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A South China Morning Post report says Malaysia is positioning itself as a destination offering Singapore-level comfort and infrastructure at prices below Thailand, targeting Chinese tourists. The claim has drawn attention in Southeast Asia, where countries compete for the return of Chinese outbound travel and tourists weigh cost against quality when choosing destinations.

A developer has released an open-source macOS tool that uses AI to make every photo and every frame of video on a Mac searchable. The project, shared under the name SCM and hosted on GitHub, lets users search their local media libraries by content rather than filenames. It was posted as a Show HN submission and is drawing early attention from the tech community.

AFSCME has formally notified Corvallis city officials that its members intend to go on strike beginning October 14. The union's official strike notice sets a firm deadline in the labor dispute, and attention now turns to whether city negotiators can reach an agreement before that date to avert a work stoppage affecting municipal services.