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Learning to Build and Use the Internet in Rhino Refugee Camp

Sixty-seven percent of the world’s 42.6 million refugees live in neighboring countries. That’s the case for most of the 192,000 people living in the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement in northwestern Uganda. The vast majority—85 percent—are women and children. They come from across the region: from the Democratic Republic of Congo, South Sudan, Sudan, Rwanda, and Burundi.

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Toradex Luna SL1680 SBC Features Synaptics SL1680 SoC with 8 TOPS NPU, Starts at $105

The Luna SL1680 is built around the Synaptics SL1680 system-on-chip, which integrates a quad-core Arm Cortex-A73 CPU running at up to 2.1 GHz. For machine learning workloads, the SoC includes a dedicated neural processing unit delivering up to 8 TOPS of dense INT8 inference performance. Memory configurations support up to 4 GB of LPDDR4 RAM and up to 256 GB of onboard eMMC storage, enabling systems to operate without removable media.

9to5Linux

Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 Is Now Available Based on Debian 13 “Trixie”

Coming two and a half years after Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 5, the Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 6 release is based on the Debian 13.2 “Trixie” operating system and it is powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series to better support more hardware.

OpenShot 3.4 Open-Source Video Editor Released with New Effects and Features

Coming a year after the previous version, OpenShot 3.3, the OpenShot 3.4 release looks to be the largest update ever done, with new features like an experimental timeline, interactive cropping in the video preview, as well as new effects including Sharpen, Color Map (LUT), Spherical Projection, Lens Flare, and Outline.

SparkyLinux 2025.12 “Tiamat” Released with Debian Forky Base, Linux Kernel 6.17

Based on the Debian Testing/Forky repositories as of December 14th, 2025, SparkyLinux 2025.12 ships with Linux 6.17.11 as the default kernel offering, as well as support for the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel series, which can be installed from the SparkyLinux software repositories, along with LTS kernels like Linux 6.12 and 6.6.

Scribus 1.6.5 Open-Source Desktop Publishing App Released with Various Changes

Coming almost eight months after Scribus 1.6.4, the Scribus 1.6.5 release is here to improve the color eyedropper, update the PDF export functionality by fixing issues related to font rendering and exporting via Python, improve light/dark mode capabilities, and update the scripter functions.

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New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a1

This is the first Tor Browser Alpha release based on Firefox Rapid Release: read more about this important change in The Future of Tor Browser Alpha.

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The Handheld Linux Platform Kit Is "Capable of Practically Anything," Its Creators Promise - Hackster.io

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 02, 2025

A group of Polish engineers and developers are working on a modular handheld phone-like all-in-one Linux gadget, powered by the STMicroelectronics STM32MP157 system-on-chip: the Linux Platform Kit.

"We are a small group of engineers who met completely by chance in a comment section, united by a random desire to build something cool that we actually needed," the project's founders explain. "Our goal wasn't just to build hardware, but to gain a ton of knowledge in the process and eventually pass that on to others as an Open Source project. We simply wanted to create a device to carry with us for development — something that acts as a versatile tool, but is also built for personalization."

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