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OpenShot 4.0.1 Video Editor Released with Timeline and Zoom Improvements

Coming almost a month after OpenShot 4.0, the OpenShot 4.0.1 release introduces official Snap support on Linux systems that use Ubuntu’s Snap package format via the Snap Store, and an updated Razor tool that now lets you preview the frame at a cut, snap to timeline targets, and remove unwanted footage while closing the gap.

Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Improves the VA-API HEVC Hardware Encoder on Linux

Shotcut 26.9 is here almost two months after Shotcut 26.7 with new features like Automatic Ducking for audio, volume control, and an audio level meter/indicator for timeline track headers, and a new Adjustment Clip option in Timeline > Generate to create a dummy video clip to apply its filters to the composite of all video tracks below it.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 27th, 2026

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Budgie 10.10.3 Desktop Environment Introduces Free Placement of Desktop Icons

Coming more than six months after Budgie 10.10.2, the Budgie 10.10.3 release introduces the ability to place desktop icons wherever you want on the desktop, brings back the Keyboard Layout applet, adds the ability to choose the primary monitor, and improves the Labwc bridge integration to listen to budgie-daemon.

GNOME 50.5 Improves Multi-Monitor Support, HDR Support, and More

Coming one and a half months after GNOME 50.4, the GNOME 50.5 release improves the opening of windows created via the new-window action to appear on the correct workspace, improves keyboard navigation on the unlock dialog, improves switching of workspaces with direct scanout, and adds support for tracking magnifier mouse position without polling.

PeaZip 11.3 Archive Manager Improves ZPAQ Support, Adds New Themes

Coming two months after PeaZip 11.2, the PeaZip 11.3 release improves ZPAQ support with a new “Force typing password interactively” option, and a new option to automatically explore the output path with PeaZip after a task is completed, which also changes the behavior of internal drag-and-drop copy/move actions to explore the destination path.

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ESP32-S3 powers EWatch smartwatch with open drivers and DIY options

EWatch, developed by Ewan Wills, is a programmable ESP32-S3 smartwatch with a 1.69-inch color touchscreen, 350mAh battery, vibration feedback and USB-C connectivity. The platform is offered as a bare PCB, self-assembly kit or complete watch, following more than five years of development.

ESP-Mosaico centers dual-core RISC-V ESP32-S31 around a 2.16-inch square AMOLED

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Health Before Optics

Dishwashing liquid

Covering Abuse and Lawfare Twice Per Day

The public must know, the law needs to be reformed

Feels Like Autumn, Even Winter

Change of plans

Doing What It Takes to Protect Democracy

It’s under attack

Age of Bikes

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Man City’s Fate

Go ahead and appeal

Reform UK is Like Brett Wilson LLP: Funded by Americans That Seek to Ruin Britain’s Democracy and Press Culture

Helping Americans who strangle American women bully people in the UK who correctly reported that

Sites That Do LLM Slop (and Images) Will Perish and Go Offline

It’ll happen. Wait and watch.

Investigative Journalism Today

The thing we wish to do all the time, not death threats

Blacklisting Sites That Use Slop

So long

news

Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 28, 2026

Hortus Malabaricus

Updated This Past Day

  1. Dejan Panovski Outs linuxize.com as a Slopfarm, Another Site That Sold Out and Became LLM Garbage
    From what we can gather, both images and text are slop

    New

  2. Gemini Links 27/09/2026: Writing Well, Productivity, and a Relaunch in Geminispace
    Links for the day
  3. Making This Site More Useful to More People
    Search engines (as a concept) are under attack
  4. Exposing Crimes of Americans (From the UK)
    We must ensure UK prisons are never misused to punish/silence people who expose crimes in America
  5. Spam and Chatbot Spam in Internet Relay Chat (IRC)
    Maintaining one's own IRC network requires some housekeeping, but it's simpler than outsourcing to malicious companies
  6. Search Engine of Techrights Improved for Better Signal-to-Noise Ratio
    Our growing community needs more search facilities
  7. Microsoft: We Love Layoffs, We Do Silent Layoffs, More Microsoft Projects/Teams/Studios Confirmed to be Shutting Down
    XBox is dying. Piece by piece.
  8. Brigading Against Women - Part VI - On Garrett and Lozza, Defamation, Attempts to Crack My Wife's Accounts, Social Engineering to Try to Take Sites Offline, Subscribing Us to Mountains of SPAM
    tried swatting us
  9. Links 27/09/2026: "Provost of Dartmouth Busted Using Hey Hi (AI) Slop for His Own Writing in Newspapers and Academic Journals" and "UK Government Enforcement Reform"
    Links for the day
  10. People and Sites Wish a Happy 43th Birthday to GNU (Today)
    We've collected some examples
  11. Links 27/09/2026: Microsoft Fired People a Day After Promotion, "Fragility of Online Journalism"
    Links for the day
  12. Brigading Against Women - Part V - SWATTING, Extortion Against Webhosts, and Lawfare Under Sworn Oath (Perjury Also)
    Matthew Garrett has no qualm about still collaborating with Lozza
  13. 20 Years Later
    There's a strong anti-democracy movement brewing in many places
  14. Gemini Links 27/09/2026: Telescopes/Gskyer, Writing for Writing's Sake, and Writing Tools
    Links for the day
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Saturday, September 26, 2026
    IRC logs for Saturday, September 26, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Sunday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

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    665 /n/2026/09/24/Winding_up_petition_served_on_Reform_UK_Party_Limited_Nigel_Far.shtml
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