https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/bringing-developer-choice-to-copilot/

You can now choose between Anthropic’s Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Google’s Gemini 1.5 Pro, and OpenAI’s o1-preview as model in GitHub Copilot.

https://blog.thunderbird.net/2024/10/thunderbird-for-android-8-0-takes-flight/

Thunderbird is now available on Android. If you previously used K9 you can migrate quite easily!

https://opensource.microsoft.com/blog/2024/11/07/introducing-hyperlight-virtual-machine-based-security-for-functions-at-scale/

"We built Hyperlight as a library to execute functions as fast as possible while isolating those functions within a VM. Hyperlight is able to create new VMs in one to two milliseconds.

To give you a sense of how fast Hyperlight is, a one to two millisecond cold start for each VM is fast enough that it becomes practical to spin up VMs as needed in response to events."

https://obsidian.md/clipper

Obsidian released their own web clipper as a browser extension. Easily capture pages and metadata to durable files you can read offline.

If you’re struggling with embedded images, I can recommend using obsidian-local-images or -plus.
They will add that natively in the future, but for now that seems the easiest way to download images locally.

https://macsyzones.com/

MacsyZones is a FancyZones equivalent for macOS. MacsyZones allows you to create layouts and sections in your layouts as you want and fit your windows into sections with ease.
It’s also open source: https://github.com/rohanrhu/MacsyZones

https://mistral.ai/news/mistral-chat/

Mistral.ai released their own chat ai interface. Currently it’s free and already has Web, Canvas, Image and document support.

https://www.planckapp.com/

A thoughtfully crafted clipboard manager that protects your data and flows effortlessly between devices with real-time sync (macOS, Linux and windows). iOS and Android apps are coming soon (Q1-2025). They say everything is AES encrypted, looks promising (free but really new).

https://vercel.com/blog/vercel-acquires-grep

Vercel acquires grep.app to accelerate code search.
Grep allows developers to quickly search code across over 500,000 public git repositories. With the acquisition, founder Dan Fox will also be joining Vercel’s AI team to continue building Grep to enhance code search for developers.

https://www.plex.tv/blog/a-new-plex-experience-is-coming-get-a-mobile-preview-now/

A new plex experience is coming to mobile. UI seems new but with limited features. The Preview is available now!

https://huggingface.co/Qwen/QwQ-32B-Preview

http://qwenlm.github.io/blog/qwq-32b-preview/

Alibaba published a new open source model which outperforms o1 mini and preview on reasoning. In general it seems comparable to top models and in addition you can run it locally.

https://orioledb.com/blog/orioledb-beta7-benchmarks

OrioleDB is a storage extension for PostgreSQLwhich uses PostgreSQL's pluggable storage system - it’s destined as a drop-in replacement for PostgreSQL's existing Heap storage. In current benchmarks it seems to be around 5.5x faster than the default storage system.

https://openai.com/index/sora-is-here/

"Earlier this year, we introduced Sora⁠, our model that can create realistic videos from text, and shared our initial research progress⁠ on world simulation. Sora serves as a foundation for AI that understands and simulates reality—an important step towards developing models that can interact with the physical world.

We’re releasing it today as a standalone product at Sora.com to ChatGPT Plus and Pro users."

https://turso.tech/blog/introducing-limbo-a-complete-rewrite-of-sqlite-in-rust

A new rewrite of SQLite by the creators of LibSQL.

https://github.com/microsoft/markitdown

Microsoft open sourced a tool which helps you converting office documents to markdown.

https://github.blog/news-insights/product-news/github-copilot-in-vscode-free/

Github Copilot released a free version

https://github.com/ghostty-org/ghostty

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/01/06/nvidias-project-digits-is-a-personal-ai-computer/

"At CES 2025 in Las Vegas, Nvidia unveiled Project Digits, a “personal AI supercomputer” that provides access to the company’s Grace Blackwell hardware platform in a compact form factor.
…
Nvidia claims a single Project Digits unit can run models up to 200 billion parameters in size.

The GB10 features an Nvidia Blackwell GPU connected to a 20-core Nvidia Grace CPU. Inside the Project Digits enclosure, the chips are hooked up to a 128GB pool of memory and up to 4TB of flash storage."

https://github.com/chaqchase/lla

https://lla.chaqchase.com/docs/about/introduction

lla is a modern, fast file explorer built in Rust that enhances the traditional ls command with powerful features like plugins, specialized views, and Git integration.

https://github.com/hybridgroup/go-haystack

Go Haystack lets you track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple's massive "Find My" network.
It uses OpenHaystack together with Macless-Haystack to help you setup a custom FindMy network with tools written in Go/TinyGo. No Apple hardware required!

https://tailwindcss.com/blog/tailwindcss-v4

Tailwind CSS v4.0 is an all-new version of the framework optimized for performance and flexibility, with a reimagined configuration and customization experience, and taking full advantage of the latest advancements the web platform has to offer.

https://www.jetbrains.com/junie/

Jetbrains announced their own coding agent.