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Forlinx’s New SoM Leverages Rockchip RK3562J Quad-Core Processor

Forlinx Embedded has launched the FET3562J-C SoM, a versatile system on module with an optional 1 TOPS NPU, optimized for a broad range of applications including industrial automation, consumer electronics, smart healthcare, energy, and telecommunications.

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Tor Browser 13.5 Improves Fingerprinting Protections and Bridge Settings

Coming more than eight months after Tor Browser 13.0, the Tor Browser 13.5 release introduces an improved user experience of the fingerprinting protections by changing the visual design of the letterboxing implementation to avoid distracting users from the content they’re trying to view.

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New Release: Tor Browser 13.5

Regular readers of our release posts will know that for the past two years we've been gradually increasing our capacity to not only maintain, but bring tangible improvements to Tor Browser for Android. In that respect, Tor Browser 13.5 feels like a milestone: in addition to the dozens of bug fixes and minor improvements noted in the changelog below, this release features major changes to Android's connection experience in preparation for the future addition of Connection Assist, including full access to Settings before connecting and a new, permanent home for Tor logs.

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What Makes The Internet? People Coming Together

The following are remarks from Sally Wentworth, Internet Society Managing Director and Incoming CEO, at the IEEE / People-Centered Internet event, ‘A Celebration of 50 Years of the Internet’ from 19 May 2024. Watch the recording of the speech.

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AlmaLinux Launches Engineering Steering Committee

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on May 22, 2024

ALESCo

Quoting: AlmaLinux Launches Engineering Steering Committee —

Three years after AlmaLinux’s first stable release, the distro has reached a new milestone with the creation of the AlmaLinux Engineering Steering Committee (ALESCo), established with a clear mission: to steer the technical future of AlmaLinux.

The committee operates under the directives of the AlmaLinux OS Foundation board and aims to maintain the distribution’s robustness, reliability, sustainability, and relevance.

Essentially, ALESCo will serve as the “air traffic control” for AlmaLinux’s engineering efforts, overseeing the work of Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and ensuring that the operating system evolves in line with user needs and technological advancements.

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