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How to enable noise-suppression-for-voice for gaming and other apps on Linux

Fairphone 5 sets a new standard with 8-10 years of Android support and a 5-year warranty

Distill Web Monitor for price change alerts on any website

Which should we use in 2023: HEIC Photo Format vs JPEG and PNG and WEBP formats

The German Rhineland-Palatinate State Parliament has ditched X (Twitter) in favour of open-source decentralised Mastodon

Darknet Diaries Podcast: True stories from the dark side of the Internet

GPU Screen Recorder For Linux Adds Support For AMD And Intel GPUs: Similar to ShadowPlay for Windows

Study shows 95% of wearables were contaminated with various forms of bacteria: Metal still better than plastic or rubber

Smart Garbage Trucks with AI are perfect for spotting street maintenance issues

Firefox can now import and use Chrome extensions

Pine64 Pinecil V2 Open-Source and Portable Soldering Iron

Don’t just blindly trust your mobile phone app when hiking or trail running around Cape Town, do these things as well!

2FAS is a private, free and open-source two-factor authenticator for Android and iOS, and Desktop Browsers

Australia’s internet providers are ditching email, to the disgust of older customers: But maybe it’s a good thing actually

India’s e-Gov digital public goods diplomacy scores wins around the world

LG has a 27-inch battery-powered touchscreen 1080p LCD ‘TV’ in a suitcase

OpenFarm is a free and open database for farming and gardening knowledge: Open-Source is not just Software

After two years of testing, Cape Town’s Golden Arrow Bus Service will go operational with 60 new electric buses per year

India, the world’s largest smartwatch market, is getting new smart rings by BoAt and Noise, similar to Oura but likely cheaper

You can build your own NAS home server and save $100s

Omnivore is an excellent open-source read-it-later alternative to Pocket, that can be self-hosted as well

Cult of the Dead Cow releases Veilid: A secure open-source Peer-to-Peer network for apps that flips off the surveillance economy

Both the TETRA radio and Microsoft Azure Cloud vulnerabilities are ‘Negligent Security Practices’ and ‘Security Through Obscurity’ is not secure

No More Windows! Indian Defence Services are Switching to Linux: Indian Govt offices to use Linux distribution, replacing Microsoft Windows

14 podcasts to teach kids about history, identity, and current events: Easy ways to add to the education they’re getting in the classroom

ONLYOFFICE DocSpace: The Best Open-Source Collaborative Platform for Linux

Bots are better than humans at cracking ‘Are you a robot?’ Captcha tests, study finds

New AI-Driven Cyberattack Can Steal Your Data Just By Listening to You Type: Need to Blur Video and Mute Sound now!

Fluent Reader is a modern looking open-source desktop app for RSS News Reading

If Zoom’s ToS change worries you, there is always open-source Jitsi Meet video conferencing without the 40 min cut-off time

South African fibre veterans launch United States expansion plan: Finding a niche not filled by US fiber providers

4 Big Positive Changes coming to Google Search – including removing Private Info and Images from Search