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EndeavourOS Titan Nova Is Out with Linux Kernel 7.1 and KDE Plasma 6.7.4

Coming four months after EndeavourOS Titan Neo, the EndeavourOS Titan Nova release is the second minor update to the EndeavourOS Titan series, which arrived on March 12th, 2026, with the Linux 6.19 kernel series and KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment. EndeavourOS Titan Neo is here with KDE Plasma 6.7.4 and Linux kernel 7.1.8.

DXVK 3.1 Released with Initial Support for DXGI Present Parameters

Highlights of DXVK 3.1 include initial support for DXGI present parameters to fix UI rendering issues in VirtualDJ and various game launchers, such as Ubisoft Connect, and support for creating render target views on buffers directly, which is used by various older Frostbite engine titles, including Battlefield 3.

Calibre 9.14 Open-Source E-Book Manager Is Out with More AI Features

Coming three weeks after Calibre 9.13, the Calibre 9.14 release is here to introduce more AI features, including the ability to generate book covers using AI with different cover styles such as romance, sci-fi, pulp fiction, etc., as well as Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models, while removing the GitHub backend.

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Summer Ends Tomorrow

Life goes on

The Bogus Narratives

ROSS distortion of facts is possible when the media is not functioning.

Further Thoughts on Russia

ne need not be a “conspiracy buff” to claim there may be imminent threat from Russia because even national broadcasters and mainstream media talk about it [1, 2]. “Russia always attacks,” a friend tells me, “it’s only ever a matter of when…”

The Escalations None of Us Wanted

Hours ago:

Growing Risk, Not Just to Ukraine But to NATO

This is 2026

The Thing You Entered the Kitchen to Do… But Forgot

Time to get back to pen and paper?

Mayfield Coffee Shop Opens

It’s now open!

A Dream Start

Haaland and Cherki both score twice in Man City win at Crystal Palace

The USA is on the Side of the Aggressor

The “King Cheeto” (Trump) does photo ops with Putin, no photos like the one below.

“Western Capitalism” in the ‘New Age’

rowing up in the 2000s, having been born in the 90s or later, seems very hard to me. I have a sister like that. To the generation that needs to work for another ~50 years before retirement it seems like “the future” is full of uncertainties. Those born in the early 90s at least have some more experience, sometimes savings.

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Orange Pi Zero 4 with Octa-Core Allwinner A733, PCIe 3.0, and Wi-Fi 6

Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board combines an octa-core Arm CPU, a PowerVR GPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR4X/LPDDR4 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces in a 50 x 55mm form factor.

MSI WS300 with 72-Core Grace CPU, Blackwell Ultra GPU, and Dual 400GbE

MSI has detailed the XpertStation WS300T60L, a tower workstation based on NVIDIA’s DGX Station architecture and GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra platform. The system is aimed at AI development, data science, inference, AI agents, and physical AI workloads, with a 72-core Arm processor, Blackwell Ultra GPU, up to 748GB of coherent memory, and dual 400GbE connectivity.

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How LibreOffice is funded

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Aug 29, 2026

Quoting: How LibreOffice is funded - TDF Community Blog —

LibreOffice 26.8 is the first version to display a donation banner in the Launch Centre. This document explains the reasons behind this decision and provides information on The Document Foundation’s sustainability model.

All figures are taken from the financial statements of The Document Foundation Stiftung, based in Berlin, and have been published on the website for every year of the foundation’s existence since its registration.

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