Moxie Marlinspike has a privacy-conscious alternative to ChatGPT

Confer is designed to look and feel like ChatGPT or Claude, but your conversations can't be used for training or advertising.
XDA Developers on MSN

4 lightweight open-source tools that replaced all of my paid apps

It takes care basic image editing functions such as resizing, cropping, removing the background, compression, and more. Same ...

OpenAI, Anthropic, and Google all have new AI healthcare tools - here's how they work

On January 7, OpenAI introduced ChatGPT Health, a feature within the chatbot that enables users to upload health records from apps like Apple Health and Function, and receive personalized medical ...
XDA Developers on MSN

I replaced every Microsoft app on Windows with open-source tools, and here's how it went

Windows desktop has always felt like a curated showroom for Microsoft’s latest services. After all, the company’s defaults ...
IEEE

Modeling Variability of Help Desk Systems using OVM to Support Diverse Organizational Needs

Abstract: Variability in organizational needs makes help desk systems difficult to reuse and standardize. Orthogonal Variability Modeling (OVM) provides a systematic approach to identifying and ...
IEEE

An Open-Source Tool-Box for Asset Management Based on the Asset Condition for the Power System

Abstract: This Study introduces an open-source toolbox for asset management in power systems developed under the European ATTEST project. This paper focuses on presenting an open-source toolbox for ...
New Scientist

What I’ll be doing to help detox my brain in the new year

As we enjoy ourselves through the festive season, many will already be planning a detox in the new year: cutting back on screentime, perhaps, or abstaining from alcohol. Recently, I wondered whether ...