Software & Open Source News

Oct 14, 2026 New Software 0 0

Googlebook: Chrome 155 lets you install any website as an app

5 sources

These Android laptops now support manual installation of sites lacking a web manifest, enabling standalone windows.

Oct 13, 2026 Software 0 0

GitHub Digest — 13 October 2026

Supervisor-Skills, open-lovable, Trail-Code, Filee — AI frameworks, developer tools, reverse engineering and utilities.

Oct 13, 2026 Software 0 0

NetBSD grows on donations as open source fills with AI

3 sources

The project raised $120,282 in one month, hitting its target, as interest grows in an OS that rejects AI-generated code.

Oct 13, 2026 Software 0 0

FreeType 2.15 adds ISO Open Font Format Edition 5 and an Apple HVF driver

5 sources

CJK files shrink by 90% via a new VARC table, while LLMs helped write the code for this rendering library's latest release.

Oct 13, 2026 Software 0 0

OpenCode 2.0 puts terminal, desktop and web on one background service

9 sources

The open-source coding agent runs one shared background process for every interface, with Code Mode and an embeddable SDK.

Oct 12, 2026 Software 0 0

GitHub Digest — 12 October 2026

ProxyBridge, InvokeAI, S&box, Netcatty, seomachine — proxy, generative AI, game engine, SSH and SEO content tools.

Oct 12, 2026 Software 0 0

LineageOS 24 brings Android 17 and an installer that runs in your browser

4 sources

The open-source ROM arrives earlier than planned, with redesigned apps, updated security patches and a web-based flashing tool.

Oct 12, 2026 Software 0 0

Total Annihilation returns in the browser via an MIT open-source engine

9 sources

Nanolathe's MIT-licensed project lets users play three original missions in Chrome, Edge or Safari without installing files.

Oct 11, 2026 Software 0 0

GitHub Digest — 11 October 2026

Antibody, HelixSR, RAG_Techniques, Insomnia, garden-skills — AI agents, upscaling, RAG, macOS utilities and web libraries.

Oct 11, 2026 Software 0 0

From AI agents to network security: the best open source tools of the week

AdGuardHome, CyberChef, UI-TARS and others — AI agents, network security, productivity and dev tools.

Oct 11, 2026 Software 0 0

GitHub Digest — 10 October 2026

pm-skills, textual, FinderSearch, steamac, animate — AI agent skills, terminal frameworks, macOS and Linux tools.

Oct 10, 2026 Software 0 0

Open weight and open source are not the same, Percona CEO warns

1 source

Ibrahim Haddad notes that lacking training data transparency hinders legal risk assessment and model verification.

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