An instrument for attention.

Every few minutes the engine polls Malaysian newspapers, broadcasters, wire services and video channels in Bahasa Malaysia, English, Chinese and Tamil. Each report is cleaned, its language detected, its people and places recognised, and it is grouped with other reports about the same thing. That group is an event. Everything on this site is about events, not individual articles.

For each event the engine tracks how many reports arrive per hour, from how many independent sources, on how many platforms, and how that is changing. From those it computes three numbers, all on a 0 to 100 scale:

Attention

How much of Malaysia’s reporting is about this right now, relative to everything else being covered. The headline number on every card.

Momentum

How fast attention is changing: mentions this hour against the hour before, with acceleration.

Breakout

How likely a small story is to become a big one, from its growth, source spread and novelty. Drives the Rising lane.

Each event is always in exactly one state. States change only when the measurements cross thresholds and stay there, so they do not flicker.

• NewJust detected. One or a few reports, no clear movement yet.
• RisingSmall but accelerating unusually fast for its size. Watch these.
• AcceleratingGrowing quickly across several sources. Breaking through.
• ExplodingVery high attention, or growth above 300 percent with several sources. The whole country is looking.
• PeakAttention has stopped climbing and holds at its high.
• CoolingAttention is falling away from the peak.
• OverNo new reporting for a long time. Kept for the record and search.

Attention is not truth. A trust label on every event says how well confirmed it is, from who is reporting it, not from what they say.

• ConfirmedReported by two or more established outlets, or an official source.
• LikelyOne established outlet plus independent mentions.
• UnconfirmedOnly social or community posts, or a single source.
• ClaimAn allegation that has not been independently confirmed.
• OpinionCommentary, not a factual report.

• Exploding

  Events in the EXPLODING state: attention 80 or more, or growth above 300 percent across several sources.

• Rising fast

  Small but accelerating unusually quickly. Ranked by breakout score: the stories most likely to become big.

• Everyone’s talking about

  Highest attention over the last six hours, whatever the lifecycle state.

• Just happened

  Every story, newest first. Quiet single-source stories included; the trust label says how confirmed each is.

• Malaysia’s internet today

  Stories living on YouTube, forums and social platforms, or that started there before the news picked them up.

Open any event and you get, in order: the measurement and why it reads that way, the attention graph over time with every state change marked, where the story started and how it spread between platforms and languages, what is known and not yet known from the reports, and then the reporting itself. The reader shows each outlet’s article at a comfortable size, with its photographs, and lets you move between outlets like chapters. Every article is attributed and links to the publisher.

The engine does not write news, rank by what it thinks matters, or push anything to social media. It does not use engagement bait, and it never uses emojis. A language model may tidy the wording of an event’s summary from the attributed reports only, and when it does the page says so. Everything else is arithmetic on counts, and the arithmetic is the same for every story.

Search understands keywords, spelling variants, meaning across the four languages, and names of people and places. Results say why they matched. Try banjir and you will also get flood and 水灾.