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The most Microsoft support document of all time
I have stumbled upon the most Microsoft support document of all time. Support for the Microsoft Store installation type of Microsoft 365 Apps is ending. New feature updates will stop in October 2025 and security updates will end in December 2026. If yo...
2025-07-23 23:00
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Thunderbird 141 Adds ‘Archive’ Notification Action + More
MZLA Technologies Corporation has released an update to open-source email client Thunderbird. Thunderbird 141 brings those using the monthly releases small set of improvements, none large enough to peel folks away from Extended Support Maintenance (ESR...
2025-07-23 22:59
Thunderbird 141 Adds ‘Archive’ Notification Action & Fixes
Thunderbird 141 brings minor changes to the email client, including a new notification action, OpenPGP key warnings, and better Exchange login support. You're reading Thunderbird 141 Adds ‘Archive’ Notification Action & Fixes, a blog post from OMG!...
2025-07-23 22:59
XMLUI builds React-based UIs with simple markup
A newly introduced open-source project, XMLUI, promises to allow developers to build React-based user interfaces with clean and modern themes without requiring React or CSS expertise. The XMLUI framework provides a catalog of components and a theme sy...
2025-07-23 21:19
Release Notes for Safari Technology Preview 224
Safari Technology Preview Release 224 is now available for download for macOS Tahoe and macOS Sequoia.
2025-07-23 21:00
Valve Linux Engineer Working On A Big Improvement For Old AMD Radeon GPUs
Timur Kristóf as a contractor on Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team is known for his work on the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler but recently he's been working on some improvements to the AMDGPU kernel driver. A big feat he's be...
2025-07-23 20:32
Wayback 0.1 released
Wayback, the recently announced tool that will allow you to run a legacy X11 desktop environment on top of Wayland, has just announced its first release, version 0.1. As the version number implies, there be dragons here, but the developers state some o...
2025-07-23 18:11
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Microsoft Fabric to lose auto-generated semantic models
Microsoft Fabric users will soon face more work to set up analytics workflows for new datasets, as Microsoft is retiring a feature that automatically creates semantic models on enterprise data. Semantic models are structured representations of data th...
2025-07-23 16:38
GNOME Foundry Taking Shape As "An IDE In A Box" With CLI Tooling
Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new "IDE in a box" of sorts and with CLI tooli...
2025-07-23 16:38
GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source, But Who Should Really Pay?
GitHub is urging the EU to create a €350m fund for open source maintenance. But as Big Tech profits, should taxpayers be the ones to pay the tab? You're reading GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source, But Who Should Really Pay?, a blog post from OMG...
2025-07-23 16:23
GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source
GitHub is urging the EU to create a €350m fund for open source maintenance. But as Big Tech profits, should taxpayers be the ones to pay the tab? You're reading GitHub Wants the EU to Fund Open Source, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not reproduce e...
2025-07-23 16:23
AMD Strix Point Linux Performance Comparison One Year After Launch
How time flies... This week already marks one year since the debut of AMD's Zen 5 Strix Point laptop processors with the likes of the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 and Ryzen AI 9 365 that also rolled out the RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics. In marking one year that S...
2025-07-23 14:50
Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer
Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under t...
2025-07-23 14:46
systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes
Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, in...
2025-07-23 14:00
Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features
The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features...
2025-07-23 12:00
Blender Now Supports Properly Importing & Exporting HDR Videos
In addition to Blender 5.0 supporting HDR on Linux when using the Vulkan API and with Wayland, another important high dynamic range (HDR) milestone landed this week into Blender: the ability to both import and export HDR videos...
2025-07-23 11:47
Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated
Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series...
2025-07-23 10:41