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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.

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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’

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What Sort of Person Loses Data and Hardware?

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The Fate of Osservatorio Nessuno ODV

Seems broken/dead

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)

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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.23

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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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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Calibre 9.6 Adds New Card-Based View of Full-Text Search Results with Book Covers

posted by Marius Nestor on Mar 27, 2026

Coming two weeks after Calibre 9.5, the Calibre 9.6 release updates the full text search feature with a new card-based view of full text search results that includes book covers. To perform a full-text search, click the “FT” button on the left of the search bar.

If you don’t like the new card-based view, you can always re-enable the old compact result view by clicking the button to the left of the search bar in the Full Text Search window. In addition, Calibre 9.6 adds a new “word-prefix” completion mode that shows matches that have any word starting with the typed-in letters.

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