Tech Talk

MSP376. Who Asked You? Initiate Annihilation

What on earth is happening with AI? Agents are hacking systems. Inventing their own languages. Covering their tracks and behaving like spies from a 1980s farce. The bos

Singapore's Stablecoin Bet: The Tech and the Impact

Singapore's central bank has proposed new rules for stablecoins, digital currencies pegged to real money. Varun Mittal, Founder of Fintech Nation and Managing Director Co

MSP375. The Human Premium

In a unit based, tokenized world, what is the value of a person? AI can replace all those costly inputs on seats with output from the cloud. Lawmakers tell us to get onbo

If AI Codes, What's Left to Teach Engineers?

Becoming a software engineer has always started with writing code, fixing bugs, and building experience over time. But as AI takes on more of the actual coding, entry-lev

Can Businesses Keep Up With AI Agents?

AI agents are moving beyond experimentation and into business-critical workflows, but many organisations still struggle to monitor what these systems are doing in product

MSP374. The Human Reservation

Imagine spending your life roaming a wildlife reserve, food, shelter and medicine provided. Not a care in the world. But no agency or freedom to travel beyond the fence

Powering Johor's Data Centre Boom

Malaysia's semiconductor sector has attracted more than RM90 billion in approved investments since 2024, and Johor is emerging as one of Southeast Asia's fastest-growing

MSP373. Connectivity.

It’s a Minisode week as Matt and Kishan talk Cards Against Humanity’s battle with Elon Musk, slippery sandboxes, and Matt quizzes Kishan about his dating habits. What

Beyond DeepSeek, CXMT, and Unitree: What’s Hot in China Tech Now?

From DeepSeek to CXMT to Unitree, China is producing technology companies that are increasingly challenging assumptions about where the next wave of global innovation wil

What Rogue AI Agents Mean for Cyber Resilience

Two of OpenAI's own AI models reportedly broke out of a test environment and hacked into another company's servers on their own. The internet has dubbed this "Skynet Day.

MSP372. Everything Good Is Bad

Every technology has a hype cycle. From its introduction with endless possibilities to the growing realization that maybe it wasn’t the dream you were sold on. For soci

Network Security Is a Connectivity, Cloud and Cybersecurity Effort

Attackers can move through a compromised network in under 30 minutes, but Malaysian organisations take an average of 187 days even to discover they've been breached. Azha

AI Enters Malaysia's Creative Industry

AI has already reshaped software, business, and the workplace, but what happens when it enters industries built on human creativity? Rizal Kamal and Kim Lim join us to ta

MSP371. Heroes: Just For Work Days.

They’re lazy. Entitled. Don’t want to work. Disrespectful. These are some of the comments you’ll find hurled at Gen Z on any given day. But maybe. Just maybe. They’re t

Redefining Modern Logistics In Malaysia

For years, warehouse transformation has often been associated with large-scale upgrades, costly replacements and lengthy implementation timelines. But as businesses face

MSP370. The Superfan Economy

With the record breaking sums raised by the FIFA World Cup this summer, Matt and Kishan examine the open and closed loops and ecosystems of the worlds of the superfan. Wh

The Cracks Hiding Inside Your Security System

For the first time in the Internet's history, machines are generating more web traffic than humans, and bots now account for the majority of it. Volker Rath of Cloudflare

MSP369. Weird Science. Eye Know

From oxygenated boxes to preserve eyeballs to cloud seeding technologies to counter El Niño, we take a look into the weirder side of science and technology to bring you s

The Tech (And Risk) Behind Wearable Health Data

Wearables have evolved far beyond step counters, now tracking chronic conditions and detecting early health warning signs. As the global wearable market is projected to g

MSP368. The Endless Simulator

Are you worried that life is turning into an episode of Black Mirror? Are your avatars more successful than you? We’re talking about reality today. Simulation theory and