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LILYGO showcases new IoT devices with ESP32-C5 and Nordic nRF52840 MCUs

LILYGO has listed two compact development boards for wireless IoT applications: the T-Display C5, a small ESP32-C5-based board with a color LCD and dual-band Wi-Fi 6, and the T-Echo Card, a rugged LoRa-enabled device with GNSS, Bluetooth, NFC, solar charging, and an IP66-rated enclosure.

WINSYSTEMS SBC-477 PowerTier Series delivers Raptor Lake performance in a rugged SBC design

WINSYSTEMS’ SBC-477 PowerTier Series is a family of compact rugged single board computers for industrial and MIL/COTS applications, combining 13th Gen Intel Core Raptor Lake processors with DDR5 memory, dual Ethernet, Mini PCIe expansion, TPM 2.0 security, and extended-temperature operation.

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KDE Frameworks 6.28 Released with Support for New KRunner Conversion Units

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Ubuntu 25.10 Reached End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

Ubuntu 25.10 was released on October 9th, 2025, and, since it’s not an Ubuntu LTS (Long Term Support) release, it only received support for nine months, until July 2026. Ubuntu 25.10 was powered by the Linux 6.17 kernel series and featured the GNOME 49 desktop environment series with a Wayland-only session.

PipeWire 1.6.8 Improves JACK/MIDI Support for Ardour, SOFA Filter, and More

Coming three weeks after PipeWire 1.6.7, the PipeWire 1.6.8 release fixes a data race in JACK’s jack_port_get_buffer() function that could cause lost MIDI events in the Ardour DAW (Digital Audio Workstation) when called from concurrent threads, and adds normalize and latency options to the SOFA filter.

Wireshark 4.6.7 Released with Updated Protocol Support, Bug and Security Fixes

Coming a month and a half after Wireshark 4.6.6, the Wireshark 4.6.7 release updates support for the ALC, BACapp, C2P, Catapult DCT2000, COTP, CSN.1, DCERPC, DCERPC MAPI, DCERPC NSPI, DNS, DVB-S2-TABLE, eDonkey, EPL, FC ELS, FMP/NOTIFY, H.265, HiPerConTracer, IEEE 802.11, LLS, MEGACO, MIH, MPEG DSM-CC, MS-WSP, RELOAD, SGP.32, SSH, STANAG 4607, UMTS FP, WOWW, and Z39.50 protocols.

GStreamer 1.28.5 Multimedia Framework Adds Support for H.266/VVC Decoding

Coming about a month after GStreamer 1.28.4, the GStreamer 1.28.5 release is here to add support for H.266/VVC decoding to the gopbuffer element, fix subtitle green flickering with VA decoders on AMD GPUs, improve HEVC with alpha decoding in the H.265 decoder, and add ts-clocksync to the threadshare element.

Linux Mint’s Cinnamon 6.8 Desktop Environment Will Fully Support Wayland

The Linux Mint devs have been working hard on making Cinnamon’s Wayland session as stable as possible, and it looks like Cinnamon 6.8 will finally remove the “experimental” status of the Wayland session and fully support Wayland. Here are some of the features they’ve implemented so far:

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Safety Over Bans: Internet Society Challenges App Store Age Verification

Imagine having to provide a government ID before downloading an app to clock in at work, submit homework, check the weather, or access your bank account. Under a new Texas law, that could become a reality for millions of people.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 18, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Staff Union of the EPO (SUEPO) Says Almost 40% of Staff in Rijswijk Has Membership and It Developed Close Relationship With the EPO Pensioners’ Association
    Minutes of the Annual General Meeting (AGM) held on Monday, 7 October 2024
  2. Links 17/10/2024: BBC Cuts and Myanmar’s Internet Suppressed Further
    Links for the day
  3. Gemini Links 17/10/2024: Music Recommendations and Video Game for Casio PB-100
    Links for the day
  4. Science and Journalism Abandoned in Favour of Public Relations and Fantasy (or Buzzwords)
    Inaccurate political surveys and AI [sic]
  5. When GNU/Linux Reaches All-Time Highs So Will the Attacks on Its Leaders
    Even the word "child" cannot be mentioned anymore
  6. 2024 General Assembly of the EPO's Local Staff Committee Munich, Haar and Brussels (LSCMN) Presents Damning Evidence of the EPO Granting Illegal Patents, Then Conflating This Illegality With "Quality" (Speed)
    Report on the General Assembly of Wednesday 9 October
  7. [Teaser] [Meme] Everything is Better in the Dictatorship
    Says the dictator
  8. Gemini Links 17/10/2024: LinkedIn Nonsense and RetroChallenge
    Links for the day
  9. Links 17/10/2024: Mass Layoffs Again at Facebook and Intel
    Links for the day
  10. [Meme] The EPO, Europe's Second-Largest Organisation and Also Sponsor of Belarus, on Its Love of the Union (Not the EPO's Union)
    There is absolutely no accountability at the EPO
  11. EPO Focus Today
    we're catching up with publishable material
  12. "Microsoft is hiding losses

    New

    again" (Azure Collapsing)
    Microsoft is in serious trouble
  13. [Meme] Buzzwords Are Free
    "We should invest in improvement"
  14. Rumour: Yet Another Big Round of Layoffs Coming to Microsoft's Azure
    A comment was left there about 45 minutes ago
  15. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  16. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, October 16, 2024
    IRC logs for Wednesday, October 16, 2024
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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    1350 /n/2024/10/16/Perfectl_is_Not_New_It_s_Not_News_About_Linux_Outdated_Apache_R.shtml
    1062 /n/2024/10/10/This_Year_for_the_First_Time_Since_August_2019_Bill_Gates_MIT_S.shtml
    826 /n/2024/10/14/Disputing_the_Achievements_of_IBM_s_CEO_Who_Already_Terminated_.shtml
    732 /n/2024/10/14/How_to_Follow_Our_Updates_About_EPO_or_Everything_Else_for_That.shtml
    646 /n/2024/10/14/EPO_Administration_Wait_Several_Months_or_Until_Next_Year_for_C.shtml
    634 /n/2024/10/11/XBox_is_Dead_This_is_Just_the_Beginning.shtml
    629 /n/2024/10/14/Links_14_10_2024_One_Year_Since_Activision_Blizzard_Demolition_.shtml
    603 /n/2024/10/11/IBM_Employees_Smell_Another_Wave_of_Mass_Layoffs_and_Explain_th.shtml
    578 /n/2024/10/11/Links_11_10_2024_Discord_Still_Blocked_in_Turkey_Google_Might_b.shtml
    576 /n/2024/10/13/Links_13_10_2024_Writing_Remembering_John_Wheeler_Voice_Cloning.shtml
    551 /n/2024/10/16/4_Years_Since_We_Started_a_Plain_Text_Edition_of_Techrights_The.shtml
    550 /n/2024/10/13/Certificate_Authority_Let_s_Encrypt_Falls_to_0_7_in_Geminispace.shtml
    537 /n/2024/10/15/IBM_Bribery_Scandal_in_China.shtml
    537 /n/2024/10/14/History_Education_and_Rejecting_Creation_Myths.shtml
    531 /n/2024/10/12/Gemini_Links_12_10_2024_Ensemble_and_Assembler.shtml
    526 /n/2024/08/25/33_Years_Ago_Linux_Would_Not_be_Big_and_Professional_Like_GNU.shtml

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