Author: Editor
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AnythingLLM 1.19 Ships Its Own Local Model, and the Separate Inference Server Goes Away
AnythingLLM used to want a second program. You ran the app in a container, you ran Ollama beside it, and then you pointed one at the other. Version 1.19.0, published on 26 October 2026, puts a model engine inside the container and makes that second program optional. Start with the caveat, because it decides what…
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HyCanvas Stops Renting You Your Own Files: What Changes When the Canvas Lives on Your Box
Open a design tool and press export. That is where you find out who owns what you just made. Usually the answer is a watermark, a font that quietly reverts, or a box offering the full-size file for 12 dollars a month. The toll booth was never the editor. The editor is the demo, and…
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Strafe Wants to Be the Third Federated Chat That Sticks. Read Its Licence First.
The licence file Strafe did not have on Tuesday appeared on Thursday. It is not the licence its maintainer promised. The code is better than the launch page deserves: a Discord clone with E2EE and a peering layer, so separate servers can talk. It reached Hacker News on 14 October. Nothing here ran in my…
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Gigabyte Revived a 2018 Chipset to Sell You 2014 RAM
The most interesting PC hardware of 2026 is a motherboard built for memory that came out in 2014. In August, Gigabyte launched 2 of them. The B450M D3HP and the D3HP WIFI6E sit on the B450 chipset, which shipped in 2018, with 4 DDR4 slots and room for 128 GB. AMD marked 10 years of…
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Meta Muse Wants Your Messages, Your Calendar and Your Passwords: The Promise and the Lock
Meta launched a personal agent on 8 September 2026. By the end of September it sat at number one on the App Store. It will read your mail, book your travel and sell your car. It would also like to hold your passwords. This is an assessment, not a review. I have not run Muse.…
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Cheap Chinese Models and the Trillion-Dollar Reset: Follow the Money, Not the Benchmark
The interesting question about cheap Chinese models is not whether they are good. It is who pays for the data centres built to beat them. This site has been round this subject twice in five weeks, both times from the other side. First the DeepSeek moment a year on. Then a 7-month gap, measured from…
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My Bot Said I Had 6,688 Security Problems. I Had 12.
A small security monitor for my own hardware told me I had 6,688 problems. After I fixed the faults that were mine — not the machine’s — the honest number was 12.
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The Agent Gets a Desk Job: Whose Desk Is It Sitting On?
Whose desk does the AI agent sit on, now that it edits your documents?
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BentoPDF: 42 PDF Tools That Never Leave Your Browser
Picture a signed contract, a bank statement, a scan of your passport, and a website offering PDF services to merge them for free. No account, no upload limit, no fuss. You drag the file in, it does the work, you download the result, and you close the tab. The file did not go anywhere. Except…
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The Ledger Hack: How an Implant Read 24 Words Off the Screen
Ledger wallets were drained this month by an implant inside the case. Not a bug, and not a breach of Ledger’s own systems — a small board that watched the screen and posted what it read over the mobile network. The case for a hardware wallet is simple: your seed never touches the computer. You…