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16-TOPS AI SBC with SATA 3.0 runs on octa-core Sophgo BM1688

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.

wolfSSL adds post-quantum algorithms and AURIX TC4xx support alongside wolfIP

wolfSSL has detailed several embedded security updates covering deterministic networking, post-quantum cryptography and automotive hardware security. The updates include the wolfIP TCP/IP stack, NIST-validated post-quantum algorithms in wolfCrypt, native Falcon and FrodoKEM implementations, and wolfHSM support for Infineon’s AURIX TC4xx family.

Fanless OnLogic controllers pair Core Ultra with CODESYS and fieldbus expansion

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MINIX mini PC uses 5-core Intel Wildcat Lake processor with 24-TOPS AI performance

MINIX has listed the N304-AI, a compact mini PC based on Intel’s Core 3 304 processor with integrated Intel Graphics and an Intel AI Boost NPU. The system provides 16GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual M.2 NVMe storage, dual Gigabit Ethernet and triple 4K display support.

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COSMIC 1.9 Desktop Environment Released with COSMIC Viewer and COSMIC OSK

Coming about two weeks after COSMIC 1.8, the COSMIC 1.9 release introduces two new apps, namely COSMIC Viewer as an image viewer that supports a wide range of formats and features built-in editing capabilities, and COSMIC OSK as an on-screen keyboard that supports both touch and gamepad input.

Canonical Releases Mir 2.30 with wl_fixes Wayland Protocol Support

Highlights of Mir 2.30 include wl_fixes Wayland protocol support, a typed wrapper for wl_array, a run nest command for the workshop tooling, mandatory Rust support at build time alongside the newly packaged Rust-powered evdev input platform, and libxml++ 5.0 compatibility with a 2.6 fallback for older Linux distros.

Fwupd 2.1.8 Linux Firmware Updater Is Out Now with Support for More Devices

Coming almost two months after fwupd 2.1.7, the fwupd 2.1.8 release introduces support for ASUS GX5407, Elan PID 0CB6, FocalTech MOC fingerprint sensors, Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Dock Gen 2 7000, MaxLinear MxL862xx, MediaTek MT9700 FCTE and MT9701 KSMU, Pixart PID 4F01, 4F02, 4F0D and 4F0E, and Rolling RW101 devices.

Wireshark 4.6.9 Updates Protocol and Capture File Support, Fixes More Bugs

Coming one and a half months after Wireshark 4.6.8, the Wireshark 4.6.9 release updates support for the AKP, Bencode, BT AVCTP, BSSLAP, Catapult DCT2000, CSN.1, DICOM, F1AP, FP Hint, Frame, GNW, GSM BSSMAP, IEEE 802.11, LBMC, LoRaWAN, NBAP, OBEX, OpenFlow 1.3/1.4/1.5, PKCS12, QUIC, RTPS, SGP.32, SMB, SPDY, SYNCHROPHASOR, UMTS FP, X11, and ZigBee ZCL protocols.

Debian-Based SparkyLinux 2026.09 “Tiamat” Introduces Sparky Labwc Edition

Based on the Debian “Forky” Testing and SparkyLinux Testing repositories as of September 21st, 2026, SparkyLinux 2026.09 is powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series and introduces a Sparky Labwc edition featuring the Labwc wlroots-based window-stacking compositor for Wayland.

KeePassXC 2.8 Promises Auto-Type on Wayland and Qt 6 Port, Beta Out Now

KeePassXC 2.8 looks like a major update that promises a long-anticipated Qt 6 port to provide users with a more modern experience, Auto-Type support on Wayland using XDG Desktop Portals, quick unlock via Polkit on Linux, configurable keyboard shortcuts, remote database synchronization with external tools, and quick unlock with password on macOS.

NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 NTFS Driver for Linux Released with Security and Bug Fixes

NTFS-3G 2026.9.18 is a security update that adds guards against multiple creator-owner and creator-group ACEs during ACL inheritance and fixes heap buffer overflows in the ntfs_external_attr_find(), ntfs_ea_check_wsldev(), ntfs_check_restart_area(), ntfs_same_sid(), and ntfs_acl_owner() functions.

NVIDIA 595.104.02 Linux Graphics Driver Is Out Now with Better Wayland Support

Coming a month after NVIDIA 595.99.02, the NVIDIA 595.104.02 release addresses a failure that could occur when allocating GPU page tables larger than 2 GiB (INT_MAX) and an issue where unvalidated VkHdrMetadataEXT values were forwarded to the Wayland color-management-v1 protocol, which could cause a crash.

VLC 3.0.24 Released with APV and Atrac3/Atrac9 Decoding, FFmpeg 8.1 Support

Coming almost ten months after VLC 3.0.23, the VLC 3.0.24 release is a major update in the VLC 3.0 series that introduces FFmpeg 8.1 support, support for the APV decoder, support for Atrac3/Atrac9 decoding, support for CEA-708 closed captions in MP4, and SRT listener mode support.

Mozilla Firefox 156.0.1 Is Now Available for Download with Various Bug Fixes

Firefox 156.0.1 is here only a week after Firefox 156 to fix an issue that caused the web browser to become unresponsive on some web pages that use CSS anchor positioning and to fix a bug causing elements inside a link to not show their CSS :active styles while being clicked.

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