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Mistral unveils Mistral Large 4 “Le Chonk”, a new frontier in open-weight AI models
Published: October 7, 2026 07:30
French AI company Mistral has officially announced the public preview of its latest model, Mistral Large 4, affectionately dubbed “Le Chonk”. The new model represents a significant leap forward in open-weight AI performance, boasting a massive 1 trillion…
Gemini Apps restricts free model access from October 9
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/gemini-apps-restricts-free-model-access-from-october-9/
Published: October 6, 2026 16:55
Starting October 9, 2026, Gemini Apps users without a Google AI plan will have access to Flash-Lite, while Flash will require AI Plus and Pro will require AI Pro or AI Ultra. Gemini is also using compute-based limits that refresh every five hours until a…
Zotero for iOS adds Read Aloud for PDFs, EPUBs and web pages
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/zotero-for-ios-adds-read-aloud-for-pdfs-epubs-and-web-pages/
Published: October 6, 2026 16:42
Zotero for iOS now includes Read Aloud for PDFs, EPUBs, and webpage snapshots, using the same voices as the desktop app. The feature skips citations, headers, footers, and tables, while offering sentence or paragraph navigation and a one-tap option to…
ChatGPT tests visual ads during AI image generation in the US
Published: October 6, 2026 16:37
ChatGPT will begin testing a clearly labeled visual ad format alongside image generation in the United States later in October 2026. The ads will remain separate from generated images and will not affect ChatGPT’s answers. OpenAI is also adding conversion…
Cloudflare launches open-source Clef decision models and RL tuning
Published: October 6, 2026 16:32
Cloudflare has released Clef and Clef-flash, two decision models hosted on Workers AI and open-sourced on Hugging Face under Apache 2.0. The models produce schema-bound typed outputs, support image inputs, and offer a 64k context window; Cloudflare says…
scrcpy 5.0 adds hardware decoding & improved video buffering for Android screen mirroring
Published: October 6, 2026 16:30
Genymobile has released scrcpy 5.0, marking the most significant performance update to the popular open-source Android screen mirroring tool since version 4.1. The headline feature is hardware-accelerated video decoding, which shifts the computational…
Zen browser 1.23b introduces library system to organize history, media, downloads & spaces
Published: October 6, 2026 13:30
The Zen web browser has released version 1.23b, a significant update built on Firefox 157 that brings both aesthetic refinements and substantial performance improvements. The standout addition is a new library system, designed to serve as a centralized hub…
Organic Maps brings improved alternative routes, intermittent water areas, and more
Published: October 6, 2026 12:00
Organic Maps has released its September 2026 update, introducing substantial improvements to routing, navigation, and map visualization. The update brings enhanced alternative route calculations with more accurate estimated arrival times, alongside a new…
Apple tightens Full Disk Access permissions on macOS to enhance user privacy and security
Published: October 6, 2026 09:00
Apple has announced stricter controls around Full Disk Access permissions on macOS, citing growing concerns about how third-party applications exploit the elevated privilege. The tech giant acknowledged that Full Disk Access was originally designed to…
Open source video player IINA 1.5 launches with biggest interface redesign in decade
Published: October 6, 2026 07:30
Ten years after its humble beginnings in a university library, video player IINA has unveiled version 1.5, representing the most significant interface overhaul since the project's inception. The release, developed over nearly a year by the small…
Screen Studio 4.0 adds transcript editing, a camera cutout tool, and project sharing beta
Published: October 5, 2026 18:41
The popular screen recorder and video editor for Mac, Screen Studio, has launched version 4.0 with transcript based editing, new camera tools, sharper zooms, and faster exports. Users can now edit recordings by deleting sentences from the transcript,…
Shopify introduces Canvas, a new AI-powered live store design view
Published: October 5, 2026 18:28
Shopify is rolling out Canvas, a new visual workspace for creating and customizing online stores with Sidekick, its AI agent. Store pages are displayed together on one surface, where merchants can move between them, zoom into sections, edit elements…
arXiv limits researchers' submissions at two papers per month amid AI-powered paper flood
Published: October 5, 2026 15:00
Starting October 1st, 2026, the world's largest scientific preprint repository arXiv has imposed its strictest submission limits to date, capping each submitter at two papers per calendar month with no more than three papers simultaneously under…
Thunderbird breaks ground on long-awaited native iPhone & iPad email application
