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Blue Pill-Style STM32C5 Board Adds Oberon-2 Firmware Support

Norwegian-based Tenko has released an open-hardware development board based on STMicroelectronics’ STM32C5 microcontroller family. The compact board follows the familiar Blue Pill form factor while adding USB-C power, onboard USB-to-UART connectivity, and an alternative firmware environment based on Oberon-2.

ESP32-C6 Home Automation Kit with ESPHome and Modular Sensors

Apollo Automation has launched the ESPHome Starter Kit, a modular smart-home development platform built around an ESP32-C6 board and designed to let users create ESPHome devices without soldering, breadboards, or writing code. The kit operates locally and can be used independently or integrated with Home Assistant.

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Advancing the Safer Internet Initiative for Everyone

When we launched the Safer Internet Initiative earlier this year, our message was clear: connectivity is essential, but it is not enough. Everyone needs to feel safe, protected, and empowered when they go online.

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KDE Frameworks 6.29 Released with Various Improvements and Bug Fixes

The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue, and KDE Frameworks 6.29 is here to add an icon for Android app bundle files in the Breeze icon theme, improve the fancy Kirigami tab bars in QML-based apps to switch the active tab when scrolling over them or using a tab-switching keyboard shortcut, and improve the visual fidelity of small icons in Kirigami-based apps.

Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 Adds Support for Multi-Frame Compressed Images

Coming almost two months after Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.10, the Raspberry Pi Imager 2.0.11 release introduces support for newer multi-frame compressed images, the ability to lock the drive exclusively on Linux and Windows while writing so nothing else can interfere, and a proper “Erase/Format” command.

KDE Announces “Bulletproof” KDE Suite with Three Years of Support

Since the KDE Project dropped LTS support for the KDE Plasma desktop environment despite some demand from people, they teamed up with Linux hardware vendor Kubuntu Focus and Techpaladin Software to provide three years of bug and security fixes for the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment series through Kubuntu 26.04 LTS.

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KDE Plasma 6.7.4 Is Out to Improve Spectacle, Discover, and Emoji Selector

posted by Marius Nestor on Aug 04, 2026,
updated Aug 06, 2026

Coming three weeks after KDE Plasma 6.7.3, the KDE Plasma 6.7.4 release is here to improve the Spectacle screenshot utility to detect QR codes in screenshots when you click the “Annotate” button from the notification bubble, and improve the Emoji Selector window to accommodate its sidebar without scrolling.

KDE Plasma 6.7.4 also adds support for apps that use the global shortcuts portal to rename their shortcuts by requesting to re-register them, and restores the ability to change the desktop wallpaper and apply Plasma settings to the Plasma Login Manager for users who upgraded from KDE Plasma 6.6.

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KDE Plasma 6.7.4, Bugfix Release for August - KDE Community

Today KDE releases a bugfix update to KDE Plasma 6, versioned 6.7.4.

Plasma 6.7 was released in June 2026 with many feature refinements and new modules to complete the desktop experience.

This release adds three weeks’ worth of new translations and fixes from KDE’s contributors. The bugfixes are typically small but important and include: [...]

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KDE Plasma 6.7.4 Released with Improved multi-GPU & Wayland Support

KDE Plasma, the popular Linux desktop environment, released new 6.7.4 bug-fix and stability release yesterday.

The new desktop version introduced multi-GPU and display handling improvements, better input, accessibility, and UI consistency, and various fixes across the desktop, KWin, and other components.

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