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AI coding agents can write documentation that reads well, but a new benchmark finds they often leave readers unable to finish the task the docs are supposed to explain....

Canonical’s New Ubuntu Concept Image Brings First Support for Snapdragon X2 Laptops

Updated Oct. 24, 2026, 12:57 a.m. ET: Adds that Ubuntu 26.10 shipped Oct. 15 with early Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop support and a known keyboard issue. See the...

Google Earth Engine Adds AI to Code Editor for Natural Language Geospatial Analysis

Google Earth Engine users can now ask Gemini to write, explain, debug and speed up their scripts without leaving the Code Editor. The new Ask panel, which sits on the right side...

Unicode 18.0 Adds 13,007 Characters, From Ancient Chinese Seals to Sideways Thumbs

The Unicode Consortium has published version 18.0 of the Unicode Standard, adding 13,007 characters and bringing the total to 172,808. Most of the new code points come from hist...

Canonical’s Revenue Rose 18% to $345 Million in 2025, Filing Shows

Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, brought in $345 million in revenue in 2025, up from $292 million in 2024, according to its annual report filed with the UK's Companies Hous...

Fedora Users Debate Swapping LibreOffice for Collabora Office, but No One Has Filed a Proposal

A Fedora KDE user wants the distribution to stop shipping LibreOffice and preinstall Collabora Office instead, and the idea has turned into one of the busiest threads on the...

Linux Kernel Weighs AGENTS.md File to Tame AI Coding Agents

Updated Oct. 24, 2026, 2:13 p.m. ET: Adds that the AGENTS.md patch was applied on Oct. 14 and that kernel maintainers have since agreed to drop the Assisted-by tag requireme...

KDE’s Draft LLM Rules Are Pulled After an AI-Native Desktop Talk Sets Off a Community Fight

KDE developer Nate Graham has apologized after his draft rules for LLM-assisted contributions turned into a public fight that ended in two bans, a removed thread and an outside...

Task Manager’s Creator Used Claude Code to Build a Cross-Platform Successor

Dave Plummer wrote the original Windows Task Manager at Microsoft three decades ago. His new take on it, TMOG, short for Task Manager OG, runs natively on Windows, macOS and Lin...

At 30, KDE Hears a Pitch to Rebuild Plasma Around a Personal AI Model

KDE is celebrating its 30th anniversary this year, and one of the talks on the program at its Akademy conference in Graz, Austria, argued that Plasma should become an "AI-native...

Linux Kernel Rules for AI Coding Tools Put Every Patch on a Human

The Linux kernel now has formal written rules for developers who use AI coding assistants, and the core message is that a person, not a model, answers for every patch. The guida...

Microsoft Makes Rust a Tier-1 Internal Language and Wires It Into MSVC

Rust is now a tier-1 language inside Microsoft, alongside C++, C# and TypeScript. "Rust now is a Tier One language at Microsoft, and that just means that it sits among C++, C# a...

An Akademy Talk Pitches an AI-Native KDE Plasma as the Desktop Turns 30

KDE turns 30 this year, and one of the talks at its Akademy conference in Graz, Austria, this weekend asks the community to rethink what the Plasma desktop is for. Longtime cont...

OpenSpec 1.13.1 Hardens Its Spec-First Workflow for AI Coding Agents

AI coding assistants can write code quickly, but they also make assumptions quickly, and the intent behind a change tends to get lost once the chat session ends. OpenSpec, an op...

Perplexity Built Its CobbleDB Database With Two Engineers and Hundreds of AI Agents, but Kept Agents Out of Production

Perplexity decided it was paying too much for DynamoDB and didn't have enough control over read performance, so it built its own database. CobbleDB is a roughly 40,000-line Rust...

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