Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray": All the New Features So Far
As usual, Canonical is using an interim release to test features headed for the next LTS. Here, we keep a track of the features as they are added.
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While many projects are warming up to AI, Codeberg went the other way.
Collabora Online Turns 10, Refusing to Hand Over Your Data to Someone Else's AI
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Plex's Open Source Alternative Jellyfin is Having a Leadership Crisis
The departures come just months after the project flagged burnout as a growing risk.
Talk to This Glowing Pyramid on Your Desk, and It'll Run Your AI Agent for You
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Siemens AG Was The Last Holdout in MPEG-4 Visual's Road to Being Patent-Free
The final patent, active in Brazil, expired on July 19, 2026.
GNOME's Security Might Be in Peril as Lone Tracker Goes Off
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Linus Torvalds Spent Years Dismissing AI, Only to Vouch for It
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15 O'Reilly Linux eBooks for Under $30: A Bundle That Goes From Command Line Basics to Kubernetes
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Vocalinux Turns Your Speech Into Text Without Giving Away Voice Data
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Turns Out Wayland Isn't the Input Lag Disaster Everyone Says it is
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Cursor AI's Silence on a Critical Flaw Jeopardizes Millions of Users
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GNOME Wants to Let You Test Experimental Features Without Breaking Anything
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Slack Who? This Self-Hosted Chat App Just Went Open Source
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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.
ELM11-Feather Is a Feather-Compatible Board That Speaks Lua Natively
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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
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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
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You Can Now Craft E-Ink Faceplates for the Steam Machine
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