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A new open-source project called TexLite provides a browser-based, self-hosted environment for teams to write and compile LaTeX documents together. It runs as a single Node.js process with SQLite and local file storage, reusing the host machine's existing TeX installation, and adds real-time editing plus source-level commenting.
Maiao, a command-line tool that recreates Gerrit's stacked-commit review workflow on modern git hosts, has been picked up by community maintainers under runetes/maiao after Adevinta's original team stopped maintaining it. The tool's 'git review' command turns each commit in a branch into its own linked pull or merge request, automatically managing parent-child dependencies and rebasing the stack as changes get merged. It now supports GitHub, GitLab, Gitea, Forgejo/Codeberg, Bitbucket Cloud, and the beta Cursor Origin platform, auto-detecting the provider from the repository's remote URL.
OpenAI has expanded access to ChatGPT's task scheduling hub, previously limited to paid tiers, so free account holders can now set up scheduled prompts. The company also added the ability to share scheduled tasks with other users, letting useful automations spread across workflows.
Twitter/X front-end alternatives Nitter and XCancel have reportedly received cease-and-desist notices, and all publicly available Nitter instances have stopped functioning. The Nitter GitHub repository itself has been archived by its owner, making it read-only and effectively ending active development.
A community decompilation effort has recreated 100% of the source code for the original Super Smash Bros. on Nintendo 64, according to a listing on Decomp.dev. The completed project, hosted on GitHub with build instructions, means the 1999 platform fighter can now theoretically be ported natively to modern systems like Windows or Android rather than relying on emulation.
Perplexity introduced Portable Computer, a new variant of its Personal Computer AI agent that runs entirely on a user's own machine instead of the cloud. It performs the same agentic tasks and can still connect to services like Google Drive, Gmail, Slack and GitHub, but keeps files, models and processing local unless a task specifically requires going online.
Laude has open-sourced Headlong, an agent framework built around a Bash core under 10,000 lines that keeps AI agents continuously generating thoughts rather than only responding to prompts. Instead of waking on a schedule to run a checklist, a Headlong agent runs a persistent thought stream where incoming messages are treated as observations, and it decides for itself whether and when to reply. Laude tested this internally with a shared agent named Audel across Slack, Telegram, and mobile, letting multiple team members interact with the same continuously running agent.
Developer unrealJune has released Kindshare, an open-source tool that lets jailbroken Kindle devices receive files via Google's Quick Share from Android phones. The setup requires a Kindle capable of being jailbroken, installation of KOReader, and manual configuration through GitHub instructions, with full compatibility confirmed only on a Kindle Voyage running firmware 5.13.6. The tool currently only supports receiving files, not sending them from the Kindle.
Microsoft has shipped the first official release of the Agent Lightning Skill, a tool that helps coding agents systematically improve other AI agents. Users supply an editable agent and a benchmark, and the skill guides iterative changes to prompts, tools, workflows, models, and reasoning settings. It installs directly into Claude Code, Codex, or GitHub Copilot via a simple CLI command.
Nintendo filed seven coordinated DMCA takedown notices against GitHub repositories hosting Switch emulation projects, resulting in 401 repos being pulled from the platform. The bulk came from the Suyu emulator's parent repo, which had over 100 forks, triggering GitHub's policy of removing an entire fork network at once. Other affected projects included the long-dormant Skyline emulator, Yuzu Android forks, and several smaller Yuzu-based projects like MonoNX.