the responsibility to guide, change and, when necessary, reject its applications. A reliable system that serves the human person is of greater value than one that is exceptionally powerful but whose consequences cannot be adequately foreseen or controlled.

What if a chip could render a "3D" view inspired by Wolfenstein 3D without a framebuffer? 🤔 This week’s Chip of the Week is raybox-zero by Anton Maurovic. It uses ray casting to render a textured 3D-like view of a map, racing the beam to generate the picture live as the VGA signal is sent. Check it out here: tiny.tt/explore-tt07-raybox-… What do you think is the coolest part of this design? 🤔

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Deputy Prime Minister Gan Kim Yong, Senior Minister K Shanmugam and Minister Grace Fu met with the senior leaders of 10 companies that are involved, or have related corporate entities that are involved, in industries widely considered to contribute to haze.

One hill I'll happily die on: the normalization of "ship fast" culture at the expense of proper SDLC has played a significant role in the quality of vulnerable code being pushed into production and the rise of CVEs and enshitification of software for the last several years. We've systematically traded engineering rigor for velocity, security assurance for investor confidence, and long-term maintainability for quarterly growth. All things I wish we would second guess and reevaluate. But the software overlords wanted products yesterday and they got them. And now the rest of us get to spend the next several years discovering exactly which corners were cut and figuring out how to deal with the immense amount of responsibility that's been dropped on our collective feet.

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Entirely true. It's the second-rate programmers that are having trouble adapting to AI, and screaming about it. The A-list guys are delighted. Listen to Linus Torvalds. Or DHH. Or, a little outside my usual community, Uncle Bob Martin. We can get so much more done now!

The ownership of Prosignal Consortium, the company behind TuJu, has come under scrutiny over its links to political figures and former top government officials. Malaysiakini found that the company’s website lists Selat Klang assemblyperson Abdul Rashid Asari as an executive director and former IGP Acryl Sani as a non-executive director. It previously listed Bashah A Aziz and Negeri Sembilan undang Muhammed Abdullah as directors, but their names no longer appear on the website. 🧵1 malaysiakini.com/news/887760…