Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

Eclipse IDE 2026-06 (Eclipse 4.40) adds support for Java 26 and delivers updates across Java tooling, debugging, Git integration, plug-in development, and the broader Eclipse platform. The release ...

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Engineers in Silicon Valley have been raving about Anthropic’s AI coding tool, Claude Code, for months. But recently, the buzz feels as if it’s reached a fever pitch. Earlier this week, I sat down ...

Popular AI-powered integrated development environment solutions, such as Cursor, Windsurf, Google Antigravity, and Trae, recommend extensions that are non-existent in the OpenVSX registry, allowing ...

Google's new AI-powered Antigravity IDE has triggered an intense discussion among developers after many users quickly concluded that the tool is based on Microsoft's Visual Studio Code. A Hacker News ...

Cognition said it closed a $400 million funding round at a valuation of $10.2 billion. The startup is the creator of an artificial intelligence software engineer called Devin. In July, Cognition ...

PyApp seems to be taking the Python world by storm, providing long-awaited click-and-run Python distribution. For developers who need a little more versatility, there’s uv. Find these tools and more ...

AI coding startup Cognition bought competitor Windsurf less than a month ago. Cognition is offering the 200-person team buyouts amounting to nine months’ salary — or stay and work 80-hour weeks.

SPLASH! I’ve just landed in the water on a hot, breezy day at Snohomish County’s Lake Ballinger. I’m learning to windsurf, a sport that combines sailing and surfing — neither of which I’d ever done ...

After a number of weeks of turmoil at Windsurf with OpenAI $3 billion acquisition falling through and a new $2 .4 billion deal by Google acquiring its founders and non-exclusive rights to its ...

The move is the culmination of a turbulent period for Windsurf, and indicates that agentic IDEs have become a new battleground. AI builders are starving for agentic integrated development environments ...