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Written in development and lost in ageing: the grammar of cellular identity

Prevalent mesenchymal drift in aging and disease is reversed by partial reprogramming

Russia keeps buying the FIDE presidency

Timestamps:

00:00 Intro

00:30 Sponsor: Proton Mail

01:23 Ubuntu 26.10 beta released

03:58 Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible

05:14 Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools

08:24 F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app

10:00 Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme

12:33 Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS

14:35 PostmarketOS changes name

16:11 Dev proposes that GNOME accepts Al contributions

18:10 Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops

19:33 New minimalist FOSS web browser

21:55 Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation

24:15 Sponsor: Tuxedo Computers

Links

Ubuntu 26.10 beta released

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/10/ubuntu-2610-beta-released

Ubuntu 24.04 to 26.04 upgrade now possible

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2604-upgrades-live-2404

Toolpak introduced as the Flatpak for dev tools

https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2026/09/26/introducing-toolpak/

F-Droid launches full rewrite of the app

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/09/f-droid-gets-its-biggest-update-in-a-decade-with-new-ui-and-smoother-app-installs/

Firefox 157 adds the new Nova theme

https://linuxiac.com/firefox-157-nova-released-with-its-biggest-visual-refresh-in-years/

Igalia working on Firefox for SteamOS

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Deck-Better-Firefox

PostmarketOS changes name

https://nura.eco/blog/2026/09/27/nura-rename/

Dev proposes that GNOME accepts Al contributions

https://arunraghavan.net/2026/09/on-llms-and-free-software/

Ubuntu 26.10 has an image for Snapdragon laptops

https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/09/ubuntu-2610-snapdragon-x2

New minimalist FOSS web browser

https://blancbrowser.com/

Meta found guilty of lying on data protection and moderation

https://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local%20news/new-mexico-wins-second-suit-against-meta/articlee4a95a15-5303-473d-9005-fdedb1ebd619.html

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/new-mexico-wants-meta-pay-up-40-billion-penalties-after-data-privacy-trial-2026-10-01/

A hedge fund in Turkey took circular financing the next level. Collapse, but good preview of (unrelated) AI bubble.

The link is https://info.adif.es/?s=71801

Change the last 5 digits for the code of the train station you want, it can be easily found at https://wwe.adif.es/

I don't find it very useful but I thought it was neat because these are the actual displays of the stations

https://archive.ph/bKl3j

G7 to release 100 million barrels of oil and diesel after Trump export ban threat

The Document Foundation announced today the general availability of LibreOffice 26.8.1 as the first maintenance update to the latest and greatest LibreOffice 26.8 office suite series with compatibility and text import improvements.

Coming a little over a month after LibreOffice 26.8, the LibreOffice 26.8.1 update is packed with bug fixes for various issues, crashes, and other annoyances reported by users, as well as more reliable import of text and CSV files with various character encodings, including UTF-16, ISO Latin 1, Chinese, and Japanese.

LibreOffice 26.8.1 also improves compatibility with DOCX, XLSX, and PPTX files, and brings various other changes across most of LibreOffice’s core components, including Writer, Calc, Math, Draw, and others. In numbers, the LibreOffice 26.8.1 point release addresses a total of 40 bugs.

Details about these bug fixes can be found in the changelog for our tech-savvy readers. Meanwhile, you can download LibreOffice 26.8.1 from the official website as binaries for DEB and RPM-based GNU/Linux distributions, or as a source tarball if you’re a system integrator or want to install LibreOffice from sources.

LibreOffice 26.8 was released on August 26th, 2026, with new features like Paragraph Composer in Writer as a text layout algorithm that balances word spacing across consecutive lines, support for OpenType font variations, and the ability to detect paragraph direction automatically when documents or plain text are opened or pasted.

It also made the style list consistent across the Notebookbar, the Formatting toolbar, and the sidebar, added support for VeraPDF during automated testing when validating PDF output, updated the Quick Find sidebar to allow searching through comments, and implemented a Draft view to hide headers, footers, and margins.

The LibreOffice 26.8 office suite series will be supported with seven maintenance updates until June 13th, 2027. The next point release, LibreOffice 26.8.2, is planned for the end of October. Meanwhile, The Document Foundation recommends that all LibreOffice 26.8 users update to LibreOffice 26.8.1 as soon as possible.

The changelog: https://whatsnew.libreoffice.org/26.8.1/ Earlier changelog: https://whatsnew.libreoffice.org/26.2.6/ Last Major update changelog: https://whatsnew.libreoffice.org/26.2/

And 26.8 Major update I only find as a blog: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/08/26/libreoffice-26-8/

System76's COSMIC desktop now requires contributors to certify that pull requests contain no LLM-generated content. The new template also adds a Developer Certificate of Origin.

US hiring slows and unemployment ticks higher with a month remaining before Americans head to polls

https://poorlydrawnlines.com/comic/things-that-can-fly/

A Tennessee death row inmate remains alive after receiving two doses of execution drugs. The state’s corrections commissioner previously served in Arizona.

Announcing Ante Up - Null Signal Games

As I mentioned in my Dead Software Walking: The ongoing evolution of relayd(8) and httpd(8) post, development of relayd(8) and httpd(8) was revived.