Tom Fenton tackles seven free and open-source AI tools bring local chat, coding, voice, design and research capabilities to personal computers and self-hosted environments.

This year's Summer Game Fest was full of exciting reveals. Among the many, many trailers that dropped was Star Wars Zero Company, which showed off a brand new look at the game's story while announcing ...

A developer published mcpsnoop to GitHub this morning — July 4, 2026 — and posted it to Hacker News as a Show HN, describing it as "Wireshark for MCP." The framing is architecturally precise: mcpsnoop ...

The creators of Flipper Zero, the pen-testing multitool that has earned a reputation as a favorite gadget for questionable tinkering, are finally releasing their focus-focused device next month. The ...

A favorite breakfast during my childhood was poached eggs on toast. I’ve tried to replicate how my mother cooked them in a water bath, yet I always seem to wind up with egg white tendrils floating ...

covers news and issues across the Tri-State. Have a story you'd like Connor to cover or a news tip? Reach him at connor.steffen@wcpo.com. CINCINNATI — In an effort to close a reported racial disparity ...

Nahda Nabiilah is a Staff Writer from Indonesia. She has always loved writing and playing games, so one day she decided to combine the two. She couldn't believe that she could make a career out of two ...

Developer S-Game has announced a delay for Phantom Blade Zero that will see its PC and PlayStation 5 release date pushed back almost two months. CEO and game creator Soulframe took to the studio's ...

The little-known program aims to “stop bad bugs with good bugs” by releasing millions of sterile mosquitoes to eliminate those that carry disease. Mosquitoes are the deadliest animal in the world, ...

The Flipper Zero is affordable, available, and well understood. The Flipper One is none of those things yet—but it's already sparking big expectations. Here's everything we know about how they compare ...

Google AI Studio lets users test Gemini models, build apps, generate media, and export code. Here’s what it does, costs, and where it falls short. For years, building software meant setting up local ...