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An open source, speech-to-text tool for Linux called Vocalinux has just introduced its 0.14 beta release, bringing about a mix of refinements that touch keyboard shortcuts, remote transcription, and Wayland reliability. We kick things off with the most important usability addition. Earlier, users were stuck with the default toggle orContinue Reading

The idea that Wayland has worse input lag than X11 has been floating around Linux gaming circles for years. Some numbers backing the claim did come up back in 2025, when a developer measured GNOME’s Wayland session against X11 and reported some considerable extra latency. More recently, Marco Nett decidedContinue Reading

Who could have foreseen last week’s news that the Volkswagen Group planned to slash vehicle production, or the more recent announcement that 50,000 more workers might be let go? Well, anyone who has been following the EV transition over the past decade foresaw it, or should have. As the NewContinue Reading

Vishay Intertechnology has narrowed the body of its SOP-5 optocoupler package from 4.4 mm to 3.6 mm. The VOMHA43A is an automotive 1 MBd optocoupler that’s rated for a maximum repetitive peak isolation voltage (VIORM) of 707 Vpeak, which meets the requirements of 400 V battery systems. Competing devices reachContinue Reading

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is getting a fix for Nautilus that restores ‘Delete’ as the focused button in the trash confirmation dialog, undoing an accidental swap that made ‘Cancel’ the focused button instead. That ‘unintentional’ focus flip meant you could no longer hit enter to action file deletion for Trash sinceContinue Reading

The suit, filed in a federal court in Texas Tuesday, alleges Terry Wayne Harwood had at least two Grok accounts using false identifies to create and distribute explicit material., The suit, filed in a federal court in Texas Tuesday, alleges Terry Wayne Harwood had at least two Grok accounts usingContinue Reading

The rural district on the Seneca Nation reservation will be among the first to place a humanoid robot in a classroom., The rural district on the Seneca Nation reservation will be among the first to place a humanoid robot in a classroom., from Newsnation Read MoreContinue Reading

Linux Mint has taken the slow road to Wayland while everyone else rushed ahead, and it looks like that paid off. Cinnamon’s Wayland session is dropping the experimental label with Mint 23 this Christmas, shipping alongside X11 as a fully supported option. And Wayland is not really as slow asContinue Reading

I recently bought an external Dell keyboard that came with a dedicated Copilot key. Since I don’t use Microsoft’s Copilot, the key was doing nothing useful. My new Dell Keyboard comes with a CoPilot key So, I decided to map it to the YouTube Music web app. There is noContinue Reading