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Linux Devices and Open Hardware: Breaches, Boards, and More
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Devices/Embedded
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Bruce Schneier ☛ Is Someone [Cracking] DoD Refrigerators?
All speculation at this point, but it’s hard to come up with another explanation for the coincidence.
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Military Times ☛ DoD confirms ‘refrigeration disruption’ at military commissaries
Officials at the Defense Department would not say how many commissaries were affected in all or if the outages are being investigated as linked.
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Ralf Bergs ☛ OpenWrt: Monitor your IPv6 Status
I recently had a full outage of IPv6 on my Deutsche Glasfaser fibre-based internet line that lasted for more than 3.5 months. I only found out by chance, which I found very frustrating. If it happens again I want to be notified immediately, so I built an automation that has the following architecture: [...]
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CNX Software ☛ D-Robotics RDK S100P – A 128 TOPS alternative to NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB with Cortex-A78AE/R52+ cores
D-Robotics RDK S100P development kit is a robotics SBC built around an S100P-based module providing an alternative to NVIDIA Jetson Orin NX 16GB with a 6-core Cortex-A78AE application cluster, a 4-core Cortex-R52+ MCU domain, a Nash BPU rated at 128 TOPS INT8, a Mali-G78AE GPU, and 24 GB of LPDDR5. The four R52+ cores can be configured for reliable real-time control: two cores run in lockstep for safety, and the other two support split-lock operation. In practice, the A78AE CPU and BPU can handle GNU/Linux and vision processing, while the MCU handles time-critical tasks such as motor and sensor I/O.
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Open Hardware/Modding
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Arduino ☛ P.A.R. is a flip-squisk display that draws your pixel art
Flip-disc displays used to be very common in the days before affordable LEDs, LCDs, and OLEDs. But as electromechanical devices with a lot of moving parts, they’re expensive and rare today. That’s a shame, because they’re charming.
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CNX Software ☛ Orange Pi Zero 4 – Compact Allwinner A733 SBC offers HDMI, USB-C DP, GbE, WiFI 6, PCIe FFC connector for $26.5 and up
Orange Pi Zero 4 is an affordable yet feature-rich Allwinner A733 single board computer (SBC) with up to 8GB RAM, eMMC/UFS storage footprint, a microSD card slot, and plenty of I/Os. The board packs mini HDMI and USB-C DisplayPort, Gigabit Ethernet, WiFi 6 and Bluetooth 5.4, two MIPI CSI camera connectors, a Raspberry Pi-style PCIe FFC connector, and two GPIO headers into a compact 55x50mm form factor.
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CNX Software ☛ ARK Just A Pi – A tiny NDAA-compliant Raspberry Pi CM5 carrier board for drones and robots
ARK Just A Pi is a tiny NDAA-compliant carrier board for the Raspberry Pi CM5 designed for drones, robots, or other space-constrained embedded applications that’s about the size of the Compute Module itself. This follows ARK Electronics’ NDAA-compliant ARK Jetson Orin NX/Nano bundles introduced in 2024. The new “Just A Pi” is much smaller and lighter, features a built-in 100 Mbps Ethernet switch with two JST-GH Ethernet ports, a micro HDMI port, two MIPI CSI camera connectors, a microSD card slot, a PCIe FFC connector, a USB 3.0 Type-C dual role connector, and a range of small connectors for UART, SPI, PWM, GPIO, and fan.
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Linux Gizmos ☛ Radxa C201 exposes dual 2.5GbE, NVMe and serial I/O for VMARC-Q9075
Radxa has recently published additional hardware details for the C201, a 120 × 120mm carrier board designed for its compute module based on Qualcomm’s Dragonwing IQ-9075 platform. The board provides access to the module’s high-speed interfaces through dual 2.5GbE, NVMe storage, camera support, as well as RS-232, RS-485, and CAN bus connectivity.
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