Hands-on Local AI, open-source tools, developer guides, and technology news https://blog.shuochen.me/en en Fri, 07 Aug 2026 05:47:27 GMT August 7 AI news brief: GPT-5.6 Sol and Luna updates, ChatGPT at work, Kimi K3 in GitHub Copilot, Baseten joining Hugging Face Inference Providers, and new Datasette releases. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-07-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-07-ai-news-summary Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News I started a Node service on my Mac that occupied port 5173, then used witr to trace the process, its launch source, and its socket. I also cover the TUI, useful commands, and the private information to check before sharing screenshots. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/witr https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/witr Fri, 07 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools August 6 AI news brief: OpenAI publishes third-party cyber evaluations, Google reviews July AI updates, Liquid AI introduces a local-agent model, the LLM CLI improves reasoning and logging, and agent behavior during testing again highlights permission boundaries. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-06-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-06-ai-news-summary Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News I connected a Mac and a Windows PC with Syncthing, tested two-way file sync through a shared folder, and documented an encryption-setting mistake plus a sync conflict. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/syncthing https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/syncthing Thu, 06 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools August 5 AI news brief: Mistral introduces Shieldstral, OpenAI publishes third-party cyber evaluations, GitHub expands Copilot agent controls, Liquid AI introduces a local-agent model, and the LLM CLI adds reasoning and Responses support. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-05-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-05-ai-news-summary Wed, 05 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News August 4 AI news brief: OpenAI shares a realtime voice system, Cloudflare discusses Kimi and GLM at scale, ComfyUI supports MiniMax H3, openai-python continues updating, and enterprise settings move toward more precise team management. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-04-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-04-ai-news-summary Tue, 04 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News August 3 AI news brief: open letters keep AI development under discussion, condense-json and Datasette tools offer leaner data workflows, while community research again cautions against judging long context and VLMs by surface-level scores alone. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-03-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-03-ai-news-summary Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News LosslessCut copies media streams through FFmpeg without re-encoding. I tested it with a roughly 5-minute, 600 MB video and documented the free download, I/O shortcuts, and keyframe limitation. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/losslesscut https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/losslesscut Mon, 03 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools August 2 AI news brief: OpenAI shares advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science, ByteDance introduces Seedance 2.5, openai-python updates, npm restricts bypass-2FA tokens, and open-source tools continue filling out MCP and model evaluation workflows. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-02-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-02-ai-news-summary Sun, 02 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News August 1 AI news brief: OpenAI and Anthropic share observations from AI abuse disruption and cybersecurity evaluations, GitHub updates enterprise model policy and GitHub Models, while DeepSeek V4 Flash and stateless MCP offer new developer signals. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-01-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-08-01-ai-news-summary Sat, 01 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News July 31 AI news brief: OpenAI advances the price-performance positioning of GPT-5.6, Google DeepMind introduces Gemini Robotics 2, GitHub brings agent skills and MCP to Copilot code review, and LLM tools continue moving toward compatible local services. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-31-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-31-ai-news-summary Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News LuLu is a free, open-source macOS outbound firewall. When a program with no rule establishes an outbound connection, it shows the program, destination, and signing info. This article covers which default settings are worth keeping after install and how to judge the alerts. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/lulu https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/lulu Fri, 31 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 30 AI news brief: OpenAI releases GPT-5.6 and an academic-research offering, GitHub makes agent skills and MCP generally available for Copilot code review, research finds long policy documents do not reliably govern agents, and document-borne AI worms highlight context-security risk. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-30-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-30-ai-news-summary Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News Snapzy is a free, open-source native macOS screenshot app with inline annotation, scrolling capture, OCR, screen recording, and built-in editors. I tested its capture-and-annotate workflow and explain how to avoid shortcut conflicts. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/snapzy https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/snapzy Thu, 30 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 29 AI news brief: OpenAI advances agentic scientific computing and Codex Security, Anthropic uses Claude to find cryptographic weaknesses, Google expands Gemini API Managed Agents, and GitHub strengthens Copilot and supply-chain security. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-29-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-29-ai-news-summary Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News I tested img2threejs with GPT-5.6 SOL at medium reasoning. Complex subjects such as an F1 car failed quickly, while a simple NES controller produced clickable buttons, multiple views, and an exploded view. This article covers the results, practical limits, and Codex installation. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/img2threejs-codex-test https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/img2threejs-codex-test Wed, 29 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 28 AI news brief: Kimi-K3 appears on Hugging Face, Anthropic publishes its open-weights position, GitHub strengthens enterprise Copilot policy controls, OpenAI examines AI at work, and Microsoft and NVIDIA advance cyber and surgical-robotics models. