Open Source

Notepad++ Arrives on macOS but Original Creator Disavows the Release

The popular text editor Notepad++ has launched a native macOS version but original creator Don Ho has publicly disavowed the release, sparking debate in the developer community about its legitimacy.

Chinese Open-Source Model Kimi K2.6 Beats Claude and GPT-5.5 in Coding Challenge

Kimi K2.6, an open-weights model from Chinese startup Moonshot AI, won first place in an ongoing AI coding challenge, scoring 22 points ahead of GPT-5.5 and Claude.

Microsoft Open Sources VibeVoice: Frontier-Grade Voice AI with Real-Time Conversation and Voice Cloning

Microsoft has open-sourced VibeVoice on GitHub, a frontier-grade voice AI model supporting high-quality text-to-speech, real-time conversation, and voice cloning.