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Microsoft reveals strong cloud growth amid financial reporting overhaul

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Microsoft just posted the first quarter of its 2027 fiscal financial results. The software maker made $92.3 billion in revenue and a net income of $33.6 billion during Q1. Revenue is up 19 percent, and net income has increased by 32 percent.

It's a new financial year for Microsoft, so the company is changing up how it reports its finances by splitting its businesses into two segments for the first time. Gone are the previous segments: Productivity and Business Processes, Intelligent Cloud, and More Personal Computing. It's now just Agents and Infra, and Devices and Consumer.

Agents and Infra, which includes businesses like Azure, Microsoft …

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Apple charges $14,549 for a fully specced touchscreen MacBook Pro

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With an OLED display and touchscreen capabilities, it's no surprise that the new MacBook Pro Apple announced today is more expensive than the MBP announced earlier this year. But upgrading the base models that start at $2,899 for the 14-inch, and $3,399 for the 16-inch, with every premium hardware option that Apple offers pushes those prices to an eye-watering $14,249 and $14,549, respectively.

Both of those premium configurations include the M5 Max chip with an 18-core CPU and 40-core GPU, $150 worth of nano-texture glass, 128GB of memory that adds an extra $2,000, and 16TB of storage which is the real budget breaker here thanks to the ong …

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GitHub Copilot Usage Metrics Now Identify Custom Skills, Agents and MCP Servers

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GitHub's expanded usage metrics API gives administrators more detailed visibility into which custom AI agent tools developers are using.
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GitHub Copilot Turns Microsoft Teams Bug Notifications Into Pull Requests

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GitHub's consolidated Teams app lets developers investigate issues and generate pull requests directly from notifications, ahead of a November 16 retirement deadline for the legacy app.
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Massive Leak Exposes 41,000 Homeland Security Workers—Including Undercover ICE Agents

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The leaked records include the locations of ICE and CBP facilities, workers’ cell phone numbers, and the members of groups tied to wiretap programs, Palantir software, and xAI’s Grok chatbot.
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Visual Studio Live! Taps AI Expert Eric D. Boyd to Help Shape 2027 Conferences

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The Microsoft AI and Azure MVP and longtime VSLive! speaker will help shape technical content and speaker lineups for the 2027 conference series.
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