Your desktop,
always current.
AI News Wallpaper redraws your Windows background every hour with the latest AI headlines, genuinely trending open-source repos, your calendar, and a quote that does not coddle you.
irm https://kshivam4781.github.io/ainewswallpaper/install.ps1 | iex
Paste into PowerShell. No Node, no npm, no admin rights — or download the .exe.
What lands on your screen
Four panels. Everything except the news is optional.
Seven fresh headlines
Pulled from TechCrunch, The Verge, Ars Technica, MIT Technology Review, VentureBeat, Hacker News and Google News — deduplicated and balanced across sources.
Repos worth knowing
Three genuinely rising GitHub projects, plus two matched to what you actually work on. Curated link lists are filtered out.
Calendar and inbox
Your remaining events all day, and your top unread mail each morning. Entirely opt-in, and off until you connect it.
A daily push
Tyson, Goggins, Jocko, Ali, Marcus Aurelius. Rotates once a day. Bring your own list if you would rather.
Your data stays on your machine
There is no server. There is nothing to breach.
Everything runs locally on your PC. If you link Google, the tool asks for the two narrowest scopes that do the job: calendar.events.readonly, and gmail.metadata — message headers only. It cannot read the body of an email or open an attachment, and it cannot send, delete or change anything. Your token is stored on your own disk and revoked with a single command.
Worth knowing: mail that appears on your wallpaper is readable by anyone who sees your screen, including in a screen share. That is the point of the feature — just choose it deliberately.
Questions
- Does it need an API key or a subscription?
- No. No keys, no accounts, no AI billing. It reads public RSS feeds and the public GitHub search API.
- Does it use AI to write the wallpaper?
- No. It is deterministic code — feed parsing, filtering and a layout engine. Nothing is generated by a model.
- Why is the download around 88 MB?
- The Node runtime is bundled in, so there is nothing else to install. It is one file with no dependencies.
- Windows says it protected my PC.
- The binary is not yet code-signed, so SmartScreen warns on first run. Click More info, then Run anyway.
- How do I stop it?
ai-news-wallpaper stopremoves the scheduled task. Your current wallpaper stays as it is.- Does it run while my PC is asleep?
- No — it refreshes while you are logged in, and catches up with one run when you come back.
Prefer npm?
If you already have Node 18 or newer.
npm install -g ai-news-wallpaper && ai-news-wallpaper start