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    GitHub Copilot for Eclipse Goes Open Source (MIT): What’s Actually Exposed

    On May 21, 2026, GitHub announced that GitHub Copilot for Eclipse is now open source, with Microsoft publishing the Eclipse plugin’s code on GitHub under the MIT license after previously promising the move in April. The practical story is not that Copilot itself has become open source; it has...
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    Flyoobe 1.20.400: Portable Windows 11 OOBE Tweaks and Bypass Toolkit

    Flyoobe’s latest release, version 1.20 (tagged 1.20.400), ships a visible, Windows 11–style redesign and continues to position the project as a compact, portable toolkit for bypassing Windows 11 installation gates and customizing the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE). Background Flyoobe began life as...
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    Flyoobe: Portable Windows 11 OOBE Toolkit with Bypass & Debloat

    Flyoobe’s latest publicized build — the utility formerly known as Flyby11 — tightens the project’s shift from a single-purpose Windows 11 installer bypass into a compact, OOBE‑centric toolkit that promises both bypass mechanics (TPM, Secure Boot, CPU generation, RAM checks) and a cleaner, more...
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    WinBoat: Run a Windows Desktop on Linux via Docker and RemoteApp

    WinBoat arrives as one of the clearest attempts yet to bridge the Windows-on-Linux gap by running a full Windows environment inside a lightweight Docker container and exposing apps to the Linux desktop as (nearly) native windows. Background WinBoat is an open‑source project from TibixDev that...
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    Microsoft 6502 BASIC Open-Sourced: A 1970s ROM-Era Interpreter

    Nearly half a century after those first keystrokes on primitive terminals, Microsoft has made public the assembly-language source for its 6502-targeted BASIC interpreter — a compact, remarkable artifact of early microcomputer engineering that is now available on GitHub under a permissive MIT...
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    Flyoobe: Install Windows 11 on unsupported PCs with OOBE customization

    Flyoobe is the newest, most complete tool in the growing toolkit that lets you install Windows 11 on machines Microsoft deems “incompatible” — and it does more than just bypass TPM and Secure Boot checks: it also lets you strip out built‑in apps, customize the Out‑Of‑Box Experience (OOBE), and...
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    Microsoft Open-Sources 6502 BASIC 1.1: Preserving an 8-bit Interpreter

    Microsoft has published the assembly source for “BASIC for 6502 Microprocessor — Version 1.1” on GitHub under a modern permissive license, making the exact code that powered a generation of home computers readable, buildable, and reusable by anyone — hobbyists, historians, educators, and...
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    Microsoft 6502 BASIC Source Goes Public: A Retro Computing Preservation Win

    Microsoft's decision to put the original 6502-targeted Microsoft BASIC source into the public eye is both a tidy act of software preservation and a reminder of how much of modern computing grew from tiny, highly optimized assembly programs—code once written by Bill Gates and his earliest...
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    Octos: Open-Source HTML/CSS/JS Live Wallpapers for Windows

    Octos arrives as one of the cleanest, most developer-friendly entries in the live wallpaper scene: an open‑source engine that turns your Windows 10 or 11 desktop into a fully interactive HTML/CSS/JS canvas, ships with an explicit JavaScript API for native features, and is already available as...
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    DeepSeek-R1-0528: Open-Source AI Model for Advanced Reasoning & Innovation

    DeepSeek, a Chinese artificial intelligence startup, has recently released an updated version of its R1 reasoning model, DeepSeek-R1-0528, under the MIT License on Hugging Face. This move signifies a notable advancement in the AI landscape, offering developers and researchers unrestricted access...