2026

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Artemis II astronauts have two Microsoft Outlooks running, neither of which works, 404 Media. Some earthly problems aren’t solved just by leaving Earth. It’s not yet known if either of them is working again. Listen to the audio. On another—more urgent—front, the Orion capsule’s bathroom “jammed” shortly after launch. The problem has been resolved.

Apple Expands iOS 18.7.7 Update to More Devices to Block DarkSword Exploit, The Hacker News. The update, which closes the vulnerability dubbed DarkSword, had initially been released only for devices incompatible with iOS/iPadOS 26.

Moods Faster. A new app to track your mood more quickly in Apple Health. It’s from the same creator of Remind Me Faster, an app that lets you create tasks in Apple Reminders more quickly. I sense a pattern here… For iOS and iPadOS, R$ 1.50/month, R$ 13.50/year, or R$ 33.99 for a lifetime license.

CSS or BS? So you think you know everything about CSS? This game tests your knowledge by presenting attributes and asking whether they exist or not.

Command Line Corner. A large collection of Linux terminal commands. Some are little-known (and super useful).

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Nextcloud’s fork of OnlyOffice violates the AGPLv3 license, It’s FOSS. Nextcloud (German) and the hosting company Ionos created the Euro-Office fork, citing a lack of transparency and OnlyOffice’s Russian origins as their motivations. The OnlyOffice team is outraged, claiming that Euro-Office violates the AGPLv3. Nextcloud post; OnlyOffice post.

Meta and Ray-Ban announce a new generation of glasses for perverts. With new AI features that nobody cares about and cameras, the new glasses (two models) are optimized for prescription lenses and have removable nose pads. Abroad, launch on April 14^th for USD 499.

15 years of Waterfox. Waterfox was created to offer Firefox builds for 64-bit systems. The next major update will include a built-in ad blocker.

Stickers featuring Apple’s new mascot. Developer Simon B. Støvring created emojis of the Finder Guy, the mascot Apple created to promote the MacBook Neo on TikTok. (See images.) The download link expires in two days.

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A supply chain attack affects the axios package on npm. This package has 100 million (!) weekly downloads. Attacks of this type on npm are rare, but they do happen frequently.

From rich text to video: RCS Universal Profile 4.0 arrived. In theory, the new version of RCS will enable video calls between Android and iOS phones. It also supports rich text (bold, underline, etc.) and settings for the quality of transferred images and videos. Despite the release, it will be a while before this version reaches our phones. Apple is still testing version 3.0, which was released in March 2025 and features end-to-end encryption…

Proton Meet. Proton, which used to be just an email service, is establishing itself as a “mirror” alternative to Google Workspace. The free version of Meet supports up to 50 participants in sessions lasting up to 1 hour.

Google allows changes to usernames. The “username” is what appears before @gmail.com. For now, only in the US. The name can be changed every 12 months.

Why the metaverse was doomed from the start. Some might say that now that the metaverse has imploded, it’s easy to make this kind of analysis, but this one is worth watching for the wealth of details condensed into a video of just 17 minutes. It has several insights that I missed when I watched the fateful metaverse presentation five years ago.

VitruvianOS. A Linux distro based on the old BeOS in active development.

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Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds, TechCrunch. An AI, powered by Claude, that creates custom feeds on Bluesky and apps compatible with the AT protocol at the user’s request. In the future, Attie may also create apps based on the protocol. For now, it’s in closed beta. Access it here.

Installing unverified apps on Android will carry over to new devices, Android Authority. This news, shared by a Google employee, makes things even better for those who want to use the “advanced flow” to install apps not verified by Google. The video answers other relevant questions.

cssDOOM. Doom recreated with CSS. (Works best on Chromium-based browsers.) Worth reading the creator’s post. Hot tip from Renan.

brrr. A new iOS app that lets you schedule and receive personalized notifications. USD 0,99/month or USD 9,99/year.

Wander. Click the “Wander” button, and a random personal website or blog will appear.

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Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds, The Guardian. The fines are negligible, but what matters most here is the precedent this ruling sets.

GitHub will use user data to train AIs. This begins on April 24^th. If you don’t want this, you can (for now) disable sharing in Copilot’s settings. There are tons of options there; the one related to this new feature is apparently “Allow GitHub to use my data for AI model training.”

