The Document Foundation, the nonprofit behind the free and open-source LibreOffice suite, has explicitly listed the absence of generative AI as a feature in its LibreOffice 26.8 release, stating that …
The Document Foundation, the not-for-profit behind LibreOffice, said it will not add AI features to the default configuration of LibreOffice 26.8 because no current integration meets its principles, w…
OMG! Ubuntu's August 2026 Linux app roundup highlights Firefox 153, OpenShot 4.0 with colour grading, Calibre's new generative AI cover generation, Tuba's feature updates, LibreOffice 26.8's new parag…
A developer released a skill for ChatGPT, Codex, and Claude that preserves Excel .xlsx formatting and Mac compatibility when editing existing workbooks. The skill treats the workbook as an Office Open…
OpenAI's Codex desktop app, now rebranded as ChatGPT, bundles a 1.7GB runtime that includes full Python and Node.js installations, native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice open source off…
France's Interministerial Directorate for Digital Affairs (DINUM) announced on April 8, 2026, that it will move its own workstations from Windows to Linux and require every ministry and public operato…
AI agents still cannot reliably automate Excel evaluation, especially in cloud environments without the Excel application installed, according to Orcaset's eval suite. Agents often fall back to hidden…
The Document Foundation released LibreOffice 26.8, explicitly rejecting AI features in the suite, while Collabora, whose staff was expelled from TDF in April, had introduced AI as an opt-in feature in…
LibreOffice 26.8 will introduce an improved Tabbed interface, but the Document Foundation emphasizes that the traditional menu-and-toolbar layout remains fully supported and will not be deprecated. Th…
A developer has built a job application automation pipeline using Claude Code that reduces application time from 45 minutes to about 90 seconds per application. The system scrapes a job posting, tailo…
An experiment testing 11 AI subagents on Claude Code's PPTX skills found that only Anthropic's official skill and slides_maker produced native OOXML tables, while most third-party skills painted table…
A developer found that their 14,000-line Python desktop app, built with heavy AI assistance, suffered from 'diff debt'—code merged without being read. The clearest example was five separate PDF genera…
Tech advice journalist offers a guide for users who want to avoid AI features in apps and operating systems, including disabling AI in Google Search, Chrome, Gmail, Microsoft 365, and Apple Intelligen…
Collabora released CODE 26.04, a preview of its web-based office suite, featuring improved AI integration (off by default), Markdown support, and enhanced accessibility. The release intensifies compet…
A developer created an automated slide-making pipeline using Orxhestra, a local LLM agent framework. The pipeline uses a llama.cpp server with the Qwen3.5-35B-A3B model to plan, implement, screenshot,…