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OBS Studio 33 Promises Support for Latest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs, Beta Out Now

OBS Studio 33 promises support for the newest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs for NVIDIA Audio Effects and Video Effects, a check for encoders being missing when loading a profile, hotkeys for controlling audio monitoring of a source, and NVENC (NVIDIA Encoder) support on AArch64 (ARM64).

Shelly 3.1.5 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds Atoll-Powered AUR Browser

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Fwupd 2.1.8 Linux Firmware Updater Is Out Now with Support for More Devices

Coming almost two months after fwupd 2.1.7, the fwupd 2.1.8 release introduces support for ASUS GX5407, Elan PID 0CB6, FocalTech MOC fingerprint sensors, Lenovo ThinkPad Thunderbolt 4 Dock Gen 2 7000, MaxLinear MxL862xx, MediaTek MT9700 FCTE and MT9701 KSMU, Pixart PID 4F01, 4F02, 4F0D and 4F0E, and Rolling RW101 devices.

LinuxGizmos.com

Open-source flight controller pairs i.MX RT1176 with Pixhawk PAB compatibility

ARK Electronics recently showcased the ARKV6X-RT, an NDAA-compliant flight controller based on the FMUV6X-RT and Pixhawk Autopilot Bus open standards. The module uses an NXP i.MX RT1176 microcontroller and includes three synchronized IMUs, onboard FRAM, a secure element and PX4 Autopilot support.

Pocket-sized OpenWrt router offers dual-band Wi-Fi 5 and Gigabit Ethernet

GL.iNet has unveiled the Mango 2 (GL-MG1300), a compact travel router with dual-band Wi-Fi 5, Gigabit Ethernet and USB 3.0. The device supports WireGuard and OpenVPN, along with Ethernet, Wi-Fi repeater, USB tethering and USB cellular modem connections.

16-TOPS AI SBC with SATA 3.0 runs on octa-core Sophgo BM1688

Orange Pi has published hardware details for the OrangePi O1, a 90 × 70mm SBC based on the Sophgo BM1688 processor. It pairs eight Arm Cortex-A53 cores with a RISC-V C906 coprocessor and a 16-TOPS INT8 TPU, along with up to 16GB of LPDDR4/LPDDR4X memory.

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Unconditionally Against Racism

Let’s go…

Daniel Pocock Petition to Put Reform UK Party Limited in Administration in Social Control Media

Techrights mentioned there as well

More Than a Decade Later She’s Still Appreciated

Susan of Tux Machines

Why Series (Long Form) Might Work Best

If it irritates your ‘opponent’, then you must be doing something right

E.ON (E.ON Next) Tried to Force or Trick Me Into Talking to a Chatbot, Not Staff of E.ON

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Daniel Pocock is Picking on the Racists in the UK

Daniel Pocock is using the High Court now

‘Guilty’ of Opposing Violence Against Women

No actual verdict, just hypothetical

Pen and Paper

Old is not bad

The 200-Part Series on Microsofters’ SLAPP Censorship

t last! Today it’s done and I’ll move on to other topics.

The Media as Repeater of Lies From Slop Pushers

Not “slowing down” but failing

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PH4NTXM – Debian-Based Cybersecurity and Privacy Distribution

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Sep 26, 2026

Quoting: PH4NTXM – Debian-Based Cybersecurity and Privacy Distribution - LinuxLinks —

There are three boot modes. Linux uses a Linux-aligned identity together with Firefox ESR. Windows presents a Windows-aligned identity while retaining the same underlying Debian system. Lone Wolf uses a separate Linux-aligned identity and routes supported traffic through Tor. The distribution uses the XFCE desktop environment.

The project is open source under GPLv3 and is intended to be built and independently reviewed from source.

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