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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 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.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 23, 2026

Updated This Past Day

10 Easy Steps to Follow for Digital Sovereignty in Nations That Distrust GAFAM et al

When "enough is enough"
Dr. Andy Farnell Explains Why Slop Companies Like Anthropic and Microsoft 'Open' 'AI' Basically Plunder and Rob People

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Five Years Ago, After We Broke the Story About Richard Stallman Rejoining the FSF's Board, All Hell Broke Loose (for Me and My Family)

They generally seem to target anyone who thinks Richard Stallman (RMS) should be in charge or thinks alike about computing
Links 22/01/2026: Slop Fantasy About Patents, Retirement in China Now Reached at Age Seventy

Links for the day
Gemini Links 22/01/2026: Why Europe Does Not Need GAFAMs, XScreenSaver Tinkering, FlatCube

Links for the day
Salvadorans' Usage of GNU/Linux Measured at Record Levels

All-time high
Links 22/01/2026: Ubisoft Layoffs Disguised as "RTO", US "Congress Wants To Hand Your Parenting To GAFAM", Americans' Image Tarnished Among Canadians (Now Planning to "Repel US Invasion")

Links for the day
No, the Problem at IBM/Red Hat Isn't Diversity

Microsoft Lunduke also openly shows his admiration for Pedo Cheeto
Do Not Link to Linuxiac Anymore, Linuxiac Became a Slopfarm

now Linuxiac is slop
Richard Stallman (RMS) at Georgia Tech Tomorrow

After the talk we'll write a lot about "cancel culture" and online mobs fostered and emboldened in social control media
Software Patents by Any Other Name

There is no such thing as "AI" patents
Over at Tux Machines...

GNU/Linux news for the past day
IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 21, 2026

IRC logs for Wednesday, January 21, 2026
The "Alicante Mafia" - Part VIII - Salary Cuts to Staff, 100,000 Euros to Managers Busted Using Cocaine (for Doing Absolutely Nothing, Just Pretending to be "Sick")

Today we look at slides from the union
Gemini Links 22/01/2026: Forest Monk, Aurora Observation, and Arduino Officially Launches the More Powerful Arduino UNO Q 4GB Single-Board Computer

Links for the day
Next Week is Close Enough for Wall Street Storytelling About 'Efficiency' by Layoffs for "AI"

This coming week GAFAM and others will tell some creative tales about how "AI" something something...

Google News Still a Feeder of Slop About "Linux", Which Became Rarer in 2026

Our main concern these days is what happened to Linuxiac. Bobby Borisov became a chatbots addict.

