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The Windows Task Manager for VRAM: Microsoft Vice President Scott Hanselman has developed GPU Taskman, a free, open-source tool that provides detailed insights into VRAM usage by individual processes. Particularly noteworthy is its ability to analyze local AI models and their memory requirements. The software supports more than just Windows and offers significantly deeper insights into GPU utilization.

Next year, the Bangle.js 3 will hit the market as a brand-new smartwatch that combines a round color display with an open-source operating system and a modern design. The manufacturer has now confirmed the key specifications in advance.

OpenAI has introduced GPT-6 Cyber, a model that finds security flaws and builds working exploits for them. Under the company's own risk framework, it is rated Critical for cybersecurity, the highest level. For now, only vetted security teams can use it. Firefox and Linux users are already seeing the effects.

Running AI locally is seen as the private alternative to ChatGPT and similar services. For plain chat, that holds up. But Ollama and LM Studio connect to the internet on their own, and an AI agent with shell access can send data out, as Cohere's Qwen test showed. Here is how to turn off the online features of both apps and cut agents off from the internet on Windows and Mac.

Mozilla has released Firefox 159 with fixes for 167 security vulnerabilities, 108 of them rated high. OpenAI's Codex Security agent reported 34 of the flaws and an OpenAI researcher reported 7 more. Here is why the count is so large and how to get the update right away. Smart Window can now also watch pages for changes.

An open-weight Alibaba model tried to upload a file to a server in Beijing during a security test run by Cohere, without being asked. The sandbox blocked the attempt, which Cohere says happened in fewer than one in 100,000 calls. Anyone running Qwen3.8-Flash-Next locally as an agent should still cut off its network access.

Ollama can now convert text to speech entirely locally on Macs with Apple Silicon. Gradium's Phonon models speak five languages, including German, read chat responses aloud as they are being generated, and can be accessed through an OpenAI-compatible interface. There is a catch for commercial projects, however.

A new update to the Android PS3 emulator ARMSX3 allows players to access Batman: Arkham Origins multiplayer through community-run servers. Version 1.4 also adds virtual toy portals for several toys-to-life games, nearly a decade after the Batman game's official online services were discontinued.

PHP2Shell fixes skip older branches. See how many servers run PHP versions with no official patch, which backports exist, and what admins need to do about it soon.

Home Assistant has released a new alpha version of its installer, introducing a live USB installation option for generic x86-64 computers. The update could make setting up Home Assistant OS on mini PCs and older hardware more straightforward, although the new functionality remains experimental.

Moonshot AI's Kimi K3.1 Pro is available now on Kimi.ai, in the Kimi apps and via the API, including a free plan with limited usage. Open weights are due by November 4. Before releasing them, Moonshot removed cyberattack-related data from training to hold back the model's hacking skills.

PHP2Shell is not just a web hosting problem. PHP also runs NAS interfaces, firewalls, Nextcloud containers and older Pi-hole installs. QNAP is still working on a fix, OPNsense and pfSense are already patched, and Docker images are being rebuilt. Here is how to find PHP on your network and close the holes.

PHP 8.5.12, 8.4.27, 8.3.36 and 8.2.35 fix two critical flaws that allow unauthenticated code execution, in some setups before any application code runs. Here is what goes wrong in the interpreter, which SAPIs are most exposed and which interim mitigations PHP recommends.

API keys saved in OpenCode workspaces may have been exposed after someone accessed a legacy system. Users are reporting unexpected spending on connected AI accounts, with one putting the damage at $400. OpenCode has confirmed the breach and is working with three major AI providers.

Experimental DroidDeck forks are making progress on Google Pixel phones equipped with non-Adreno GPUs. One developer reports running Dark Souls Remastered on a Pixel 11 Pro XL, while another has demonstrated a working Linux desktop on a Pixel 8 Pro.

Under the ArtCraft project, a software developer has created several free alternatives to Adobe applications such as Photoshop, Premiere, and Lightroom with the help of AI. The ambitious plan: Within a month, he wants to match the feature set of the original applications.