Published: October 5, 2026 13:30
After years of community anticipation, Thunderbird has officially begun development of a native iPhone email application, marking a significant expansion of the open-source email client's reach. Unlike previous mobile attempts that leveraged existing…
Kagi ends development of Orion for Linux and Windows, open sources code to community
Published: October 5, 2026 12:00
In a strategic shift that underscores the challenges of independent browser development, Kagi has announced it will end official development of Orion for Linux and Windows, redirecting resources to focus exclusively on the macOS and iOS versions of its…
Phosh 0.58 adds configurable caffeine and screenshot actions
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/phosh-0-58-adds-configurable-caffeine-and-screenshot-actions/
Published: October 5, 2026 10:25
Phosh 0.58.0 adds configuration options for the caffeine quick setting, letting users choose which features it inhibits. Screenshot notifications can now open the captured image or its containing folder, while startup tracking has been improved for…
Ubuntu 26.10 beta arrives with current 7.3 rc kernel
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/ubuntu-26-10-beta-arrives-with-current-7-3-rc-kernel/
Published: October 5, 2026 10:20
Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Beta is now available for Desktop, Server, WSL, and Cloud, alongside official flavor images including Kubuntu, Lubuntu, and Xubuntu. The beta updates core packages and includes a current 7.3 release-candidate kernel. The…
Wine 11.19 brings vertical text support in GDIPlus, Unicode 18.0 & caching for DNS queries
Published: October 5, 2026 09:00
The Wine development team has announced the release of Wine version 11.19, bringing several technical enhancements and stability improvements to the Windows compatibility layer for Unix-like operating systems. This latest development update introduces…
Pi 1.0 brings native MCP support & Pi Durable for long-running, crash-resistant AI agents
Published: October 5, 2026 07:30
Earendil has announced the general availability of Pi 1.0, a hardened minimal agent harness that has already attracted hundreds of thousands of weekly users worldwide. Alongside the stable release, the company launched an experimental package called Pi…
Jitsi Meet introduces multi-screen capabilities for conference room setups
Published: October 2, 2026 16:30
The open-source video conferencing platform Jitsi Meet has introduced a new multiscreen feature that transforms how single meetings display across multiple monitors. Previously, users with dual-monitor setups or conference rooms with multiple displays…
AdGuard Home v1.0 beta adds a redesigned mobile interface
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/adguard-home-v1-0-beta-adds-a-redesigned-mobile-interface/
Published: October 2, 2026 16:22
AdGuard Home v1.0 beta introduces a redesigned, responsive frontend that the project says is lighter, faster, and fixes previous memory-consumption issues on low-power devices. The release also updates the installation wizard, setup guide, dashboard,…
FLUX 3 Image brings pixel edits and 4K image output
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/flux-3-image-brings-pixel-edits-and-4k-image-output/
Published: October 2, 2026 16:16
FLUX introduces FLUX 3 Image. The tool brings multi-turn image edits designed to preserve every other pixel, alongside bounding-box controls for arranging a composition. It supports output up to 4K and can combine up to 10 reference images. Commercial…
mymind v4.0 for iOS adds local storage and offline use
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/mymind-v4-0-for-ios-adds-local-storage-and-offline-use/
Published: October 2, 2026 16:07
mymind v4.0 for iOS is now available on the App Store, replacing the previous app with a native-first rebuild. The update stores and syncs data directly on the device, and supports offline searching, saving and reading mode. It also adds a redesigned…
Qt Creator 21 Beta now includes Qt Profiler and Git navigation views
Published: October 2, 2026 16:03
Qt Creator 21 Beta enables its ACP integration and MCP server by default, with bearer-token authentication now required by default for the MCP server; ACP also adds protocol version 2 and expanded chat session controls. The release adds a QDoc editor with…
Funkwhale 2.0.9 brings embeds, radios and playlist likes
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/funkwhale-2-0-9-brings-embeds-radios-and-playlist-likes/
Published: October 2, 2026 15:54
Funkwhale 2.0.9 adds a customizable, responsive embeddable player for placing audio objects on external web pages. The release also introduces user radios and search radios, plus playlist likes that can be saved to profiles and shared through ActivityPub.…
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 adds Snap support and Helium browser
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/openmandriva-rome-26-09-adds-snap-support-and-helium-browser/
Published: October 2, 2026 15:50
