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Hark, a startup led by a former Apple designer, has released Hark Pro, a software application that provides a graphical interface for interacting with AI. The company says dedicated hardware is planned but will arrive separately at a later date.
Flet has launched its 1.0 release, providing developers a complete framework to build, test, and ship Python applications across desktop, mobile, and web. The release includes over 150 UI controls, prebuilt Python packages for iOS and Android, browser support via Pyodide/WebAssembly, and tools like flet build for packaging apps for app stores.
A developer has published an extensive personal account of using Tcl/Tk, a decades-old scripting language and GUI toolkit, to build console and graphical applications that run natively on Windows, Linux and macOS. The piece walks through the toolkit's threading model, small footprint, ability to produce compact single-file executables, and its BSD licensing, based on the author's hands-on experience after moving past initial enthusiasm.
Microsoft shipped Windows NT 4.0 to retail on August 24, 1996, bringing the Windows 95 graphical interface—including the Start Menu, Taskbar, and Explorer shell—to its business-focused NT platform for the first time. Previous NT versions had used the older Windows 3.x-style interface, so this release aligned the look and feel of Microsoft's consumer and workstation operating systems.