The most important news of the day

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1. Programming & dev tools · DevOps & containers · Cloud & data centers

   GitHub details its new Git storage design

   GitHub announced at Universe a new Git storage architecture handling thousands of writes per second. Internal tests showed 5,000 concurrent agents and 7,200 pushes per second to one repo with consistently low read latency.

   Full story at github.blog ↗
2. Smartphones & apps · Operating systems · Chips & hardware

   Apple ships new products and iOS 27.3 betas

   Apple launched five new products this week, with two more due next week. It also released the first betas of iOS 27.3 and related updates.

   Full story at MacRumors ↗
3. Chips & hardware · Artificial intelligence

   NVIDIA presents Vera CPU for AI agents

   NVIDIA says AI agents move between GPU reasoning and CPU execution throughout a task. AI factories therefore need CPUs that serve many agents quickly within limited power.

   Full story at NVIDIA ↗
4. New AI models · Artificial intelligence

   NVIDIA releases open Cosmos 3 models

   NVIDIA has introduced new open Cosmos 3 models for interactive world simulation. The source gives no further details.

   Full story at huggingface.co ↗
5. Smartphones & apps · IT industry & companies

   TikTok launches a standalone Shop app

   The standalone TikTok Shop app is available on iOS and Android in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Users browse products via videos and livestreams; no wider rollout is announced.

   Full story at Analytics Insight ↗
6. New AI models · Cloud & data centers · Artificial intelligence

   Kimi K3.1 Pro arrives on Amazon Bedrock

   Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro (Highspeed) is available on Amazon Bedrock for uses such as coding and document processing. Moonshot AI describes it as an open-weight, multimodal model with a 1-million-token context window.

   Full story at aws.amazon.com ↗
7. Smartphones & apps · Chips & hardware

   Poco X8s launches in Malaysia

   Xiaomi Malaysia introduced the Poco X8s with a 6.35-inch display, 6,330mAh battery and 100W charging. It has a Snapdragon 7 Gen 4, triple camera and IP68 rating, priced under RM2,000.

   Full story at SoyaCincau ↗
8. Operating systems · Artificial intelligence · Open source

   Claude helps use AirPods head tracking on Linux

   AI was used to work out how to access motion data from AirPods. One Linux user now uses the head tracking as a software mouse.

   Full story at AppleInsider ↗
9. Networking · Artificial intelligence

   Qualcomm targets AI-native 6G for 2029

   Qualcomm confirmed its 6G vision puts AI at the center of wireless technology. It targets 2029 for the first commercial rollout.

   Full story at Gizchina.com ↗
10. IT law & regulation · Smartphones & apps

    Canadians can claim from Apple gift card deal

    Apple agreed to pay $1.25 million to settle allegations it could have done more to prevent gift card fraud in Canada. Only a few months remain to claim money.

    Full story at MobileSyrup ↗

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