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Newelle, ‘Virtual Assistant’ for GNOME, Hits Version 1.0

For most Ubuntu users, interacting with an AI chatbot means opening your web browser) or (increasingly, your IDE for code-related tasks). Newelle, a GTK4/libadwaita app, offers a different approach — and it just hit version 1.0. Newelle bills itself as…

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How to Install Gemini CLI on Ubuntu to Access AI from Your Terminal

A simple guide to installing and using Google’s Gemini CLI on Ubuntu, a free, open source command line way to access Gemini LLM and use it to work with local files.
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Kiro, Amazon-Backed AI-Powered IDE, Enters Public Preview

Kiro, a new AI-powered IDE for Linux, macOS, and Windows, is now in public preview. Learn about its “spec-driven” workflow and VS Code compatibility.
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digiKam 8.7.0 Release Offers Improved AI Tools

You don’t need to be a professional photographer (protographer?) to find photo management software digiKam helpful, as the canny crop of new “AI” powered features on offer in the latest release proves. Note: this is a news item coveri…

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Mozilla Axes its ‘Deepfake’ AI Detector Add-On

Mozilla is axing another of its project that felt a perfect fit for a company that made its founding to make the web better. Next week, on June 26 2025, the Fakespot Deep Fake Detector extension, which lets users vet content to gauge if it was likely t…

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Firefox 139 Brings Custom New Tab Wallpapers, Better Upload Speeds

Firefox 139 adds custom New Tab wallpapers, improved HTTP/3 performance, and AI-powered link previews, but nothing flashy – for the first time in a while.
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DeepComputing’s New RISC-V AI PC Hits 50 TOPS, Runs Ubuntu

Ubuntu is one of the leading Linux distributions for RISC-V hardware thanks to Canonical’s strategic partnerships with companies like DeepComputing – who just announced their powerful new RISC-V AI PC running Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The DC-ROMA RISC-V …

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Try Firefox’s Experimental Link Previews with AI Summary

Hate having to read an article to understand what it’s saying and would rather read what an AI says it (potentially) says instead? Mozilla Firefox has your back. Saltiness aside, the latest nightly builds of Firefox 139 include an experimental we…

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Linux Kernel 6.14 Released with Boost for Linux Gaming

Linux Kernel 6.14 has arrived, bringing a clutch of changes to make your computer run more efficiently and more securely than before. Interestingly, Linux 6.14 is one the smallest kernel updates in terms of commits (not lines of code) for some time. It…

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Ubuntu Adds Official Support for NVIDIA Jetson AI Modules

Canonical has announced that it now ‘officially supports’ Ubuntu on the NVIDIA Jetson Orin series of computing modules, designed for low-power AI and machine learning applications. The General Availability (GA) of Ubuntu 22.04 LTS for the N…

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Firefox 136 Released with Vertical Tabs, New Sidebar + More

Mozilla Firefox 136 has been released with a number of notable new features—features Mozilla is sure to hope claws back some goodwill from users following the roasting its received recently. Last month’s Firefox 135 release rolled out a refreshed…

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Mozilla’s Nifty AI Detector Add-On For Firefox

Want to know if the text you’re reading online was written by an actual human or spat out by a large language model (LLM) masquerading as one? Though not foolproof, Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector Firefox add-on may can help give you a…

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VLC Developers Working on AI-Powered Real-Time Subtitles

Real-time AI subtitling is in the works for VLC, the phenomenally popular open-source media player. VideoLAN, the non-profit in charge of VLC development, demoed automatic subtitle generation in VLC during CES 2025 —where not using AI made you stand ou…

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Kdenlive is Adding One of Final Cut Pro’s Best Features

Removing backgrounds from video in Kdenlive, the free, open-source video editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, is about to get a whole lot easier. Developers are adding a “modern background removal tool” that uses machine learning to create …

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Meet Orbit, Mozilla’s AI Assistant Extension for Firefox

Orbit by Mozilla is a new AI-powered assistant for the Firefox web browser that makes summarising web content while you browse as easy as clicking a button. After all, why read an article to understand what it says when you can read an AI summary rephr…

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Warp, the AI-Powered Terminal App, Relaxes Its Login Requirement

If you were put off trying the Warp terminal app on Ubuntu (or another Linux distro) due to the account and login requirement, there’s good news. The team behind the Rust-based, AI-infused terminal tool has relented on the requirement that users …

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Intel’s NPU Driver for Linux is Now Available on the Snap Store

Canonical has put the official Linux Intel NPU driver on the Snap Store. The new Intel NPU Driver snap “bundles many components […] including device firmware, a user space driver and compiler, and an application to validate the user mode driver a…

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Raspberry Pi’s New $70 AI Camera Works With All Pi Models

If you’re looking to kick the tyres on some AI image processing/recognition tasks and you own an older Raspberry Pi, the new AI Camera add-on may be of interest. While the $70 Raspberry Pi AI Kit only works with a Raspberry Pi 5, the $70 AI camer…

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Open-Source Alternative to Cursor? Void Aims To Be

VS Code is to modern text editors what Chromium is to browsers: a fork magnet. A slew of niche spins have emerged, each putting their own spin on Microsoft’s massively popular original. The latest to join the fray is Void. The Github page for Voi…

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AI Produces Data-driven OpenFOAM Speedup (HPC Wire)

Researchers from TU Darmstadt, TU Dresden, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), and Intel have developed advanced applications that combine HPC simulations with AI techniques using the open-source computational fluid dynamics solver OpenFOAM and the HPE-led SmartSim AI/ML library. These applications show promise for improving the accuracy and capabilities of traditional scientific and engineering modelling with data-driven […]

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