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-28-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-28-ai-news-summary Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News Pake is an open-source Rust and Tauri tool that packages websites as desktop apps for macOS, Windows, and Linux. I used it to turn Threads into a standalone app, from a terminal command to an app inside Applications. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/pake https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/pake Tue, 28 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 27 AI news brief: weekend community signals around Kimi K3, Gemma, MiniMax, and llama.cpp; agent-harness comparisons across Claude Code, OpenCode, and Pi; and Terence Tao's perspective on mathematics in the age of AI. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-27-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-27-ai-news-summary Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News MOLE is an open-source macOS maintenance tool for the terminal. I used mo analyze, mo status, and mo clean --dry-run to inspect disk usage and caches, then cleared 15.29GB. It also gives AI agents a safe way to analyze first, with a human approving cleanup. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/mole https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/mole Mon, 27 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 26 AI news brief: Claude Opus 5 enters GitHub Copilot, Anthropic outlines new context-engineering rules for the Claude 5 generation, open-weight models show a Kubernetes-like deployment trend, and SDK and Python tooling updates continue. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-26-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-26-ai-news-summary Sun, 26 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News Twinkle Tray is a free Windows utility that lets you adjust the brightness of multiple external monitors directly from the system tray, with support for keyboard shortcuts, scheduling, and DDC/CI monitor control. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/twinkle-tray https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/twinkle-tray Sat, 25 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 24 AI news brief: OpenAI launches Health in ChatGPT, GitHub updates its MCP Server and expands Copilot cloud agents, Hugging Face brings Nunchaku 4-bit diffusion inference to Diffusers, and agent permissions and safety remain central concerns. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-24-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-24-ai-news-summary Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News I tested Marker’s fast mode on an Apple Silicon Mac. It is already useful for ordinary text-based PDFs, but equations and tables can still fail. I also explain where it fits next to MinerU. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/marker https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/marker Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools I recently moved a project into Zed and found it surprisingly pleasant to use. It feels responsive, and it can bring ChatGPT, Codex, and MCP into the same workspace without asking me to abandon VS Code. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/zed https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/zed Fri, 24 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 23 AI news brief: OpenAI expands infrastructure and newsroom initiatives, GitHub adds a Copilot impact dashboard, Gemini 3.6 Flash continues into developer workflows, and the OpenAI and Anthropic Python SDKs both ship updates. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-23-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-23-ai-news-summary Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News WhatCable is a macOS menu-bar app that reads the negotiated state of USB-C cables, ports, and connected devices. In my test it surfaced USB4/Thunderbolt at 40 Gbps, 240W capability, an e-marker, and 4K 144Hz display details. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/whatcable https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/whatcable Thu, 23 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 22 AI news brief: OpenAI and Hugging Face address a model-evaluation security incident, Gemini 3.6 Flash enters GitHub Copilot, OpenAI launches a ChatGPT small business program and surfaces a ChatGPT ads page, while Google, Qwen, Poolside, and Claude Code updates keep the model and agent platform race moving. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-22-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-22-ai-news-summary Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News DBX is an open-source database client with an approximately 20 MB desktop installer. I connected it to Supabase and explored its multi-database workflow, editor themes, AI assistant, and MCP integration. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/dbx https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/dbx Wed, 22 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 21 AI news brief: OpenAI discusses long-horizon model safety, GitHub adds AI credits and Code Quality updates, Kimi Work enters the local agent race, Cursor explores agent swarm economics, and open-weight Chinese models plus local inference tooling keep gaining momentum. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-21-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-21-ai-news-summary Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News OpenLogi is a local, open-source tool for selected Logitech HID++ peripherals, with button, DPI, and SmartShift controls. This guide covers Homebrew, macOS permissions, and one HID transport error; Windows worked directly after installation in my test. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/openlogi https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/openlogi Tue, 21 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 20 AI news brief: Qwen 3.8 and Kimi K3 intensify open model competition, Moonshot AI pauses new subscriptions due to demand, the Hugging Face community discusses AI-agent incident response, OpenAI Codex context changes, Claude Code adopts Rust-based Bun, and local inference engineering keeps advancing. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-20-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-20-ai-news-summary Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News Mos is a free macOS mouse utility that turns the step-by-step feel of an external mouse wheel into smooth motion. It also supports independent scroll direction and per-app scrolling profiles. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/mos https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/mos Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 19 AI news brief: Claude Fable 5 stays in higher-tier subscriptions, GitHub expands Copilot usage metrics and code review controls, OpenAI continues pushing AI ROI and service account key management, Kimi K3 discussion continues, and AI content disclosure plus regulatory RAG datasets become key themes. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-19-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-19-ai-news-summary Sun, 19 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News July 18 AI news brief: OpenAI proposes an AI age scorecard, GitHub expands Copilot usage metrics and code review configuration, OpenAI Python SDK adds project service account API key management, Kimi K3 and open-source AI discussion continue, and Bonsai 27B plus DeepSeek V4 Flash show local inference engineering moving quickly. