1+ week, 3+ day ago   (290+ words) Many AI workloads run on Ubuntu, so it makes sense Canonical recently joined the Linux Foundation’s Open Secure AI Alliance to help make open-source security tools for AI systems and autonomous agents. The alliance formed in July 2026 in response to…...

3+ week, 1+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ 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…...

1+ week, 2+ 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…...

2+ week, 1+ 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…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (503+ words) Diagnosing nothing as a feature™ I recently re-encountered my favourite ‘error’ dialog in Ubuntu, which is thrown by the distro’s App Center (snap-store), which is the default GUI software management tool. I don’t see it often, but when I do it…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (320+ words) Its soldering irons and smartwatches will soldier on If you’ve been eyeing up one of PINE64‘s Linux-friendly single-board computers, phones or tablets, now is the time to buy one. The open-hardware company has announced it will stop “producing more Linux…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (426+ words) No, it doesn't come with a rotary dial They say never judge a book by its cover, and few do if said book is a dictionary, but what about desktop dictionary apps? I recently came across Wordbook, a modern English-English…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (676+ words) Update also speeds up video seeking – but for whom? Mozilla has released Firefox 154 with some small AI-related changes, an ‘improved’ full-page translations and faster video seeking on “all operating systems”. Firefox 154 serves as the final monthly release of Firefox before…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (229+ words) A major update to open-vm-tools, a package that integrates Linux virtual machines with VMware hypervisors, is rolling out to users of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. “Without SRUing the newer version users get issues running on more recent hypervisors”, Canonical’s Lena Voytek explained…...