Topic: AI/ML

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
Firefox logo over a black and white crossword grid

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
Codeberg logo mountain peak superimposed over a scrapyard pile of junk and faint code, symbolising the platform's ban on AI-generated code

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

Flathub’s AI slop ban looks like it was the right call

When Flathub banned AI-coded app submissions last month, some critics warned the platform was denying the future by dismissing a new wave of “vibe-coded” software as out-and-out “slop”. Well, new data suggests otherwise, as nearly three-quarters […]

17 July 2026
Tux the Linux penguin peers out from behind Anthropic's Claude logo

Claude desktop app for Linux enters beta – here’s how to try it

Anthropic has released a beta of its Claude desktop app for Linux, launching alongside an apt repo Ubuntu users can add for ongoing updates. According to the official docs, Claude desktop for Linux offers “the […]

9 July 2026
Poster collage of open mouth with AI letters inside over blue wall of text.

How Ubuntu’s new ‘Myna’ AI voice typing works

Ubuntu is working on speech-to-text AI transcription so you can talk to type. It's powered by project Myna. Here's how it'll work and why it's adding it.

30 June 2026

Ubuntu is adding AI-powered voice input to all text fields

Ever wished you could talk in to a text field rather than type? Ubuntu 26.10 hears you – quite literally. Canonical’s VP of Engineer Jon Seager, at the Ubuntu Summit, said the distro will soon […]

3 June 2026

Flathub bans AI-coded apps – with some exceptions

You’ll have to sift through fewer vibe-coded apps on Flathub in future, as the store has announced a policy change on software made using AI tools. Flathub, the de-facto place to find and install Flatpak […]

1 June 2026
CIX P1 SBCs.

Canonical share Ubuntu 26.04 concept build for CIX P1 devices

New Ubuntu Concept image for CIX P1 lets you run Ubuntu on Armv9 single-board computers, including the Radxa Orion O6 and Orange Pi 6 Plus.

18 May 2026
Ubuntu AI

Canonical is ‘ramping up’ AI in Ubuntu this year

AI features are coming to Ubuntu in 2026, though Canonical has made clear that the distro is not becoming an AI product. In a community post, Jon Seager, VP of engineering, says the company is […]

27 April 2026

Type with your voice on Linux using this Whisper-based app

Your mouth can (probably) say things quicker than your hands can type them, yet voice typing is rarely used as a primary input method on desktop, despite most of us thinking nothing of using it […]

19 April 2026
Robots in the sand.

Thunderbolt is an open-source ‘AI client’ from Mozilla’s for-profit arm

Thunderbolt is a new open source AI client from the Mozilla-owned MZLA Technologies aimed at enterprises who want to run self-hosted chatbots on their own infrastructure. MZLA Technologies is the for-profit subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation that develops […]

16 April 2026