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It was only a matter of time before someone would point AI coding tools Photoshop and get it to build a copy. PhotoCraft is that copy - an open-source, cross-platform image editor written in Rust. The app is part of several creative tools created by the ArtCraft project, lead by Brandon Thomas, the former CEO of storyteller.ai. ArtCraft bill the app as "clean-room reimplementation of Adobe Photoshop", and so swerve any copyright issues as it's not reverse engineering anything (that isn't publicly documented) - words FOSS fans will to cheered to hear. Features-wise, PhotoCraft is already well stocked despite being in […]

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08 Oct 2026 7:25pm GMT

Canonical reports a 'sustained distributed denial of service attack' on its websites, leading to outages. It says its teams are working to get them back online.

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08 Oct 2026 4:08pm GMT

I revised my list of the best Linux weather apps recently, but I know most people prefer to use panel applets to glean current conditions and future forecast data. There's no drought in weather extensions for GNOME Shell. All kinds - some like Weather or Not show a simple label on panel, others dish out reams of meteorological data in a dropdown of varying designs (and, in a few cases, vertical length). I've seen a flurry of newer weather extensions for GNOME Shell emerge in recent months. The searing heatwave that spread the globe this year may have had developers […]

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07 Oct 2026 11:33pm GMT

Canonical has changed how Ubuntu 26.10 boots on system with Secure Boot enabled, in an effort to reduce the attack surface of the boot process.

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07 Oct 2026 4:15pm GMT

Scrcpy, the open-source tool for mirroring your Android phone on your desktop, now supports zero-copy hardware decoding in its latest release.

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06 Oct 2026 3:24pm GMT

Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" arrives at a time when AI tools are accelerating vulnerability discovery. Patching faster is essential, but the resilience of the underlying operating system must also limit what an attacker can achieve before a fix is available. To respond to this new threat landscape, Ubuntu 26.10 continues the work of previous releases […]

06 Oct 2026 2:19pm GMT

The unofficial GNOME theme for Firefox has been updated to work with the Firefox 157 release and its newer, rounder Nova theme. It is not a traditional Firefox theme (like the ones you can install from the Mozilla Add-ons site) but, to quote its GitHub page, a "bunch of CSS code to make Firefox look closer to GNOME's native apps" - an excellent job it does at it too. With Nova now rolled out, the theme team working on the unofficial Adwaita-esque garb needed to update to account for CSS class changes and new widget style Nova adds in newer […]

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06 Oct 2026 4:27am GMT

Hylki is a Rust-based email client designed for the GNOME desktop with an incredibly amount of customisation packed in. Like Postcard, Convey and Letters, Hylki is part of the new(ish) Linux mail clients aiming to serve as a modern Geary-like alternative to more powerful email clients Thunderbird and Evolution. GTK4/libadwaita interface? Check. 3 column vertical layout? Built around conversations? Check. Oh, and 'this wouldn't exist without AI coding tools?' Check - I come to that aspect further down. On the website, Hylki describes itself as "fast to open, effortless to read, and private by default" - but is it? Modern […]

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05 Oct 2026 9:59pm GMT

One of the best things about Rust is how easy it is to get started. It takes just a second to snap install rustup; rustup default stable, and from there you have a whole toolchain ready to compile Rust code. But with this ease of use comes a giant ecosystem, and with this giant ecosystem […]

05 Oct 2026 9:16pm GMT

Roblox does not officially support Linux, but Linux users can run using Sober, an unofficial third-party 'port' that works without Wine (hence the name). I know; this isn't a 'game' most of you are itching to play. Roblox users are mostly under 16, access it via mobiles and have an unhealthy interest in Robux, the in-game virtual currency. But you may - as I - have snotty relatives who demand to play it on your laptop because their tablet needs charging… Performance 'the same or better' than Windows Sober is a 'specialised runtime just for Roblox's code' made by the Vinegar project, […]

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04 Oct 2026 10:59pm GMT

Kagi has announced that it is ending the development of the Orion web browser for Linux. The native GTK port of Orion for Linux was announced in 2025 and a public beta launched earlier this year. The goal was feature parity with the macOS build. Recent beta releases edged closer to realising it but, alas, fell short - and that's where things will stay. At least officially. Kagi says it plans to open source the Orion for Linux codebase, as well its WIP port of Orion for Windows. This could enable the FOSS community the opportunity to step up and […]

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03 Oct 2026 9:00pm GMT

Raspberry Pi has announced further price increases for its single-board computers driven, of course, by the ongoing cost of memory components. The cost of a 2GB Raspberry Pi 4 or Raspberry Pi 5 jumps by $12.50 (£12) from 1 October, 2026: Model Launch price Old price New price Raspberry Pi 4 (2GB) $45 $55 $67.50 (£64.80) Raspberry Pi 5 (2GB) $50 $65 $77.50 (£74.40) For context, the Raspberry Pi 4 2GB model launched at $45 in 2019. It was later reduced to $35, before increasing back to $45 in 2021. It then rose by $10 in February to $55. At […]

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02 Oct 2026 4:15pm GMT

Confidential computing is essential when an organization needs to process sensitive data on infrastructure where the operators should not have access to it. You might have seen this requirement before: it appears commonly in public cloud deployments (where organizations want to prevent the cloud vendor seeing data), but also when hospitals evaluate proprietary AI models […]

02 Oct 2026 11:59am GMT

I roundup of Linux software update from September, including updates to FOSS video editors OpenShot and Shotcut, Fooyin music player and more.

