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A new video shows the final production version of the upcoming Clicks Communicator, a BlackBerry-like smartphone that runs modern apps.

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My learning so far I absolutely love learning to code. I gave it up to vibe code earlier last year and completely regret it. At first it felt like I was moving faster, but over time I realized I was skipping the part that actually made me better. My learning journey is fueled by passion and the hopes to move into a Go/SWE/Cloud type role. I do not know exactly how I will go about doing so, but I will work until I am noticed. Right now I am trying to focus on building real understanding. Not just getting something to work, but knowing why it works. I want to be able to read errors, debug my own code, understand the tools I am using, and slowly become the kind of developer that can solve problems without panicking. Learn to code! If anyone has any doubts on if coding is "worth it" still, I can account for how personally fulfilling it is. Solving a bug/problem in your own code gives me a personal high. There is something different about struggling with something, walking away, coming back, and finally seeing it click. It reminds you that you are actually learning. Every small fix feels like proof that you are getting better. I am not against using tools or AI. I still think they can be helpful. But I do think there is a big difference between using them to learn and using them to avoid learning. I had to learn that the hard way. So if you are new, or if you stopped for a while like I did, I really think you should keep going. Build small things. Break stuff. Fix it. Read docs even when they are boring. Ask questions. Take notes. Let yourself be bad at it for a while. I do not know where this journey will take me yet, but I know I want to keep showing up.

Nvidia AI chip competitor Etched says it has already booked $1 billion under contract for the inference systems powered by its chip.

Acti is betting the smartphone keyboard is the next home for AI assistants. The startup's new keyboard for iOS and Android works across apps and lets users create custom AI-powered shortcuts using natural language.

A year in, National Design Studio delays plan to update government web standards.

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Sources suggest Musk may be mulling big donation to Trump Accounts.

You have seen this loop before. An agent starts a “simple” task, say scrape listings, refactor a repo, research a market, or whatever. It fails, it retries, it re-reads context, it apologizes and tries all over again. Twenty minutes in and the dashboard shows six figures of tokens and zero useful outputs or deliverables. The model did not misbehave on purpose. The orchestrator never had a hard budget gate with an ROI in mind. Skillware v0.4.0 ships a new skill for exactly that gap: monitoring/token_limiter . It lets you monitor and limit any agent’s token budget in real time — Gemini, Claude, OpenAI, DeepSeek, Ollama, custom Python loops, you name it. Same skill, same JSON, any runtime. What Skillware is in a nutshell Skillware is an open registry of installable agent capabilities . Each skill is a bundle: skill.py — deterministic Python ( execute() returns JSON) instructions.md — when the model should call the tool manifest.yaml — schema, constitution, issuer Tests and docs — shipped in the wheel You load by ID, adapt for your provider, call execute() on tool use. The model decides when , the skill decides how , predictably, every time. That split matters for budget control. You do not want the LLM guessing whether it is “allowed” to spend more tokens. You want a small, auditable function that answers: continue, warn, or stop. Meet the Token Limiter This skill is a budget gate , not a kill switch wired into OpenAI or Anthropic. After each model turn, your host loop passes cumulative usage. The skill returns one of three actions: Action Meaning CONTINUE Under the soft threshold — keep going WARN Approaching the limit (default 80%) — tighten scope FORCE_TERMINATE Hard ceiling hit — stop the loop Important nuance: the skill does not cancel API sessions or kill processes. It returns a structured decision. Your orchestrator must act on it. That is by design — Skillware skills stay portable and provider-neutral. No skill-specific API keys. No network calls. Pure Python m

When most people hear Bitcoin , the conversation usually starts with price. But for developers, Bitcoin is much more than a chart. Bitcoin is a distributed system operating without a central authority. It combines networking, cryptography, game theory, economics, and software engineering into a protocol that has remained operational for years while processing value globally. As a software developer, what fascinates me most is not speculation it’s the architecture. Some concepts every developer can appreciate: ⚡ Distributed Consensus Thousands of nodes independently verify the same rules without trusting each other. 🔐 Cryptography in Practice Digital signatures make ownership verifiable without revealing private keys. ⛏️ Proof of Work A mechanism that converts computation into security and coordination. 🌍 Open Source at Global Scale Anyone can inspect the code, run a node, contribute, or build on top of the ecosystem. 📦 Immutability Through Design Data integrity is achieved through incentives, validation rules, and chained blocks. Studying Bitcoin changes how you think about: System reliability Security models Network design Incentive structures Building software that survives failure Whether you plan to build in blockchain or not, Bitcoin is worth studying because it teaches principles that extend far beyond finance. Curious to hear from other developers: What concept in Bitcoin architecture changed the way you think about software systems?

If you've ever wondered how to visualize, teach, or explore keyboards without owning physical hardware, a keyboard simulator is the answer. In this in-depth guide, we explore what keyboard simulators are, how they work, and why they are changing the way people learn to type. Defining a Keyboard Simulator A keyboard simulator is a software application that digitally recreates the visual, functional, and interactive behavior of a physical keyboard. Unlike a simple on-screen keyboard that merely serves as a typing aid, a true keyboard simulator renders the keyboard in detail — often in three dimensions — and responds to keystrokes in real time, creating an immersive and educational experience. The best keyboard simulators go far beyond static images. They animate individual key presses, replicate the visual design of specific keyboard models, support multiple layouts (QWERTY, Dvorak, AZERTY), and even show animated hands performing the typing — making them extraordinarily useful for remote teaching, accessibility testing, content creation, and learning to type. 💡 Did you know? The Keyboard Simulator by Roboticela is one of the most advanced free and open-source keyboard simulators available today, featuring 3D interactive rendering powered by React Three Fiber, five authentic laptop keyboard models, and eight beautiful visual themes. The Core Components of a Keyboard Simulator A fully-featured keyboard simulator typically includes several key components that work together to create a complete experience: 🎮 3D Rendering Engine: Displays the keyboard model from any angle with smooth rotations and zoom capabilities. ⌨️ Real-Time Key Feedback: Every keystroke on your physical keyboard mirrors instantly on the 3D model. 🖐️ Hand Animation: Animated hands show proper finger placement and movement as you type. 📝 Document Editor: A built-in text editor captures your input and links it to the keyboard visualization. 🎨 Theme System: Multiple visual themes make the experience beau

