Visual Studio Code 1.98 shines on GitHub Copilot
Visual Studio Code 1.98 has arrived, featuring enhancements to the GitHub Copilot AI coding assistant, including previews of Copilot Next Edit Suggestions, Copilot agent mode improvements, and Copilot Edits support for notebook files. Otherwise known ...
Thunderbird 136 Release Adds New Appearance Controls
Desktop email client Thunderbird announced a move to monthly releases by default earlier this year, allowing new users to benefit from new features, sooner – as the new Thunderbird 136.0 release makes evident! Thunderbird 136.0 sees messages auto-ad...
The Apache Software Foundation Announces New Board Members
The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) held its Annual Members’ Meeting today. The following individuals were elected to the ASF Board of Directors: The ASF thanks Willem Ning Jiang, Jeff Jirsa, and Craig Russell for their service, and welcomes our new...
KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, and More
KDE Gear 24.12.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the latest KDE Gear 24.12 open-source software suite series with fixes for various KDE applications. The post KDE Gear 24.12.3 Improves Dolphin, Konsole, Tokodon, Itinerary, Kasts, an...
Huawei’s New Laptops May Run Linux, not HarmonyOS Next
Is Huawei planning to ship Linux on its upcoming MateBook laptops instead of HarmonyOS NEXT? A fresh leak out of China this week suggests so. Huawei is no stranger to selling laptops with Linux. Various models in its MateBook 13, 14, 15, and MateBook X...
Browser choice? Here’s how EU’s DMA is helping make it real
Too often, well-intentioned regulation misses the mark. This can be due to poor design, poor implementation, poor compliance, or failure to address unintended consequences. But the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has the potential to be different. The...
Thunderbird for Android January/February 2025 Progress Report
Hello, everyone, and welcome to the first Android Progress Report of 2025. We’re ready to hit the ground running improving Thunderbird for Android experience for all of our users. Our January/February update involves a look at improvements to the acc...
Comparing Fuchsia components and Linux containers
Fuchsia is a new (non-Linux) operating system from Google, and one of the key pieces of Fuchsia’s design is the component framework. Components on Fuchsia have many similarities with some of the container solutions on Linux (such as Docker): they bot...
Google, DuckDuckGo massively expand “AI” search results
Clearly, online search isn’t bad enough yet, so Google is intensifying its efforts to continue speedrunning the downfall of Google Search. They’ve announced they’re going to show even more “AI”-generated answers in Search results, to more peo...
Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default
For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren't over the finish line yet and ...