Wire
Week of 18 — 24 September 2026
Every week, I manually curate tools, research, and services that are genuinely useful for OSINT, digital investigations, security research, and adjacent fields.
No hype. No SEO noise. No “AI startups that change everything”.
Only things you can open, verify, and actually use.
🧭 Featured Projects
Get SMS Online has been providing temporary phone numbers for SMS verification since 2016. Our service lets you receive SMS online and verify accounts on more than 700 popular websites and apps, including social media platforms, email providers, messaging apps, online marketplaces, dating services, and much more:
Cyb_Detective’s Substack. Every day about OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) tools and techniques:
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🌍 Regional & Thematic OSINT
The case for more AI slop on the internet. How cheap experimentation, public mistakes and weird little attempts might help us make less of the same:
Android Titanium Broser. Secure open-source Android browser with support for extensions:
🔗 https://github.com/jqssun/android-titanium-browser
🛠 OSINT Tools, Services & Investigations
yj_nearbyglasses. attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you:
🔗 https://github.com/yjeanrenaud/yj_nearbyglasses Textream is a free macOS teleprompter app for streamers, interviewers, and presenters. It highlights your script in real-time as you speak, displayed in a beautiful Dynamic Island overlay. With extensible features:
🔗 https://github.com/f/textream Speakr is a personal, self-hosted web application designed for transcribing audio recordings:
🔗 https://github.com/murtaza-nasir/speakr Instagram Oldest Posts. Browser-based OSINT tool for finding and exporting the oldest posts from Instagram profiles:
🔗 https://github.com/Provereno-Media/instagram-oldest-posts Self-hosted GPS tracking app for Android. Colota sends your location to your own server over HTTP(S). It works offline, supports geofencing, and has no analytics or telemetry:
🔗 https://github.com/dietrichmax/colota
🤖 Universal Search & AI
OCP - Open Claude Code. Turn your Claude Pro/Max subscription into an OpenAI-compatible API for your IDEs and devices - LAN auth, per-key quotas, response cache, disciplined cli.js alignment. $0 extra cost:
🔗 https://github.com/dtzp555-max/ocp Claude Code Proxy. A proxy server that enables Claude Code to work with OpenAI-compatible API providers. Convert Claude API requests to OpenAI API calls, allowing you to use various LLM providers through the Claude Code CLI:
🔗 https://github.com/fuergaosi233/claude-code-proxy Antigravity Claude Proxy. Proxy that exposes Antigravity provided claude / gemini models, so we can use them in Claude Code and OpenClaw (Clawdbot):
🔗 https://github.com/badrisnarayanan/antigravity-claude-proxy BrainAPI is a knowledge graph–powered AI memory layer that transforms unstructured data into structured knowledge, enabling intelligent search, recommendations, and contextual memory for AI agents and applications:
🔗 https://github.com/Lumen-Labs/brainapi2 Paseo. Orchestrate multiple coding agents from desktop and mobile:
🔗 https://github.com/getpaseo/paseo nopus catches coding-agent answers that disappear into abstract LLM babble. Using deterministic prose checks, it flags responses that cross your chosen complexity threshold and sends them back for one clearer rewrite:
🔗 https://github.com/Vistyy/nopus Penligent.ai - AI2PentestTool. 200+ Seamless Integrations with Leading Security & Pentesting Tools:
🔗 https://github.com/penligent/AI2PentestTool LibreChat. Enhanced ChatGPT Clone: Features Agents, MCP, Skills, DeepSeek, Anthropic, AWS, OpenAI, Responses API, Azure, Groq, o1, GPT-5, Mistral, OpenRouter, Vertex AI, Gemini, Artifacts, AI model switching, message search, Code Interpreter, langchain, DALL-E-3, OpenAPI Actions, Functions, Secure Multi-User Auth, Presets, open-source for self-hosting. Active:
🔗 https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat Voder. Voice Operation and Design Engine with Reproduction capabilities:
🔗 https://github.com/HAKORADev/VODER Claude Screenshot Up. Upload macOS screenshots to your server over SSH and get the remote path on your clipboard — ready to paste into a remote Claude Code/Codex session. Menu bar app via xbar:
🔗 https://github.com/mdrzn/claude-screenshot-up OpenSearch-VL provides a fully open recipe for training strong multimodal deep search agents through high-quality data curation, diverse visual/search tools, and fatal-aware agentic reinforcement learning:
🔗 https://github.com/shawn0728/OpenSearch-VL
👨💻 Software Development & APIs
Matrix One. AI-native HTAP database with Git-for-Data and built-in vector search, serving as the data and memory backbone for intelligent agents and applications:
🔗 https://github.com/matrixorigin/matrixone Oxigraph is both a graph database and a RDF and SPARQL toolkit. Its goal is to provide a compliant, safe, and fast graph database based on the RocksDB key-value store. It also provides a set of utilities for RDF basic manipulation (parsing, serialization, canonicalization) and building SPARQL implementations (SPARQL results parsers/serializers, SPARQL parser...):
🔗 https://github.com/oxigraph/oxigraph GreptimeDB. The open-source observability database. One columnar engine for metrics, logs, and traces, on object storage:
🔗 https://github.com/GreptimeTeam/greptimedb DBX. 20 MB lightweight cross-platform client for 90+ databases, including MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, Redis, MongoDB, DuckDB, SQL Server, and Dameng. Built-in AI, MCP Server, CLI, desktop and Docker:
Gridex. A native macOS / windows / Linux database IDE built with Swift and AppKit. Connect to PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, and Redis from a single app with a fast, keyboard-driven interface:
🔗 https://github.com/gridex/gridex
🐧 Linux & DevOps
Zeek is a powerful network analysis framework that is much different from the typical IDS you may know:
🔗 https://github.com/zeek/zeek ghgrab. A simple, pretty terminal tool that lets you browse and download files from GitHub, GitLab, Codeberg, Gitea, and Forgejo without leaving your CLI:
🔗 https://github.com/abhixdd/ghgrab Folder Host. Your own private cloud in one executable. Share files, collaborate on code, and manage users without complex setup:
🔗 https://github.com/MertJSX/folderhost
🔌 Hardware & Devices
FlipperZero Camera. Camera application for Flipper Zero:
🔗 https://github.com/Z4urce/flipperzero-camera
🚨 From CyberDetective
OSINT METHODS. 39 step-by-step guides to the most common OSINT techniques. Beginner, intermediate and advanced levels:
🔗 https://www.osintguide.com/en/methods
📌 Where to Follow
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The dataset does not promote or endorse illegal activities.
Users are responsible for complying with applicable laws and ethical standards.
📌 About future updates
The dataset is updated on a regular basis.
Future posts will document changes, notable additions and emerging trends observed within the dataset.
This post serves as an introduction and reference point for those updates.