13 Open-Source Apps You Can Use from a Web Browser “When we think of open-source apps for design, productivity, or even just for fun, we usually picture desktop software running natively on our computers. The web still feels like it belongs to proprietary giants like Google Docs, Figma, Canva, and CapCut. But open source has been catching up fast. There’s now a growing wave of browser-based open-source apps, many with public hosted instances you can use for real work right away. Some can also be self-hosted later, but this list focuses on the ones you can simply open and start using.” Best of all though, there is zero installation required, so these are really easy to just test out, and bookmark if you like them. See

It's FOSS

13 Open-Source Apps I Use from a Web Browser (And You Can Too)

You don't always need to install an open source software on your desktop or self host in your homelab. I use some of my favorites from the comfort ...

#technology #opensource

You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore, says the head of Instagram “Instagram boss Adam Mosseri is closing out 2025 with a 20-images-deep dive into what a new era of “infinite synthetic content” means as it all becomes harder and harder to distinguish from reality, and the old, more personal Instagram feed that he says has been “dead” for years. Last year, The Verge’s Sarah Jeong wrote that “…the default assumption about a photo is about to become that it’s faked, because creating realistic and believable fake photos is now trivial to do,” and Mosseri eventually concurs.” The message is clear: Seeing is no longer believing! The same has basically become true for video as well. Too many videos and photos are being posted daily onto, especial viral algorithm, sites to be quickly believed by the masses and reshared. Even some presidents have been taken in, mainly because such faked videos or photos also served their political purpose. In 2026, we really have to be asking who is posting this, why are they posting it, is it verified from other sources, who gains from my outrage or fears from seeing this post. Like with cyber-security, humans prove to be the weakest link in the chain. Unfortunately not all social media networks treat fake news equally. We'd have hoped by now Facebook would have learnt its lesson from the Myanmar violence. But rage-baiting unfortunately makes a lot of money for some networks. See

The Verge

You can’t trust your eyes to tell you what’s real anymore, says the head of Instagram

We’re all looking for the guy who did this.

#technology #socialnetworks #ragebaiting #AI #deepfake

Alzheimer’s Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say “A team of American scientists claim they have done something miraculous: they “cured” lab mice suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, which has robbed more than seven million Americans, typically 65 years old and up, of their identity and cognitive ability. The researchers achieved this feat by administering the rodents with the powerful compound P7C3-A20, which they announced in a new paper in the journal Cell Reports Medicine. Scientists from Ohio’s Case Western Reserve University (CWRU), University Hospitals, and the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center undertook the study.” There is no approval yet for this drug and I imagine more peer review will still be done too as well as clinical trials, but it does seem pretty hopeful, and especially so as they are claiming a reversal, not just a slow-down. See

Futurism

Alzheimer's Fully Reversed in Mice, Scientists Say

A new compound has been shown to reverse late stage Alzheimer's disease in lab mice, which gives millions of sufferers new cause for hope.

#health #alzheimers

LanguageTool ends free use of Browser Extension — Here are some Options LanguageTool is an AI-based grammar checker. They just announced that the browser extension will only be usable to their cloud service with a premium subscription from Jan 2026. My video explains the announcement, and then goes through an overview of what is involved with self-hosting the community version of LanguageTool which will still use the browser extension, with some pros and cons of this approach. The other alternative is to switch to using something else like Harper, which does not use any cloud or self-hosted service, and works locally from just a browser extension. I contrast how the self-hosted LanguageTool compares in practice with Harper. See #technology #opensource #selfhosting #languagetool

Stop Manually Checking GitHub Releases — These Tools Automatically Install & Update Apps on Linux “Package managers are essential tools on Linux systems. They help you install, update, and remove software packages with simple commands. Most distributions come with their own package managers, like apt, dnf, or pacman. However, many modern tools are distributed as pre-compiled binaries via GitHub releases. Developers using languages like Go, Rust, and Deno often release their software this way. New projects that are not included in the official distro repository yet have to opt for this method. This creates a gap between traditional package managers and these GitHub-hosted releases.” This is probably going to be of more interest to those using Debian and Fedora based package managers, as these are the most popular packages, which are typically generated directly on code hosting sites. But some interesting options to consider between deb-get, Autonomix, Eget, Install Release, bin, stew, and AFX. See

It's FOSS

Stop Manually Checking GitHub Releases — These Tools Automatically Install & Update Apps on Linux

These handy utilities tools simplify installing and managing binaries from GitHub releases on Linux.

#technology #Linux #opensource

Windows fatigue continues to push thousands of gamers to switch to Bazzite Linux distro “Bazzite, a Linux distro that has a lot in common with Valve's SteamOS, is designed specifically with gaming in mind, offering a console-like experience that ditches the majority of Windows 11's most annoying features. In recent usage statistics posted to X, Bazzite shared weekly growth of roughly 1.25x over the past 30 days. To put the number in perspective, this means that Bazzite pulls in roughly 50,000 weekly users.” There are tons of different Linux distros, but they can actually all do the same things (same Linux kernel underneath). The presentation, included packages, and the package manager type, are what really separates them a bit. So you can really pick any distro you want, and make it work. I use Manjaro KDE, and it is playing all the games I want (including Windows-only games), it does all my browsing, document creation and editing, video creation and editing, and lots more. What is different about Bazzite, is that it has specialised around making gaming work well from the get-go, and it has a focus on newcomers to Linus as well. Interestingly, it also has a rollback function for any system updates that may cause problems. Best of all, it's fast, has no adverts, no TPM v2 requirements, and no AI Copilot. See

XDA

Windows fatigue continues to push thousands of gamers to switch to this Linux distro

The SteamOS-like Linux distro's weekly downloads are increasing rapidly.

or their website at

Bazzite - The operating system for the next generation of gamers

Bazzite makes gaming and everyday use smoother and simpler across desktop PCs, handhelds, tablets, and home theater PCs.

#technology #Linux #Windows11 #gaming

GreyNoise launches a free scanner to check if you're part of a botnet “GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning operations, like botnet and residential proxy networks. The threat monitoring firm that tracks internet-wide activity via a global sensor network says this problem has grown significantly over the past year, with many users unknowingly helping malicious online activity.” This service involves nothing being installed in your network or devices. It is just looking to see if your IP address has been picked up in their database for suspicious activity that could indicate there is malware or possible botnet activity originating from your IP address. By just visiting their website the check is done from your browser, but if you register a free account with them, you can set up alerts based on your IP addresses. I set up an alert for my home network as well as for my VPS server. See

BleepingComputer

GreyNoise launches free scanner to check if you're part of a botnet

GreyNoise Labs has launched a free tool called GreyNoise IP Check that lets users check if their IP address has been observed in malicious scanning...

#technology #security #botnets