AIR Security researchers found a vulnerability, dubbed 'Office Party,' in Claude's official DOCX, PPTX, and XLSX skills, which rely on a helper script that launches LibreOffice via a shared library loaded through Linux's LD_PRELOAD mechanism. Because the script doesn't verify the origin of an existing shared-temp-folder library file, an attacker who plants a malicious file there can get it executed with the privileges of the user running Claude the next time a document is processed. Anthropic has declined to fix the issue.
darkreading.com
· 2026-11-09
Decoded.legal, a small English law firm specialising in internet, telecoms and tech law, has published its latest update on using Free and open-source software throughout its operations, following similar posts in 2022 and 2024. The firm's founder details continued use of Debian with GNOME on a ThinkPad X1 Yoga, alongside tools like Thunderbird, mutt, LibreOffice, pandoc, typst, vim and reveal.js for email, document production and presentations.
decoded.legal
· 2026-11-07
A 38-person pilot at Denmark's digitalization ministry testing Collabora, an open-source office suite integrated with cBrain's F2 case-handling system, has ended without adoption. Internal records obtained by Ingeniøren show testers faced persistent formatting bugs, missing fonts, blank documents and printing errors, and no staff currently use the replacement software.
techspot.com
· 2026-10-26
A CNET writer detailed switching from Microsoft 365 to LibreOffice, a free and open-source office suite developed by The Document Foundation since 2010. The suite includes six applications—Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math—that mirror Microsoft's Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio and Access, and it runs on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
cnet.com
· 2026-10-17
The Document Foundation, which makes the open source LibreOffice suite, says it will not build generative AI into the software for now. It calls this a deliberate design choice meant to keep documents from being uploaded to external servers, and notes users can still connect local AI models through extensions if they wish.
techcrunch.com
· 2026-10-06
According to a report, three unnamed EU officials expressed skepticism about a homegrown European alternative meant to replace Microsoft Teams. The report notes that France earlier this year said millions of its civil servants will shift to domestic video-conferencing tools instead of Microsoft Teams and Zoom by 2027, and that Austria's military replaced Microsoft Office with Germany's LibreOffice last year.
yro.slashdot.org
· 2026-10-04
The Document Foundation's LibreOffice 26.8, released August 26th, surpassed 1 million installer downloads in its first week, excluding updates via Linux repositories, making it the suite's most downloaded release ever. The foundation followed up with a post explaining that it deliberately excludes generative AI by default, citing principles like user control, no data leaving the device, no telemetry, and no vendor lock-in, while still allowing community plugins for those who want AI features.
manualdousuario.net
· 2026-09-08
A user inspecting disk usage discovered that OpenAI's Codex desktop app, now rebranded as part of ChatGPT, stores a 1.7GB cache folder containing full Python and Node.js runtimes alongside native binaries for Poppler, git, and the LibreOffice office suite. Accompanying 'skills' files instruct Codex on how to locate and invoke these bundled tools when handling document-related tasks.
simonwillison.net
· 2026-09-01
The Document Foundation has released LibreOffice 26.8, bringing a set of Writer-focused enhancements. Key additions include automatic RTL text direction detection, a new baseline grid display option, fixed page line-spacing inside frames, and a new Paragraph Composer that balances word spacing across consecutive lines instead of using a simple greedy algorithm.
wiki.documentfoundation.org
· 2026-08-26
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