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macOS 27 Golden Gate adds slider to adjust Liquid Glass transparency

Apple's macOS 27 Golden Gate introduces an appearance slider that lets users control how clear or opaque the Liquid Glass design looks across the system, replacing the previous two-option toggle. The slider affects elements like the Dock, desktop widgets, and Now Playing bars in apps such as Apple Music and Podcasts, defaulting to a medium setting with a live preview during adjustment.

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Inner Mongolia's Ulanqab emerges as hub for China's data centre buildout

In Ulanqab, a farming region in Inner Mongolia known as China's 'potato capital', large-scale data centre construction is underway alongside agricultural land. Workers described the project as proceeding in multiple phases, with one phase completed roughly every year and more planned. These facilities are intended to provide the computing power behind China's AI ambitions.

Nova Learning survey shows student interest shifting from CS/AI to Engineering

A survey by academic mentoring platform Nova Learning found that the share of middle and high school students naming Computer Science and AI as their top academic interest dropped from 42.3% in 2025 to 27.9% in 2026, while Engineering's share nearly doubled, rising from 11.9% to 23%, led largely by Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Separately, the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center reported an 8.1% drop in undergraduate Computer and Information Science enrollment at four-year institutions, to about 606,000 students, even as Engineering enrollment grew.

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