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01 Oct 2026 10:53pm GMT

The beta release of Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) is now available for download - a week later than planned. Ubuntu 26.10 Beta runs on the Linux 7.3 kernel (release candidate) and ships the GNOME 51 desktop. Lower-level changes include a complete set of Rust core utilities and better handling of low-memory situations. Beta builds are not final or stable, but generally more reliable than earlier snapshots. Users and developers alike can test the new release and report any bugs they find so any fixes can land in time for the final, stable release of Ubuntu 26.10, out on 15 October […]

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01 Oct 2026 7:10pm GMT

Ubuntu 26.10 adds a Rust-based OpenPGP implementation, Sequoia PGP, to default installs. GnuPG is still included, but Canonical plans to 'phase' it out.

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01 Oct 2026 3:24pm GMT

How on-demand Android environments turn validation into a repeatable pipeline stage In the first article, we looked at automation: how Android environments can be created and managed programmatically. In the second, we looked at scaling: how shared infrastructure can make those environments available to more developers, tests, and workloads. This third article looks at the […]

01 Oct 2026 9:24am GMT

Canonical has released a test build of Ubuntu 26.10 with early support for laptops using Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 chips. The new preview ISO is built on the Ubuntu 26.10 Beta and Canonical's Tobias Heider says the aim is to find bugs in the upcoming release early and get feedback from users. He expects 'most' of the work will be present in the final release, out 15 October. Among new X2-powered devices able to run the Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept image are the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7 (gen 11), HP EliteBook X G2q and the ASUS Zenbook A14/A16. Ubuntu's support […]

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30 Sep 2026 8:31pm GMT

Blanc is a new open-source web browser that swaps a traditional, always-visible tab strip and address toolbar for a minimal floating 'island'. A dynamic pill sits top the of the browser's window (not over the web page, which feels a missed trick) so that the site address and site security info is visible, and provide quick buttons to open new tab, navigate back/forward and favouriting sites. It'll expand as-needed, from where you can open, manage and switch between tabs, type web addresses, run searches or sift through your browsing history and bookmarks. Click the island to open it or press […]

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30 Sep 2026 3:55pm GMT

Conversational AI with a chatbot is great for drafting emails or debugging code, but it's less ideal for real-time application middleware. If you're trying to inspect a financial transaction for potential fraud in the middle of a checkout loop, you don't need an LLM to write you an essay about why a credit card transaction […]

30 Sep 2026 6:58am GMT

VLC 3.0.24 is out, billed as the video player's 'biggest security release ever' with more than 130 fixes across the app and its bundled libraries. VideoLAN president Jean-Baptiste Kempf says the bulk of security flaws patched by the update are "hard to exploit in practice" but adds that not all of them are 'harmless'. He encourages users to update. No major new user-facing features arrive in this update to the open-source media player, but improvements do. VLC 3.0.24 supports ATRAC3 and ATRAC9 decoding (the former used by Sony MiniDiscs the latter for PSP-era audio), CEA-708 closed captions in MP4 files and, by […]

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29 Sep 2026 11:15pm GMT

Whether you're a first-time Linux user, experienced developer, academic researcher, or enterprise administrator, Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is the best way to benefit from the latest advancements in the Linux ecosystem on a stable foundation. As with all LTS releases of Ubuntu, Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS represents the consolidation of fixes and improvements identified during […]

29 Sep 2026 11:16am GMT

As private 5G evolves from experimentation into production readiness, its success hinges on a fundamental architectural shift: replacing heavyweight, legacy virtualization stacks with agile, softwarized infrastructure that reduces operational expenditure (OpEx) and accelerates service delivery.

28 Sep 2026 2:13pm GMT

A customer building a FedRAMP-compliant deployment found that Ubuntu Pro 22.04 FIPS container images were silently failing on standard, mainline Linux kernels, the kind used by managed Kubernetes environments such as AWS EKS and Fargate. The fix required a patch that preserved FIPS compliance without triggering months of recertification. This post explains what happened, why […]

28 Sep 2026 9:59am GMT

So you want your own pet LLM huh? Knowing where to start can be quite tricky, so luckily for you I've put together this end-to-end guide. It'll get you not just started; you'll end with a fully working chatbot that you've fine tuned on the dataset `nampdn-ai/tiny-webtext`, which is a training dataset designed to improve […]

23 Sep 2026 3:09pm GMT

How shared Android capacity helps engineering teams move beyond fixed device labs In the first blog of this series, we discussed how programmable Android environments can replace manual device preparation with a repeatable lifecycle. A workflow requests an environment with a predefined configuration, executes the required task, collects the results, and releases the resources once […]

23 Sep 2026 8:37am GMT

We are pleased to announce that you can now attach an Ubuntu Pro subscription directly to any base image in AWS Image Builder, allowing you to create enterprise-grade custom images from the get go.

21 Sep 2026 4:35pm GMT

A decade ago, Canonical launched Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (codenamed "Xenial Xerus"). As a Long-Term Support (LTS) release, it comes with 5 years of standard security coverage, which is doubled to a total of 10 years through Expanded Security Maintenance (ESM) for users with an Ubuntu Pro subscription.

17 Sep 2026 7:46pm GMT