Starling is a new Linux desktop built using AI in six months

Some Linux desktop environments were developed over decades, others in just a few years. Starling, which made the rounds online this week, claims to have been built by just one person in six months using […]

31 July 2026

Mosaic adds automatic window tiling to GNOME Shell

Mosaic brings automatic tiling to GNOME Shell, but without asking you to use it permanently. Turn it on when you want windows to arrange themselves, turn it off when you want floating windows back. The […]

29 July 2026

Ubuntu 26.04 virtualization HWE stack offers newer QEMU & libvirt

Ubuntu’s hardware enablement (HWE) effort has expanded to include backports of newer virtualisation tech to users of the current LTS release. The virtualization HWE stack from Canonical will let users benefit from newer versions of QEMU, […]

28 July 2026

Ubuntu Touch update brings printing, notch support & a modern browser

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 is out with notch support, phone printing and an upgraded web browser – Chromium jumps from version 87 to 131 in one go.

28 July 2026

We finally revived our Firefox add-on (10 years late)

The official OMG! Ubuntu add-on for Firefox is back – albeit far later than planned (sorry about that). If you’ve used our Chrome extension over the last decade, this add-on will be familiar as it’s […]

28 July 2026

Mission Center adds battery, partition and power draw info

A new version of Linux system monitoring app Mission Center is available for download, adding new hardware stats, first-run setup prompt and bug fixes. Mission Center 1.2.0 adds a new Battery page in the Performance […]

27 July 2026
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Google Chrome arrives on Arm64 Linux, Widevine DRM included

Google Chrome now has an official Arm64 Linux build, including for the Raspberry Pi, available via Google's Debian and RPM repos with Widevine DRM support.

26 July 2026
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Firefox’s new tab page adds AI-powered daily crossword widget

More widgets are coming to Firefox’s New Tab page, including an interactive crossword puzzle powered by the AI news reader Particle. The mini crossword game is updated daily, with puzzles based around recent content Particle‘s […]

24 July 2026
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Codeberg members vote to ban AI-generated code

Codeberg, the nonprofit alternative to GitHub used to host FLOSS projects, will no longer host software that’s “mostly” AI-generated. A vote closed yesterday (22 July, 2026), passing 358 to 144 with 14 abstentions on roughly […]

23 July 2026

Why Ubuntu 26.04 is hiding update notifications [Fixed]

If Ubuntu 26.04 LTS hasn’t nagged you about pending updates in a while, there’s a reason for that. A Launchpad bug report and related discussion on the Ubuntu Discourse noticed that the distro’s update-manager no […]

22 July 2026

Raspberry Pi launch 10-inch Touch Display 2 for $80

Raspberry Pi has launched a 10-inch version of its Touch Display 2 with a 1200×1920 resolution and 10-point captive touchscreen for $80/£77. 5-inch and 7-inch variants of the Touch Display 2 have been available for […]

22 July 2026

Ubuntu 26.10 adds Ubuntu Certified check to Settings

Wondering if your laptop or desktop PC is Ubuntu Certified? Ubuntu 26.10 is adding a new way to check from the Settings app. A new row in Settings > System > About reads “check if […]

21 July 2026