ClassicPress 2.7.0. The admin panel now supports “view transitions” (smooth transitions between pages) and there’s a new option to enable object caching. And, as always, the code is more efficient, with fewer JavaScript libraries and more pure JS. Can’t wait to use CP here on the Manual!

Samsung Browser for Windows. It’s now available worldwide, but for now the new “agentic” features are only available in South Korea and the US. Download here.

Font from the movie War Games. The font used on the terminals in the famous 1980s movie War Games.

“Liquid Glass” on Brazilian TV Globo, in 1994. Who would have thought, right? What’s worse is that it looks a lot like Apple’s Liquid Glass effects.

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OpenAI shuts down the Sora app. It’s (was) its TikTok of AI-generated videos.

Disney scraps plan to invest USD 1 billion in OpenAI, Variety. Did you hear that *pop*? It’s the bubble bursting…

Wine 11 rewrites how Linux runs Windows games at the kernel level, and the speed gains are massive, Xda-Developers. Little by little, Linux is becoming the best platform for running games made for Windows.

Samsung announces the Galaxy A57 and A37. Samsung’s two mid-range models. The A57 features a slimmer body and AI capabilities never before seen in the A series.

Apple releases iOS 26.4, macOS 26.4, etc., MacMagazine. Safari got its beloved compact tab layout back (amen!) on macOS, and iOS now exchanges messages with Android via RCS with end-to-end encryption.

Krita 5.3 and 6.0. The 5.x series is compiled using the Qt5 framework, while Krita 6 uses Qt6. The main new features are full Wayland support, a redesigned text tool — allowing text to be edited directly on screen — and a new tool for creating comics.

TRS-80 Manual: Eliza. The brief manual for the first chatbot in history. And yes, even back then (1979) they called ELIZA “artificial intelligence.”

Morsify. This website translates typed text into Morse code in real time.

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Samsung brings AirDrop support to Quick Share with Galaxy S26 series. Initially in South Korea, but other markets are next in line, as are other Samsung devices.

Ubuntu 26.04 ends 46 years of “silent” sudo passwords, Omg! Ubuntu. The next version of Ubuntu will display asterisks when typing passwords for sudo commands in the terminal. Previously (and in other distros), typing had no visual feedback “for security” — which, let’s face it, doesn’t make much sense anymore. Mint did this first.

Thunderbird Roadmap. Mozilla’s email client now has a public roadmap, broken down by platform (desktop, Android, iOS, and services).

Firefox 149. The main new feature, free VPN, is available in a few countries with a gradual rolling, but there are other new features and improvements that justify the update, especially the window with two sites side by side: right-click on one that’s in the background and select, from the menu, something like “Add to Split View”.

OpenShort 3.5. It’s not every day that a project announces “the biggest update in our 18-year history.” The main improvements are a new default timeline and an average 35% increase in speed, particularly in effects and frame processing. FOSS, free, and available for ChromeOS, Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Labels in Signal. Similar to WhatsApp, you can now set labels for yourself in Signal groups. Obviously, everything is end-to-end encrypted. Administrators have the option to restrict labels to themselves.

Pika. A color picker for macOS that displays the contrast ratio and offers a global keyboard shortcut. Available on the App Store for USD 4.99, or for free by downloading from GitHub (it’s FOSS).

100 Jumps. Hold the spacebar (or your finger on the screen) to adjust the square’s jump. For every three perfect jumps (in the center of the platform), you earn an extra life. Tip from Rafael.

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Android developer verification: Balancing openness and choice with safety. Google has finally revealed what the “advanced flow” for installing apps from unverified developers will look like. It’s a bit of a hassle, but you only have to do it once. Better than I expected.

Our commitment to Windows quality. Big updates coming to Windows 11, such as changing the taskbar position, deciding when the computer restarts to apply updates, and the removal of Copilot from Notepad. It’s fascinating that Microsoft has messed up Windows 11 so badly that rolling the system back to… I don’t know, Windows 95 is seen as a major step forward, a “commitment to quality.”

