The most important news of the day

Every day we read hundreds of stories. Only the most important ones are here — short, in our own words, with a link to the original source.

1. Cloud & data centers · IT industry & companies

   Microsoft reports accelerating cloud growth

   Microsoft Cloud revenue surpassed $63B, according to the post. Growth accelerated to 30% year over year.

   Full story at news.microsoft.com ↗
2. Chips & hardware

   Apple now sells a touchscreen laptop at $2,899

   Tim Cook once compared touchscreen Windows laptops to a toaster-fridge. Apple is now selling one for $2,899.

   Full story at Windows Latest ↗
3. Cybersecurity · Programming & dev tools

   HTTP2Shell reaches beyond Node.js

   CVE-2026-111497 is tied to Brotli decompression. Defenders need to find vulnerable implementations, check whether untrusted compressed data can reach them, and patch the affected component.

   Full story at blog.checkpoint.com ↗
4. IT law & regulation · Smartphones & apps · Networking

   Rogers must pay a $15 million penalty

   Canada's Competition Bureau ordered the penalty over marketing of the 'Infinite' wireless plans. They were pitched as unlimited data but also apply speed reductions.

   Full story at MobileSyrup ↗
5. Artificial intelligence · New AI models · Cybersecurity

   Chinese AI labs now mainly target OpenAI's Astra

   According to The Decoder, Chinese AI labs are now mainly tapping OpenAI's most powerful model, GPT-6 Astra, rather than Anthropic's Claude. This follows Anthropic tightening its defenses.

   Full story at The Decoder ↗
6. Artificial intelligence · Programming & dev tools · Enterprise software

   Microsoft unveils a Copilot harness for multi-model agents

   Microsoft introduces the Microsoft Copilot harness, built by the GitHub engineering team and adopted company-wide. It powers Copilot Code, Copilot Studio, the GitHub Copilot app, the CLI and VS Code.

   Full story at blogs.microsoft.com ↗
7. Cybersecurity · Operating systems

   Leftover Popcorn Time component leaves Macs exposed

   Eye Research says the unofficial Time4Popcorn app left behind an update checker that ran at every startup and trusted whatever it downloaded, with full permission to change the Mac. Its developers abandoned the project long ago.

   Full story at MacRumors ↗
8. Chips & hardware · Operating systems

   New MacBook Pro touch input can be switched off

   According to Federico Viticci, the new OLED MacBook Pro models have an accessibility setting that turns off touch input entirely. There is also an option for pinch-to-zoom across the macOS Golden Gate interface.

   Full story at MacRumors ↗
9. Programming & dev tools · DevOps & containers · Artificial intelligence

   GitHub outlines its vision at Universe 2026

   At GitHub Universe, GitHub presented its vision as the most comprehensive software delivery system. It introduced products and said it is rebuilding the underlying infrastructure, focusing on completed work rather than more code.

   Full story at github.blog ↗
10. Programming & dev tools · Open source

    GitHub Octoverse reports record code pushes

    Developers pushed code to GitHub 17.9 billion times in the past 12 months, more than in 2024 and 2025 combined. The report cites projects such as Gati in Nepal.

    Full story at github.blog ↗

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