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    An open-source project called tester-army/e2e is drawing attention as a 'next generation' end-to-end testing framework for web and mobile applications. Written in TypeScript and hosted on GitHub, it is positioned as a modern alternative for developers automating tests across platforms. Details on its features, adoption and how it compares with established tools remain limited so far.

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    Classic Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in the browser▼A browser-native classic Visual Basic VB6 IDEYhnSportBasketball1549 min ago

    A developer has released a browser-native recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 IDE, letting users open the familiar VB6 development environment directly in a web browser without installing anything. The project, available via GitHub Pages, is drawing attention from nostalgic programmers and those who still maintain legacy Visual Basic applications, with discussion centring on how faithfully it reproduces the original experience.

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    Caddy, the open-source web server written in Go, is getting fresh attention from developers. The project positions itself as a fast, extensible HTTP/1, HTTP/2 and HTTP/3 server that runs across platforms and configures HTTPS automatically, removing much of the manual certificate work traditional servers require. Its maintainers describe it as designed to be extended with plugins, and developers are discussing it as a lightweight alternative to Apache and Nginx.

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    Politico argues that the era of one global internet is effectively over, with countries increasingly building their own national versions of the web shaped by local laws, censorship rules and platform restrictions. From China's Great Firewall to data localisation rules in Europe, India and Russia, governments are fragmenting the once-borderless network into separate national spheres.

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    Opinion: Politicians Killed the Millennial Internet●The Millennial Internet Is Dead, and Politicians Killed It. (opinion)✉newsTechnologyInternet51 min ago

    A new opinion column argues that the internet culture millennials grew up with — open, playful and largely free of political oversight — is effectively gone, and blames politicians and regulators for killing it. The piece frames the shift as the end of an era for a generation whose online life defined it, and is drawing attention to how lawmaking has reshaped the web people once knew.

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    AWS Open-Sources Strands Decider 2B Agent Model●AWS Opens Strands Decider 2B: Agent Model Hits 100ms [2026]✉newsTechnologySoftware52 min ago

    Amazon Web Services has released Strands Decider 2B, a 2-billion-parameter model for powering AI agents, claiming decision latencies of around 100 milliseconds. The open-source release targets developers building autonomous agents that need fast, repeated reasoning steps, a persistent bottleneck in agent pipelines. Reaction so far is limited, with details on benchmarks and licensing not yet widely reported.

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