An unofficial native port of Halo: Combat Evolved can now be played in online multiplayer matches on the Anbernic RG35XX H. Recent updates also add muOS support and deliver sizeable performance, memory and audio improvements.

Google is showcasing its new AI model called EmbeddingGemma 2 in an experimental Mac app. AI Edge Foresight listens to meetings, turns bullet points into complete notes and answers questions, with all data staying on the device. The model is available under the Apache 2.0 license and can be freely integrated into other apps.

Audionaut's latest agent-editing tools allow MCP-compatible AI agents to alter an open multitrack audio project, with each edit arriving as a single undo step while newer human edits take priority. The free open-source editor can also separate audio locally into drums, bass, vocals and other stems.

DroidDeck 0.3.0 expands its Steam-on-Android environment with Steam Deck controller emulation, gyro and Steam Input support, a Deck-style performance overlay, automatic Adreno driver management and Lossless Scaling frame generation. The developers also report cutting Steam startup time from roughly 31 seconds to six.

Anthropic tested Z.ai's open-weight model GLM-5.3 for hacking skills. It builds exploits almost as reliably as Claude Mythos Preview, found new bugs in a browser and wrote an exploit for an old Chrome flaw for $20.40. Anyone can download the weights, and the safeguards are easy to strip out.

Splitting a song into its individual instrument, vocal, and other audio tracks—for example, to create a backing track for a favorite song—usually requires expensive AI software. Not so with the surprisingly polished StemKit on GitHub, which is released under the MIT license. Here's how it works.

postmarketOS began as a way to keep phones useful for longer. Over time, its name became harder to explain, especially when new phones began shipping with the system already installed. The team has now chosen a name inspired by something that has lasted thousands of years.

After more than a year in development, F-Droid has rebuilt nearly every part of its Android app. The new release makes apps easier to find, install and update, while also changing how Tor, panic features and background installations work.

An unofficial native PC version of Spider-Man: Edge of Time surfaced only days ago, giving the 2011 console game something it had never officially received. Its GitHub repository briefly became unavailable, but has since returned and is once again publicly accessible.

A new open-source mod turns PC audio into real-time haptic feedback on Valve’s Steam Controller, allowing users to feel music, dialogue and sound effects through vibrations. The technology could also offer a useful accessibility feature for deaf gamers.

Basic open-source Android apps have felt outdated for years, and the GrapheneOS team is finally stepping in to fix the problem. The developers are shifting resources to completely replace clunky default software with modern tools built from the ground up.

Jellyfin 12.0 has arrived, and the project has dropped the 10. from its version numbers. Book and comic handling moves out of the Bookshelf plugin and into the server, playlist storage has been rebuilt, and FFmpeg 8.1 is now supported.

Writing an operating system from scratch is a huge undertaking, with most hobby kernels never escaping a virtual environment. MesaOS recently crossed that barrier, cold-booting an independent, memory-safe Rust based operating system directly on a retail laptop.

Commercial Image Signal Processor (ISP) cores, which transform raw camera sensor data into viewable video, typically cost thousands of dollars. Luckily, amd / mini-isp quietly appeared on GitHub and released a complete hardware ISP core under an MIT license.

After being announced a few months ago, the crowdfunding campaign for the MNT Station Mini PC has finally gone live. The mini PC is equipped with the MNT Reform Mainboard 3.0 but is also compatible with earlier versions of the mainboard.

Meta has released Muse Glimmer, a language model with roughly 30 billion parameters under an Apache 2.0 license. It runs entirely on your own machine, with no internet connection and no subscription. The catch: you need 24 GB of video memory, so an RTX 5090, an RTX 4090 or a Mac with an M4 Max. The weights are free on Hugging Face.

One million tokens sounds like enough space for everything. We calculated how many German words that actually is, how much a single query costs for the entire GPT-5.6 Sol collection, and when Obsidian or Notion are still worth it.

An AI can not only read your notes, it can also create, change and delete them. Nine systems compared, from Obsidian, Logseq and Joplin to Notion, OneNote and NotebookLM. One question decides everything: do your notes sit as files on your own machine, or in someone else's database?

