Vivaldi 8.0 is being pitched as the browser's "most significant design overhaul" yet, featuring a new unified, edge-to-edge interface, six preset layouts, and deeper customization across tabs, toolbars, panels, and themes. The company is also taking a swipe at rivals chasing questionable AI features. Neowin reports: After updating to version 8.0, Vivaldi will present you with the ability to select one of the six pre-built styles. You can select a minimal edge-to-edge theme, one with the UI fully hidden for focused work, or a power user variant with everything on the screen. The update comes with a built-in collection theme, and users are free to select one of over 7,000 community themes available on the official website. Vivaldi says that while other browsers were busy adding questionable AI features, it focused on "a foundation that no other browser can match" with flexible tab management, built-in productivity tools, and advanced customization. At the same time, Vivaldi does not force the new design onto its users, so those who prefer the previous user interface can go back to it at any moment in settings. "With 8.0, we have done something we have been working toward for a long time: we have given the browser itself a visual system worthy of everything it can do," says Vivaldi's CEO and co-founder, Jon Stephenson von Tetzchner. "With this update Vivaldi feels like one considered, coherent tool." You can download Vivaldi 8.0 and view the changelog at their respective links.

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Understand C# reflection performance in .NET 10 -- learn caching strategies, compiled delegates, FrozenDictionary, and when reflection is fast enough.

About to fly home after an exhausting week in Mountain View. I never realize how much I enjoy that extra monitor at home until I’m stuck with just my laptop screen on trips!

[article] With Android CLI, Google is Making the Android Toolchain Agent-Friendly. Android got a lot less intimidating (to me) this week.

[article] AI at scale: What engineering teams are confronting. AI on your machine is one thing. Confidently making it available to others is a different thing.

[blog] What If Lock-In Doesn’t Matter So Much Anymore? It’s definitely time to challenge some assumptions. Maybe you have more control now than you thought?

[blog] Agent Sandbox on GKE is now available for everyone, and a first look at Agent Substrate. These are both super powerful ways to make Kubernetes a more suitable and dynamic host for agents.

[blog] Prompts are technical debt too. Yes, these probably degrade faster than most any of your code. Especially if your prompts include explicit references or steps that fell out of date.

[article] Supporting Your Employees’ Career Growth When Everyone Is Overwhelmed. Having a hard time right now with career conversations? It’s not just about promotion discussions, but listening and figuring out a constant learning/development plan.

[blog] Angular Is Exciting Again, and v21 Proves It. It’s cool when stable, widely-used frameworks keep up with the times.

[blog] The Cost of Safetyism. It’s the parent’s fault. We need to own it. Unsupervised exploration is needed in kids to make them better adults.

[blog] 100 things we announced at I/O 2026. This is a lot, and we didn’t even list a handful of other lowkey items shipped this week.

[blog] What the OSS Summit Says About OSS in 2026. What was hot at the Summit? Sounds like open models and maintainer burnout were top of mind.

[blog] Blazing fast on-device GenAI with LiteRT-LM. Speedy inference at the edge is opening up a lot of use cases. This framework makes it possible.

[blog] Why Your Coding Agent Can’t Be Your Testing Agent. This person suggests you split your author and reviewer to ensure you get a proper asessment.

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When Microsoft announced it was acquiring GitHub in a $7.5 billion deal in 2018, developers were nervous. Some were concerned about Microsoft controlling GitHub, and others were taking a wait-and-see approach. Nearly eight years later, GitHub is now fighting for its survival, amid a surge of outages, security issues, and pressure from competitors.

In the last few weeks alone, GitHub had multiple major outages, a remote code execution vulnerability disclosure, and its internal code repositories hacked due to a "poisoned" VS Code extension on an employee's device. I've spoken to current and former GitHub employees who all paint a picture of a …

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New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani is launching a streaming series on Twitch, in which he'll respond to questions the public have submitted via the chat, Polygon reports. The series is aptly titled "Talk with the People," and kicks off later today at 4PM ET.

"With the launch of 'Talk with the People' we're bringing City Hall to the platforms where New Yorkers already are - speaking directly with the people," Mamdani told Polygon in a written statement. "By launching the country's first recurring cross-platform stream hosted by an elected official, where I'll answer New Yorkers' questions live on Twitch, we're opening up a direct line of co …

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Meta has reportedly notified thousands of employees that they've been laid off as the company attempts to compensate for its hefty AI investments. In an email from Meta management shared by Business Insider, impacted staffers were told that the planned headcount reduction was part of the company's "continued effort to run the company more efficiently and to allow us to offset the other investments we're making."

Reports of an upcoming wave of layoffs started circulating in March, though at that time Meta was believed to be cutting up to 20 percent of its total company headcount. According to a recent memo shared in May, the layoffs are now …

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