Microsoft fixes broken Excel copy and paste across Office versions

Microsoft has released fixes for the Excel copy-and-paste failure caused by September’s KB5002914 update, expanding coverage beyond the initial MSI-based Excel 2016 fix. Administrators must manually install the applicable Office package, and some workbooks with conditional formatting may still require a workaround.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-fixes-broken-excel-copy-and-paste-across-office-versions/

Microsoft freezes Microsoft 365 companion apps ahead of 2026 shutdown

Microsoft has stopped updates and automatic installations for the Microsoft 365 Calendar, People, and Files companion apps ahead of their permanent retirement on December 16, 2026. Existing copies may continue running until then, but administrators should now prevent redeployment and begin removing them from managed devices.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/microsoft-freezes-microsoft-365-companion-apps-ahead-of-2026-shutdown/

Combined installer for aMode and vMode in Windows Admin Center version 2610

Microsoft has released Windows Admin Center version 2610 as a public preview. The headline change is a combined installer that covers both Administration Mode (aMode) and Virtualization Mode (vMode). The preview also adds Azure Arc onboarding, backup and restore, and certificate lifecycle management to vMode, plus a redesigned Azure registration experience. At the same time, Microsoft removed the preview VM Conversion tool for VMware migrations because of a change at Broadcom.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/combined-installer-for-amode-and-vmode-in-windows-admin-center-version-2610/

Grok 4.7 keeps Grok 4.6 pricing while cutting the cost of agent work

Grok 4.7 is now available at Grok 4.6’s standard API rates, but early Cursor testing suggests the larger model can complete coding tasks more cheaply. SpaceXAI is targeting agents that work for hours, using longer training, improved self-checking, and a 500,000-token context window to reduce failed attempts and retries.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/grok-4-7-keeps-grok-4-6-pricing-while-cutting-the-cost-of-agent-work/

📰 AMD BC-250 Continues Being Improved Under Linux With Patches Now Enabling The PSP

The AMD BC-250 as the product designed at the time for cryptocurrency mining and based on a cut-down Sony PlayStation 5 APU continues having an interesting second-life being re-tasked for Linux use from general purpose workloads to AI. Sent out this weekend were the latest Linux kernel patches for continuing to enable more of the BC-250...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-BC-250-Linux-PSP-Support

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https://phoronix.com/news/AMD-BC-250-Linux-PSP-Support

📰 Ubuntu Would Rather Kill Your Apps Before It Takes Down The Session

Ubuntu 26.10 is shipping a change that should keep the desktop standing when your memory runs out.

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https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17468373/ubuntu-26-10-oom-policy

Wallpapi offers a cooler way to switch wallpaper on GNOME

Wallpapi is an Omarchy-inspired wallpaper switcher for GNOME desktops that offers a slicker. When installed on GNOME 50, it lets you “browse a folder of wallpapers as a full-screen carousel of parallelogram cards”. As you page through available options, the focused image is previews as a wallpaper in the background, so you can see it larger – which is cool. As soon as you find the drape you want, you hit Enter to set it as the background. Helpfully, choices are scheme-aware too, so a light or dark variant is available Wallpapi sets it per your system dark mode preference. […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/wallpapi-wallpaper-gnome-extension

Ubuntu accidentally lost another package from its cloud images

Another package went missing from Ubuntu 26.04 LTS’s minimal cloud images, this time xxd , a CLI tool for viewing files as hexadecimals. It’s the second time this has happened, following the accidental removal of curl I reported on in August. Both packages vanished for the same reason. When Canonical dropped its pollinate tool, which had been used to generate ‘randomness’ during boot, it altered the image’s dependency chain and packages that relied on it, quietly disappeared along with it. While xxd wasn’t present on the initial set of image, it was still available to install from the Ubuntu’s archive. Canonical has since restored […]
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https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-server-xxd-missing

📰 GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements

GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents...

