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Fanless industrial PC integrates Jetson Orin Nano 8GB and M.2 expansion

MSI has detailed the MS-C9ZA, a compact fanless Edge AI Box PC based on NVIDIA’s Jetson Orin Nano 8GB module. The industrial system provides dual Gigabit Ethernet, 256GB SSD storage, M.2 NVMe expansion, isolated GPIO, CAN, UART and I2C interfaces, along with optional IEEE 802.3af PSE, 5G, and out-of-band management expansion.

wolfSSL webinar explores wolfIP network driver and RTOS integration

wolfSSL will host a September 30 webinar titled “Porting wolfIP: From Network Drivers to RTOS Integration,” focused on adapting the company’s deterministic TCP/IP stack to new network hardware and real-time operating systems.

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Mozilla Firefox 156 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

Highlights of Firefox 156 include improved memory and CPU usage when displaying large JPEG images that are scaled down to fit a page, improved dragging of inline images to a new position in a rich-text editor, replacing it with a long line of text instead of moving it, and improved high-sample-rate FLAC audio in MP4 playback.

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Shelly 3.1.4 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Adds More Improvements

Coming a week after Shelly 3.1.3, the Shelly 3.1.4 release continues to improve the native builder with support for more complex PKGBUILDs, more reliable detection of required files, support for sources that share the same filename, support for cloning Git sources from their original URLs, and improved support for Anydesk, Mandolin, Remora, and Pi.

Shotwell 0.33 Open-Source Image Viewer for GNOME Is Here with GTK4 Port

The biggest news for the Shotwell 0.33 release is that the application has finally been ported to GTK4 for a more modern UI experience. The GTK4 port should improve compatibility with Wayland, such as drag-and-drop exporting, and overall utilization of modern desktop portals.

DietPi 10.7 Adds Support for Containers with Network and ARMv8 VMs

Coming a little over a month after DietPi 10.6, the DietPi 10.7 release introduces support for containers with a network stack and SSH server pre-installed, support for ARMv8 virtual machines, and support for LubanCat 4 SBCs with Rockchip RK3588S SoCs.

KaOS Linux 2026.09 Released with Noctalia 5.1, Linux Kernel 7.1, and Mesa 26.2

As previously reported, the KaOS Linux devs have decided to move away from systemd and the KDE Plasma desktop environment after more than 12 years of using them by default. Earlier this year, in February, they dropped KDE Plasma for a Niri/Noctalia setup.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 07, 2026

Updated This Past Day

Google Slop Contains Serious Errors, Google Has Just Been Sued for 1.5 Million Dollars by One Victim of It

If he wins, the floodgates will open for millions of other people
The Register MS Does "Microsoft Says", Fails to Accept XBox is Dying and Slop is a Failure

The real news today isn't some tweets from Microsoft
IBM Spammers With LLM Slop Discourage Discussion About IBM Problems and Layoffs

they would likely not bother had those discussions not hurt IBM's management [...] There is a similar problem this year in IRC
Pop the Slop Bubble, Don't Ask When It'll Pop or Expect Others to Pop It for You

It has all along been sold on a lie and it relied a great deal on corrupted (captured) media which played along with deliberate lies because it got paid to do this [...] The slop bubble is similar to the fake-coins bubble
SLAPP Censorship - Part 68 Out of 200: Based on Their Particulars of Claims, Microsoft's Graveley and Garrett Seem Like the Same Person (Exactly Same Words Used, Sloppily Recycled)

almost identical (even a description of who they are and how they feel)
Gartner Group Paid The Register MS. And Now The Register MS is a "Gartner Says" Rag.

Follow the money
Microsoft's XBox Exodus Carries on: Corporate VP of Gaming Ecosystem Organization and Corporate VP of XBox Devices and Ecosystem Both Leave Microsoft

Don't expect what's left of the media to properly report the true scale of the XBox cuts and executive-level departures

New
Keeping Server Costs Under Control in Age of Zombie-Majority Net

The Web has become such a sordid mess not just due to chatbots and LLM bots
People Work for Microsoft Because They Fear No Other Company Would Hire Them

Why do people still work at Microsoft?
IBM Seems to be Imitating the European Patent Office's "Young Professionals" (YPs) With Client Innovation Center (CIC), Which is About Mass-Hiring Inexperienced People on Very Low Salaries (Sometimes Unlivable)

So the future of IBM now is college students without experiences?
The Register MS is All About MS After the Site Overhaul, Now They Are a Platform of "Microsoft Says"

They rewrite history for sponsors [...] Microsoft says. Hence, it must be true!
The Operating Systems statCounter Cannot Identify or Classify

Is it possible that statCounter just cannot properly decipher and classify systems brought by and controlled by eastern Asia as opposed to Europe and North America?
IBM Allegedly Used Apptio to Target and Sack (RA) Productive or 'Expensive' Employees, Are Apptio Staff Now Subjected to Layoffs?

