August saw a number of slew of notable Linux app updates, and in this post I roundup a few that might have passed you by. Unless you’ve been sleeping under a rock you’ll have heard about Firefox 153 and the big OpenShot 4.0 release with colour grading August also an ebook manager Calibre updated that lets you generate new book covers using online generative AI. Open-source Mastodon client Tuba got a stack of new features, while LibreOffice 26.8 debuted a new paragraph engine. We saw the NVIDIA GeForce NOW app leave beta and OpenAI’s ChatGPT Linux beta launch in beta. […]
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Firefox 155 brings AI-powered Smart Window to more countries
Calibre ebook manager lets you generate AI book covers in genre styles
Hands-on with Ubuntu’s AI speech-to-text dictation feature