Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

I installed over 100 Claude Code plugins so you don't have to. Here's the signal from the noise.

Spread the love“`html Debugging is the unsung hero of software development, especially when you’re building mobile applications. It’s the painstaking process of finding and fixing those pesky bugs ...

You don’t need a computer science degree or mastery of the terminal command line to run AI locally anymore. Grab a free, polished desktop app like LM Studio or Jan.ai (available for macOS, Windows, ...

The short-term release enters its first release candidate stage on August 6, with general availability set for September 15, as Oracle and the OpenJDK community lock in a nine-JEP feature set anchored ...

The phones kept getting faster while the lawsuit moved at traditional courtroom speed.

The Hacker News is the top cybersecurity news platform, delivering real-time updates, threat intelligence, data breach ...

When NVIDIA Instant Replay stays Off, flips itself off right after you enable it, or leaves the Alt + Z overlay blank, the ...

Google has truly developed a hobby from killing off products. After Google Reader, Stadia, and so many other products, the time has come for the Google Earth Pro desktop app to wave goodbye to the ...

Apple announced cross-developer bundles, group subscriptions, volume purchasing, and AI-driven discovery tools for the App Store at WWDC 2026. Apple announced a sweeping set of changes to the App ...

At the Microsoft Build 2026, Microsoft unveiled the new GitHub Copilot app, a dedicated desktop experience designed specifically for what it calls “agent-native development.” Rather than treating AI ...

Google announced Antigravity 2.0 at I/O 2026, upgrading its agentic coding tool into a full developer platform with a revamped desktop app, a new CLI built in Go, and an SDK for custom agents. The ...