OpenMandriva ROME 26.09 refreshes its rolling-release installation images with Snap support alongside Flatpak and AppImage, while retaining native packages as its preferred format. Plasma and LXQt editions now use Helium, based on ungoogled-chromium, as…
Rust 1.99 brings extern “C” variadics support and layout information from raw pointers
Published: October 2, 2026 15:00
The Rust development team has officially released version 1.99, bringing significant enhancements to the systems programming language. The release introduces stabilized support for C-ABI variadic functions with “C” and “C-unwind” ABIs, allowing developers…
Butterfly 2.6 brings OneNote & Xournal++ import, canvas rotation, and UX many improvements
Published: October 2, 2026 13:30
The wait is finally over for Butterfly users. Linwood has officially released version 2.6, code-named “Dreamy Duskywing”, marking a major milestone for the open-source, cross-platform note-taking application. The stable release comes at a particularly…
Encrypted email & calendar app Tuta now available as a plugin in the Nextcloud App Store
Published: October 2, 2026 12:00
Encrypted email provider Tuta has officially integrated its services with Nextcloud, making its app available in the Nextcloud App Store. The new integration allows users to install the Tuta Mail app directly into their locally-hosted or managed Nextcloud…
Nitrux 7.0 brings compartmentalized architecture, Linux kernel 7.2, and Hyprland 0.55
Published: October 2, 2026 09:00
Nitrux has officially released version 7.0 of its Linux distribution, marking a significant architectural shift centered on compartmentalization. The new release embraces a philosophy that system cohesion need not come at the cost of monolithic design,…
Reddit is killing RSS feeds and restricting access to Old Reddit, blames AI scrapping bots
Published: October 2, 2026 07:30
Reddit has announced sweeping changes to two longstanding platform features that longtime users consider essential, triggering immediate backlash across the community. In an announcement posted on r/modnews, administrators confirmed that RSS feed support…
Google introduces Gemini 4 Argon with million-token output
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/google-introduces-gemini-4-argon-with-million-token-output/
Published: October 2, 2026 04:08
Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, its new frontier AI model for long running tasks in software development, enterprise work, and cybersecurity. Its maximum output rises from 64,000 to 1 million tokens, giving it more room to handle longer reasoning and…
Qt 6.12 LTS brings CRA compliance, QML hot reload, Qt Canvas Painter and HarmonyOS support
Published: October 1, 2026 16:30
The Qt Company has officially released Qt 6.12, its latest Long-Term Support (LTS) version of the widely-used cross-platform application development framework. The release represents a significant milestone for enterprise developers, offering a five-year…
Gitea drops legacy versioning with major 28.0 release and adds audit logging, bot accounts
Published: October 1, 2026 15:00
The open-source self-hosted Git platform Gitea has announced version 28.0, marking a significant milestone with the abandonment of its historical 1. prefix in version numbering. The update streamlines the project's version scheme while delivering…
Ollama introduces support for Jev-style decision models for local AI processing
Published: October 1, 2026 13:30
Ollama has announced support for decision models built on TypeSafe's Jev API, marking a significant step toward faster, local AI decision-making. The new functionality, available starting with Ollama 0.35, exposes a /v1/systemone endpoint that allows users…
Microsoft makes WSLC generally available for running Linux containers on Windows
Published: October 1, 2026 12:00
In a move aimed at streamlining cloud-native development on Windows, Microsoft has announced that WSL containers has officially exited public preview and is now generally available. Logan Iyer, Corporate Vice President of Windows Platform and Developer,…
openSUSE Tumbleweed September update brings broad security fixes
Published: October 1, 2026 10:10
openSUSE Tumbleweed's September snapshots delivered extensive security updates, led by rsync 3.5.1 path-handling fixes, more than 20 ffmpeg CVE patches, and updates for curl, glibc and dracut. The Linux kernel advanced through 7.2.7 with fixes across USB,…
Ideogram 4.5 introduces multi-turn editing at native 2K
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/ideogram-4-5-introduces-multi-turn-editing-at-native-2k/
Published: October 1, 2026 10:00
Ideogram has introduced version 4.5, an image editing model it says is built for multi-turn edits without accumulated artifacts, pixel shifts or unintended color changes. The company says users can make targeted changes such as recoloring products,…
Tcl/Tk 9.1 adds accessibility, Unicode and timer commands
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/tcl-tk-9-1-adds-accessibility-unicode-and-timer-commands/
