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32-channel logic analyzer supports 1.4GS/s sampling and USB 3.2 Gen2 streaming

Sipeed is preparing the SLogic32U3, a compact 32-channel logic analyzer designed for high-speed digital capture over USB 3.2 Gen2. The device supports configurable sample rates based on the number of active channels, direct streaming to a host system, optional analog acquisition modules, and software support across Windows, Linux, and macOS.

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.

schestowitz.com

Keeping Things Simple, Stupid

Animations that are simple work, the plot/story matters more than CG brute force

Shouting at Me Doesn’t Mean I’m Wrong

Keep calm and fix your laptop

Manchester United Crisis

Carrick at United with a contract is not the Carrick under ‘probation’

LLM Slop in Linux

A quick break

Four Birds

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What Sort of Person Loses Data and Hardware?

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The Fate of Osservatorio Nessuno ODV

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Russia Army (and Military Assets) Inside EU and NATO

Escalation again, testing the waters (or checking the air defences/tactics)

Ebay Uses Bots (Slop) to Give Users a Lot of Work

Botspam

Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs

We studied this in University (Abraham Harold Maslow’s hierarchy of needs)

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.13

Follow our installation instructions.

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.23

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

9to5Linux

GNOME 51 “A Coruña” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of GNOME 51 include support for saving and restoring monitor brightness, support for elogind as a libsystemd provider, a new API to generate QR codes, support for the input capture portal to integrate with the clipboard, and improved screencasting by minimizing stage paints and buffer copies.

DXVK 3.1.1 Improves Support for Call of Duty: Ghosts, Rayman 3, and Skyrim SE

DXVK 3.1.1 is a small update following the big DXVK 3.1 release three weeks ago, but an important one as it implements the DXGI_SCALING_NONE and SetBackgroundColor methods for DXGI swap chains, which should reportedly fix support for some Adobe applications.

VirtualBox 7.2.18 Released with Linux 7.3 Fixes, Support for RHEL 10.3 Kernel

Coming almost a month after VirtualBox 7.2.16, the VirtualBox 7.2.18 release fixes compilation issues with Linux kernel 7.3 on Linux hosts, adds support for RHEL (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) 10.3 kernel for Linux guests and hosts, and fixes support for Linux kernel 6.12.103 LTS for Linux guests.

Mozilla Thunderbird 156 Email Client Brings Custom OAuth Support for POP3

Highlights of Mozilla Thunderbird 156 include custom OAuth support for POP3, custom OAuth support for issuer ID and client secret fields for IMAP and POP3, support for OpenPGP key properties to print debug information to the Error Console, and external browser login flow support for Yandex.

Fedora Linux 45 Beta Released with Linux 7.2, GNOME 51, and KDE Plasma 6.7

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.2 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 45 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 51 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, and the latest KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

Latest Raspberry Pi OS Release Brings Dock Support and New Screenshot Tool

Still powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.18 LTS kernel series and based on Debian 13 “Trixie,” the new Raspberry Pi OS release introduces dock support to the Wayland panel (wf-panel-pi), along with new Icon Menu and Icon Tasklist plugins, and a Widgets panel in Control Centre to let you enable the configuration of the dock and taskbar.

Mozilla Firefox 157 Enters Public Beta Testing with Brand-New Nova Design

Firefox 157 looks like a small update, due to the newly adopted two-week release schedule, promising proper support for displaying HDR videos encoded in 8-bit color formats as HDR in most cases, which fixes several cases of dull gray-looking videos that should have been more vibrant.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 15, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. "Journalism in Twitter" is a Paradox
    "I am writing an article" is not the same as "I am writing a set of tweets" (usually random thoughts and unverified assertions, citing other unverified assertions)
  2. The Future of the World Wide Web is Just 'Webapps' in Chrome, Not Web Pages in One's Browser of Choice
    The monoculture gets worse, not better
  3. EPO Corruption is a Real Threat to the European Union (EU). The EPO Helps Russia. If It Does Not Reform or Reboot, It Can Contribute to the Collapse of the EU and UPC (Which Was Never Legal or Even Constitutional, It's a Captured Kangaroo Court Controlled by the Patent Litigation Industry).
    second-largest institution in Europe
  4. Linux is Becoming Non-free Software and the So-called 'Linux' Foundation Likes It That Way (It's Fronting for Companies That Violate the GPL, the Licence of Linux)
    What's happening here is, they rip off people using their "stolen" (GPL-violating) product

