Apple’s annual Swift Student Challenge continues to highlight young developers from around the world, and the 2026 edition is no different. This year, 350 winners from 37 countries were recognised for their creativity and technical skill in building Swift-based app playgrounds. Among them, two Malaysian students stood out for projects focused on artificial intelligence education and local accessibility.

A Malaysian tech entrepreneur has drawn international attention after selling the coveted internet domain AI.com for a reported US $70 million (~RM275 million), in what is believed to be the largest publicly disclosed domain sale to date. The seller, identified locally as Arsyan Ismail, reportedly held onto the domain after purchasing it from Saw.com in 2021.

Frequent travellers probably know this by now, but our passports allow us to travel to many places. The Malaysian passport has so much coverage that it's even one of the best in the world. This was recently confirmed again by the Immigration Department.

In every WWDC, Apple would host a Swift Student Challenge and one of the winners happens to be a 16-year-old Malaysian teenager. Nur Alia Jannah is a self-taught coder and this was her third time joining in the challenge.

The Royal Malaysia Police (PDRM) and Whoscall are collaborating to bolster Malaysia's defenses against scams. At the 'Scam Free Malaysia Carnival', they recently announced the giveaway of 1 million Whoscall Premium accounts, worth over RM87 million for free, to help protect Malaysians. 

No thanks to the pandemic, it seems that more people have bought things online more than before from the comfort of their couches. This is pretty evident during 11.11 sales, where servers crashed and people complained while others survived. However, there is one particular individual who spent up to RM70,000 in just a single receipt.

It seems that a statement by Berita Harian, the Malaysian government will be sending RM50 e-wallet to Malaysian citizens somewhere around the end of the month. While not much is known in regards to the exact date, the Finance Minister mentioned that more details on the in regards to how to obtain the e-wallet will be announced somewhere in the near future.

On this very day, Maxis has announced that they are the first Malaysian company to sponsor Team Secret’s all Malaysian PUBG Mobile team. Not only that, but both the organisations will be collaborating together in order to bring the best eSports experiences to Malaysia via Maxis’ 4G as well as Fibre network.

In a collaboration between Shell Malaysia and Boost e-wallet, more than 800 Shell outlets across Malaysia will officially support payment via the Boost App starting April 2019. To give a little more information regarding the Boost E-Wallet, it is a mobile app that stores digital currency which then can be used to make purchases and payments to partnered services.

During the next@acer livestream, Acer has unveiled the Orion 3000 and the Orion 5000 to be included as part of the new line-up for the Orion Series Gaming Desktop. The Orion 5000 will be running on an 8th generation Intel Core i7+ 8700 Processor, Dual Nvidia GTX 1080 Ti Graphics processor in SLI mode as well as Ice Tunnel 2.0.