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This time, we have The Pine 64 announcing the PinePhone PRO, Firefox putting ads in the suggestions bar, and a study confirming that Android gathers a LOT of data on their users, on top of major Ubuntu and KDE releases.

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Linux Christian Schaller, the Director for the Desktop at Red Hat, posted another article about PipeWire and the Linux video capture stack. https://blogs.gnome.org/uraeus/2021/10/01/pipewire-and-fixing-the-linux-video-capture-stack/

GNOME 42 will bring the "dark style" preference to all users, without the need for GNOME Tweaks. https://blogs.gnome.org/alexm/2021/10/04/dark-style-preference/

Ubuntu 21.10 was released, bringing with it GNOME 40 and its horizontal workspaces. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXfpbsCXUmE

KDE Plasma 5.23 was released, also dubbed Plasma 25th anniversary edition. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6kzggGR2OHo&t=77s

Hardware Tuxedo announced their new InfinityBook Pro 14. https://www.tuxedocomputers.com/en/Linux-Hardware/Linux-Notebooks/10-14-inch/TUXEDO-InfinityBook-Pro-14-Gen6.tuxedo#

Valve published a video, opening up the Steam Deck and showing how it's laid out inside. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dxnr2FAADAs

The Pine64 announced the PinePhone Pro, the more powerful successor to the PinePhone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ar8JdKj5Yv8

Apps Firefox 93 was released, supporting the AVIF image format. Firefox introduces Firefox Suggest, and fancy name to describe ads in the suggestion bars. These aren't rolled out to everyone, and are turned on by default, although you'll be able to disable them in the settings. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/93.0/releasenotes/

The onlyoffice desktop editors have been updated to version 6.4. https://www.onlyoffice.com/blog/2021/10/onlyoffice-desktop-editors-v6-4-with-improved-arm-support-and-conditional-formatt ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3sdoA_2hMc