Amazon is dropping support for Kindle older models from 20 May, 2026, meaning owners of pre-2013 models will be unable to download new books or set up a device that has been factory reset — deregistering a device will effectively ‘brick’ it…
Read MoreA new version of Miracle-wm, a tiling window manager built around the Wayland compositor Mir, has been released with a new WebAssembly plugin system and Rust API. Developer Matthew Kosarek, an engineer at Canonical who created miracle-wm as a personal …
Read MoreOpenShot, the free open-source Qt-based video editor, released new 3.5.1 version few days ago. The new version introduced preview scaling feature named Optimize Preview and other changes that significantly improved performance for the editing workflow. Different to other video editors (e.g., Kdenlive and Shotcut), OpenShot down-scale the original video sources by generating (or linking to) […]
Read MoreThe new history commands let you undo, redo, or roll back package installs, upgrades, and removals.
Read MoreA clutch of new features are available in Dynamic Music Pill, the slick now playing and media controller extension for GNOME Shell. The “big” new addition is lyrics support. When you listen to a track with synced lyrics in a compatible play…
Read MoreA Linux version of Little Snitch, the iconic network monitoring tool for macOS, has been released. Little Snitch for Linux is written in Rust and uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception (this lets sandboxed code run inside the Linux kernel with…
Read MoreApache Software Foundation’s Ruth Suehle says this kind of sustained investment is what keeps critical open source up and running.
Read MoreMeta’s Helion and Hugging Face’s Safetensors are now hosted projects under the PyTorch umbrella.
Read MoreFor those who never warmed up to Breeze, Oxygen and Air are shaping up to be compelling alternatives again.
Read MoreA full functional operating system in the web browser. From coding tools to office suite, it has everything.
Read MoreThe gaming browser lands on Linux with flashy bits, but the defaults need some work.
Read MoreFirefox recently added a free built-in VPN to its desktop browser, but access to the feature is rolling out gradually. It hit my Ubuntu machine last night – and I’m last to be invited to anything, so I thought I’d write a quick rundown of w…
Read MoreThe support remained in the Linux kernel all these years after every other major platform dropped it.
Read MoreIf adopted, this kernel module would detect when a plugged-in USB device is acting suspiciously.
Read MoreUbuntu 26.04 LTS makes it easier to enable Ubuntu Pro, Canonical’s opt-in (but free for home users) subscription that extends security update to more packages in the wider Ubuntu repos, straight after installation. An Enable Ubuntu Pro step has b…
Read MoreBluefish, the free open-source code editor for programmers and web developers, release new 2.4.1 version few days ago. The new version of this lightweight and fast code editor features split view that allows to view 2 file content side-by-side in same app window, making easy to compare information or work across two files at once. […]
Read MoreA couple of new icons have been added to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, to ensure the Resolute Raccoon’s new default apps sport a Yaru-ified look in keeping with the rest of the distro. Ubuntu’s new default system monitor tool Resources gains a new icon…
Read MoreWhat’s better than using a social network? Not using one, I suppose. Or using one in the nerdiest way you can. Case in point, Skyscraper. Created by developer Cameron Banga, Skyscraper is an open-source terminal client for Bluesky, written in Rus…
Read MoreThese two launches ought to keep Big Tech on their toes.
Read MoreMarch 2026 meted out a sizeable set of Linux software releases, including updates to FOSS stalwarts GIMP, digiKam, Krita and Blender. The preceding month also gave us several major new releases, covered on this site in dedicated articles, like Firefox …
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