{"podcast":{"title":"Linux & Open Source News","slug":"linux-open-source-news-5948837","podcast_index_feed_id":5948837,"rss_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/feed.xml","website_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast","image_url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/media/podcasts/tlenewspodcast/cover_feed.png","author":"Nick","episode_count":175,"summary":"Weekly roundup of everything new in the Linux and Open Source world! May contain gaming and privacy related topics. This is a longer counterpart to the Linux and Open Source news videos available on The Linux Experiment Youtube Channel. I’m Nick, I’ve been making Linux and Open Source related videos on YouTube since 2018, with a sizeable following of more than 300 000 subscribers. I’ve been using Linux since 2006, starting with Ubuntu (like most people), and I have 12 years of experience in project management and UX, and that’s the lens I use to view the progress of our Linux desktops and open source applications!","last_synced_at":null,"page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837"},"episode":{"title":"More Office Suite drama, chrome installs AI model without consent, Cool Plasma 6.7 things","slug":"more-office-suite-drama-chrome-installs-ai-model-without-consent-cool-plasma-6-7-things","published_at":"2026-05-09T10:43:24+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/more-office-suite-drama-chrome-installs-ai-model-without-consent-cool-plasma-6-7-things","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837","url":"https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com/@tlenewspodcast/episodes/more-office-suite-drama-chrome-installs-ai-model-without-consent-cool-plasma-67-things","audio_url":"https://op3.dev/e,pg=e407bff5-dc32-54c1-b1a7-8edd8a885d8f/podcast.thelinuxexp.com/audio/@tlenewspodcast/more-office-suite-drama-chrome-installs-ai-model-without-consent-cool-plasma-67-things.mp3","summary":"💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux & Open Source audio show! https://www.patreon.com/thelinuxexperiment Or you can support me with a one time donation: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/thelinuxexp https://liberapay.com/TheLinuxExperiment/ 👕 Buy TLE Merch: 👕 https://the-linux-experiment.creator-spring.com/ 📹 Watch Linux videos: 📹 https://www.youtube.com/thelinuxexperiment 🎙️ Leave your feedback here: 🎙️ https://podcast.thelinuxexp.com 01:35 LibreOffice questions the sovereignty of Euro office https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/05/05/thank-you-on-behalf-of-odf 04:17 Plasma 6.7 will come with its new style engine https://9to5linux.com/kdes-new-css-based-style-engine-union-is-coming-to-kde-plasma-6-7 06:27 Plasma 6.7 fixes big performance issues https://zamundaaa.github.io/wayland/2026/05/06/making-wl-shm-fast.html 08:27 Google Chrome installs a model on device without consent https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chrome-silent-nano-install/ 11:20 Linux kernel guidelines for adding new filesystems https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vfs/vfs.git/commit/?h=vfs-7.2.misc&id=b34d597faae60a4c89235205478497b975e86bc5 14:13 Pilot project for open, Linux based workspaces in the Netherlands https://vng.nl/artikelen/digitale-werkplek-geen-memo-maar-demo-werkplekken-in-open-source 15:40 Someone remade Unity Desktop with Wayfire and libadwaita https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/05/ubuntu-unity-desktop-wayfire-recreation 18:04 Dell and Lenovo now sponsor LVFS https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Lenovo-Sponsoring-LVFS 19:17 Ubuntu’s Twitter account compromised https://itsfoss.com/news/ubuntu-twitter-compromised/ 20:38 Valve opens reservation queue f…","meta_description":"💻 Get a Linux computer from our sponsor, Tuxedo💻 https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en# 👏 Support the show here: 👏 Patreon supporters get the daily Linux &am…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":1448,"processing_state":"processed","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/linux-open-source-news-5948837/episodes/more-office-suite-drama-chrome-installs-ai-model-without-consent-cool-plasma-6-7-things/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/linux-open-source-news-5948837/more-office-suite-drama-chrome-installs-ai-model-without-consent-cool-plasma-6-7-things.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}