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The MS-C927 is an upcoming compact fanless box PC built on Intel’s Meteor Lake-U and Arrow Lake-U processors. It targets low-power, silent operation in industrial and embedded environments such as automation, transportation, and edge computing, and comes in a 130 × 155 × 40 mm form factor with wall and DIN-rail mounting options.
The FRDM-MCXW23 is a development board based on the MCX W23 Bluetooth Low Energy 5.3 wireless MCU. It provides a compact platform for evaluating low-power wireless designs, targeting applications such as portable medical devices, smart appliances, automation systems, and asset tracking.
DFRobot has officially introduced the FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, a compact microcontroller board built for computer vision and multimedia projects. Priced at $11.90, it pairs the ESP32-P4 SoC with a companion co-processor for Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth connectivity, targeting applications such as cameras, smart home devices, and interactive interfaces.
Forlinx Embedded, an NXP gold partner, has officially launched its FET-MX9596-C SoM and the companion OK-MX9596-C development board. Built around NXP’s i.MX 95 processor family, the platform targets industrial automation, medical systems, and edge AI applications.
Released on May 25th, 2025, Linux kernel 6.15 introduced new features like Rust support for hrtimer and ARMv7, a new setcpuid= boot parameter for x86 CPUs, support for sched_ext to count and report internal events, x86 Intel and AMD PMU enhancements, nested virtualization support for VGICv3 on ARM, and support for emulating FEAT_PMUv3 on Apple Silicon.
Highlights of LibreOffice 25.8 include up to 30% faster opening of files in Writer and Calc, support for exporting PDF 2.0, optimized memory management for smoother operation on virtual desktops and thin clients, improved scrolling through large documents, and completely overhauled word hyphenation and spacing.
Well, it’s time for another release.
Last cycle wasn’t particularly exciting, only featuring the new dialogs and a few smaller changes, but this one should be more interesting. So let’s look at what’s new.