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I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

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.

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

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.

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

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.

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

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.

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

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.

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

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.

I collect cool, interesting links spread all over the web and share them here every Thursday. Hope you enjoy! More of them in the archive.

Microsoft quietly scraps plans to bring Copilot to notifications and Settings on Windows 11, Windows Central. “Boss, people are saying they don’t like spoiled food. What do we do?” “Change the name to just ‘food,’ without the ‘spoiled,’ and keep serving the same slop.”

I tested Firefox’s new AI “smart window” in beta, Omg! Ubuntu. Yeah… it looks like the home screens of “AI browsers” like Comet (Perplexity) and Atlas (OpenAI). It’s fascinating how much time, resources, and manpower Mozilla spends to reinvent the wheel (and it still comes out a bit square). Since it’s in beta, things may change before the official release.

GIMP 3.2. The main new features in the first update of the 3.x series are “link layers” (equivalent to Photoshop’s “smart objects”) and the creation of vector layers. Free, FOSS, available for Linux, macOS, and Windows.

Marknote 1.5. This Markdown editor from the KDE project skipped 2025, but has already received two major updates in 2026. It looks great for those running KDE Plasma.

“Hello, world”, @Gargron@mastodon.social. Exactly ten years ago, the first post ever was published on Mastodon.

AltStore on the fediverse. AltStore, an alternative app store for iOS, is on the fediverse. Apps, including updates and news, can be shared across the fediverse, and users can view Fediverse likes directly in AltStore, as well as connect their Mastodon or Bluesky accounts to like apps without leaving the store app.

Just the Article Please. Paste the URL of a post/article/text and this site, as the name suggests, returns only the text.

Cool Stuff. We’re being pretty literal today. A page with… cool stuff, organized in a mosaic of images.