The $200 Firefox mechanical keyboard sold out [update: or not?]

Love Firefox enough to drop $200 on a branded keyboard? Tough, it’s sold out Mozilla is flogging a full-sized, 108-key mechanical keyboard with Cherry MX switches. It has a unique keycap colour scheme and branding […]

8 September 2026

Ubuntu 26.10 reveals new official wallpaper, mascot art

The official wallpaper for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 ‘Stonking Stringray’ release has been revealed, alongside artwork bearing the official mascot. No huge surprises to see the standard formula hole. The distro’s designers have, once again, […]

8 September 2026
KDE logo in white overlaid on landscape background.

KDE’s new Photos app offers a sleek alternative to Gwenview

Photos is a new(ish) image viewer and organiser for KDE Plasma aiming to give Gwenview a run for its pixels. Linux distributions that use KDE Plasma typically ship Gwenview, which has been the KDE image […]

7 September 2026

Ubuntu 26.10 daily ISOs now include Amd64-v3 installer

Ubuntu 26.10 adds an amd64-v3 ISO to its daily builds, letting you to install the Linux distribution with packages optimised for the x86-64-v3 CPUs.

7 September 2026
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Firefox Nova redesign is rolling out this month

Firefox’s new ‘Nova’ redesign will be enabled for all users in Firefox 157, due the end of September – barring any last minute hiccups, of course. Mozilla’s engineers have been working on Nova since March. […]

6 September 2026

GNOME Sushi gets a GTK4 revamp, new features

Sushi, the spacebar preview utility for Nautilus file manager, has been ported to GTK4 for GNOME 51. For anyone unfamiliar with it, Sushi is like Quick Look on macOS: you highlight a file (image, music, […]

6 September 2026
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Ubuntu 24.04 splits firmware packages for faster updates

Firmware updates on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS have got smaller, as Canonical has backported the split Linux firmware packages it introduced in 26.04. To make the change in noble, the linux-firmware package is now a meta-package […]

4 September 2026

Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 is now available for testing

The third, and potentially final, monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 26.10 is available for download. There were no monthly snapshots of the ‘Stonking Stingray’ in August or July – no reason has been given – and […]

4 September 2026
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Vivaldi 8.2 is out with a calculator in the address bar

Vivaldi 8.2 rolled out today (3 September 2026) and lets you do quick and private math calculations directly in the address bar. This may prove useful when you don’t want to open to a new […]

3 September 2026

Audacity 4.0 released with brand-new look, clip editing features

Audacity 4.0 has been released with a new Qt user interface, a new clip editing model and project file format – as well as a swathe of smaller improvements. The Qt port of Audacity is […]

3 September 2026
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Canonical joins the Open Secure AI Alliance

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 the security breach at […]

3 September 2026

Arduino’s Ubuntu-powered $299 edge AI board just sold out

Arduino's VENTUNO Q went up for pre-order priced from $299. The development board runs Ubuntu 24.04 LTS is built around Qualcomm's Dragonwing IQ8 platform.

2 September 2026