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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.

LinuxGizmos.com

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

The Espressif ESP-Mosaico is an expandable smart-interaction development kit based on the ESP32-S31 microcontroller. The compact device integrates a 2.16-inch square touch display, audio hardware, motion and magnetic sensors, NAND storage, haptic feedback and dual expansion interfaces for HMI, edge voice and multimedia applications.

schestowitz.com

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

Almost 15

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

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 05, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Richard Stallman's Web Site Back Online, But It Seems Like a 2-Months-Old Snapshot
    Latest political notes are dated July 2 (2026)

    New

  2. The Legal Services Board (LSB) Takes on Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) for Utter Failures, We'll Resume Our SRA Series to Illuminate How Bad the SRA Really Is
    a quick overview of the latest news
  3. Links 04/09/2026: Notorious Patent Trolls' Judge Enters the Private Sector (Corruption, Revolving Doors), Gloria Steinem's Life in Pictures
    Links for the day
  4. Gemini Links 04/09/2026: Worries, Upgrades, and CS Students
    Links for the day
  5. SPAM Disguised as Benchmark or Comparison: The Register MS "PARTNER CONTENT" is Getting Weirder by the Month
    Sites that promote fake 'coins' or pyramid schemes to their audience(s) aren't worth tolerating
  6. PIPs at IBMs are Layoffs Because They're Impossible to Satisfy (or They Terminate Workers Despite Satisfying Them)
    What insiders say
  7. In the United Kingdom You Can No Longer Make the Assumption People Use Windows (or 'Smart' 'Phone')
    As autumn arrives Microsoft faces a crisis
  8. SLAPP Censorship - Part 171 Out of 200: Talking About Corruption and Violence Against Women
    Today the Labour Party (UK) speaks about corruption
  9. Warming Up for Investigative Journalism About the European Patent Office (EPO), Europe's Second-Largest and Probably Most Corrupt Institution in Europe
    It continues to exploit diplomatic immunity for impunity
  10. Microsoft Handing Out PIPs by the Thousands, Anxiety in GAFAM Building Up
    Years ago I heard from people who pretended to be ill to avoid getting fired
  11. BRICS in the Windows: Brazil's GNU/Linux Share (as Measured by CDN) Has Hit Highest Point in a Month
    The largest Web CDN, Clownflare, sees GNU/Linux at 8.1% right now in Brazil
  12. Corporate Media Will Always Glorify Its Owners (Corporations That Value Nothing But Capital)
    Collecting "money" like it's a form of competition where they track "score"
  13. We'll Never Do Slop!
    Being against slop is not being "left behind"
  14. Thieves Complain About the People They Steal From
    "When you point the finger at someone, there are three fingers pointing back to you"
  15. Links 04/09/2026: "The Rise of the Billionaire Lobby", the "Imperialist Delusions", and Digital Restrictions (DRM) From Nvidia
    Links for the day
  16. Buying From China
    Nations must begin to speak about their digital sovereignty, which Free software is best equipped to grant and best positioned to assure in the face of outside resistance
  17. GNU/Linux Continues to Grow in China
    GNU/Linux reached its highest point in a month
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, September 03, 2026
    IRC logs for Thursday, September 03, 2026
  20. Gemini Links 04/09/2026: Forgotten Realms Avatar Series and Slop Plagiarism's Footprint in Gopher/Geminispace
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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