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Vantron has introduced the VT-USB-AH-8108 Wi-Fi HaLow Dongle, a compact connectivity solution powered by Morse Micro’s MM8108 chipset. The device supports long-range, low-power wireless communication through a plug-and-play USB interface.
The UNIHIKER K10 is an AI learning device designed for education, integrating features for artificial intelligence, machine learning, and IoT applications. It includes a 2.8″ color screen, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, a camera, microphone, speaker, RGB light, and multiple sensors.
IMDT has introduced its latest System-on-Module and Single-Board Computer, both powered by the Renesas RZ/V2N processor. These new platforms are designed to deliver cost-effective, high-performance AI computing at the edge, supporting applications in robotics, smart cities, industrial automation, IoT, and smart retail.
The PicoCalc is a compact and modular computing platform designed to recreate the experience of early personal computers. Running on 260KB of memory, it allows users to code in BASIC, explore Lisp, interact with a UNIX-like environment, and run retro games and digital music.
Texas Instruments has introduced the MSPM0C1104, which it describes as the world’s smallest microcontroller, expanding its MSPM0 MCU portfolio. Measuring only 1.38mm², this wafer chip-scale package MCU is 38% smaller than existing alternatives. It is designed for applications where board space is limited, such as medical wearables and personal electronics, while maintaining functionality.
Hightlights of DXVK 2.6 NVIDIA Reflex support for D3D11 games that support this feature, such as God of War, Overwatch 2, and Quake Champions, more robust Vulkan swapchain implementation, adds support for the ID3D11On12Device1 interop interface, and improved efficiency of multisample resolves on tiling GPUs.
Coming a year after GStreamer 1.24, the GStreamer 1.26 release adds H.266 Versatile Video Coding (VVC) codec support, Low Complexity Enhancement Video Coding (LCEVC) support, H.264/H.265 extractor/inserter for closed captions, H.266 video and rotation tag support for Matroska, and JPEG XS image codec support.
Internet Society chapters work tirelessly around the world to grow, strengthen and protect the Internet. Find out more about what our network of chapters has been working on throughout February.
We hope the vast majority of Tor Browser users are already up-to-date with the latest available version for their OS, currently 14.0.7 stable or 13.5.13 legacy, which also provide the newest security fixes.
This version includes important security updates to Firefox.
This unprecedented access to data on citizens has fueled societal polarization, misinformation and disinformation, and online harms. Lack of access to verified, truthful information, the targeting of journalists and their sources to impede the production of truthful news, and online censorship that blocks specific sites and stops people from accessing good information have become rampant.
Blog posts about the progress of Nemo Mobile and Manjaro ARM and this and that. ;-)
Welcome to this week's Linux weekly roundup. We had a solid week in the world of Linux releases with Q4OS 4.10, Robolinux 12.07, and Peppermint OS 08-02-2022.