PowerToys 0.98. The big news is a dock, or a second taskbar on the desktop. Microsoft should put these guys in charge of Windows. Speaking of which…

Creator Fast Track: A new way to quickly grow your audience and earn money on Facebook. Meta will pay a salary to content creators who post on Facebook. The bots that inhabit Facebook will see more sanitized content.

Gazette. A bridge that takes newsletters from a Gmail email to an RSS feed. Too bad it requires a lot of configuration involving Docker and the Gmail API.

Nightingale. A karaoke app that separates the vocals, transcribes the lyrics, and plays the song with the lyrics synced. Free, for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

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GNOME 50 “Tokyo”. One of the most feature-packed updates in recent memory, with support for “fractional scaling” and variable screen refresh rates, new parental controls, various accessibility improvements, and a comprehensive file annotation system *.pdf in the Document Viewer (Papers) app.

Death to Scroll Fade!. He could have just used “lorem ipsum” to make his point. Web designers of the world, listen to this man.

Obsidian’s “Reading Mode.” Obsidian’s Web Clipper extension got a new feature that redesigns a web page to make reading easier. (Several browsers offer this natively.) I liked the look. To use “reader mode,” you don’t need to have Obsidian installed on your computer or phone.

Fedora Asahi Remix 43. The Linux distro for M-series Macs has gotten a major update, with support for the Mac Pro and additional features on the MacBook Pro M2 Pro/Max, as well as major updates to core components of Fedora, such as RPM 6.0 and DNF5.

Moody. Another ingenious use for the notch on recent MacBooks: as a teleprompter. (Too bad the app is so pricey.)

Aeris. A beautiful, real-time visualization of commercial flights. Unlike other apps and sites of its kind, this one is “3D” in the sense that you can see the altitude of the aircraft.

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Meet Kit, your companion for a new internet era. Mozilla has officially unveiled Firefox’s new mascot. This “new internet era” is, according to Mozilla, “shaped by AI and a web that’s harder to trust.” I believe the two phenomena are deeply connected.

Free VPN, split window, and more: new features coming to Firefox 149. The free VPN will use Mozilla’s infrastructure, has a 50 GB data cap, and, unfortunately, will initially be available in only a few countries — US, France, Germany, and UK. Two split-screen sites in the same window and tab notes are the other two new features coming to Firefox 149, which is set to launch on March 24^th.

Samsung to stop selling USD 2,899 TriFold phone after three months, Bloomberg. You could say it flopped, but that argument is hard to sustain given that Huawei is selling its dual-fold screen phone well in China.

Garmin gets a WhatsApp app. The app offers features common to other smartwatch OSs, such as reading and replying to messages, reacting with emojis, and viewing recent message history. Compatibility is limited to the most advanced/expensive models. Link to the app in the Garmin store.

Affinity Updates: From the Light UI to Smoother Workflows. The first major update to Affinity under Canva’s umbrella highlights the new light interface. Since when is dark mode the default/priority?

Tumblr: Chain reblogs now have their own notes. Automattic stirred up a hornet’s nest by changing Tumblr’s note system (likes, comments, and reblogs). The backlash was so strong that, within two days, company leadership decided to reverse the change.

RMF. An interactive map of Brazil showing the locations of ERBs, radio/TV antennas, and fiber-optic cables.

Scroll speedometer. Scroll the page as fast as you can, in the same direction, for five seconds. On the MacBook Air trackpad (cheating, I know), I managed 4,419 pixels per second.

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The new Ubuntu folder icons, Omg! Ubuntu. The changes will come in Ubuntu 26.04, scheduled for release in April. In addition to the folder icons (I think they’re prettier!), the LibreOffice and Calculator icons have also been updated.

Eye of the Match. It’s fascinating how every activity gets turned into a video game. In this game, still in development, you take on the role of the virtual assistant referee (VAR) in a football game.

CAPTCHA Hell. In this other even more absurd game, the challenge is to solve CAPTCHAs — those puzzles that many websites impose on you to prove you’re human (or a competent robot). Is it actually fun?

Super Tux. I didn’t know there was another game (this one, a platformer) featuring Tux, the Linux mascot. The new version (0.7) includes a level editor. Free, FOSS, for Android (*.apk), Linux, macOS, and Android.