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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.

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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.

Mozilla Firefox 156 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Firefox 156 include improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images that are scaled down to fit a page, improved dragging of inline images to a new position in a rich-text editor, replacing it with a long line of text instead of moving it, and improved high-sample-rate FLAC audio in MP4 playback.

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: September 13th, 2026

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Shelly 3.1.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds More Improvements

Coming a week after Shelly 3.1.3, the Shelly 3.1.4 release continues to improve the native builder with support for more complex PKGBUILDs, more reliable detection of required files, support for sources that share the same filename, support for cloning Git sources from their original URLs, and improved support for Anydesk, Mandolin, Remora, and Pi.

Shotwell 0.33 Open-Source Image Viewer for GNOME Is Here with GTK4 Port

The biggest news for the Shotwell 0.33 release is that the application has finally been ported to GTK4 for a more modern UI experience. The GTK4 port should improve compatibility with Wayland, such as drag-and-drop exporting, and overall utilization of modern desktop portals.

DietPi 10.7 Adds Support for Containers with Network and ARMv8 VMs

Coming a little over a month after DietPi 10.6, the DietPi 10.7 release introduces support for containers with a network stack and SSH server pre-installed, support for ARMv8 virtual machines, and support for LubanCat 4 SBCs with Rockchip RK3588S SoCs.

KaOS Linux 2026.09 Released with Noctalia 5.1, Linux Kernel 7.1, and Mesa 26.2

As previously reported, the KaOS Linux devs have decided to move away from systemd and the KDE Plasma desktop environment after more than 12 years of using them by default. Earlier this year, in February, they dropped KDE Plasma for a Niri/Noctalia setup.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.23

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

schestowitz.com

Garrett is Calling Everything He Doesn’t Like “Nazi” (or Similar)

Unless it’s humour, which is how he excuses this (and at the same time endorsing violence).

A Focus on Toxic Politics

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Bright Eyes

recently heard, repeatedly, the song “Bright Eyes“. I not only liked the song, I always liked the video. It’s relaxing except for one part.

Former US Presidents Still Selling ‘Dinners’ or ‘Access’ (at a Vast Scale, Overseas Too)

In a music venue?

UK Has Mobilised Army Veterans (Just in Case)

Even the BBC talked about it.

Wrapping Up Summer

This time for real

The Bubble (It Was Always a Bubble and Everybody Knew)

Slop (not “AI”) is a scam

Notebooks Still Work

Not laptops

RIP Roy Burnham

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A Light You Turn on Once and Turn Off Once (Per Day) Should be Dumb

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  2. Links 28/08/2025: Chatbots Distorting/Fabricating History and Also Driving Suicide
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  5. The Register MS (Run by Microsoft Operatives): Free Software is Putin, Hence Evil and Dangerous
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  6. Gemini Links 28/08/2025: Back in Japan and Why "Hacker News" Sucks
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  8. The UEFI 9/11 - Part II - Campaign of Censorship and Defamation Against Critics
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