Author name: Tobias

KDE Plasma 6.8 arrives on 14 October as the first version without an X11 session. In parallel, the current 6.7.4 brings important AMD GPU and Wayland fixes.

FFmpeg 9.0 “Lei” natively decodes animated WebP files and greatly expands GPU acceleration via Vulkan and CUDA. The name honours Lei Xiaohua.

Immich 3.1.0 adds EXIF and server-path filters for workflows, an undo button when archiving, OIDC role sync and further improvements.

Mira Murati’s startup Thinking Machines Lab releases Inkling, its first open AI model – multimodal, Apache-2.0 and freely downloadable.

Signify’s Philips Skylight is a large LED ceiling panel that simulates natural daylight for windowless rooms – but it’s missing one key smart home feature.

Discord trials cryptographic proofs via digital wallets while Google and OpenAI turn to AI behavior analysis for age verification. What it means for privacy.

Microsoft brings WSL Containers to public preview: native Linux containers on Windows 11 with their own CLI, API and GPU support – no Docker Desktop needed.

Google’s Home Speaker is its first new smart speaker in years – with Gemini built in, 360-degree sound and an NPU, for 99.99 US dollars.

China’s Z.ai has released GLM-5.2 under an MIT license as an open model – a 753-billion-parameter model for long, autonomous coding tasks.

The EU F-gas regulation bans R32 in new units from 2027/2029. What it means for the Midea PortaSplit and the tricky propane (R290) successor.