Cheap AI from China could be pushed out of reach by politics. Washington accuses Moonshot of siphoning off Anthropic's Fable and is floating restrictions on Kimi K3 and DeepSeek. Nothing has been decided, and the evidence is missing. What the agencies actually measured, and what it means for your access.

Keychron previously revealed the G6 HE, a new wireless gaming mouse that uses hybrid optical-magnetic mouse switches, but the peripheral maker has also announced a new custom gaming mouse firmware that is entirely open-source.

Openprinter aims to combat printer frustration with a printer that is not only compact, durable, and repairable, but also allows for easy ink refills. OpenTools is now showcasing a prototype in a video ahead of the printer’s crowdfunding campaign.

Ploopy does it again with a peripheral that feels fresh off the 3D printer but really has a heart of gold. This ultra-portable trackpoint brings one of the best parts of a ThinkPad to any system and makes it open-source.

Vienna instead of Silicon Valley. While US giants like OpenAI and Google are clamouring for user data, a Viennese startup is launching a radically different solution. Eustella promises a high-performance AI infrastructure based on open source, running on European servers and respecting privacy.

With new releases now moved to the MocaccinoOS SourceForge page, MocaccinoOS 26.06 is now moving forward with the 6.18.33 LTS kernel, a new COSMIC ISO image, new features and improvements in the Vajo package manager, an additional software installation module in the Calamares installer, and much more.

The pinnacle of 14 years of continuous development, Linux Lite 8.0 brings a brand-new installer, new kernels, end-to-end GTK4 theming, a Game Center tool, and several new in-house apps, as well as "unprecedented translation coverage at every level of the system" alongside the usual set of minor tweaks and fixes.

Heavily focused on stabilizing the underlying build system, Gnoppix Linux 26.6 drops with a cleaner desktop user experience, highly requested live boot capabilities, and improved security. Other changes include improved multi-language support in GRUB, multiple under-the-hood tweaks and fixes, and more.

Sporting improved security thanks to OpenSSH 9.9, Rocky Linux 9.8 also comes with updated compiler toolsets, refreshed performance tools and debuggers, support for advanced disk partitioning for custom images in the Image Builder, and more. The list of downloadables includes default images, cloud, Docker, WSL, and live images.

Following the unavoidable shift in the Linux ecosystem, OviOS 6 drops SysV and moves to systemd. The list of new features includes a browser-based dashboard, S3-compatible object storage, NVMe over Fabrics, auditd security auditing, Cockpit integration, the ability to run entirely from the system memory via PXE network boot, and more.

Launched simultaneously, AlmaLinux 9.8 and 10.2 deliver an enterprise-grade experience to their users once again. Both feature updated compiler toolsets, improved security, and more. While version 9.8 sports the 5.14.0-687.5.3.el9_8 kernel, AlmaLinux 10.2 comes with 6.12.0-211.7.3.el10_2 instead.

Dubbed "Infinity" and based on Debian 13.5 "Trixie," MX Linux 25.2 comes with the 6.12.90 Debian kernel across all versions, except the Xfce-ahs flavor, which uses the low-latency Liquorix 7.0.9 core. As usual, multiple tweaks, fixes, and updated packages are also present.

With a focus on stability and lightness, Besgnulinux 4-0 is now available with plenty of updated packages, improvements to the Font Manager tool, DPI settings, and more. Thanks to these improvements, this refreshed Debian-based distro is suitable for both new silicon and older, less potent hardware.

Designed for both PCs and mobile devices, Ubuntu-based Rhino Linux 2026.1 introduces the Lomiri user interface. The generic ISO images now come with the 7.0.9 kernel, while the special editions for Pine and Raspberry Pi hardware feature the 6.18.32 (PinePhone, PinePhone Pro & PineTab), 6.9.0 (PineTab2), and 7.0.0 (Raspberry Pi) kernels.

Designed to be the best PureOS yet by Prism, the "Crimson" release replaces "Byzantium," and all devices that came with it will receive the update, including the earliest Librem 13 and 15 computers. This update focuses on fixes and optimizations, without adding any major features.