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Maca 2 enables high-power wireless connectivity for UAV and robotic systems

The system is built on Qualcomm’s QCS405 system-on-chip, featuring a 650 MHz 24Kc MIPS processor paired with 128 MB of RAM and 32 MB of onboard flash.

Axera AX8850 edge platform arrives in a pyramid-style design

Both systems are based on the Axera AX8850 SoC, which integrates an octa-core Arm Cortex-A55 CPU running at up to 1.7 GHz alongside a 24 TOPS INT8 NPU.

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PeaZip 10.9 Open-Source Archive Manager Released with Improved User Experience

Coming two months after PeaZip 10.8, the PeaZip 10.9 release promises an improved user experience with new alternative context menus for Open with and Rename actions, new keyboard shortcuts for the Text and Hex viewers, and improved internal drag and drop from the file manager pane to the navigation tree pane.

KDE Linux Gears Up for Beta Release with Plasma Login Manager, KDE Initial Setup

For now, KDE Linux is in an alpha state, but renowned KDE developer Nate Graham revealed today that KDE’s operating system of the future is gearing up for a beta release with the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment, Plasma login manager, and KDE initial setup.

Calibre 9.2 Ebook Manager Improves the Bookshelf View, Ebook Viewer, and More

Calibre 9.2 is here to improve ZIP output by allowing us to change the template engine used for HTML templating from Templite to Mustache for greater safety and performance, and adds a new option to the check library features to allow us to rebuild the annotations search index.

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Beserk Arch – bleeding-edge, security-centric Arch-based Linux distribution

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Feb 08, 2026

Quoting: Beserk Arch - bleeding-edge, security-centric Arch-based Linux distribution - LinuxLinks —

Berserk Arch is an Arch Linux-based, rolling-release distribution designed primarily for power users, security researchers and developers.

The distribution uses a customised Openbox window manager. Berserk Arch offers a modular environment with pre-configured desktop profiles, secure package infrastructure and curated toolsets.

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