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• KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements - Phoronix
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• See what's next for Firefox — Firefox.com
• systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer
• Introducing Myna: Speech to Text for Ubuntu Desktop
• myna: Myna is a lightweight speech-to-text application for Ubuntu Desktop.
• Linux 7.1 Annouced by Linus on Sunday June 14th — Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the newstoday is 7.1.
• Linux Kernel 7.1 Officially Released, Here's What’s New - 9to5Linux
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• EXT4 Reworks Fast Commit Handling & Faster Directory Hash Computation - Phoronix
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• soltros/Cabinet — Cabinet is a lean, high-performance "File Locker" designed for self-hosting. It prioritizes a fast web experience, mobile-first design, and simple file management without the bloat of complex syncing engines.
• Distro Stu's Nix Router Config
• Pick: Fluxcast — Stream your Linux desktop to a Smart TV via Miracast/WFD, DLNA, or Chromecast.
• Pick: audible-cli — A command line interface for audible package. With the cli you can download your Audible books, cover, chapter files.
• Pick: Import-To-AudioBookShelf — A utility to take books which you legally purchased from Audible and move them into Audio BookShelf
• Pick: quipclipper — Find and cut lossless clips from movies & TV by searching the subtitle dialogue.

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• Preferring Local OSS LLMs
• Qwen3.5 27B vs Gemma4 31B
• Open Models have crossed a threshold
• Gemma 4 — Google DeepMind
• Welcome Gemma 4: Frontier multimodal intelligence on device
• Gemma-4-31B-JANG_4M-CRACK · Hugging Face
• mesh-llm — Mesh LLM lets you pool spare GPU capacity across machines and expose the result as one OpenAI-compatible API.
• hermes-agent: The agent that grows with you — The self-improving AI agent built by Nous Research. It's the only agent with a built-in learning loop — it creates skills from experience, improves them during use, nudges itself to persist knowledge, searches its own past conversations, and builds a deepening model of who you are across sessions.
• goose — An open source, extensible AI agent that goes beyond code suggestions; install, execute, edit, and test with any LLM.
• Lobehub — The ultimate space for work and life. To find, build, and collaborate with agent teammates that grow with you. We are taking agent harness to the next level; enabling multi-agent collaboration, effortless agent team design, and introducing agents as the unit of work interaction.
• LibreFang — LibreFang is an open-source agent operating system written in Rust.
• OpenHarness — OpenHarness is an open-source Python implementation designed for researchers, builders, and the community.
• Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP
• Top 10 Risks and Mitigations for Agentic AI Security - OWASP Gen AI Security Project — Microsoft proclaims their new open-source project is the first toolkit that addresses all ten agentic AI risks identified last year by the OWASP. These risks include goal hijacking, tool musiuse, identity abuse, supply chain risks, code execution, memory poisoning, insecure communications, cascading failures, human-agent trust exploitation, and rogue agents. This new Agent Governance Toolkit is available for Python, Rust, TypeScript, Go, and .NET.
• googleworkspace/cli: Google Workspace CLI — One command-line tool for Drive, Gmail, Calendar, Sheets, Docs, Chat, Admin, and more. Dynamically built from Google Discovery Service. Includes AI agent skills.
• Tunarr API Reference
• Euro-Office launches as Europe's open-source Office rival
• Pick: single-file-cli — CLI tool for saving a faithful copy of a complete web page in a single HTML file (based on SingleFile)
• Pick: html-to-markdown — Convert HTML to Markdown. Even works with entire websites and can be extended through rules.
• Pick: skim — Turns any HTML page into clean markdown.