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-18-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-18-ai-news-summary Sat, 18 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News July 17 AI news brief: Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3, LM Studio introduces Bionic for open-model agents, NotebookLM becomes Gemini Notebook, OpenAI updates teen safety and the Cars24 agent case study, Hugging Face discloses a security incident and highlights Nemotron 3 Embed, and GitHub opens the Xcode 27 runner preview. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-17-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-17-ai-news-summary Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News My hands-on look at Lively Wallpaper, a free and open-source Windows live-wallpaper app. It accepts videos, GIFs, web pages, and URLs, supports audio visualizers, and can pause wallpapers automatically for full-screen apps. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/lively-wallpaper https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/lively-wallpaper Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools My hands-on review of TRex, an open-source macOS OCR tool that puts selected screen text straight into the clipboard. It also reads QR codes, supports Raycast, global shortcuts, CLI, Shortcuts, and Watch Mode. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/trex-ocr https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/trex-ocr Fri, 17 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 16 AI news brief: Thinking Machines introduces the open-weights Inkling model, xAI open-sources Grok Build, OpenAI publishes GPT-Red for automated red teaming, a Claude web fetch exfiltration case highlights prompt injection risk, and GitHub plus Hugging Face keep advancing Copilot, security, agents, and model routing. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-16-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-16-ai-news-summary Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News TranslucentTB is a free, open-source Windows taskbar utility that uses only a few MB of memory and almost no CPU. It switches between transparent, blurred, acrylic, and normal taskbar styles. I keep the normal style for maximized windows and blur for everything else, which balances readability with a cleaner desktop. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/translucenttb https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/translucenttb Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 15 AI news brief: OpenAI discusses AI investment metrics for the agentic era, GitHub updates Copilot trust and security workflows, a Cursor 0day debate highlights AI coding-tool risk, Bonsai 27B targets phones, and a multi-agent benchmark shows long-horizon coordination is still hard. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-15-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-15-ai-news-summary Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News HeyClicky is an AI assistant that lives beside your macOS cursor. It combines screen context with voice commands; here are my quick test results, free-tier limit, and multi-monitor issue. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/heyclicky https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/heyclicky Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools Stats is a free, open-source macOS menu bar system monitor. I tested its installation, default menu bar layout, and CPU and memory panels for keeping an eye on CPU, RAM, network, and SSD activity. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/mac-stats https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/mac-stats Wed, 15 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 14 AI news brief: Latent Space tracks rapid Codex usage growth, Simon Willison uses Datasette code-frequency charts to examine coding-agent impact, Mac and iOS apps can be built and shipped without opening Xcode, Apple's SpeechAnalyzer API is benchmarked against Whisper, and the local model community keeps pushing open harnesses, e-waste GPUs, Godot-hosted LLMs, FP4 kernels, and self-hosted voice. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-14-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-14-ai-news-summary Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News A hands-on look at Winhance's one-line PowerShell install, Traditional Chinese interface, and batch removal flow for built-in Windows apps. It brings debloating, system tweaks, and external app installs into one GUI. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/winhance https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/winhance Tue, 14 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 13 AI news brief: today focuses on the real engineering cost and transparency of AI agents. Claude Code and OpenCode token overhead are measured, a wire-level analysis of Grok build CLI raises tool-permission questions, Terry Tao shows how coding agents can rebuild small apps, and Automation Without Understanding warns that automation without expertise can weaken judgment. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-13-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-13-ai-news-summary Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News File Converter is an open-source file conversion tool integrated into the Windows Explorer context menu. I tested converting PNG and JPG images to WebP: no main app to open, just right-click the files. It also supports video, audio, and more image formats. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/file-converter https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/file-converter Mon, 13 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools July 12 AI news brief: after the recent model-release wave, attention shifts to AI engineering and governance. GitHub CodeQL adds prompt injection detection, Copilot sessions and budgets get more management hooks, Mesh LLM explores distributed inference, Transformers patches for vLLM, and the local Qwen/llama.cpp community keeps pushing long context, GPU setups, and Jacobian-Lens tooling. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-12-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-12-ai-news-summary Sun, 12 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News July 11 AI news brief: OpenAI publishes GPT-5.6, ChatGPT Work, and the Bio Bug Bounty; GitHub brings the GPT-5.6 family into Copilot and adds CodeQL prompt injection detection; AI misuse, model deprecation risk, Meta Muse Spark, local GLM 5.2, and developer-tool governance round out the day. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-11-ai-news-summary https://blog.shuochen.me/en/news/2026-07-11-ai-news-summary Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en News FineTune is a free and open-source macOS menu bar audio utility. It lets you adjust volume per app, route different apps to different output devices, and switch audio devices from one place. https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/finetune https://blog.shuochen.me/en/articles/finetune Sat, 11 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT en AI & Tools