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LILYGO Debuts ESP32-C5-Based T-Dongle C5 and T7-C5 Development Boards

The T-Dongle C5 is a USB Type-A development board designed in a flash-drive form factor and housed in a transparent enclosure. Measuring approximately 58 × 18 × 9 mm, the board is based on the ESP32-C5HR8 microcontroller and supports 2.4 GHz and 5 GHz Wi-Fi 6 (802.11ax), with backward compatibility for 802.11 b/g/n networks.

Sipeed MaixCAM2 combines 4K imaging and edge AI in an open camera platform

MaixCAM2 is built around an Axera AX630-series SoC with dual Arm Cortex-A53 cores running Linux, paired with a small RISC-V E907 core for real-time tasks. AI acceleration is provided by an onboard NPU rated at up to 12.8 TOPS INT4 or 3.2 TOPS INT8, supporting both convolutional and Transformer-based models.

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New Release: Tails 7.4.1

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New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.5

A few days ago, one of our community members reported that some of the Vietnamese text translations in Tor Browser Android had been vandalised by a malicious contributor. Unfortunately, this mis-translated text ended up shipping in Tor Browser 15.0.4. These changes did not affect the browser's functionality or security properties in any way.

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"The Laughably Named Linux Foundation is Big Tech" (GAFAM)

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Dec 15, 2025,
updated Dec 15, 2025

Posted moments ago: "The laughably named Linux Foundation is Big Tech the title is a total lie implying the are not one in the same. Anytime I hear or read Linux Foundation that is the first thing that comes to mind how the parasite corporations have co-opted the name to use for their various nefarious purposes they are up to with whatever type of *washing it would be called by them pretending to be doing something good with that foundation. It certainly is not for the good of Linux or people using it but for their corporate agendas is the sole purpose they do anything."

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