Firefox 148 adds a new “AI Controls” panel to granularly disable or entirely block AI features with a kill-switch. Opt out of AI when the update drops in February.
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Raspberry Pi announces new price hikes for 2026, blaming the “AI infrastructure roll-out” for rising RAM costs. Pi 4 and Pi 5 models get way more expensive.
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Linux kernel maintainer honored at Brussels ceremony for decades of critical infrastructure work.
Read MoreResources, the system resources and processes monitor that’s default in Ubuntu 26.04, released new 1.10.0 version yesterday. The new version of this free open-source Rust written application added support for monitoring AMD NPU, the neural processing unit for accelerate AI and machine learning tasks, that found in Ryzen AI 300 / 400 series, Ryzen 7 […]
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Read MoreJanuary’s software updates include VLC 3.0.23, Shotcut 26.1 with GPU decoding, and Vivaldi 7.6. Take a look at the month’s notable Linux app releases.
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Resources 1.10 adds AMD NPU reporting to help Linux users track Ryzen AI performance alongside CPU and GPU usage.
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Linux Lite, the lightweight and beginner friendly Linux distribution, released new 7.8 version yesterday. The new Linux Lite 7.8 is still powered by Kernel 6.8.0 and Ubuntu 24.04 package base, and features XFCE 4.18 desktop with customized layout and themes for better look and feel while keeping lightweight. The release completely re-wrote its core applications, […]
Read MoreAfter few weeks of Beta testing, Shotcut video editor announced version 26.1 today. The new version of this free open-source Qt and MLT based video editor finally introduced hardware decoding support for more workflows. Preview Scaling, the feature that lowers the resolution of video shown in the preview monitor, now has hardware decoding support. The […]
Read MoreUbuntu 26.04 Snapshot 3, the third monthly development release for the next LTS, is out! The developer team announced this version last night: I’d like to announce the third successful publication of the monthly snapshot – Resolute Snapshot 3 (but also the first of 2026!). You can find the images on cdimage.ubuntu.com, for instance … […]
Read MoreThe Tiling Shell 17.3 GNOME extension update introduces new ‘Adaptive’ and ‘Granular’ edge-tiling modes, Wacom and touchscreen support, and layout reordering.
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The eBook manager gets a visual upgrade with bookshelves and in-viewer editing.
Read MoreThe third Ubuntu 26.04 snapshot is out, giving you an easy way to test the ‘Resolute Raccoon’ ahead of its stable release in April. Details and links inside.
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NVIDIA VA-API Driver, the VA-API implementation that uses NVDEC as backend, released new 0.0.15 version yesterday. For those who don’t know about it, it’s a free open-source API for NVIDIA users to enable hardware accelerated video decoding support when using Firefox web browser. As you may know, Firefox so for only supports VA-API for hardware […]
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Read MoreThe people behind Bazzite, Fyra Labs, Nobara, ChimeraOS, and a few other projects have teamed up to improve Linux gaming for everyone.
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Read MoreTransmission Bittorrent client finally released new major 4.1.0 version yesterday! Here are the new features and Ubuntu PPA for Ubuntu 22.04, Ubuntu 24.04 and 25.10. The new version is made available after more than a year of development. It fixed the significantly degraded transfer performance in 4.0.x series by changed the uTP ack scheduling algorithm. […]
Read MoreTransmission 4.1 adds support for IPv6 and dual-stack UDP trackers, sequential downloading, and improved µTP (Micro Transport Protocol) performance.
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This open source project has survived Anthropic's trademark lawyers, crypto scammers hijacking its identity, and security holes exposing users.
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