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Google shuts down a sneaky malware backdoor on millions of Android TV and Google TV boxes

Google has confirmed that an Android TV device maker snuck a backdoor for malware onto certified devices, which is leading to security improvements for the ecosystem as a whole. more…

9to5Google · EN

AAWireless expands beyond Android Auto adapters with new cooled Qi2 car charger

AAWireless is known for helping you convert a wired Android Auto connection into a wireless one, but the company is now launching a new product – an active-cooled Qi2 car charger. more…

9to5Google · EN

Gelly is a GTK desktop music player for Jellyfin and Navidrome

If you run your own music streaming server using Jellyfin or Navidrome/Subsonic, and you want a solid desktop player to browse and stream your library in, Gelly is worth a look. It bills itself as a “native, lightweight music player” for the aforementioned streaming servers (along with compatible ones). It’s written in Rust and GTK4/libadwaita and, as any good player should, it lets you browse, play and control music playback. And it does all of that with a modern design and layout. Having recently set up Jellyfin on my Raspberry Pi 4 (to replace its ageing installation of dust and […] You're

OMG Ubuntu · EN

We added a manual dark mode toggle to the site (cos you asked)

You may have noticed OMG! Ubuntu looking a little cleaner lately. Earlier this month, Sam and I finally rolled out a refreshed site backend, along with some changes to the bits you look at when you come here. Boring stuff to read about, I know. But a few of the changes were done because readers asked for them, so I wanted to quickly mention them. Firstly, the mobile homepage is now info-dense. Recent posts appear in a compact list; you can see more of the latest articles at a glance rather than needing to scroll (and scroll, and scroll, etc) […] You're reading We added a manual dark mode toggl

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This app lets you manage Nothing & CMF earbuds on Linux

Adjusting active noise cancellation (ANC) on Nothing or CMF earbuds means taking out your phone, opening the official mobile app and twiddling a setting there. EarA, a new open-source tool, aims to nix that palaver. It’s a GTK4 app (with a CLI for those who prefer the terminal), and lets you change settings on earbuds like the Nothing Ear (a) and CMF Buds 2, from your Linux desktop. Noise control/ANC levels can be switched with a click. There are toggles to disable personalised ANC and in-ear detection and use low latency. Gesture behaviours (on supported devices) can be set as […] You're read

OMG Ubuntu · EN

Ubuntu 27.04 ‘Tenacious T-Rex’ opens for development

Development on Ubuntu 27.04, codenamed ‘Tenacious T-Rex’, has officially begun. The tenacious archive is now open (30 October 2026), with auto-sync from Debian set to pull in a tranche of updated packages since the Ubuntu 26.10 release. Over the course of the next six months, those will be tested, set and form the basis of the final, stable release. Ubuntu 27.04 is scheduled for release on 22 April 2027, with a beta preceding it on 1 April (not a joke). Ubuntu 26.10 saw its beta delayed by a week, but hopefully the new development cycle has fewer hiccups. What to […] You're reading Ubuntu 27.0

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Sanket lets you redesign GNOME’s date menu and Quick Settings

Sanket is a GNOME Shell extension that lets you rejig how the desktop’s date menu, calendar, notifications and Quick Settings look and behave – and then some. It can put notifications beneath the Quick Settings menu in a floating island, or embedded inside of it. Quick Settings toggles can shrink to dots when space is tight, and expand again as and when needed, Android-style. As well as shrinking Quick Settings pills to dots, other menu tweaks let you show up two rows of controls and choose if volume and brightness sliders remain visible in compact mode. An ‘edit’ mode lets […] You're reading

OMG Ubuntu · EN

Enlightenment desktop 0.28 released with better networking

Enlightenment 0.28 has been released, the first major update to the open-source desktop environment since early 2025. Given the time between this and the previous 0.27 release, the changelog is suitably lengthy. Networking and audio stack enhancements, UI and UX tweaks and, of course, plenty of bug fixes are listed – no jaw-dropping UI changes, though. v0.28 adds a new Network Manager module. This supports connecting to and managing wireless, wired and Bluetooth networking connections, as well as VPNs. It plays signal strength, security and other connection details. On the audio side, a native

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Linux App Release Roundup (October 2026)

October’s Linux app releases brought plenty of treats, a couple of tricks and mercifully few frights. In this post, I recap the updates that landed last month. There were other spooks in the shadows with a spotlight. October gave us a double-whammy of Firefox and Calibre updates, with JEPG XL support added in the former and AI reading voices in the latter – among other changes in both. It also delivered a ‘fully rebuilt’ ONLYOFFICE 10.0 with optional AI tools and KeePassXC 2.8, which added its long-awaited support for Wayland auto-type. System cleaning tool BleachBit fixed issues with admin cl

