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LILYGO Launches Four New ESP32-S3 Boards for LoRa, Display, Motion, and CAN Applications

LILYGO has announced four new ESP32-S3-based development boards targeting a diverse range of embedded and IoT applications. These boards combine wireless connectivity with specialized hardware such as e-paper displays, CAN interfaces, motion sensors, and GPS modules, and are designed for rapid prototyping and deployment using familiar platforms like Arduino IDE, PlatformIO, and ESP-IDF.

Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Released with Renesas RX Support, USB Video Class, MQTT 5.0, and Nearly 100 New Boards

Zephyr RTOS 4.2 introduces major updates in hardware support, networking, tooling, and power monitoring. With contributions from 810 developers, this non-LTS release brings key enhancements aimed at improving performance, flexibility, and overall developer experience.

LILYGO T-Watch Ultra Features ESP32-S3, AMOLED Display, GNSS, and LoRa Connectivity

LILYGO has unveiled the T-Watch Ultra, a multifunctional smartwatch platform that integrates wireless connectivity, location tracking, long-range communication, and intelligent motion sensing in a compact form. Built around the Espressif ESP32-S3, the device is targeted at developers working on embedded, wearable, and remote sensing applications.

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New Release: Tails 6.18

WebTunnel is a bridge technology that is particularly good at circumventing censorship and might work from places where obfs4 bridges are blocked. WebTunnel disguises your connection as ordinary web traffic.

New Release: Tor Browser 14.5.5

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 10, 2024

Taal volcano in the Philippines

Updated This Past Day

  1. Republished Today: Why the US Declared War on Wikileaks
    The world’s most powerful government vs. the internet’s most influential whistleblower site. Is America’s war on Wikileaks an attack on journalism and free speech?
  2. [Video] Microsoft's Plan is Doomed: Expensive LLM 'Games', Clown Computing Losses, and Mass Layoffs Several Times Per Month
    Microsoft is trying to sweep the bad news under some rug or wardrobe
  3. ZDNet Kills the Linux RSS Feed (Syndication Redirected to Loads of Marketing Spam and Fake Articles)
    Jack Wallen and SJVN have been screwed
  4. Links 09/07/2024: Update on DMCA Case Regarding GitHub Copilot, "There Will be More Like Julian Assange"
    Links for the day

    New

  5. [Video] Apple Still Unleashes Software Patent Menaces That Can Discourage Adoption of GNU/Linux
    Apple's role in spreading patented formats deserves more frequent scrutiny
  6. Links 09/07/2024: Against Slack, Adventures in Webmastery
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] From Innocence to GNUisance in 41 Years
    Always keep an eye on the goal
  8. Faroe Islands: GNU/Linux Climbs to All-time High of 4%
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  9. "Empowering Diversity" at IBM/Red Hat Was Failed PR Stunt
    They know it was a failure
  10. Videos Still Important to Us
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  11. [Video] What the Freedom of Julian Assange Means to the Rest of Us Who Obtain Incriminating Information From Insiders (Sometimes Without Authorisation)
    It's difficult to say anything negative about what happened
  12. Microsoft's LLM Bubble Has Already Burst
    Microsoft's gambit or crazy gamble on "Hey Hi" (AI) hype is running out of steam
  13. Links 09/07/2024: Software Patents Challenged Again, Russia and North Korea Escalate
    Links for the day
  14. Gemini Links 09/07/2024: Asian Hornet, Boundaries, and Gopher
    Links for the day
  15. Canonical is a Microsoft/Wintel Company
    Can Canonical ever recover from this relationship?
  16. Microsoft Media Operative, Citing Leaked Document From Google: "Google’s Numbers Also Show Azure Had a Roughly $3 Billion Operating Loss"
    Fiscal 2023 ended days ago
  17. Why There Are Mass Layoffs in Azure, Thousands Have Been Fired Several Times So Far This Year (and Every Year Since 2020)
    This is why they hop onto "HEY HI" (AI) hype
  18. "No Institution or Project is Too Small to Evade Their Interference and Scrutiny"
    "See what has become of the OSI and Ubuntu / Canonical etc."
  19. Template for Ambitious 'Security' 'Journalists'
    explain why the user downloading and installing a malicious program is the fault of Linux
  20. A Leap for GNU/Linux in Barbados
    2019 - July 2024
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 08, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, July 08, 2024
  23. Thinking of the Next Phase of Wikileaks (and Beyond Wikileaks)
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  24. The Paper Tiger
    Paper tigers don't last long
  25. GNU/Linux Surge in Qatar
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  26. Even Notepad Has Become a Microsoft Keylogger (Spying on Keystrokes)
    To you those are "suggestions"
  27. Windows Falls to an All-time Low Again (26%)
    It'll soon fall to just a quarter of Web requests worldwide

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-07-03 to 2024-07-09
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    1724 /n/2024/07/08/What_s_Growing_in_the_United_States_This_Year_is_GNU_Linux_Not_.shtml
    1584 /n/2024/07/06/Larissa_Brown_Shapiro_Mozilla_concerned_other_organizations_tak.shtml
    1526 /n/2024/07/04/Whistleblowers_from_Open_Labs_Hackerspace_Albania_in_GNOME_Wiki.shtml
    1323 /n/2024/07/08/Debian_Needs_a_Significant_Change_of_Direction_and_Recognition_.shtml
    1313 /n/2024/07/02/GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_Rising_in_Zambia_Android_Rises_Above_72_.shtml
    1063 /n/2024/07/03/Things_to_be_Pleased_About.shtml
    1040 /n/2024/07/03/It_s_Time_to_Say_Goodbye_to_Microsoft_and_Bill_Gates.shtml

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