5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (255+ words) Love Firefox enough to drop $200 on a branded keyboard? Tough, it’s sold it1. It’s a full-sized, 108-key mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches, and has a unique keycap colour scheme and branding: a Firefox logo on the super/meta key and…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (387+ words) All without a single AI feature in sight LibreOffice 26.8 was download more than 1 million times in its first week of release, which The Document Foundation say is the highest first-week figure of any release of the free office suite. Released…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (326+ words) Vivaldi 8.2 rolled out today (3 September 2026) and lets you do quick and private math calculations directly in the address bar. You can click to copy the the result to your system clipboard, ready to paste elsewhere. Previous versions Vivaldi let you…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (458+ words) Ain't no-one buying one to run Kodi Arduino’s VENTUNO Q, which runs Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, went up for pre-order in late August – and quickly sold through its initial allocation. The board is is targeted at edge AI, robotics and industrial use…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (486+ words) Give those stale literary titles a sloptastic new look A new version of open-source ebook manager Calibre is out – and it lets you create custom book covers using generative AI. Calibre 9.14, released August 28, adds an “AI Generate” button to the…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago   (328+ words) The shape of things to come Ubuntu 26.10, codenamed ‘Stonking Stingray’, entered feature freeze on 20 August – though the formal announcement arrive later than usual. From this point onwards, development focus shifts from landing major changes to improving them, along with the…...

3+ week, 15+ hour ago   (582+ words) Launchpad didn't get the memo about 2017 layoffs… A decades-old bug on Ubuntu’s Launchpad marked as invalid at the weekend led to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical’s former engineers. Bug #1589796 was filed in 2016 by a user who’d spent £700 on…...

3+ week, 16+ hour ago   (580+ words) A decades-old bug on Ubuntu’s Launchpad was marked as invalid at the weekend, and lead to an impromptu reunion for many of Canonical’s former engineers. Bob Harvey filed bug #1589796 in 2016, having spent £700 on Ubuntu phone and tablet hardware but, on…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (814+ words) You wait years for a modern email client for GNOME to appear, then several appear at once. Postcard is a new email client for GNOME that has echoes of Geary The app is the work of a solo developer, gxanshu…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (487+ words) Plus, collections and experimental Android build A big update to Tuba, the GTK4/libadwaita Fediverse client, has landed – along with an experimental version for Android. Tuba 0.11.0 is the first major update to the social app in a year and brings full…...