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5 free and open-source (FOSS) apps that are better than paid alternatives

Professional-grade software without the price tag.
TechCrunch

Stability AI open sources its AI-powered design studio

Stability AI, the AI startup behind the text-to-image model Stable Diffusion, this week announced the release of StableStudio, an open source version of DreamStudio, Stability AI’s commercial ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Open Source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' Exits Beta to Challenge Visual Studio Code

Some seven years in the making, the Eclipse Foundation's Theia IDE project is now generally available, emerging from beta to challenge Microsoft's similar Visual Studio Code editor, with which it ...
InfoWorld

Microsoft open-sources XAML Studio

XAML Studio 2 still is in development but can be built now from source from the GitHub repository. New features include a new Fluent UI design, folder support with image loading and design data ...

High-fidelity AI: Why professional creators are scaling beyond open-source lip-sync tools

The rapid ascent of artificial intelligence in video production has moved beyond simple novelty. Today, film editors, ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Eclipse Foundation Takes Over Visual Studio Marketplace Alternative

The Eclipse Foundation has taken over the Open VSX Registry, described as a vendor-neutral alternative to Microsoft's Visual Studio Marketplace site that includes thousands of extensions for the ...