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.

One firmware for every bus on your workbench ...

WSL gives Windows users an entire Linux system at the command line, with less overhead than a VM. The lion’s share of the ...

I’ve received one of AMD’s first official AI developer boxes for testing, and it’s an impressive piece of AI hardware with a super-simple setup.

Jupyter Notebook is a tool to run and write Python code easily, showing results right away, and allowing you to combine code, charts, notes, and files in one place. You can start Jupyter Notebook ...

Python is one of the most popular programming languages today, widely praised for its simplicity and versatility. Whether you’re a beginner dipping your toes into coding or an experienced developer ...

This week, Google AI team released the Colab CLI. The tool connects your local terminal to remote Colab runtimes. It lets developers and AI agents run code on cloud GPUs and TPUs. You stay in your ...

This vibe coding cheat sheet explains how plain-language prompts can build apps fast, plus the planning, testing, and security checks needed. Software development is undergoing a seismic shift as vibe ...

The website for the popular JDownloader download manager was compromised earlier this week to distribute malicious Windows and Linux installers, with the Windows payload found deploying a Python-based ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. Well, that’s ...

So, you’ve got an older machine running Windows 7 and you want to get Python on there? It can seem a bit tricky, especially with newer software versions. Don’t worry though, it’s totally doable. We’ll ...