[June 2026] Tech News Monthly Newsletter 💻🚀

Welcome to the 6th 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 June 2026 in our industry... 100% human written every month:

They Are Made Out of Weights 🦾

A nice funny piece to start this month's newsletter. Did you know that all of this AI business is just...weights?

"Oh Shit" moment with GenAI? 🙇‍♂️

A pretty interesting thread where engineers talk about the moment that they realized this AI hype is actually useful. Some good posts in here that you should read and take note.

NPM Breaks Things 🧟‍♂️

Upcoming breaking changes for npm v12. NPM is finally doing something about all of the security issues the last couple of years: next npm major version, v12, introduces security-related default changes to `npm install`.

All these changes are available behind warnings in npm today on 11.16.0 or newer, so you can prepare before the upgrade. v12 is estimated to be released in July 2026.

LinkedIn Backdoor 🕶

Be careful of this scam happening right now on LinkedIn:

a recruiter at a small crypto startup [...] she described a broken proof-of-concept they needed a lead engineer for, and then sent me a public GitHub repo to review. Specifically, she asked me to “check out the deprecated Node modules issue.”

...buried between walls of commented-out tests, the payload runs anything the server sends back to your machine.

npm runs prepare automatically after npm install, so just installing dependencies executes the backdoor.

The instruction to “check out the deprecated Node modules issue” was bait to get me to run npm install.

Hiring is Becoming a Luck Filter 🎱

HackerRank open sourced its ATS. Someone's resume scored 90/100. Oh wait 74/100. No — 88/100. Actually 83/100. Keep this in mind when applying to jobs. AI is not deterministic.

Read what this all means here.

News Around the World 🗺

• Tech companies are starting to limit token usage for their employees as the costs of using AI increase. What happened to AI decreasing engineering costs?

• I hope more countries follow: Norway imposes near ban on AI in elementary school.

Big Tech News aka AI News 🏢

• Apple finally made their AI play: a new architecture built on foundation models developed in collaboration with Google using the technologies behind the Gemini family. I'm excited for this one.

Very Apple-ish approach to AI catch up: wrap an external tool in a privacy architecture, embed into the OS and productize the orchestration layer.

It will be interesting to see if the Private Cloud Compute + on-device routing can make third-party model capabilities feel like a first-party system without leaking user context to the model provider.

If Apple handles the Google-Apple boundary right, this will be an elegant move on their part, otherwise it will feel like Apple Intelligence with a just a privacy-polished frontend for Gemini.

• Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5 were announced and they are making big waves. It made such big waves that the US government gave a directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5. Crazy. If you want to hear about someone's experience working with these frontier models have a read here.

• Not to get outdone, OpenAI released GPT‑5.6 Sol: a next-generation model.

• SpaceX locked in $60 billion Cursor deal to close gap with rivals in AI coding race. Lucky for Cursor that SpaceX has an infinite money glitch.

• I've always liked Midjourney. They have been quiet lately, but all of a sudden they have pivoted to this, and if it works, it's the most exciting direction they could have taken: Midjourney Medical scans.

• Hyundai takes full control of Boston Dynamics as SoftBank exits for $325 million. SoftBank blunders are the norm now.

• OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom.

• VoidZero, the company behind Vite, Vitest, Rolldown, Oxc, and Vite+, is joining Cloudflare. As part of this change, all team members of VoidZero are joining Cloudflare, too. This was very surprising.

Completely useless to your career but still great 🙃

• Play Pokemon Emerald on the web using WASM

• Interesting idea: Pool credits with other builders and let AI build ambitious software in public

• Play some mini putt.... or sail the seas. Pretty cool what we can do on the web now.

Best Resource of the Month ✅

Running local models is good now. As we approach the era of the best AI models being offered under restriction and surveillance, you should start considering running AI locally. At least until Apple starts providing it on their devices. Here is how to do it.

Trick of the Month 🌗

• This is a very very funny one: Components that signal how oversubscribed your funding round is.

• Take a break. Chop some firewood.

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