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Wget-2.3-Released

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https://phoronix.com/news/GNU-Wget-2.3-Released

Introducing GNOME 51

▶️ —> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6zy8gzXero

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https://youtube.com/watch?v=S6zy8gzXero

LibreOffice 26.8 preserves unsupported Microsoft charts

LibreOffice 26.8 can now round-trip several Microsoft Office chart types without displaying or editing them, protecting documents from accidental chart removal. The safeguard does not fully cover regional map charts, whose geographic data may be lost when files are opened and saved in LibreOffice.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/libreoffice-26-8-preserves-unsupported-microsoft-charts/

GPT-6 Astra hits 53% on Rails benchmark while Gemini regresses

GPT-6 Astra climbed from 35% to 53% on the Agents on Rails coding benchmark when reasoning was pushed to maximum, but Gemini went backward despite higher cost and effort. The results show that maximum reasoning is a model-specific tradeoff—not a universal accuracy upgrade—and even rescued GPT-5.6 Luna from a scoreless previous run.
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https://4sysops.com/archives/gpt-6-astra-hits-53-on-rails-benchmark-while-gemini-regresses/

📰 openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM Updates Improve Raspberry Pi Support, Add Linux 7.2

openSUSE Project released new updates for the openSUSE Tumbleweed ARM port with Linux kernel 7.2 and improvements for Raspberry Pi, Rockchip, i.MX, NXP, and other SBCs.

🔗 Source: https://9to5linux.com/opensuse-tumbleweed-arm-updates-improve-raspberry-pi-support-add-linux-7-2

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Компания Valve представила экспериментальный видеокодек Pyrowave

Компания Valve объявила о включении в состав бета-версии клиента Steam видеокодека Pyrowave, оптимизированного для потокового вещания видео с низкими задержками в сетях с высокой пропускной способностью. Кодек добавлен в качестве опции в сервис Steam Remote Play, позволяющий вести вещания игрового процесса или транслировать вывод на свою систему при игре на других устройствах. В Linux-версии кодек становится доступен при активации в настройках режима Steam SteamRT3 Steam Client. Реализация кодека написана на языке C++ и распространяется под лицензией MPL.

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https://www.opennet.ru/opennews/art.shtml?num=66317

📰 Garuda Linux Begins Nixification By Promoting Its Sybsystem

The Nix subsystem now installs as a standalone distro and is available in the Dr460nized and Mokka flavors.

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https://feed.itsfoss.com/link/24361/17468553/garuda-linux-nixification

Вышла Pictura Noctis 1.0.0

Pictura Noctis — программа для установки случайной картинки в качестве обоев рабочего стола из указанной директории в Noctalia Shell из командной строки, написана на Rust.
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 cli, noctalia, rust, новости от saahriktu

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https://www.linux.org.ru/news/opensource/18384577

📰 Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates

Here's some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer... With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for "Orphaned VMs" allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/news/Orphaned-VMs-Linux-Patches

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https://phoronix.com/news/Orphaned-VMs-Linux-Patches

📰 Googlebooks are (almost) here: Liliputing News Roundup

Google positions Android as an open source operating system, but the company has ultimate control over what gets released to AOSP, and now Google is making some of its newest APIs exclusive to Google Pixel devices, at least until Android 17 QPR2 is released. grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS/ • The first Googlebooks go up for pre-order today for $899 and up • Winamp is making a comeback... again.

🔗 Source: https://liliputing.com/googlebooks-are-almost-here-liliputing-news-roundup/

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https://grapheneos.social/@GrapheneOS

Obscura VPN now has a desktop Linux app

Obscura VPN has launched a native Linux app, giving desktop users an easier way to access it (without wrangling Wireguard configuration files). Linux isn’t short of VPN providers, but Obscura, founded by former Bitcoin Core contributor Carl Dong, has a different pitch to most. Rather than your traffic being routed through a single provider, Obscura VPN uses a two-step relay: it acts as the ‘entry node’ (seeing your original IP address) while another VPN provider, Mullvad, acts as the ‘exit node’ (the websites you visit). Obscura’s Linux app also supports the QUIC-based stealth protocol, which disguises your VPN connection as […]
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📰 AMD EPYC Server Performance Up ~8% Geo Mean For 2026 With Linux Kernel Improvements

With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026.

🔗 Source: https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-618-73-amd-epyc

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https://phoronix.com/review/linux-618-73-amd-epyc