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Raspberry Pi announce another eye-watering price hike

Hot off the back of price rises it announced in October, the Raspberry Pi Foundation today said the cost of its Raspberry Pi 5 single-board computers is going up again. From November 2026, the Raspberry Pi 5 with 16 GB RAM rises by $80, now priced at $385 from approved resellers. The model launched at $120 back in 2025, rose to $205 in early 2026, and later incremental increases got it to $305. And it’s not the only model whose price tag will be making wallets wince. A $40 price hike hits the Raspberry Pi 5 Compute Module (CM5) with […] You're reading Raspberry Pi announce another eye-watering

OMG Ubuntu · EN

The Linux 7.4 Merge Window Is Easily The Largest In Kernel History

After writing this morning with some stats about the size of the Linux 7.4 merge window and the kernel's source tree approaching 42 million lines, I was curious to run some numbers for putting the size of the merge window into perspective against the major kernel releases of the past 15 years. This shows the definite recent uptick due to AI/LLM activity...

Phoronix · EN

Kwi Being Developed As New KDE Terminal Emulator With 3x To 35x Performance

A new KDE terminal emulator is in development as a modern alternative to Konsole. Kwi is this new terminal app being built atop the Ghostty library...

Phoronix · EN

Linux 7.4-rc1 Released With Nice Performance Improvements, AMD Ryzen Zen 6 Preparations & AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Default

Even with Linus Torvalds having been on holiday, Linux 7.4-rc1 is out today on-schedule for capping off the Linux 7.4 merge window...

Phoronix · EN

Steam On Linux Just Under 4% For October 2026

Valve just published their Steam Survey results for October and point to a small uptick in Linux gaming use on a relative basis...

Phoronix · EN

Raspberry Pi 5 16GB Price Rises To $385 USD

Raspberry Pi announced their latest round of price hikes as a result of the RAM shortages and increased pricing continuing to affect the industry...

Phoronix · EN

KDE Linux Nearing Its Beta Milestone, Now Ships With NTSYNC By Default

KDE developer Nate Graham published his monthly blog post on Sunday to outline the current state of KDE Linux and some of the changes made to this in-house Linux distribution over the course of October. Additionally, KDE Linux is nearing its beta milestone after beinbg in development for over one year as a reference Linux distribution for KDE...

Phoronix · EN

FreeRDP 3.33 Released With WebAssembly Support, Huge Influx Of Activity Due To AI

The FreeRDP 3.33 software released today as the newest version of this open-source Microsoft Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) implementation...

Phoronix · EN

Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Adopts An LLM Policy

The Mesa RADV driver that provides Vulkan API support for AMD Radeon GPUs on Linux has adopted its own policy around AI / large language models (LLMs) for code contributions...

Phoronix · EN

Brand New Layouts with CSS Subgrid

Subgrid allows us to extend a grid template down through the DOM tree, so that deeply-nested elements can participate in the same grid layout. At first glance, I thought this would be a helpful convenience, but it turns out that it’s so much more. Subgrid unlocks exciting new layout possibilities, stuff we couldn’t do until now. ✨

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Sprites on the Web

In game development, it’s common to use spritesheets for animation, but this technique isn’t as widely used on the web these days. Which is a shame, because we can do some pretty cool stuff with sprites! In this post, we’ll share the niche CSS function you can use to leverage this technique, and explore some of the potential use cases.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Sneaky Header Blocker Trick

There is a lil’ UI detail on this blog. Most people don’t even notice it, but the ones who do often reach out, asking how on earth it works. It feels like it defies the rules of CSS! In this blog post, I’ll break down the surprisingly-straightforward implementation so you can start using this trick yourself.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Squash and Stretch

Have you ever heard of Disney’s 12 Basic Principles of Animation? In this tutorial, we’ll explore how we can use the very first principle to create SVG micro-interactions that feel way more natural and believable. It’s one of those small things that has a big impact.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

Scroll-Driven Animations

The new Animation Timeline API allows us to create dynamic scroll animations without any JavaScript! It’s honestly a very lovely API, and in this blog post, we’ll explore some of the super cool things we can do with it.

Josh W. Comeau · EN

CSS vs. JavaScript

There are a bunch of JavaScript animation libraries out there, and you might have wondered whether there’s a performance cost compared to traditional CSS transitions and keyframe animations. In this blog post, we’ll compare the same animation across several different strategies and see the differences firsthand. There’s some interesting nuance here!

Josh W. Comeau · EN