Apptio is one of several companies that IBM buys only to sink together with the IBM boat, RMS Watson
Gemini Links 06/05/2026: "Who Knows That You Blog?" and New Official Antenna by Michael Nordmeyer

Links for the day
Links 06/05/2026: Apple Accepts That It Misled People on Slop and Begins Blocking Software/Games Made With Slop

Links for the day
Codecs and Software Patents - Part II - AV1 and HEVC Not Really Safe

We are, in effect, looking at a sort of cartel (like the one which came out of Germany with MP3)
The Corrupt Lecture the Non-Corrupt - Part XIV - Antisemitism Inside the EPO

A sensitive topic for the European Patent Office (EPO)
Gemini Links 06/05/2026: Childhood Memories, Intense People, and Natural Web Exploration

Links for the day
Links 06/05/2026: Narges Mohammadi in Critical Condition and Copyright Infringement Rampant in Reddit

Links for the day
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5201	/n/2026/05/01/In_Praise_of_Debian.shtml
5194	/n/2026/05/01/Over_at_Tux_Machines.shtml
5186	/n/2026/05/01/Microsoft_Buyout_Offer_is_Less_Than_One_Year_s_Salary.shtml
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4870	/n/2026/05/02/A_Look_at_DataStax_Bluewashing_IBM_and_Layoffs.shtml
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4808	/n/2026/04/30/Then_Come_the_DDoS_Attacks.shtml
4795	/n/2026/05/01/Links_01_05_2026_Poems_and_Continuous_Privacy_Policy.shtml
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1554	/n/2026/05/02/cPanel_is_Not_Linux_cPanel_is_Proprietary_Software.shtml
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1238	/n/2026/05/05/Ubuntu_is_Run_by_N00bs_and_It_Shows.shtml
1081	/n/2026/05/01/Microsoft_Lunduke_is_Pulling_a_Garrett_by_Turning_Technical_and.shtml
1077	/n/2026/05/01/Yes_GNU_Linux_Can_Run_on_Playstation_5_But_Don_t_Buy_It_Learn_F.shtml
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929	/n/2026/05/05/The_Generations_of_CS_Are_Coming_to_End_of_Life.shtml
850	/n/2026/05/04/IBM_s_FutureNow_is_the_Rebranding_of_the_Client_Innovation_Cent.shtml
850	/n/2026/04/30/Apparently_Last_Day_for_Nearly_1_000_Confluent_Workers_IBM_Laid.shtml
847	/n/2026/05/04/Links_04_05_2026_DNC_Covering_Up_Its_2024_Autopsy_and_Rudy_Giul.shtml
831	/n/2026/04/30/Trigger_Warning_Jeremy_Bicha_Debian_Edu_TecKids_Ubuntu_incest_s.shtml
795	/n/2026/05/03/Links_03_05_2026_Water_Shortages_Crises_and_Slop_Fakes_Are_Comi.shtml
786	/n/2026/05/05/Microsoft_Lunduke_Has_a_Serious_Problem_He_s_Fronting_for_Sites.shtml
781	/n/2026/05/02/Thousands_of_Layoffs_at_IBM_So_IBM_Pays_Mainstream_Media_to_Cla.shtml
768	/n/2026/04/29/Campinos_is_a_Lame_Duck_President_This_Year_at_the_European_Pat.shtml
758	/n/2026/05/01/Microsoft_Debt_Rose_Almost_50_Billion_Since_We_Moved_to_Debian.shtml
754	/n/2026/05/01/Oracle_s_Debt_Grew_by_Over_50_Billion_Dollars_in_6_Months.shtml
737	/n/2026/05/04/KDE_s_Cornelius_Schumacher_Explains_Why_You_Should_be_Slop_Free.shtml
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690	/n/2026/05/01/Lots_of_People_Leave_IBM_Today_IBM_Has_About_1_000_Workers_Fewe.shtml
652	/n/2026/05/04/Melissa_Chan_on_Why_Press_Freedom_Matters_to_Everyone_Not_Just_.shtml
652	/n/2026/05/03/IBM_s_Kyndryl_Accounting_Fraud_Explained_and_More_Recently_the_.shtml
638	/n/2026/05/02/Links_02_05_2026_Microsoft_Has_Begun_Rebranding_Vista_11_as_XBo.shtml
631	/n/2026/04/30/The_Register_MS_Running_Spam_Pieces_for_Huawei_a_Banned_Company.shtml
628	/n/2026/05/02/The_NHS_is_Under_Attack_by_Anthropic_and_Microsoft_or_Their_Lem.shtml
626	/n/2026/05/04/iLnks_04_05_2026_Energy_Shortages_Become_More_Visible_Germans_R.shtml
626	/n/2026/05/05/Gemini_Links_05_05_2026_ASCII_Chessboard_Without_HTML_and_Ongoi.shtml
623	/n/2026/05/01/Links_01_05_2026_Microsoft_Headcount_Decreasing_Apple_Quietly_K.shtml
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605	/n/2026/05/03/Links_03_05_2026_Insolent_US_Bailing_Out_Google_Microsoft_Amazo.shtml
586	/n/2026/05/04/The_Corrupt_Lecture_the_Non_Corrupt_Part_XII_Outsourcing_Everyt.shtml
584	/n/2026/05/02/Storage_and_Memory_Prices_Are_Rising_Not_Because_of_High_Demand.shtml
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572	/n/2026/05/02/Gemini_Links_02_05_2026_Leaving_Session_Alhena_5_5_7_and_Slop_F.shtml
567	/n/2026/05/04/Ubuntu_com_While_Ubuntu_com_is_Under_DDoS_Attack_and_Intermitte.shtml
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