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(Updated) Lyra Zero W Packs RK3506B and Wi-Fi 6 into Raspberry Pi Zero-Sized Board

Luckfox has just launched a new development board with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but based on the Rockchip RK3506B system-on-chip. The Lyra Zero W is designed to offer a low-cost, compact solution for embedded Linux development, priced at $16.99.

XIAO ESP32S3 Sense Kit Now Bundled with Free Machine Learning Textbook

Seeed Studio has reintroduced its 2022-era XIAO ESP32S3 Sense as part of a new educational kit bundled with accessories and the open-access textbook Machine Learning Systems: Design and Implementation, developed by Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi and contributors from Harvard and the open-source community.

XIAO Series Adopts Nordic nRF54L15 SoC with BLE 6.0 and Low Power Operation

Seeed Studio has introduced the XIAO nRF54L15 and XIAO nRF54L15 Sense, two compact boards based on Nordic’s nRF54L15 SoC. They support BLE 6.0, Matter, Thread, and other 2.4 GHz protocols, with potential use in wearables, sensors, and prototypes.

Waveshare Expands ESP32-P4 Platform with Compact PoE-Ready DEV-KIT Variant

Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-DEV-KIT, a new variant of its ESP32-P4 development platform featuring a more compact and integrated layout compared to the earlier ESP32-P4-WIFI6 board. Both models are based on the ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V MCU and incorporate the ESP32-C6 to enable Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (BLE) connectivity via an SDIO 3.0 interface.

Fruit Jam Mini Computer Features RP2350B, ESP32-C6 WiFi, and DVI Video

First seen earlier this year, Adafruit has officially launched the Fruit Jam, a compact RP2350B-powered development board. The product mentions that it matches the dimensions of a standard credit card, 3.375 by 2.125 inches (ISO/IEC 7810 ID-1), while providing the functionality of a miniature standalone computer.

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Arti 1.4.6 is released: Hidden Service resilience; work on flow control, Conflux, and CGO.

This release of Arti has some improvements for Onion Service (Hidden Service) operators. There's better resistance to denial-of-service (Proposal 362) and an experimental new utility for migration of Hidden Service identity key from a C Tor keystore to Arti.

9to5Linux

Mesa 25.2 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of Mesa 25.2 include some major house-cleaning of the window system code to remove support for deprecated functionality, such as removing DRI2 support entirely, removing support for the insecure legacy GEM names, removing support for thread-unsafe libX11, and deprecating support for EGL_WL_bind_wayland_display.

Independent Distro KaOS Linux 2025.07 Is Out with KDE Plasma 6.4 and Linux 6.15

Powered by the Linux 6.15 kernel series, KaOS Linux 2025.07 ships with the KDE Plasma 6.4.3 desktop environment, which is accompanied by the KDE Gear 25.04.3 and KDE Frameworks 6.16 software suites, all built using the latest Qt 6.9.1 open-source application framework.

Audacity 3.7.5 Audio Editor Introduces 32-Bit PCM Support to the FLAC Importer

Audacity 3.7.5 is here after Audacity 3.7.4 and introduces 32-bit PCM to the FLAC importer, a fix for the lost focus issue when closing the registration window, a fix for a crash during WAV import when the audio file is up to 7 ms long, a fix for a crash when using Macro Wizard, and a fix for a crash when rendering the spectrum view.

NetworkManager 1.54 Brings Support for Configuring Per-Device IPv4 Forwarding

Coming five months after NetworkManager 1.52, the NetworkManager 1.54 release adds support for configuring per-device IPv4 forwarding via the ipv4.forwarding connection property, support OCI baremetal in nm-cloud-setup, support for configuring the loopback interface in NetworkManager’s text-based UI (nmtui).

NVIDIA 580 Linux Graphics Driver Enters Public Beta with Better Wayland Support

The NVIDIA 580 graphics driver series promises improved support for Wayland users by introducing support for the fifo-v1 Wayland protocol on Vulkan and fixing a bug that could cause GTK 4 apps to crash when using the Vulkan backend on Wayland.

KDE Plasma 6.4.4 Desktop Environment Improves Notifications, Flatpak Support

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.4.3, the KDE Plasma 6.4.4 release changes the behavior of notifications marked as “low priority” or that have been manually configured to show up in the history to selectively ignore that behavior and show up in the history when they arrive if Do Not Disturb mode is enabled.

Slackware-Based PorteuX 2.2 Distro Is Out with Linux Kernel 6.16 and GNOME 48.3

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.16 kernel series, PorteuX 2.2 is here a little over two months after PorteuX 2.1, adding a patch to Xorg Server to make tear-free (vsync) available in the modesetting kernel driver, which is used for all graphics cards.

Darktable 5.2.1 Adds Support for Nikon D200, Nikon D5300, and Pentax K-r Cameras

Darktable 5.2.1 is here about one and a half months after Darktable 5.2 with base support for the Nikon D200 (12bit-compressed), Nikon D5300 (12bit-compressed), Panasonic DC-GH7 (4:3), Pentax K-r (PEF), and Samsung GX-1L cameras.

4MLinux 49.0 Distro Adds Support for Bcachefs Installations, New Apps, and More

Coming more than three months after 4MLinux 48.0, the 4MLinux 49.0 release is powered by the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series, uses the Mesa 25.1 graphics stack, features support for Bcachefs installations in UEFI mode, and improves support for mobile devices via Bluetooth and PTP/MTP protocols.

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Linux Ultrabook Unveiled with Ryzen AI 300

TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 is powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 processors, either the AMD Ryzen AI 7 350 with 8 cores, 16 threads, and AMD Radeon 860M graphics, the AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 with 10 cores, 20 threads, and AMD Radeon 880M graphics, or the AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 with 12 cores, 24 threads, and AMD Radeon 890M graphics.

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StarDict Plugins in Debian 13 Raise Privacy Concerns

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 06, 2025

When used with certain plugins, it automatically sends user-selected text from any X11-based application over the internet to remote servers, without user consent or even a warning.

While the package itself is described simply as a multilingual dictionary app, it automatically pulls in a plugin package (stardict-plugin) via Debian’s Recommends mechanism. This plugin bundle includes network-based dictionary lookups that trigger on the system’s X11 selection—essentially, any text a user highlights.

Once triggered, StarDict sends the selected text in plaintext over HTTP to third-party servers in China, namely dict.youdao.com and dict.cn. And to make matters worse, these requests are made over unencrypted HTTP, making the data visible to anyone monitoring the network—whether on a local LAN or through a compromised router.

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