Stealthy startup Arcturus uses lasers to infuse carbon nanomaterials into copper, dramatically improving its ability to conduct electricity.

Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan discusses industry-converging patterns for securing autonomous AI agents in production. He explains the critical vulnerabilities hidden inside the ReAct loop across context, reasoning, and tool execution. He shares how to mitigate risks like memory poisoning and rogue tool execution using defense-in-depth strategies, LLM-as-a-judge critics, and MAESTRO threat modeling. By Sriram Madapusi Vasudevan

Clicks has released the first hands-on video of its Blackberry like Communicator Android phone.

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I know you’re busy, so for What’s !important #14, I’ll be sprinting through what’s been a stacked couple of weeks despite few browser updates. From CSS Quake to CSS Gap Decorations, this isn’t one to miss! What’s !important #14: Gap Decorations, random(), <select> field sizing, and More originally handwritten and published with love on CSS-Tricks . You should really get the newsletter as well.

Elastic open-sourced Atlas, a system built on Elasticsearch that maintains three categories of memory for agents. Atlas integrates with agents via MCP and maintains per-user isolation of memories. When evaluated on question-answering capability, it scored 0.89 Recall@10. By Anthony Alford

June 2026 is shaping up to be the month open models stopped playing catch-up. Three major releases in as many weeks have shifted the landscape, and none of them involve the usual frontier-lab drama. NVIDIA Nemotron 3 Ultra: 550B Parameters, Zero Restrictions On June 4, NVIDIA quietly dropped Nemotron 3 Ultra — a 550-billion-parameter behemoth under a fully permissive open license. That's not "open-weight with strings attached" — it's the most capable model you can download, modify, and deploy commercially without asking permission. Early benchmarks show it competitive with GPT-4.5-class models on code generation and reasoning tasks, while significantly outperforming Llama 4 on mathematical reasoning. If you have the hardware (think 8×H100 nodes minimum), this is the new default for self-hosted enterprise AI. GLM-5.2: China's Answer, MIT License Z.AI launched GLM-5.2 on June 13, and it arrived with full MIT-licensed weights within the week. What makes this noteworthy isn't just the permissive license — it's that GLM-5.2 punches well above its weight class on long-context retrieval and multilingual benchmarks. Developers running locally can deploy it on consumer-grade hardware with quantization, making it a strong contender for privacy-sensitive applications. The API tier starts at ~$18/month, but the real value is in the self-hosted path. Gemini 3.5 Flash Gets Computer Use Google DeepMind also shipped computer use capabilities in Gemini 3.5 Flash this month. Think Claude's computer-use agent paradigm, but running on the fastest Flash-tier model Google offers. Early demos show agents completing multi-step browser tasks — form filling, data extraction, web scraping — at significantly lower latency than competing solutions. The throughline is clear: open models are no longer a compromise . Whether you need 550B monsters for reasoning, MIT-licensed alternatives for compliance, or fast agents for automation, June 2026 delivered on all fronts.

There's a paradox nobody wants to say out loud: the same frameworks companies pick because they're "enterprise-ready," "scalable," and "industry standard" are, for an LLM writing code, a minefield. Angular , React with its whole ecosystem, Nx with its monorepos: these are powerful tools, built by humans to coordinate teams of humans on massive codebases. And for that purpose, they're often the right choice — if your primary constraint is coordinating hundreds of engineers over a decade, the conventions and tooling of an established framework earn their keep. But there's a second actor in the room now. When the one writing the code is an AI, the very traits that make these frameworks "robust" turn into pure friction. The argument I'm making isn't "Angular and React are obsolete." It's narrower: we've historically optimized software architecture for human cognition, and LLMs introduce a different cost model that may favor simpler, more deterministic architectures — at least in some domains. Let's break down why, in three points. 1. The Token Tax (and the Cognitive Bottleneck) An LLM doesn't "understand" code the way we do — it processes it token by token, and every token costs something: money, latency, and context window that could otherwise be spent reasoning about the actual problem. Try asking an AI to generate a simple input form in a typical Angular/Nx context. To do it "properly" it has to: create the component (separate .ts , .html , .css files) declare the @Component with all its metadata import and wire up the right modules possibly touch an NgModule or a standalone-components config navigate 4-5 folder levels inside a typical Nx structure ( apps/ , libs/ , feature-x/ , data-access/ , ui/ ...) All of this before writing a single line of actual logic. That's architectural complexity that, for a human, pays for itself over time thanks to tooling, autocomplete, and internalized conventions. For an LLM generating text sequentially, it's a tax paid on every singl

Microsoft has announced the limited public preview of Copilot Autofix for GitHub Advanced Security for Azure DevOps, extending AI-powered vulnerability remediation to teams using Azure Repos. By Craig Risi