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Building a general-purpose accessibility agent—and what we learned in the process

It is an understatement to say agents have become a popular way of working with code. GitHub has adopted agent-based code creation and editing for many of its i...

Rocket Report: Cowboy up for data centers in LEO; Russia's new ICBM actually works

Welcome to Edition 8.41 of the Rocket Report! The stories of the world's two most powerful rockets are now intertwined. Hardware for NASA's third Space Launch S...

Routine vaccines may cut dementia risk—experts have startling hypothesis on how

More and more routine vaccines are being linked to lower risks of dementia. Shots against seasonal flu, RSV, tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (Tdap), pneumoco...

Raising the bar: Quality, shared responsibility, and the future of GitHub’s bug bounty program

The security research community is one of GitHub’s greatest assets. Every year, researchers from around the world help us find and fix vulnerabilities, ma...

Stratum: System-Hardware Co-Design with 3D-Stackable DRAM for Efficient Moe

Africa has seen oil shocks before. Why 2026 could be the turning point for clean energy

Africa has been here before. Oil climbs above $100, import bills balloon, Finance ministers across the continent convene emergency sessions, and somewhere in a...

The Kenyan Boeing engineer who chose trucks over prestige

Charles Thuo’s career journey makes very little sense, at least until you sit down with him. By his own admission, it did not make much sense to his parents eit...

Samsung phones that lost software support in May 2026

Table of contents How Samsung’s update system works The three phones that lost support Quick specs comparison What losing software support means for your...

Trazo built a food delivery business in smaller cities. Now it wants to enter Lagos.

In 2019, Ikechukwu Nweze was trying to solve a problem in Asaba, in southern Nigeria, where he was based: ordering food online was difficult. At the time, most...

AGL taps REasy to launch China-Cameroon shipping service for SMEs

The Cameroonian arm of Africa Global Logistics (AGL), the logistics giant that operates port, rail, maritime, and freight services, has partnered with REasy, a...

👨🏿‍🚀TechCabal Daily – Jumia plans job cuts

In partnership with Lire en Français اقرأ هذا باللغة العربية TGIF. Few phrases travel further at African business summits than “shared ownership.” A...

GitHub availability report: April 2026

In April, we experienced 10 incidents that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services. To increase transparency, at the end of April, we released a...

NASA Draws on Industry for Mars Telecommunications Network

NASA’s Perseverance Mars rover used its dual-camera Mastcam-Z imager to capture this image of “Santa Cruz,” a hill about 1.5 miles (2.5 kilome...

NASA, Industry Prepare Cryogenic Fuel Technology Demo

2 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) NASA is collaborating with Eta Space of Rockledge, Florida, on an in‑orbit techno...

From latency to instant: Modernizing GitHub Issues navigation performance

When you’re working through a backlog—opening an issue, jumping to a linked thread, then back to the list—latency isn’t just a metric. I...

Fresh Food Delivery for Space Station

You’re allowed to play with your food when you’re on the International Space Station!NASA/Chris Williams NASA astronauts Jack Hathaway (bottom left)...

NASA-Supported Space Tech Advances Earthly Construction

3 min readPreparations for Next Moonwalk Simulations Underway (and Underwater) Branch’s work outfitting a prototype of a lunar surface habitat they developed, p...

Dungeons & Desktops: 10 roguelikes that never die (because their communities won’t let them)

The first version of NetHack was released in 1987 as a heavily modified descendant of Hack, itself based on Rogue, a Unix-era experiment built for character-bas...

Dungeons & Desktops: Building a procedurally generated roguelike with GitHub Copilot CLI

I got nerd-sniped into the GitHub Copilot CLI Challenge and made a questionable decision: I turned my codebase into a roguelike dungeon. It started with a simpl...

Why age assurance laws matter for developers

Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online. Some approaches restrict minors’ access to certa...