The Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS HWE update is now available to install. It brings Linux kernel 6.17, Mesa 25.2.7 and Wayland Protocols 1.45 to the current LTS.

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JetBrains confirms native Wayland support for IntelliJ IDEs starting in 2026.1. The move from X11 improves scaling and performance for Linux developers.

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LibreOffice 26.2 is here with multi-user Base, better Excel pasting, Markdown support and speed boosts. Coming to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Download now.

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Papers gains new PDF annotation tools, including ink, text boxes and improved form support, now available in GNOME Nightly builds.

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You will be able to disable AI features in Firefox 148, Mozilla has announced. The next major update of the web browser, scheduled for release in late February, will offer an AI feature kill-switch in its new AI Controls panel. You’ll be able to turn off Firefox’s AI features at a granular level. If you want to use some features, like on-device translations, but not others, like Google Lens image search, you can pick and choose: If you don’t want any AI features in Firefox at all, a single ‘Block AI enhancements’ toggle acts as a kill-switch. But notice the […]

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Yowch – Raspberry Pi has announced further price hikes to its single-board computers, bumping the cost of some models by as much as $60. The latest increases are on top of the ones announced late last year for certain memory capacity models of the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5. Why the rise? It’s not to goose any bottom lines but what the company describes as an “unprecedented rise in the cost of LPDDR4 memory, thanks to competition for memory fab capacity from the AI infrastructure roll-out”. “The cost of some parts has more than doubled over the last quarter. As […]

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