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Software released under licences that let anyone inspect, modify and redistribute the source code.
Developer Brandon Thomas built WordCraft, GridCraft and DeckCraft, early open-source clones of Word, Excel and PowerPoint, with Claude. TechSpot reports the project's own estimate at about 60% feature parity, with GridCraft about 50% ready for real work.
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The Dutch Tax and Customs Administration cancelled its Microsoft 365 public-cloud rollout after about 5,000 employees had migrated. The faults cited sit in one deployment's design, so European buyers should price an exit before they price a replacement.
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REA, an open-source toolkit linking AI coding agents to Ghidra, went from under 10,000 GitHub stars on Oct. 6 to over 100,000 by Oct. 12. Stars are bookmarks. The evidence for cheaper cloning in Decrypt's account is anecdotal.
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Photon raised $4.5 million to help developers run AI agents inside iMessage and WhatsApp, citing over 40,000 developer sign-ups. Its open-source version still accounts for 98% of use, so the paying side of the bet is early.
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Cloudflare's EmDash 1.0 runs each CMS plugin in its own isolate capped at 50ms of CPU per request, a dev.to breakdown says. Isolation limits what a bad plugin can reach, and choosing which publisher keys to trust stays with the site owner.
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