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LibreOffice 26.2.6 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 30 Bug Fixes

LibreOffice 26.2.5 is here one and a half months after LibreOffice 26.2.5 and brings more bug fixes to address various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, as well as stability improvements contributed by LibreOffice’s global community of developers, QA engineers, and ecosystem companies.

Grml 2026.09 Linux Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1, Based on Debian 14 Forky

Coming four months after Grml 2026.04, the Grml 2026.09 release is powered by the Linux 7.1 kernel series and incorporates all the package updates and security patches from the upstream Debian Testing software repositories as of September 2026, which will become Debian 14 “Forky” sometime in 2027.

Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 Is Now Available for Public Testing

Development of Ubuntu 26.10 (codename Stonking Stingray) kicked off on April 30th, 2026, with the usual toolchain upload, based on the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS (Resolute Raccoon) release, which means that it’s powered by Linux kernel 7.0 and uses the GNOME 50 desktop environment. In time, these will be updated to newer versions.

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Cited This Weekend in ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

High-profile publisher

Remembering When Sunday Was Rest Day

‘ve already asked around before writing this, as I generally wanted to ensure this observation and sentiment was not just my own.

Man United Looks Good

Just got ahead…

Manchester/Northwest and London

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Year of Journalistic Accomplishments

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The Cursed Envelope

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5 Years Ago

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Reporting Things Other People Won’t

If only more people did the same…

Dream Start for Enzo

Chelsea and Arsenal cannot both win

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Empowering Parents in Rwanda Through Digital Literacy Training

On a typical busy morning in Rwanda’s Karongi District, Patrice Nshimiyimana, a 44-year-old father of three, sat down with his phone, about to do something he’d never done before: renew his family’s health insurance online.

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Tiny OSM-MF module runs Linux on Sitara AM67 and 4-TOPS AI

Ezurio has announced the Carbon AM67 OSM-MF, a compact solder-down module based on Texas Instruments’ Sitara AM67x processor family. The module offers heterogeneous Arm processing, up to 8GB LPDDR4, eMMC storage, 4-TOPS AI acceleration, multi-display and camera support, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and optional Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E connectivity.

Rockchip RK3576 module powers edge AI dev kit with 20-TOPS RK1820 accelerator

The reComputer RK3576 compute module is based on Rockchip’s RK3576 SoC, which integrates four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at up to 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores reaching 2.0GHz. Graphics are handled by an Arm Mali-G52 MC3 GPU, while the integrated NPU provides up to 6 TOPS of INT8 AI acceleration.

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