Adafruit has previewed Floppsy Rev D, an RP2350-based floppy disk archiver and emulator designed to preserve and access legacy computer storage media. The standalone device supports floppy drives used with PCs and Apple Disk II systems, offering disk imaging, flux-level data capture, and emulation capabilities alongside a touchscreen interface and removable storage.
LILYGO’s latest e-paper development board pairs an ESP32-S3 with a 4.7-inch display offering 960 × 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale. The board also includes battery monitoring, removable storage, and Wi-Fi and BLE connectivity for portable information displays and wireless embedded projects.
M5Stack has introduced the PaperDIY Assembly Kit, an ESP32-S3-based development platform featuring a 4.7-inch e-paper display with 960 × 540 resolution and 16-level grayscale. The kit combines Wi-Fi connectivity, battery power management, and expansion interfaces in an open design intended for custom information displays, electronic signage, and embedded development projects.
Highlights of Linux 7.3 include a new sandboxing mechanism based on a pseudo-file system, Rust support for PowerPC systems, userfaultfd support for tracking the working set of virtual machine guest memory, SMB server support for Apple Time Machine, and full support for cgroup sub-schedulers.
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GNOME 51.1 improves web login and banner layout, adds support for gnome-autoar for extracting extensions, improves mount notifications, improves the clock position on the lock screen, fixes Quick Settings preventing direct scanout, improves support for legacy authentication services messages, and fixes applying color filters when using full grayscale.
Coming about a month after GNOME 50.5, the GNOME 50.6 release fixes workspace thumbnail centering in GNOME Shell for RTL (Right-to-Left) languages, fixes applying color filters when using full grayscale, fixes closing the mount notification when disconnecting a drive, and fixes an issue with Quick Settings preventing direct scanout.
Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.1 is the first minor update to the Ubuntu Touch OTA 2.x series based on Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat), introducing official support for Nothing Phone (1), OnePlus Nord N10, OnePlus Nord N100, Volla Tablet, Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro (Global), Xiaomi Redmi Note 9S/9 Pro (India), Xiaomi Redmi Note 9 Pro Max, and Xiaomi Poco M2 Pro devices.
Coming two months after PeaZip 11.3, the PeaZip 11.4 release correctly sets the delete after archiving/extraction option on Linux systems to “Quick delete” by default, and improves the sanitization of input file names in multiple stages of the scripting engine, reducing false positives when metacharacters are employed.
