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Fanless industrial PC integrates Jetson Orin Nano 8GB and M.2 expansion

MSI has detailed the MS-C9ZA, a compact fanless Edge AI Box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 8GB module. The industrial system provides dual Gigabit Ethernet, 256GB SSD storage, M.2 NVMe expansion, isolated GPIO, CAN, UART and I2C interfaces, along with optional IEEE 802.3af PSE, 5G, and out-of-band management expansion.

wolfSSL webinar explores wolfIP network driver and RTOS integration

wolfSSL will host a September 30 webinar titled “Porting wolfIP: From Network Drivers to RTOS Integration,” focused on adapting the company’s deterministic TCP/IP stack to new network hardware and real-time operating systems.

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Mozilla Firefox 156 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Firefox 156 include improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images that are scaled down to fit a page, improved dragging of inline images to a new position in a rich-text editor, replacing it with a long line of text instead of moving it, and improved high-sample-rate FLAC audio in MP4 playback.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 13th, 2026

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Shelly 3.1.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds More Improvements

Coming a week after Shelly 3.1.3, the Shelly 3.1.4 release continues to improve the native builder with support for more complex PKGBUILDs, more reliable detection of required files, support for sources that share the same filename, support for cloning Git sources from their original URLs, and improved support for Anydesk, Mandolin, Remora, and Pi.

Shotwell 0.33 Open-Source Image Viewer for GNOME Is Here with GTK4 Port

The biggest news for the Shotwell 0.33 release is that the application has finally been ported to GTK4 for a more modern UI experience. The GTK4 port should improve compatibility with Wayland, such as drag-and-drop exporting, and overall utilization of modern desktop portals.

DietPi 10.7 Adds Support for Containers with Network and ARMv8 VMs

Coming a little over a month after DietPi 10.6, the DietPi 10.7 release introduces support for containers with a network stack and SSH server pre-installed, support for ARMv8 virtual machines, and support for LubanCat 4 SBCs with Rockchip RK3588S SoCs.

KaOS Linux 2026.09 Released with Noctalia 5.1, Linux Kernel 7.1, and Mesa 26.2

As previously reported, the KaOS Linux devs have decided to move away from systemd and the KDE Plasma desktop environment after more than 12 years of using them by default. Earlier this year, in February, they dropped KDE Plasma for a Niri/Noctalia setup.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 27, 2024

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A Week After a Worldwide Windows Outage Microsoft is 'Bricking' Windows All On Its Own, Cannot Blame Others Anymore

A look back at a week of lousy press coverage, Microsoft deceit, and lessons to be learned

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"Why you boss is insatiably horny for firing you and replacing you with software."

Ask McDonalds how this "AI" nonsense with IBM worked out for them
No Olympics

We really need to focus on real news
Nobody Holds the GNOME Foundation Accountable (Not Even IRS), It's Governed by Lawyers, Not Geeks, and Headed by a Shaman Crank

GNOME is a deeply oppressive institutions that eats its own
[Meme] The 'Modern' Web and 'Linux' Foundation Reinforcing Monopolies and Cementing centralisation

They don't care about the users and issuing a few bytes with random characters costs them next to nothing. It gives them control over billions of human beings.
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This isn't a lack of foresight but planned obsolescence
When the LLM Bubble Implodes Completely Microsoft Will be 'Finished'

Excuses like, "it's not ready yet" or "we'll fix it" won't pass muster
"An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs"

The lesson of this story is, if you do evil things, bad things will come your way. So don't do evil things.
When Wikileaks Was Still Primarily a Wiki

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The Free Software Foundation Speaks Out Against Microsoft

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IRC Proceedings: Thursday, July 25, 2024

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