This is today's edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what's going on in the world of technology.

From Java and ActiveX to Flash, Houdini, and Direct3D, these 1996 releases shaped how we build apps, sites, and games today.

From fine-tuning open source models to building agentic frameworks on top of them, the open source world is ripe with ...

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