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The ocean is full of wonders, mysterious and mostly uncharted. We don’t know what we’ll find when we start diving deeper and deeper. It’s fascinating and also a little scary. On occasion, the Internet can be a little scary, too; many times, we don’t know what or who we are going to find in its depths. But sometimes, you find something really special.

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Tor Project blog

Tails 7.0~rc1 available for testing

We plan to release Tails 7.0 officially on October 16. You can help us by testing this release candidate already.

LinuxGizmos.com

(Updated) Lyra Zero W Packs RK3506B and Wi-Fi 6 into Raspberry Pi Zero-Sized Board

Luckfox has just launched a new development board with a form factor similar to the Raspberry Pi Zero, but based on the Rockchip RK3506B system-on-chip. The Lyra Zero W is designed to offer a low-cost, compact solution for embedded Linux development, priced at $16.99.

XIAO ESP32S3 Sense Kit Now Bundled with Free Machine Learning Textbook

Seeed Studio has reintroduced its 2022-era XIAO ESP32S3 Sense as part of a new educational kit bundled with accessories and the open-access textbook Machine Learning Systems: Design and Implementation, developed by Prof. Vijay Janapa Reddi and contributors from Harvard and the open-source community.

XIAO Series Adopts Nordic nRF54L15 SoC with BLE 6.0 and Low Power Operation

Seeed Studio has introduced the XIAO nRF54L15 and XIAO nRF54L15 Sense, two compact boards based on Nordic’s nRF54L15 SoC. They support BLE 6.0, Matter, Thread, and other 2.4 GHz protocols, with potential use in wearables, sensors, and prototypes.

Waveshare Expands ESP32-P4 Platform with Compact PoE-Ready DEV-KIT Variant

Waveshare has introduced the ESP32-P4-WIFI6-DEV-KIT, a new variant of its ESP32-P4 development platform featuring a more compact and integrated layout compared to the earlier ESP32-P4-WIFI6 board. Both models are based on the ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V MCU and incorporate the ESP32-C6 to enable Wi-Fi 6 and Bluetooth 5 (BLE) connectivity via an SDIO 3.0 interface.

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GNOME Shell Gets a Proper Desktop Photo Widget (Finally)

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jul 31, 2025

Quoting: GNOME Shell Gets a Proper Desktop Photo Widget (Finally) - OMG! Ubuntu —

The extension is called Picture Desktop Widget because …That is what it is: a widget for your desktop that shows a picture. Using it, you can turn a section of your screen into your own personal art exhibition.

Once installed, point the widget at the location of a folder containing images you’d like to see displayed, and dial in an interval at which the pictures should change. You can set a size, position, and a corner radius (from sharp corners 0 to totally round 100).

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