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HONOR X9e Pro Shows Up At National Day Parade Ahead Of Local Launch HONOR is set to launch a new smartphone on our shores pretty soon. During the National Day Parade, the company showed off the X9e Pro alongside its HONOR Robotics D1 humanoid robot. The smartphone will serve as the latest addition to the brand’s durability-focused mid-range X9 series. For now, details on the device remain under… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402786/honor-x9e-pro-national-day-parade/

U Mobile Launches ULTRA Home 5G Pro With Up To 2Gbps Speeds, 2TB Monthly Quota U Mobile has officially launched its new 5G home broadband service, the ULTRA Home 5G Pro, in Malaysia. The service offers speeds of up to 2Gbps, alongside 8×8 MIMO 5G-Advanced (5G-A) broadband, AI-Powered Game Turbo, and an ULTRA Performance WiFi 7 5G-A router. According to the press release, the new service is designed for increasingly… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402779/u-mobile-launches-ultra-home-5g-pro/

MyKad Printing Services Face Disruptions; Expected To Last Until 7 September The National Registration Department (JPN) has announced that there will be disruptions to the printing of the MyKad as it transitions from the existing structure to the new one. Via its official social media channels, it announced that these disruptions are expected to last through to 7 September. For those looking to get it, the… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402773/mykad-printing-disruptions-until-7-sept/

Why People Blindly Trust AI, Even When It’s Unreliable We’re well into the era of AI, with a variety of chatbots and digital assistants seeking to become permanent fixtures on our devices. Whether you like it or not, companies like Google are working hard to make sure AI becomes an integral part of the day-to-day experience. At the same time, the Malaysian government is… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402343/why-people-blindly-trust-ai/

Govt Offers Youth Access To Four GenAI Tools Via Rakyat Digital In addition to bringing the BUDI95 petrol subsidy quota back to 300l, Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim also announced a number of other measures which take effect starting today. Probably the second most important of them all, behind the petrol subsidy, is the offering of up to three months of free access to four premium GenAI… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402766/youth-access-genai-tools-rakyat-digital/

ASUS Confirms RTX Spark ProArt P14 Will Get Different Unified Memory Configurations ASUS has seemingly confirmed that its NVIDIA RTX Spark-powered ProArt P14 laptop won’t just be getting one configuration. Rather, it is planning to launch five SKUs, all with different configurations of Unified Memory. The configurations can be found, at the moment, on the official ProArt P14 RTX Spark specs page. In the memory section, Asus… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402760/asus-confirms-rtx-spark-proart-p14-will-get-different-unified-memory-configurations/

Base OPPO Find X10 Specs Leak: May Come With Massive Battery, Pro-Level Camera OPPO is expected to launch the Find X10 series sometime soon. While the company has yet to officially announce anything about the upcoming lineup, several details have already surfaced through leaks. Though we might not see the Ultra variant make its way to international markets, a well-known leaker claims that the base model could be… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402761/base-oppo-find-x10-specs-leak/

Tim Cook Marks His Final Day As Apple CEO While it is already 1 September in Malaysia, Tim Cook is still spending his final day as Apple CEO in the US. After 15 years leading the company, Cook took to X to share an emotional message with the Apple community ahead of his transition to a new role. “Sending lots of love to the… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402755/tim-cook-final-day-apple-ceo/

BUDI95 Quota Returns To 300 Litres Starting Today The government has restored the monthly BUDI95 subsidised RON95 quota to 300 litres, effective today, 1 September 2026. This reverses the reduction to 200 litres introduced earlier this year. In case you missed it, the announcement was made by Prime Minister Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim during the 2026 National Day Prime Ministerial Ceremony at the… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402751/budi95-quota-returns-to-300-litres-starting-today/

Bandai Announces The Tamagotchi Ring That’s Fully Functional As mad as it sounds, Casio got to fit a smartwatch into the size of a ring. More recently, Bandai, notably not a watchmaker, has done something similar but with Tamagotchi instead. The result is the simply named Tamagotchi Ring, the new smallest virtual pet toy after the Nano. Yes, despite its size, it is… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402743/bandai-tamagotchi-ring-fully-functional/