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

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924	/n/2026/01/18/Slop_Bubble_Is_Worse_Than_The_Dot_Com_Bubble.shtml
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748	/n/2026/01/19/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
737	/n/2026/01/17/Accounts_or_Devices_e_g_Phones_That_Get_Burnt_Have_Many_Pitfall.shtml
731	/n/2026/01/19/IRC_Proceedings_Sunday_January_18_2026.shtml
705	/n/2026/01/19/More_Confirmatory_Rumours_Regarding_Massive_Red_Hat_Layoffs.shtml
697	/n/2026/01/18/Cancel_Culture_Doesn_t_Work_in_the_Long_Run.shtml
689	/n/2026/01/16/Stack_ed_Rankings_and_Ongoing_Layoffs_at_Red_Hat_and_IBM_Failur.shtml
686	/n/2026/01/17/EPO_Abuses_Covered_in_Spanish.shtml
671	/n/2026/01/19/If_You_Don_t_Want_Linux_to_Become_Windows_Then_Follow_GNU.shtml
668	/n/2026/01/17/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_III_Europe_s_Second_Largest_Organisatio.shtml
656	/n/2026/01/16/Team_Campinos_Talks_About_SAP_Days_Before_EPO_Industrial_Action.shtml
649	/n/2026/01/17/Stack_Ranking_Against_IBM_Red_Hat_Staff_and_a_Signal_of_Mass_La.shtml
647	/n/2026/01/16/J_H_M_Ray_Dassen_Debian_Red_Hat_GNOME_unexplained_deaths.shtml
632	/n/2026/01/20/IRC_Proceedings_Monday_January_19_2026.shtml
631	/n/2026/01/16/Naming_Culprits_in_Switzerland.shtml
623	/n/2026/01/16/Gemini_Links_16_01_2026_Porting_My_Main_Website_Over_to_Gemini_.shtml
620	/n/2026/01/17/Microsoft_Lunduke_Keeps_Distracting_From_the_Real_Problems_With.shtml
618	/n/2026/01/16/IBM_s_Scientific_Sounding_Tech_Porn_Won_t_Help_IBM_Survive_or_B.shtml
614	/n/2026/01/16/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_II_Breakout_of_Discontent_This_Winter_i.shtml
613	/n/2026/01/18/IBM_Sued_Over_PIPs.shtml
611	/n/2026/01/20/IBM_Plans_for_Layoffs_Becoming_Clearer_With_Employee_Reviews.shtml
599	/n/2026/01/18/FOSDEM_2026_democracy_panel_GNOME_Sonny_Piers_modern_slavery_ex.shtml
592	/n/2026/01/18/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_IV_How_Europe_s_Largest_Patent_Office_R.shtml
590	/n/2026/01/18/Place_Your_Bets_Who_Will_Die_First_Microsoft_or_IBM.shtml
589	/n/2026/01/14/The_Last_Dilberts_or_Some_of_the_Last_Salvaged_Comic_Strips_Whi.shtml
588	/n/2024/10/03/Invidious_Seems_to_be_Nearing_End_of_Life_After_Repeated_Crackd.shtml
586	/n/2026/01/18/GNU_Linux_Still_up_statCounter_Says_to_6_in_Bosnia_And_Herzegov.shtml
578	/n/2026/01/21/The_Alicante_Mafia_Part_VII_The_Industrial_Actions_Began_Yester.shtml
577	/n/2026/01/20/Links_20_01_2026_ChatGPT_Health_Latest_Distraction_From_Being_I.shtml
577	/n/2026/01/16/Writing_About_Corruption.shtml
577	/n/2026/01/18/Gemini_Links_18_01_2026_Raising_Notifications_From_Terminal_and.shtml
576	/n/2026/01/17/Report_Benchmark_Says_Vibe_Coding_Results_in_Security_Holes.shtml
572	/n/2026/01/16/Free_Software_Foundation_FSF_Back_to_Advertising_the_Talks_of_R.shtml
571	/n/2026/01/21/Links_21_01_2026_Microsoft_Open_Hey_Hi_in_More_Trouble_US_Has_B.shtml
569	/n/2026/01/18/Restoring_Professional_Pride_in_the_Tech_Sector.shtml
568	/n/2026/01/19/This_is_What_the_Slop_Bubble_Popping_Can_Look_Like.shtml
567	/n/2026/01/18/Links_18_01_2026_South_Africa_is_Running_Out_of_Software_Develo.shtml
566	/n/2026/01/17/Avoiding_the_Spooks_Nobody_Watches_the_Watchers_They_re_Practic.shtml
565	/n/2026/01/16/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
564	/n/2026/01/20/Rudeness_and_Vulgarity_Won_t_Stop_Journalism_About_Free_Softwar.shtml
556	/n/2024/09/15/Very_Few_Invidious_Instances_Still_Work_for_Video_Playback.shtml
554	/n/2026/01/17/Record_Traffic_in_Geminispace_or_Over_Gemini_Protocol.shtml
553	/n/2026/01/21/Yesterday_Afternoon_The_Register_MS_Published_Paid_Microsoft_SP.shtml
552	/n/2026/01/17/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
552	/n/2026/01/18/Behind_an_Economy_of_Fake_Worths_and_Fictional_Valuations_or_Ma.shtml
552	/n/2026/01/16/More_People_Nowadays_Say_GNU_Linux.shtml
550	/n/2026/01/19/Links_19_01_2026_ChatGPT_s_Defects_and_The_Guardian_on_Why_So_c.shtml
549	/n/2026/01/17/At_Least_5_Women_Quit_Brett_Wilson_LLP_in_Recent_Months_It_s_th.shtml
544	/n/2026/01/16/Microsoft_Shuts_Down_Campus_Library_Resorts_to_Storytelling_Abo.shtml
544	/n/2026/01/17/Protecting_Whistleblowers_Requires_Technical_Knowledge_Skills.shtml
543	/n/2026/01/17/Links_17_01_2026_US_Censorship_and_Violence_Crisis_Growing_Ange.shtml
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