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As teased before, Ryt Bank finally announced a major upgrade to its payment ecosystem, enabling customers to use Ryt PayLater directly through the Ryt Card for both local and global transactions. The move extends PayLater functionality beyond QR payments, giving users the flexibility to choose between paying immediately or spreading payments over time across more scenarios.

In a recent newsletter Power On by Bloomberg's Mark Gurman, he suggested that Apple’s upcoming 2026 iPad refresh is just around the corner, but expectations should be kept in check. Rather than major redesigns or headline-grabbing features, the update is expected to focus on relatively modest improvements, continuing Apple’s recent trend of iterative upgrades.  

We have talked about this new feature before. In mid-2026, the Malaysian government confirmed it would introduce redesigned passports and identity cards with enhanced security features. Home Minister Datuk Seri Saifuddin Nasution Ismail said the new Malaysian passport and MyKad will be rolled out by the second or early third quarter of the year to improve their integrity and reliability.

Your phone is slowing down, the battery dies too soon, and your photos just don't capture the moment like they used to. You know it's time for an upgrade, but many plans today force you to compromise. Here's How Smart Buyers get a New Phone Without Missing Anything.

Today, LG Electronics has announced it will officially end support for all mobile software upgrade services. It will begin effectively on 30 June 2025, marking the final phase of LG's exit from the smartphone market.

It was only recently that Prasarana announced Malaysians won't be able to renew their My50 pass from 23 December to 31 January 2025. However, Rapid KL quickly made another announcement that users can still renew their passes during the system upgrading period.

As previously rumoured, Samsung will indeed offer seven years of software support for the Galaxy S24 Series. It was officially announced by TM Roh, President & Head MX Business of Samsung when he kicked off Galaxy Unpacked a few hours ago. 

The Ministry of Communications and Digital (KKD) has revealed that 350 telecommunications towers nationwide that had been affected by floods since 2014 have been upgraded. The upgrading works were done through the Malaysian Communications and Multimedia Commission (MCMC). 

So last week, there were numerous reports that Windows 11 is causing some performance issues on AMD PCs and laptops. Although both Microsoft and AMD have worked together to resolve it, it seems that the latest update didn't really help much but made it worst than before.

Last week, Windows 11 officially launched and a few new laptops were the first to get access to it. But as always, a new operating system is bound to have bugs and users soon found that AMD PCs had performance issues. Well, looks like that's being fixed.