    New

  5. Today's Slopwatch
    MaKenna Hensley's latest
  6. Playing Social Control Media 'Games' Instead of Writing Articles
    someone will need to run two sites. One is "In Support of Richard Stallman", which is run by oneself, and other is "Stallman Support".
  7. The Patent Litigation 'Industry' Controls the European Patent Office (Vendor Capture) and Everyone Suffers, Even the European Union
    Today we relay an EPO publications dated just 4 days ago (this past Tuesday)
  8. No, Mr. "Journalist", You Might be Corrupt (But Denying It to Yourself and to Others to Pacify Your Consciousness)
    "Journalists" like the label because it makes the job sound like an honourable profession and they're presumed objective
  9. Stop Glorifying Murderers, They Aren't Helping Anybody
    Murder isn't the solution. Murder is a problem.
  10. Europe's "Manhattan Project" Should be Abandoning Microsoft, Moving Everything to Free (Libre) Software
    At the moment, Microsoft draws much of its budget from taxpayers
  11. Gemini Links 14/12/2024: Minor Thing About git and jujutsu
    Links for the day
  12. Links 14/12/2024: Adobe's Shares Collapse, Apple Publishes Fake News With LLMs
    Links for the day
  13. Links 14/12/2024: ChatGPT Down, Microsofter Bracing for Layoffs
    Links for the day
  14. Gemini Links 13/12/2024: Firing at Work, jujutsu, and Gemini Mode
    Links for the day
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Friday, December 13, 2024
    IRC logs for Friday, December 13, 2024

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

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

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    1941 /n/2024/12/11/Mozilla_s_Firefox_is_Floundering_in_the_United_Kingdom_Its_Shar.shtml
    1665 /n/2024/12/11/IBM_s_Latest_Fedora_Divestment_Speaks_for_Itself.shtml
    1491 /n/2024/12/07/Did_Microsoft_Write_by_Chatbots_This_Article_About_WINE.shtml
    964 /n/2024/12/11/Communicating_Outside_of_Skinnerboxes_and_Social_Control_Media.shtml
    894 /n/2024/02/01/Site_in_Support_of_Richard_Stallman_Reminds_People_of_the_FSF_s.shtml
    809 /n/2024/12/09/In_Memory_of_Mike_Magee_1950_2024_and_Our_Best_Wishes_to_The_Re.shtml
    738 /n/2024/12/12/Explaining_What_Deb_Nicholson_Does_to_the_Python_Software_Found.shtml
    721 /n/2024/12/08/Microsoft_s_Latest_Novel_Approach_Trying_to_Prevent_People_Movi.shtml
    595 /n/2024/12/12/Microsoft_OSI_Promoting_GitHub_Which_is_Proprietary_and_a_Massi.shtml
    589 /n/2024/12/10/Brittany_Day_Still_Uses_Bots_to_Write_Articles_But_Not_All_the_.shtml
    551 /n/2024/12/04/In_Asia_Microsoft_s_Bing_Became_Smaller_Than_Yandex_and_It_Shri.shtml
    508 /n/2024/12/11/Banning_Not_Only_TikTok_if_Not_for_FOMOC_Fear_of_Missing_on_Con.shtml
    506 /n/2024/12/11/Protecting_People_From_So_called_Social_Media_is_Not_Censorship.shtml

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