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Prosecutors in Taiwan have issued an arrest warrant for OnePlus CEO and co-founder Pete Lau in connection with allegations that the Chinese smartphone company engaged in illegal hiring of Taiwanese engineers. The warrant was issued by the Shilin District Prosecutors Office as part of a broader effort to curb what authorities describe as improper recruitment by China-linked tech firms.

At the start of the new year, the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC) issued a strong warning against the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to generate harmful content online. The regulator says it has received numerous public complaints involving AI-powered image manipulation, particularly cases targeting women and minors.

According to MCMC, these incidents involve digitally altered images that result in indecent, grossly offensive, or otherwise harmful material being circulated on social platforms, including X.

We have written a few news about this before and it happened again. Just last Friday, the Kuala Lumpur Sessions Court fined an individual, Tiew Ai Teng, 38, RM20,000 or 2 months imprisonment for selling TV boxes pre-loaded with unauthorised Astro content under Section 43AA of the Copyright Act 1987.

China recently arrested a man called Hong who generated fake news using ChatGPT. The fake news involved a train crash that killed 9 people in China and was spread across 21 different blogs on China’s Baidu with 15000 views. While we’re thinking this is more about the fake news than how it was generated, it could mark the first of many more such arrests using ChatGPT. 

Starting from now, you might want to keep your drone away for a while, as flying a drone at this moment could cause you some serious troubles. Today, the Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM), Air Operation (PGU) Drone Unit chief, Supt Rasha Azaldin Shafii has announced that operating a drone without permission would be illegal from now on until 12 May 2020.