Published: October 1, 2026 09:54
Tcl/Tk 9.1 adds screen-reader support, initial bidirectional text and right-to-left language support, and the 'ttk::toggleswitch' widget in Tk. Tcl gains Unicode normalization through a new unicode command and C APIs, plus a monotonic timer command with…
Raycast 2.6 reduces memory use and adds AI model controls
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/raycast-2-6-reduces-memory-use-and-adds-ai-model-controls/
Published: October 1, 2026 09:50
Raycast 2.6 reduces host-process memory use by about 50%, lowers extension startup memory by about 30%, and fixes a leak that grew over long sessions. Its reworked Auto model now offers Lightweight, Balanced, and Flagship preferences, with Balanced using…
OpenTofu 1.13 adds Windows ARM64 and planning functions
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/opentofu-1-13-adds-windows-arm64-and-planning-functions/
Published: October 1, 2026 09:41
OpenTofu v1.13.0 adds official Windows ARM64 packages and 'new convert' and 'assume...' functions, which let configuration authors provide type and value guarantees for otherwise unknown plan values. The release also begins experimental built-in linting…
OpenProject 17.9 turns document notes into linked tasks
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/10/openproject-17-9-turns-document-notes-into-linked-tasks/
Published: October 1, 2026 09:37
OpenProject 17.9 lets users create linked work packages from the Documents module, either with a slash command or by selecting existing text. The release also adds search and filters to Backlogs across sprints, backlog buckets and the backlog inbox, while…
NVIDIA unveils new safety platform amid rising security concerns towards rogues AI agents
Published: October 1, 2026 09:00
NVIDIA has launched the NVIDIA Open Agent Safety Platform, an open software initiative designed to secure AI agents from testing through deployment with comprehensive governance across hardware, compute, and robotics systems. The announcement comes as…
OpenAI launches GPT-6.1 Sol and Dots, its new always-on AI agents that work independently
Published: October 1, 2026 05:11
OpenAI announced more than 20 updates across its models, ChatGPT, Codex, APIs, and enterprise products during DevDay 2026. The biggest model release was GPT-6.1 Sol, an upgraded version of GPT-6 Sol for agentic coding, computer use, and long-running…
Google to end ChromeOS support by 2034, transitioning to Googlebook OS
Published: October 1, 2026 04:52
Google has confirmed plans to wind down ChromeOS support in 2034, with updates and security patches set to continue until mid 2034 as the company shifts future devices to Googlebook OS, the company’s next generation of laptops, replacing the traditional…
Final Cut Camera now offers variable aperture and cinematic mode effects for iPhone 18 Pro
Published: September 30, 2026 15:00
Apple is bringing true aperture control to the iPhone for the first time. In an update announced yesterday, Final Cut Camera version 2.4 now supports the variable aperture of the new Fusion Main camera on the iPhone 18 Pro, letting filmmakers precisely…
Apple unveils major Creator Studio update with cinematic video, new templates, and more
Published: September 30, 2026 13:30
Apple has introduced comprehensive updates to its Creator Studio suite, expanding professional capabilities across its creative application lineup. The update brings end-to-end cinematic video editing to Final Cut Pro and Motion, enabling editors to apply…
/e/OS unveils version 4.3 built on LineageOS 23 with enhanced backup & restore features
Published: September 30, 2026 12:00
The privacy-focused mobile operating system /e/OS has officially released version 4.3, marking a significant milestone as its first build based on LineageOS 23. The update is now available for all supported devices, encompassing both official and community…
ForkLift 4.7.6 improves navigation and macOS Golden Gate
https://alternativeto.net/news/2026/9/forklift-4-7-6-improves-navigation-and-macos-golden-gate/
Published: September 30, 2026 09:06
ForkLift 4.7.6 updates path bars so truncated folder names expand on hover and during drag-and-drop, making long destinations visible. Column View now supports consistent Command-Up Arrow navigation through parent folders, while double-clicking a divider…
Stremio brings live TV guide, interface zoom, enhanced video player and Windows VLC option
Published: September 30, 2026 09:00
Stremio has rolled out its latest update, bringing a host of improvements to its desktop, mobile, and web platforms. Headlining the release is a full program guide for Live TV channels in discover, letting viewers see what's airing right now and what's…
Firefox 157 arrives with major UI redesign, compact mode, and hardware AV1 video decoding
Published: September 30, 2026 07:30
Mozilla has officially rolled out Firefox 157, marking the first widespread deployment of the browser's comprehensive interface overhaul. The update brings a refreshed visual identity across both desktop and mobile platforms, featuring updated colors,…