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MayQueen Introduces a 2.13″ Four Color E-Paper Display for Embedded Applications

MayQueen has introduced the PIXPAPER-213-C, a 2.13-inch prototype electronic paper display developed with Triangle Alien Studio. Featuring a four-color display and an SPI interface, it is designed for low-power, high-contrast embedded applications.

Adafruit Metro RP2350 is Available for $24.95 with Arduino Form Factor Compatibility

As its name suggests, the Metro RP2350 features the RP2350 microcontroller running at 150MHz with dual ARM Cortex-M33 cores. It includes 520KB of on-chip SRAM and 16MB of QSPI flash memory for program storage and file management. The board operates at 3.3V logic and integrates a 5V buck converter, allowing an input range of 6V to 17V DC while providing up to 2A output.

ADLINK and LIPS Introduce 3D Perception DevKit for Autonomous Mobile Robots

ADLINK Technology and LIPS have introduced a perception solution for autonomous mobile robots. The LIPSAMR Perception DevKit integrates ADLINK’s DLAP-411-Orin platform with LIPSedge AE Active Stereo 3D cameras, providing enhanced 3D vision with a wider field of view and higher resolution than LiDAR. Built on NVIDIA Isaac Perceptor, it is designed for smart manufacturing and warehouse logistics applications.

(Updated) Olimex Launches POEv3 Add-On for ESP32-P4 Development Board

Espressif Systems announced the ESP32-P4 over a year ago. While the chip is not yet available for retail, a prototype development board featuring the chip was recently showcased by Olimex. This board includes multiple interfaces, such as an Ethernet connector and a camera connector, demonstrating its versatile capabilities.

ASUS NUC 15 Pro+ Starts at $810 with Intel Core Ultra 9 285H

ASUS has just provided pricing details for the ASUS NUC 15 Pro+, a compact computing system powered by Intel Core Ultra Processors (Series 2), offering up to 99 TOPS of AI acceleration and an 18% increase in performance compared to the previous generation.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 14.0.7

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

Arti 1.4.1 is released: Family improvements, groundwork for Conflux

This release has a client-side implementation for Family IDs (a.k.a. "Happy Families"), which (when used everywhere!) will save relay administrators time and bandwidth. It also starts to lay the groundwork for a full Conflux implementation, to improve performance by sending traffic over multiple paths.

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Firefox 137 Enters Public Beta Testing with HEVC Playback Support on Linux

Firefox 137 looks like a small update that only introduces a couple of new features, namely support for HEVC playback on Linux systems and the ability to identify all links in PDF documents and turn them into hyperlinks.

KeePassXC 2.7.10 Open-Source Password Manager Brings Proton Pass Support

Highlights of KeePassXC 2.7.10 include the ability to import passwords from Proton Pass, but the feature only supports unencrypted JSON files and no Passkeys, support for KeePass2 TOTP configuration settings, and support for generating passphrases using a mix of uppercase and lowercase words, called “MIXED case”.

Mozilla Firefox 136 Is Out with Vertical Tabs and Official ARM64 Linux Binaries

Highlights of Firefox 136 include official Linux binary packages for the AArch64 (ARM64) architecture, hardware video decoding for AMD GPUs on Linux systems, a new HTTPS-First behavior for upgrading page loads to HTTPS, and Smartblock Embeds for selectively unblocking certain social media embeds blocked in the ETP Strict and Private Browsing modes.

Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 Released with VoLTE Support for Volla Phone Users

Coming a little over three months after Ubuntu Touch OTA-7, the Ubuntu Touch OTA-8 release is a small one adding only VoLTE (Voice over LTE) support for Volla Phone X23 and Volla Phone 22 devices running the Halium 12 port., support for WPA3-protected Wi-Fi networks, and the ability to remove a picture from a contact entry.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: March 2nd, 2025

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Reannouncing OpenMandriva deploying Mirrorbits

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 23, 2022

Reannouncing OpenMandriva deploying Mirrorbits - Announcements and Communications - OMA forum

Mirrorbits is a geographical download redirector written in Go for distributing files efficiently across a set of mirrors. It offers a simple and economic way to create a Content Delivery Network layer using a pure software stack. It is primarily designed for the distribution of large-scale Open-Source projects with a lot of traffic.
Reannouncing OpenMandriva deploying Mirrorbits - OpenMandriva

To expand on information about our Mirrorbits mirror management instance we are re-announcing OpenMandriva deploying Mirrorbits

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