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Long transition nears completion as developers address remaining concerns. Plasma 6.8 is still two years away.

Everything you need to know about Google Sans Flex.

The new office suite uses modern tech for a consistent online-offline experience; the existing offering is renamed 'Classic' and it maintains a traditional approach.

German manufacturer blames missing features and poor battery life.

Windows takes a backseat on Dell's latest AI workstation as Linux gets the priority. Windows 11 version will be coming in 2026.

New Terms of Service introduce perpetual content licenses, reverse-engineering bans, and widespread data collection.

Plus Grease Pencil motion blur, performance improvements, and enhanced rendering features.

New opt-in experimental feature comes with some warnings and requires file access.

Mastodon's creator steps back from CEO role, transfers assets to non-profit organization.

New nightly build brings support for monitors with different scaling factors.

Enters a crowded UI framework market.

Planned browsing mode will let users chat with an AI assistant while surfing the web.

Open source project pushes back on AI-generated vulnerability reports.

The Debian-based distro goes all-in on Hyprland, immutability, and intentional design.

Pledges enterprise-grade enhancements as Premier Member.

Is Kaspersky for Linux the security solution we've been waiting for? Or is it just security theater for paranoid penguins?

Password exposure and improper authentication validation issues caught early ahead of the LTS release.

A new Vulkan-based translation layer brings old Windows games to Linux.

And it's not Google's fault this time.

Accessibility and compatibility upgrades mark 20th anniversary of document standard at OASIS Open.

Prices are rising across Netflix, Spotify, and their peers, and more people are quietly returning to the oldest playbook of the internet: piracy. Is the golden age of streaming over?