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A US-Iran peace agreement announced by President Trump over the weekend sent Bitcoin climbing, with markets reading the news as a signal of easing geopolitical tension. It's a reminder of how deeply crypto has become tangled with global politics, moving less on technology fundamentals and more on the mood of the room.
On the engineering front, Google's io event is framing two thousand twenty six as a tipping point for software development, with AI tools increasingly handling the kind of work that once defined a junior developer's day. The conversation isn't really about replacement — it's about what the job actually becomes when the routine parts get automated away, and who benefits from that shift.
And on the more hands-on end of the spectrum, a hobbyist has built what may be the most compact self-powered computer ever made by an individual — credit-card sized and roughly one millimeter thick. No external power source, fully functional. It's the kind of project that sits quietly on Reddit and reminds you that the most interesting hardware work sometimes happens far outside any corporate lab.
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