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A New Internet Era for the Philippines

Since 2016, Internet stakeholders in the Philippines have advocated for changes to the country’s restrictive Internet provider regulations. Now, landmark connectivity legislation called Konektadong Pinoy is nearing passage and poised to bring Internet connectivity to rural communities that have been left behind by the digital divide.

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NXP’s FRDM i.MX 91 Board Provides Low-Power Solution for Linux-Based IoT Systems

SOMDEVICES Expands SoM Lineup with µSMARC RZ/V2N for AI and Vision Applications

SOMDEVICES has introduced the µSMARC RZ/V2N, a System-on-Module based on the Renesas RZ/V2N processor. Designed for AI-driven machine learning, vision applications, and industrial automation, this module delivers high computational performance in a compact form factor.

New Smartwatches Support PebbleOS with Long Battery Life and E-Paper Displays

Two new smartwatches running open-source PebbleOS have been introduced: Core 2 Duo and Core Time 2. These watches maintain compatibility with thousands of existing Pebble apps while incorporating modern hardware updates.

RDK X5 Development Kit Featuring HDMI, MIPI CSI, and Gigabit Ethernet

The RDK X5 is a development kit designed for intelligent computing and robotics. It features a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi single board computer but is powered by the 10 TOPS Sunrise 5 processor.

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Ikey Doherty’s Serpent OS Changes Name to AerynOS

Why the big change after all this time developing this new Linux distro? Well, Ikey Doherty says that “the “Serpent OS” name was a quickly chosen name that stuck.” In addition, the developer thinks that “serpents” are often associated with negative connotations and that “Serpent OS” is not the most inviting name for a project.

Kali Linux 2025.1 Ethical Hacking Distro Is Here with Xfce 4.20, Refreshed Theme

Kali Linux 2025.1 is here three months after Kali Linux 2024.4 and since it’s the first release in 2025 it comes with the annual theme refresh that includes updated boot menu, login screen, and desktop wallpapers. Kali Linux 2025.1 is also the first release to ship with the latest and greatest Xfce 4.20 desktop environment.

GNOME 48 “Bengaluru” Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of GNOME 48 include dynamic triple buffering to boost the performance on low-end GPUs, such as Intel integrated graphics or Raspberry Pi computers, Wayland color management protocol support, new Adwaita fonts, HDR (High Dynamic Range) support, and a new Wellbeing feature with screen time tracking.

elementary OS 8.0.1 Released with Linux Kernel 6.11 from Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS

Built on top of Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS (Noble Numbat) and powered by Linux kernel 6.11, elementary OS 8.0.1 is here as an updated installation media for those who want to deploy the elementary OS 8.0 “Circe” release on new computers without having to download hundreds of updates after the installation.

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GStreamer 1.26 Open-Source Multimedia Framework Released, Here’s What’s New

posted by Marius Nestor on Mar 12, 2025,
updated Mar 13, 2025

Highlights of GStreamer 1.26 include H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) codec support, Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) support, H.264/H.265 extractor/inserter for closed captions, H.266 video and rotation tag support for Matroska, and JPEG XS image codec support.

It also brings new AWS and Speechmatics transcription, translation, and TTS services elements, splitmux lazy loading and dynamic fragment addition support, SMPTE 2038 ancillary data streams support, new Direct3D12 integration support library, NVCODEC AV1 video encoder element, and Apple AAC audio encoder and multi-channel support for the Apple audio decoders.

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GStreamer 1.26 Released: H.266, LCEVC, and Enhanced Closed Captions Arrive

The GStreamer team has released a major update for its cross-platform open-source multimedia framework, v1.26, in which codec support has taken center stage.

Notably, GStreamer 1.26 rolls out H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) capabilities, enabling both software—and hardware-based encoding and decoding for next-generation video content.

This is complemented by JPEG XS (a low-latency, visually lossless codec) support and Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) for improving quality on top of existing codecs like H.264.

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