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KUALA LUMPUR, The ringgit appreciated against the US dollar and other major currencies at the close today, driven by positive sentiment ahead of the tabling of the national budget this Friday, said SPI Asset Management managing director Stephen Innes. At 6 pm, the local note improved to 4.2945/2995 versus the greenback from yesterday’s close of 4.3080/3120. Innes said that market sentiment has skewed towards the positive side in the midweek trading session, with the budget announcement later this week anticipated to be fiscally responsible, contributing to the ringgit’s recovery. ‘The ringgit showed notable strength today, reflecting its sensitivity to the

TOKYO, The second bullet of release dated October 15, 2024, should read: Sequential read performance up to 12,500 megabytes per second (a 73% improvement over the previous generation)(2)(4) (instead of Sequential read performance up to 12,500 gigabytes per second (a 73% improvement over the previous generation)(2)(4)). The updated release reads: KIOXIA INTRODUCES PCIE 5.0 NVME EDSFF E1.S SSDS FOR CLOUD AND HYPERSCALE ENVIRONMENTS New KIOXIA XD8 Series Improves Performance, Offers Range of Capacities and Form Factor Options Source: BERNAMA News Agency

SEPANG, The Customs Department (JKDM)) is hopeful that there will be funds under Budget 2025 for essential assets like scanners, marine vessels and body-worn cameras to strengthen its operational capacity and authority, its director-general Datuk Anis Rizana Mohd Zainudin said. Speaking to the media today, she also expressed the department’s need for funding towards digital assets, particularly those incorporating artificial intelligence (AI), as a large number of customs officers will soon be reassigned to the Malaysia Checkpoints and Border Agency (MCBA). ‘With one-third of our workforce set to transfer to MCBA, we need more AI-driven assets to complement human resources.

KUALA BERANG, Six encroachment cases involving both foreigners and locals have been recorded at Taman Negara Terengganu since 2019. Taman Negara Terengganu Superintendent Sharena Sapri said these cases involved the arrest of 13 individuals, including Cambodian and Vietnamese nationals. She said the most recent case involved a 60-year-old Cambodian who was arrested earlier this year and sentenced to four years in prison under the Terengganu National Park Enactment 1939. “Eight of the arrests involved foreigners, while five were locals. The most recent case involved a Cambodian national who is believed to have been operating in the park for about a

TOKYO, Kioxia Corporation, a world leader in memory solutions, will be showcasing and demonstrating benefits of a KIOXIA XD Series SSD equipped with Flexible Data Placement (FDP) functionality running the RocksDB database at the 2024 OCP Global Summit, taking place from October 15th to October 17th in San Jose, USA. The RocksDB database excels in high-performance searches through vast amounts of data and managing history data, and is widely used in generative AI and cloud applications. FDP is a feature defined in the NVM Express S base specification (TP4161) that allows flexible control of data placement within an SSD. By