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Tuesday, 26 September 2017

What we’re tracking on 26 September 2017

** It’s a reasonably quiet news morning here in Egypt and around the world (if you can ignore the North Koreans muttering that they can now shoot down US aircraft because the Trump administration has “declared war”). We’re taking this as a chance to enroll in remedial math classes. We managed calculus and linear algebra in university, but simple subtraction is apparently beyond us — we published our first issue on 25 September 2014 (not 2015, as erroneously noted yesterday) and are indeed three years old. Thank you to the countless readers who wrote yesterday with kind words — you made our day, and we’ll be replying to you all over the course of the coming couple of days.

The IMF will publicly release for the first time today its review of Egypt’s economic reform program at a 2:15 CLT presser at which IMF Mission Chief for Egypt Subir Lall will unveil the staff report and other related documents, according to a press notice from the IMF. Lall will field questions on the report, which will officially be released at 3:00 pm. An IMF delegation is due in Egypt toward the end of October to review progress on reform ahead of the disbursal of the third USD 2 bn tranche of the country’s USD 12 bn extended funds facility, which is slated for December.

El Moselhy to unveil new domestic trade strategy today at AmCham: We’re looking forward to AmCham hosting Supply Minister Ali El Moselhy today. The minister is expected to unveil, for the first time, the government’s new strategy for domestic trade. We’ll be attending and will have a full report tomorrow.

Dear Macheads: You may now go download macOS High Sierra. It’s packed with all sorts of stuff under the hood that will take macOS forward for years. Hit up reviews at Ars Technica (by Andrew Cunningham, so ultra-thorough as usual) and iMore. It’s not going to blow you away with a new look or feel, but the new file system will be super-important going forward, Photos is now more powerful, and perhaps best of all, Safari has both declared war on autoplay videos and includes new anti-tracking features, while Notes gets pinned notes and tables.

How do you get the new macOS? Go to open the App Store on your Mac and check the right-hand list of featured downloads or click this link on your computer, which should take you directly to the App Store download page.

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