CXMT Files Lawsuit Against US Pentagon Over “Chinese Military Company” Labeling ChangXing Memory Technologies, also known as CXMT, recently filed a lawsuit against the US Pentagon. It claims that the Department of Defense (DOD) had wrongfully designated it as a “Chinese Military Company”. CXMT vehemently states that all its products are designed are for civilian and commercial purposes, and not for military use. “CXMT is not… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402734/cxmt-files-lawsuit-against-us-pentagon-over-chinese-military-company-labeling/

Huawei Mate XT 2 Confirmed To Feature An Inward-Folding Design The Huawei Mate XT 2 is set to debut as the proper successor to the Mate XT. Ahead of its launch, rumours of a redesign circulated online, claiming that the tri-fold smartphone will adopt a folding mechanism like Samsung’s Galaxy Z Trifold. Now, the Chinese company has shared a video teaser for the handset, confirming… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402735/huawei-mate-xt-2-inward-folding-design/

Xiaomi Smart Privacy Display Feature Shows Up In New Leak The Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra debuted earlier this year with a new Privacy Display feature, which serves to keep prying eyes from viewing the contents of the user’s screen. Following the device’s debut, leaksters claimed that other Android phone makers were developing their own take on the feature. Now, a new leak has revealed what… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402730/xiaomi-smart-privacy-display-leak/

Xbox CEO Says Project Helix Is A Family Of Devices Now When the name Project Helix was first officially surfaced by new Xbox CEO Asha Sharma, it’s probably fair to say that everyone thought that it was simply the codename for the next-generation console for the Microsoft videogames division. And indeed, when Sharma first posted on X about the name, she referred to it as the… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402727/xbox-ceo-project-helix-family-devices/

Modders Have Already Gotten NVIDIA DLSS 5 Working On RTX 40 Series GPUs Earlier yesterday, NVIDIA’s DLSS 5 got an unofficial implementation after its DLL file was discovered in NBA 2K27, thanks to modders from the RenoDX community. Now, an RTX Remix modder by the name of Uncle Burrito has taken the implementation a step further: getting it to run on the older RTX 40 Series. Uncle Burrito… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402722/modders-have-already-gotten-nvidia-dlss-5-working-on-rtx-40-series-gpus/

POCO X8 Spotted On SIRIM Ahead Of India Launch When POCO released the new generation of its X series, it skipped out on the base X8. Months after the launch, rumours of the missing model began to emerge, suggesting that it will see the light of day after all. Now, the Xiaomi sub-brand has confirmed that the phone is debuting in India soon. But… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402714/poco-x8-sirim/

Razer Sells A Blade 18 RTX 5090 Model At A Cheaper Price By Mistake A gamer in Europe recently got the deal of the decade when they went ahead and purchased a Razer Blade 18. They initially ordered the SKU with an NVIDIA RTX 5080 laptop GPU for €2,433 (~RM11,400), but got a model with the RTX 5090. The gamer, who goes by the handle iiT2 on Reddit, posted… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402708/razer-sells-a-blade-18-rtx-5090-model-at-a-cheaper-price-by-mistake/

Lenovo Announces New LOQ Essential PCs, Legion Monitors Lenovo has announced some new additions to its gaming lineup. Aimed at gamers at all levels, these products comprise two laptops and a desktop from its budget-focused LOQ range, as well as two Legion monitors. LOQ Essential Laptops The first of the two laptops, the LOQ Essential 15IPH11, promises accessible gaming performance. Designed for students… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402691/lenovo-loq-essential-legion-monitors/

Realme C100x Now Available For RM999 Last week, realme teased the launch of the C100x. The brand detailed just about everything you need to know about it, save for its asking price. At the time, the company said the phone would start becoming available on 28 August. As promised, you can now get one for yourself, and with that, we also… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402636/realme-c100x-now-available-for-rm999/

HONOR 600S Appears On SIRIM; Possibly Launching Soon HONOR may have released the 600 series earlier this year, but it seems that the company isn’t done with the smartphone family just yet. We say this because the brand quietly launched a new variant called the HONOR 600S 5G in Hong Kong, with plans to expand to other countries like Taiwan soon after. And… https://www.lowyat.net/2026/402678/honor-600s-appears-sirim-launching-soon/