A local LLM that fits your VRAM, a tiny e-reader for your phone, and a way to see your Claude Code year in review.
Alpie Core — 4-bit Reasoning Model
32B reasoning model running entirely at 4-bit precision. Built on DeepSeek-R1-Distill-Qwen-32B. Claims to beat Claude 3.5 Sonnet on SWE-Bench. Runs on 16-20GB VRAM. Apache 2.0, available via Ollama.
Xteink X4 — Ultra-Portable E-Reader
74g, 4.9mm thin, 4.3" E-Ink display that snaps to your phone via MagSafe. Physical buttons only, 14-day battery, 32GB microSD. $69. A quirky gadget for distraction-free reading on the go.
Year in Code — Claude Code Wrapped
Spotify Wrapped-style report for your Claude Code usage. Shows tokens used, streaks, top models. Open source, privacy-first — data never leaves your browser. Free.
AI-assisted math research and new open source models making waves.
ArXiv paper documenting genuine AI-assisted mathematical discovery. GPT-5, Gemini 3 Pro, and Claude Opus 4.5 collaborated on conjecture generation and verification.
A significant milestone in AI-human mathematical research — not replacing mathematicians, but augmenting their work in novel ways.
Tencent WeDLM 8B — Diffusion-Based LLM
Novel approach: a diffusion language model claiming 3-6x faster inference than Qwen3-8B. Apache 2.0 license. Available on HuggingFace. An interesting experiment if you want to try something different for local inference.
MiniMax M2.1 Goes Open Source
229B parameter model with Modified-MIT license. Claims SOTA on SWE-bench (74.0) and Multi-SWE-bench (49.4). If you have the VRAM for it, this one's worth benchmarking against your current stack.
New video generation tools and a security warning for A1111 users.
LongLook — Consistent Long Videos with WAN 2.2
New ComfyUI workflow for generating consistent multi-part videos. Uses FreeLong technique for stable motion across chunks. Open source with a full tutorial video. If you're doing video generation, this solves a real pain point.
Security alert — check your extensions.
A1111 Extension Installing Cryptominers
Malicious extension creating .configs folder with update.py and "stolen_data" folders. Affects v1.10.1. Check your extensions now.
macOS utilities and another security heads-up for self-hosters.
Updatest — Unified macOS App Updates
One native interface for Homebrew, Mac App Store, Sparkle apps, Electron apps, and GitHub releases. No private frameworks, no tracking. Lifetime license. If you manage apps from multiple sources, this consolidates everything.
Macuse — AI Controls Native Mac Apps via MCP
MCP server that lets Claude, Cursor, or Raycast read and control Mail, Calendar, and other native Mac apps. v1.0 just shipped. Extends your AI assistant's reach into the macOS ecosystem.
n8n Critical Vulnerability (CVE-2025-68613)
CVSS 9.9 RCE via expression injection. Affects v0.211.0 through v1.120.4. Update immediately if you're self-hosting n8n.