On 15 July 2026, at approximately 1.20 am, a drone entered the compound of Sungai Udang Prison in Melaka, Malaysia, hovering above the culinary workshop before retreating toward a rented house just 313 metres away. The prison’s drone detection system tracked three separate incursions, recorded the flight path, logged the operating times, identified the drone […]

Southeast Asia’s public sector is facing an unprecedented digital reckoning. In 2026, the weaponization of artificial intelligence has pushed the region’s geopolitical and civil infrastructure to a breaking point, following a landmark 2025 escalation where Chinese state-sponsored hackers deployed the first documented, fully autonomous AI system to strike 30 global entities simultaneously. With the Asia-Pacific […]