[April 2026] Tech News Monthly Newsletter 💻🚀

Welcome to the 4th issue of Tech News Monthly! If you missed the previous months, you can check out the previous issues of Tech News Monthly here.

The quick version: I curate and share the most important articles, news, resources, podcasts, and videos from the world of tech.

Instead of consuming a bunch of news and articles every day, all you have to do is read this short newsletter once a month to stay up to date with the tech industry!

Alright, let's not waste any valuable time and jump right into this month's updates.

Here's what happened in April 2026 in our industry... 100% human written every month:

$20/month Tech Stack 💅🏻

Remember the age old adage: keep it simple stupid? If you are tired of the modern "Enterprise" boilerplate, here is the exact playbook of how this author built his companies to run on nearly nothing.

As the author states: keeping costs near zero gives you the exact same runway as getting a million dollars in funding with a massive burn rate. It's less stressful, it keeps your architecture incredibly simple, and it gives you adequate time to find product-market fit without the pressure of a board breathing down your neck.

Cursor 3 Is Here 🤖

Cursor, for those that do not know, is one of those new AI IDEs. Think of it as a unified workspace for building software with AI agents. It's usually the top tool for coders along with Claude Code. They just announced Cursor 3 with the ability to dig deeper when you want. It's faster, cleaner, and more powerful, with a multi-repo layout, seamless handoff between local and cloud agents, and the option to switch back to the Cursor IDE at any time.

Essentially they are going all in on coding agents.

Speaking of....

What is A Coding Agent? 🕴

This is a good breakdown to understand the confusing world of coding agents. How coding agents use tools, memory, and repo context to make LLMs work better in practice. Worth a read even if you know the basics.

GIT Commander 👨‍✈️

Five git log commands that diagnose a new codebase before you open a single file: code churn hotspots, bus factor, bug clusters, and crisis patterns. Honestly, these are all pretty good ones to add to your repertoire.

News Around the World 🗺

• Artemis II launched successfully for a moon mission and landed back on earth bringing its crew home safely. It's a big step in space travel. You can rewatch history being made here (I watched it live and it was pretty spectacular): . The images they took of earth and moon are also worth checking out.

• NASA force was announced. But I just really like the moon animation and interaction as you scroll through this website. So pretty.

• Phones and tablets sold in Europe will have to feature replaceable batteries starting next year, according to EU rules, amid efforts to slash electronic waste across the bloc. Hope this comes to the rest of the world as soon as possible.

Big Tech News aka AI News 🏢

• SpaceX has filed to go public. This is pretty big news because it will probably be the biggest company valuation to date. And it's totally valid, as one hackernews user put it:

  SpaceX has reduced the cost of getting a ton of mass into orbit by a factor of 10 and with their new system (Starship) it's poised further reduce that to 100x. They launch, land and re-use their rockets so often now that what was considered impossible 15 years ago is now routine. They currently put more things into space than the rest of the world combined and by a huge margin. They also have the most advanced internet infrastructure in the world and are poised to replace legacy ISPs and even mobile carriers in the coming decade. Oh, and they're doing all this while making a profit ($16B last year) despite their massive R&D spending and even with the money sink that is xAI their profits will be higher this year. It's hard to say that this isn't one of the most innovative and fast moving companies in the world. $1.75T maybe seems excessive, but less so than a lot of other companies out there.

  ... just ignore all the other X, xAI in there with it.

• Google announced Gemma 4, which is their most intelligent open model, built from Gemini 3. The cool thing is that you can run this Gemma 4 locally on your iPhone!

• Anthropic was all over the news this month with highs and lows, but clearly they are doing something right and OpenAI should be very worried. First, Anthropic is no longer allowing Claude Code subscriptions to use OpenClaw. Second, and this is a big one, they announce Mythos. The cybersecurity world was shaken up with the news. With Mythos, they announced Project Glasswing: a new initiative that brings together Amazon Web Services, Anthropic, Apple, Broadcom, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Google, JPMorganChase, the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Palo Alto Networks in an effort to secure the world’s most critical software.

• Anthropic announced Claude Opus 4.7. They also announce routines, and a the new Claude Design. Interesting things to keep an eye on.

• Not to be left behind by Anthropic, OpenAI announced GPT 5.5. They also announced an update for Codex: Codex can now operate your computer alongside you, work with more of the tools and apps you use everyday, generate images, remember your preferences, learn from previous actions, and take on ongoing and repeatable work. The Codex app also now includes deeper support for developer workflows, like reviewing PRs, viewing multiple files & terminals, connecting to remote devboxes via SSH, and an in-app browser to make it faster to iterate on frontend designs, apps, and games.

• This is just an interesting article on Apple that is worth reading. I tend to agree: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning. Speaking of Apple, the biggest news from them this month was that John Ternus is to become Apple's new CEO.

• On the other side of the world, the Chinese Qwen3.6 is out as well as DeepSeek v4 with a much more open model which you cannot deny is great for everyone.

• Meta tells staff it will cut 10% of jobs. The interesting bit about this news is that it's a case of "AI taking jobs" but not in the way people normally mean; these massive layoffs are happening not because AI is doing the work they used to do but because capex (their company spending) is sucking all of the operating money out of everywhere.

• Microsoft and OpenAI end their exclusive and revenue-sharing deal.

Completely useless to your career but still great 🙃

• I don't know why but this tickled me. Funny, and... well... weird: They are made out of meat

Best Resource of the Month ✅

You may have noticed a trend lately in this section. It's less about the best and the latest AI articles, tools and tricks. Instead, this section has become more about the things that makes us pause and reflect, or even take a break from the non stop news cycle and updates in tech. To keep in line with this thought, the resource of the month is another important one that everyone should read: The last quiet thing.

Trick of the Month 🌗

• Caveman: why use many token when few token do trick — Claude Code skill that cuts 65% of tokens by talking like caveman

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