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PADU Is Moving Beyond Verification — And That Could Change How Government Decisions Are Made

Web Development | 21 April 2026

Malaysia's Central Database Hub, better known as PADU, appears to be entering a more meaningful phase. What began as a platform focused largely on data consolidation and verification is now being positioned as a tool for analytics as well. In practic...

OpenAI Lowers ChatGPT Pro Pricing in Malaysia, Making the Premium Tier Less Intimidating

Web Development | 10 April 2026

OpenAI appears to have quietly adjusted ChatGPT Pro pricing in Malaysia, bringing the top consumer-tier subscription down by a very noticeable margin. For local users who previously looked at Pro and immediately closed the tab, this change makes the...

Google Is Bringing Vertical Tabs and Reading Mode to Chrome

Web Development | 08 April 2026

Google is introducing a couple of new Chrome features that look designed for people who spend a big part of their day juggling tabs and reading long pages online. The two additions are vertical tabs and a new reading mode, both aimed at making the br...

A New Open-Source Tool Is Rethinking How the Web Handles Text

Web Development | 01 April 2026

A well-known engineer behind projects like React and Midjourney has introduced a new open-source library called Pretext, and it's already getting serious attention in the web development world. The idea behind it is surprisingly simple, but the impac...

Switching AI Just Got Easier: Google Gemini Introduces Chat And Memory Import

Web Development | 30 March 2026

Switching between AI chatbots has never really been a common thing—at least not in the same way we switch phones or laptops. But that might be starting to change. With more people experimenting across platforms, Google is now making it easier to move...

YTL Labs ILMUchat Beta Is Now Live, Bringing a Malaysian-Flavoured AI Chatbot to the Scene

Web Development | 25 March 2026

Malaysia now has another name entering the AI chatbot space, and this time it comes from YTL AI Labs. The company's new platform, ILMUchat, has officially gone live in beta form, giving users a chance to try out a homegrown chatbot built with a disti...

The Math Behind Digital RNG and Why It Matters for Trust Online

Web Development | 19 March 2026

As digital literacy continues to grow in Malaysia, people are becoming far more aware of how software works behind the scenes. Whether it is a banking app, an e-wallet, a healthcare portal, or an online entertainment service, users now expect more th...

AI Coding Assistants Are Quietly Nudging Developers Toward Certain Languages

Web Development | 18 March 2026

AI coding assistants are usually talked about as productivity tools. They help autocomplete functions, explain code, generate tests, and clean up repetitive work. But their influence may be going further than that. They are not just affecting how dev...

OpenAI Is Offering Free AI Coding Tools to Open-Source Maintainers

Web Development | 18 March 2026

A lot of the software people use every day rests on open-source code maintained by small teams, and sometimes by just one or two people doing the work in their spare time. These maintainers are expected to review pull requests, sort through bug repor...

My-AI Standards Could Become Malaysia’s Trust Layer for the AI Era

Web Development | 17 March 2026

Artificial intelligence is moving from novelty to necessity, and governments are now under pressure to decide how it should be guided before misuse outpaces regulation. In Malaysia, that conversation is becoming more concrete through My-AI Standards,...

Healthcare IT Integration in Malaysia: Making Hospital Systems Work Together

Web Development | 15 March 2026

Healthcare IT integration may sound like a very technical phrase, but the image you shared actually explains it in a simple and practical way. At its core, it is about making different hospital and clinical systems talk to each other properly. Instea...

Mastercard Tests Malaysia’s First Live Agentic AI Transaction With CIMB and RHB

Web Development | 12 March 2026

Artificial intelligence is already changing how people search, write, analyse, and automate tasks. Now it is starting to move into something even more sensitive: actual payments. That is what makes Mastercard's latest announcement in Malaysia especia...

Meta Expands Teen Account Protections in Malaysia as Under-16 Social Media Rules Loom

Web Development | 11 March 2026

Meta is tightening its safety controls for young users in Malaysia, and the timing is not accidental. As the country moves closer to stricter social media rules for children and teenagers, the company is putting more attention on how younger users in...

Google Gemini for Education Reaches All Malaysian Public Universities

Web Development | 10 March 2026

Artificial intelligence is steadily becoming part of everyday academic life, and in Malaysia, that shift is now happening on a much larger scale. Google has announced that Gemini for Education is now available across all 20 public universities in the...

NIISe Upgrade and Data Migration Scheduled From 9 to 15 March 2026

Web Development | 08 March 2026

Travellers and members of the public who rely on Malaysia's immigration-related digital services may want to take note of an important update for the coming week. The Home Ministry has announced that the National Immigration Integrated System, better...

Google Is Tightening Customer Match Upload Rules in the Ads API

Web Development | 06 March 2026

Google is making an important change that could quietly break some existing advertising workflows if nobody is paying attention. Starting April 1, 2026, certain developers will no longer be able to upload Customer Match data through the Google Ads AP...

WebAssembly Plugins Are Making Helm (and Kubernetes) Easier to Extend

Web Development | 06 March 2026

Kubernetes has always been powerful, but it's never been "simple." Even something as routine as extending tooling can turn into a small project: build the plugin, package it, ship it, worry about OS differences, CPU architecture, and how safely it ru...

iQIYI Malaysia Is Raising Prices Again From April 2026 (But Only for New Subscribers)

Web Development | 05 March 2026

If you're thinking of signing up for iQIYI in Malaysia, there's a new "subscribe before the deadline" moment coming up. iQIYI says it will increase subscription prices for new customers starting 1 April 2026, while existing subscribers keep paying th...

ShopBack Pay Is Being Switched Off In Malaysia

Web Development | 04 March 2026

If you've been using ShopBack Pay as a checkout option, there's a deadline to take note of: ShopBack Pay will be discontinued in Malaysia starting 25 March. That means the payment option will disappear from the app, and you won't be able to use it fo...

MyTax Is Acting Up Right When Everyone Needs It Most

Web Development | 03 March 2026

If you tried logging into MyTax and felt like you were stuck in an endless loading loop, you are not imagining it. LHDN has acknowledged there is a technical disruption affecting the MyTax portal, and they've said their team is working to restore ser...