Ubuntu's web infrastructure is undergoing its second major DDoS attack year. Canonical is working to resolve the incident. Core services, like Snap updates, ISOs, PPAs and Single Sign-On for Ubuntu Pro enablement are NOT affected.

Blanc is a new open-source web browser built on Electron. Instead of a tab strip and toolbar it uses a 'dynamic island' that expands on demand. Its creators say their aim is to make web pages "the main event again".

Ubuntu 26.10 has entered beta, with ISOs of the release dubbed the 'Stonking Stingray' available to download. Highlights include Linux 7.3, GNOME 51 and a new window snapping experience.

Similar, but it is not that one. Ubuntu (since 2023) has preinstalled its own fork of the Tiling Assistant extension. Code adding this feature was merged and uploaded to 26.10 this week.

Ubuntu 26.10 adds a new way to tile your app windows. A layout picker will slide in from the top of the screen when you drag and hold a window. Drop it onto a zone to instantly tile it. The concept should be familiar if you’ve used Windows 11.

Ubuntu's been working on a new voice to text tool called Myna, powered by local voice speech recognition models. This week, the various components were added the Snap Store, making it possible to try the tech out early.

Ubuntu kernel security updates will soon be arriving weekly. Canonical has changed it cadence to keep pace with what it says is an 'explosion' in vulnerabilities being found and reported by researchers using AI tools. The changes take effect from the end of this month.

I had no idea this existed 👀. This is quite something!

A new system monitor app that runs on Linux, but from an unlikely author. TMOG is the work of David Plummer, a developer who created the original Windows Task Manager in the mid-90s. While his new apps is free to use, it's not open-source and some features require a $40 license to use.

Used The GIMP, but never gelled with it? This (very enjoyable) article does a good job at articulating why. Spoiler: it's not you, and it's not the software, it's just about expectations.

Like others, really enjoyed watching this. Lots of interesting ideas, and plenty of food for thought. The fact, as you say, Wayland /can/ do a lot of this already is encouraging – I just know gonna be writing a "That viral future Linux desktop? You can now try it…" type post in the near future 👀.

Obscura VPN now has a desktop app for Linux. While VPNs aren't rare, this one does something most don't: it routes your traffic through two different providers: it acts as the 'entry' node, and Mullvad the 'exit'. Neither gets a 'full' profile. It's also made its source code GPLv3, which is nice.

Geary e-mail client, reborn? Kinda! Convey is built from the same code, but adds new features and a UI port to GTK4. It's available to install from Flathub.

"60% of the time, it works every time". (Jealous).

Calibre has been updated with a “create your own adventure” game, powered by AI. You design a world, create a character and shape the story by your choices to the text (and images) the AI generates. Just what users of a *checks notes* /ebook manager/ will be clamouring for

I just dug to the bottom of my Big Box of Cables to find two cables that I needed for something. They've been in the bottom for 10+ years. So, "when are you ever gonna use these?" was today. Don't ever let anyone take your Big Box of Cables away.