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Do you waddle the waddle?
Do you waddle the waddle?
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.
Across the world, young people are shaping the future of the Internet in ways that reflect the realities of their communities.
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.
LILYGO’s T-Display SF32 is a compact development platform built around the SiFli SF32LB52X ultra-low-power AIoT microcontroller. The device combines a 2.16-inch 480 × 480 AMOLED touchscreen with dual Arm Cortex-M33 cores, an ePicasso 2.5D graphics engine, LoRa connectivity, Bluetooth 5.3, and onboard battery power.
Shuttle’s XPC slim DH810S is a 1.35-liter barebone PC supporting Intel Core Ultra 200 “Arrow Lake-S” processors with up to 24 cores and a 13 TOPS NPU. The system is intended for digital signage, POS/POI, healthcare, industrial, and edge AI applications.
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.
Coming a month after Wireshark 4.6.7, the Wireshark 4.6.8 release updates support for the ANSI_TCAP, ASN.1 BER, ASTERIX, BT ATT, BT AVRCP, BT BR/EDR RF, BT HFP, C12.22, CIGI, CMS, COSEM, EBHSCR, ESS, FP, GSM SIM, GTPv2, H.245, Kerberos, KNX/IP, LBMSRS, NAS-5GS, RELOAD, Rlogin, RRC, SSH, X.509AF, and X.509IF protocols.
Shelly 3.0.4 is here to introduce a new search experience, add an initial TUI (text-mode UI) to accompany the GUI and CLI interfaces, improve the AppImage integration, improve Flatpak support with end-of-life detection and rebase support, as well as a new remove dialog, and add an AUR link to the AUR detail view.
Coming three and a half months after QEMU 11, the QEMU 11.1 release introduces Universal Flash Storage (UFS) emulation support for Write Booster (device-level caching) and Host-Initiated Defragmentation (HID) support based on the UFS 4.1 specification.
As a GNOME user, I have to admit that some of these concepts are very exciting, especially the transparent panel. Not that I like using two panels/launchers (top and bottom), but this is the main reason most people think GNOME is “ugly” and are using an extension like Dash to Panel or Dash to Dock.
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