Use AirPods Pro Features on Linux with LibrePods

LibrePods brings AirPods Pro features to Linux desktops, including active noise cancellation, transparency mode, ear detection and accurate battery levels.

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TABS API is Mozilla’s Latest Bet on the Agentic Web

Mozilla’s new TABS API helps developers build AI agents to automate web tasks, as the company continues to bet on AI as its future. Details, pricing, and links inside.

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Xubuntu Reveals How its Website Was Hijacked

The Xubuntu team has shared an incident report on its October website breach. Attackers brute-forced the site to inject malware – but was anything else affected?

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GIMP 3.2 Hits Release Candidate with Improved Text Editing + More

Paintbrushes at the ready, as the first GIMP 3.2 release candidate is available for testing. New features and a flurry of fixes are on offer — more details inside!

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Monitor Your Linux Laptop Battery Health with Wattage

Wattage is a modern GTK4/libadwaita app that detailed battery information on Linux, including capacity, health, cycles, and power draw – no terminal required.

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Thunderbird 145 Brings Microsoft Exchange Support + More

Thunderbird 145 has been released with support for Microsoft Exchange e-mail accounts, DNS over HTTPS, renamed Junk folder and other improvements.

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Firefox is Getting a New AI Browsing Mode

AI browsing mode is coming to the Firefox web browser, Mozilla announce. Interested users can join a waiting list to get invite-only early access. Details inside.

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Ubuntu LTS Releases Now Get 15 Years of Support

Canonical has announced Ubuntu LTS releases will now be supported for 15 years from release through the Ubuntu Pro Legacy Add-on.

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Miracle-WM Adds Accessibility, Touchpad & Animation Options

A new version of miracle-wm, the Mir-based compositor/tiling window manager, is out with a clutch set of new configuration options – details inside.

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Kaspersky Brings Its Antivirus Software to Linux Desktops

Kaspersky launches Linux antivirus for Ubuntu and other distros. Features, system requirements and why the banned security firm has come to open-source desktops.

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Linux’s Slickest System Monitor App Gets Updated

Mission Center 1.1.0 has been released, adding filtering and child process viewing to the Services tab, a new system info dialog and other improvements.

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Firefox 145 Brings Rounder Tabs, New PDF Edit Tools + More

Mozilla Firefox 145 released with new shaped tabs, password manager sidebar, the ability to add and edit comments in PDF files, and other new features.

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Fish 4.2 Released with Multi-line Command Suggest + More

Bash alternative fish gains a couple of new features in its latest release, v4.2.0. Details on what’s new and how to upgrade or install fish 4.2.0 on Ubuntu.

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Minisforum MS-R1: 12-Core Linux ARM Workstation for AI and VMs

Minisforum MS-R1 workstation specs, price and details. Up to 45 TOPS compute, 12-core processor running at 3.2 GHz maximum, and running Debian Linux.

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‘Phases of Moon’ Brings Lunar Tracking to GNOME Shell

A GNOME Shell extension for tracking lunar phases on your Linux desktop, with info, a clean, minimal design – and a giant illuminated moon.

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