Open Book Touch is Crowdfunding: A Buttonless, Open Hardware Answer to Kindle
It's $149, runs on an ESP32-S3, and skips DRM entirely and lets you skip the Kindle ecosystem.
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ELM11-Feather Is a Feather-Compatible Board That Speaks Lua Natively
It's an FPGA-based board that lets you program the application, driver, and hardware layers in Lua, C, and VHDL/SystemVerilog, and it starts at $29.
Linux Mint Now Considers Wayland Stable
Cinnamon will fully support both X11 and Wayland sessions starting with Mint's next release, due Christmas.
Another German State Just Kicked Out Microsoft... Kind Of
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern has replaced Microsoft SharePoint with Nextcloud for over 5,000 government employees.
TUXEDO OS is Ditching Ubuntu for a Debian Base That Never Goes Stable
Their dependency on Ubuntu 'snapped' so they are "testing" Debian now.
LOL! Storage Bug on Microsoft Windows 11 Could Eat Up 500 GB Disk Space
A Microsoft customer support agent even suggested buying a new hard disk instead of acknowledging the problem.
This E-Paper PDA Wants You to Ditch Your Smartphone for a Keyboard and Two Tiny Screens
It runs a custom open source OS on an ESP32-S3, has a physical keyboard and dual displays, and starts at $185 on Crowd Supply.
You Can Now Craft E-Ink Faceplates for the Steam Machine
Valve has quietly open-sourced the design files for the Inkterface project, which uses an ESP32 board.
Canonical Puts €40,000 a Year Behind Trifecta Tech to Rustify Ubuntu
ntpd-rs is set to replace Ubuntu's time-syncing tools, the same way sudo-rs replaced classic sudo last year.
Return of The Meme! Hannah Montana Linux Lives Again in 2026
A curious developer took it upon himself to revive this *iconic* gem.
Sipeed's New KVM Wants AI Agents to See and Control Your Screen
The NanoKVM-Go connects with a single USB-C cable, runs over WiFi 6, and exposes every KVM function as an MCP server for AI agents like PicoClaw and Claude Code.
HW Lab's DockFrame Heads to Crowd Supply With Swappable Tool Cards
The modular USB-C hub uses Framework's expansion standard, and its Tool Cards double as bench tools.
Brave Says This is Not a Privacy Feature, But Using Containers Has Its Perks
Brave Browser 1.92 introduces support for Containers that isolate cookies and site data per tab.
Collabora Office 26.04 Keeps AI Optional and Refines Writer and Calc
The desktop suite's first major update pulls features from CODE 26.04.
Sick of AI Slop, Former Microsoft Engineer Built a New, AI-less Notepad
A former Microsoft engineer who was behind Task Manager has built a fully working, 2.5KB Notepad clone that doesn't ship with slop.
Lumo 2.0: Proton's Private Alternative to ChatGPT and Claude Just Got Better
The Lumo 2.0 Max model reportedly feels just as sharp as the latest offerings from OpenAI and Anthropic.
AI Agents Could Get Verified Identities, Courtesy of DNS
The open standard would tie every agent's identity to certificates and a public transparency log nobody can edit.
You Can Spend Up to $11,944 on Purism's Librem 16 Linux Laptop
The laptop starts at $2,899 and scales up to an eye-watering $11,944 for a custom config.
Linux Users Get This For Free! Brave Origin Costs $59.99 For Everyone Else
Brave strips out AI, Rewards, Wallet, and VPN, but ad and tracker blocking stay intact for Origin users.
PINE64's Smart Speaker is a Home Assistant Powered Alternative to Amazon Echo
It is powered by a RISC-V chip, has a hardware mic mute switch, and costs $49.99.
No More Reboots During Kernel Patching for ARM64 Systems on Ubuntu
Canonical's Livepatch finally extends to the platform in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Ubuntu Core 26.
ArmSoM Sige6 is The First Sige Board to Ditch Rockchip For Allwinner
Powered by the Allwinner A733, the SBC brings a 3 TOPS NPU, Wi-Fi 6, and up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 RAM.
Guncrypt is Halfbrick Studio's First PC Game, That Also Works on Linux
If you are into rogue-like games, this one might be the one to get on Linux.
Canonical's New AI Tool Wants You to Talk to Ubuntu Instead of Type
Myna runs entirely on local hardware and is set to debut with Ubuntu 26.10.
