Thunderbird 140 has been released.
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/welcome-to-thunderbird-140-eclipse/
https://blog.thunderbird.net/2025/07/welcome-to-thunderbird-140-eclipse/
The Thunderbird Blog
Welcome to Thunderbird 140 โEclipseโ - The Thunderbird Blog
Our future's so bright, we need ISO-approved shades. Find out what's shiny in our new Extended Security Release, Thunderbird 140 "Eclipse."
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Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/08/danish-ministry-switching-from-microsoft-office-365-to-libreoffice/
The Document Foundation Blog
Danish Ministry switching from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice - The Document Foundation Blog
Following the example of the German state of Schleswig-Holstein, which is moving 30,000 PCs from Microsoft Office/365 to LibreOffice, the Danish Ministry of Digitalisation is doing the same. Caroline Stage Olsen, the countryโs Digitalisation Minister, plansโฆ
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In 2014, Mozilla appointed the JavaScript creator as its CEO, only to fire him after 11 days after "discovering" his donations to anti-gay groups.
Later on, he founded his own browser company and called it "Brave".
Today, Brave has 59% as many users as Firefox.
These users could have been Firefox users, had it not been for the short sight of Mozilla' leadership.
Get woke, go broke.
https://fosspost.org/brave-now-has-59-of-the-number-of-firefox-users-worldwide
Later on, he founded his own browser company and called it "Brave".
Today, Brave has 59% as many users as Firefox.
These users could have been Firefox users, had it not been for the short sight of Mozilla' leadership.
Get woke, go broke.
https://fosspost.org/brave-now-has-59-of-the-number-of-firefox-users-worldwide
FOSS Post
Brave Now Has 59% As Many Users As Firefox Worldwide
Later on, he went on to create the Brave browser, an alternative to Firefox that blocks Internet ads and aims to protect users' privacy.
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Intel shuts down ClearLinux.
https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716
https://community.clearlinux.org/t/all-good-things-come-to-an-end-shutting-down-clear-linux-os/10716
Clear Linux OS Forum
All good things come to an end: Shutting down Clear Linux OS
After years of innovation and community collaboration, weโre ending support for Clear Linux OS. Effective immediately, Intel will no longer provide security patches, updates, or maintenance for Clear Linux OS, and the Clear Linux OS GitHub repository willโฆ
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Microsoft is deliberately making Office XML schema complicated and implemented only on its proprietary backend so that open source suites like LibreOffice can't handle MS Office documents properly:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-lock-in-tool/
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/07/18/artificially-complex-xml-schema-as-lock-in-tool/
The Document Foundation Blog
An artificially complex XML schema as a lock-in tool - The Document Foundation Blog
A document format is a tool for sharing knowledge and, as such, should be as simple and accessible as possible in relation to the complexity of the document content itself. This remains true even when the format is based on an XML schema that is hidden fromโฆ
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Someone was caught trying to ship malware in the AUR repository for Arch Linux:
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/
https://lists.archlinux.org/archives/list/aur-general@lists.archlinux.org/thread/7EZTJXLIAQLARQNTMEW2HBWZYE626IFJ/
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Firefox 141 has been released.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/141.0/releasenotes/
Now ships with a local AI model and better vertical tabs support.
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/141.0/releasenotes/
Now ships with a local AI model and better vertical tabs support.
Mozilla
Firefox 141.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
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Linux kernel 6.16 has been released.
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh0kuQE+tWMEPJqCR48F4Tip2EeYQU-mi+2Fx_Oa1Ehbw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/CAHk-=wh0kuQE+tWMEPJqCR48F4Tip2EeYQU-mi+2Fx_Oa1Ehbw@mail.gmail.com/T/#u
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KDE makes its own Linux distribution, based on Arch (but don't call it as such):
https://kde.org/linux/
https://kde.org/linux/
kde.org
KDE Linux
A free Linuxยฎ-based operating system built by KDE
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Debian 13 has been released.
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809
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StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/1032732/3334850da49689e1/
LWN.net
StarDict sends X11 clipboard to remote servers
StarDict is a GPLv3-licensed cross-platform dictionary application. It includes dictionaries f [...]
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Writing a new article has been a challenge for us since the beginning of this new AI age.
You may not have heard it, but AI has absolutely destroyed content websites across all categories. People now use ChatGPT or Perplexity or Google AI Overview to get direct answers (which are stolen from content websites) directly from these search engines rather than reading a blog post.
This means we are not getting visitors to our website, which removes the point of publishing a new piece of content on that website in the first place.
We are literally feeding AI companies and algorithms free content, curated from our own experiences.
This introduces yet another block on our way in publishing new content: Why do so, only for AI companies to come and steal our content for free and present it for their users while we get $0?
Web publishing is absolutely hard at this age, and I am not sure where to go from here.
Ad revenues were pennies anyways even before the AI age, and now they have gone to near zero.
Other small blogs have either already disappeared, or doubled down on cheap content making with AI in order to continue playing the game.
You may not have heard it, but AI has absolutely destroyed content websites across all categories. People now use ChatGPT or Perplexity or Google AI Overview to get direct answers (which are stolen from content websites) directly from these search engines rather than reading a blog post.
This means we are not getting visitors to our website, which removes the point of publishing a new piece of content on that website in the first place.
We are literally feeding AI companies and algorithms free content, curated from our own experiences.
This introduces yet another block on our way in publishing new content: Why do so, only for AI companies to come and steal our content for free and present it for their users while we get $0?
Web publishing is absolutely hard at this age, and I am not sure where to go from here.
Ad revenues were pennies anyways even before the AI age, and now they have gone to near zero.
Other small blogs have either already disappeared, or doubled down on cheap content making with AI in order to continue playing the game.
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Firefox 142 has been released.
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/
https://www.firefox.com/en-US/firefox/142.0/releasenotes/
Firefox
Firefox 142.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes
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Writing a new article has been a challenge for us since the beginning of this new AI age. You may not have heard it, but AI has absolutely destroyed content websites across all categories. People now use ChatGPT or Perplexity or Google AI Overview to getโฆ
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LibreOffice 25.8 has been released.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2025/08/20/libreoffice-25-8/
The Document Foundation Blog
LibreOffice 25.8: smarter, faster and more reliable - The Document Foundation Blog
The best open source office suite continues to evolve, while maintaining its focus on privacy and digital sovereignty Berlin, 20 August 2025 โ The Document Foundation announces the release of LibreOffice 25.8. This latest version of the market-leading freeโฆ
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Someone is DDoS'ing Arch Linux infrastructure.
Must be someone who couldn't install it. ๐ป
https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/
Must be someone who couldn't install it. ๐ป
https://archlinux.org/news/recent-services-outages/
Arch Linux
Recent service outages
We want to provide an update on the recent service outages affecting our infrastructure. The Arch Linux Project is currently experiencing an ongoing denial of service attack that primarily impacts our main webpage, the Arch User Repository (AUR), and theโฆ
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Linux Mint 22.2 has been released.
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881
https://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=4881
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