These forces, each revolutionary in their own right, are colliding to produce a perfect storm of vulnerabilities.
As Malaysia continues to pursue its national digitalisation agenda, it must also confront the darker implications of this technological convergence: the rise of transnational cybercrime, illicit finance, and data manipulation.
The challenge now is not just to innovate but to safeguard.
The most immediate technological shock comes from Google’s unveiling of its Willow quantum chip, which recently demonstrated a verifiable quantum advantage - where it performed a specific computation far faster than any classical supercomputer could manage.
While the experiment was highly specialised, the implications ripple across global security systems.
As explained by LevelBlue’s cybersecurity analysts, the emergence of...