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LibreOffice is a free, open-source productivity suite available on Windows, macOS and Linux that includes Writer, Calc, Impress, Draw, Base and Math as alternatives to Word, Excel, PowerPoint and other Microsoft Office apps. It supports Microsoft file formats such as DOCX, XLSX and PPTX, though complex formatting or macros can sometimes render differently between the two suites.
Wonder Tools, a newsletter covering useful apps and sites, published a roundup of five techniques for overcoming writer's block. The suggestions include using dictation apps, running timed writing sprints, and applying AI-generated prompts to get past a blank page.
A recruiter approached an operations executive with a lucrative senior role or board position offer, which later turned out to be a scam. The incident highlights how scammers target high-level professionals with enticing but false opportunities. The executive, a résumé writer, shared the experience to warn others about these costly schemes.
Jeopardy! publicly advertised its clue-writing position for the first time in the show's 42-year history, attracting over 1,300 applicants in just eight days for a role paying up to $178,000 annually. Candidates faced the same 50-question test given to contestants, plus had to draft full rounds of categories and clues sourced only from verifiable references, with Wikipedia and AI tools explicitly forbidden.
Director Adam Wingard has confirmed that his long-discussed live-action or hybrid 'ThunderCats' movie has not been shelved, despite the lack of recent updates. He explained the delay is due to his commitments to other projects rather than any cancellation of the film.
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.