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Long-range Wi-Fi HaLow gateway offers OpenWrt and dual GbE

Morse Micro’s “HaLowLink 2” gateway runs OpenWrt on a MediaTek MT7621 processor with an MM8108 Wi-Fi HaLow radio supporting ranges of up to 1km and PHY data rates of up to 43.3Mbps. Originally announced in September 2025, the gateway is now available through distributors including Seeed Studio, Mouser Electronics, and DigiKey.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 04, 2026

Frontispiece by Augustus Burnham Shute

Updated This Past Day

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Monday, August 03, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, August 03, 2026
  2. Over 3,500 Known Gemini Capsules Accessible and Active According to Lupa
    It finally happened this morning
  3. Gemini Links 04/08/2026: Library Cards, Dead Ends in Software Development, and DOS on USB Key
    Links for the day
  4. IBM Has Embraced and Rewarded Liars
    The IBM culture vanished
  5. statCounter Estimates GNU/Linux at 5.32% in Kuwait, Years Ago It Was Near 0%
    Kuwait rose to fame in the 1990s because of a war
  6. Swatting People Who Write About Corruption, Misogyny, Criminal Misuse of Funds
    we've given ourselves a decade to cover all those stories
  7. GNU/Linux Rises Above 6% in Colombia
    In Colombia, which is a large south American country, GNU/Linux has risen steadily in recent years
  8. SLAPP Censorship - Part 138 Out of 200: Garrett Has Basically "Lost" and It is "Embarrassing" to Them
    they just wound up costing hundreds of thousands of pounds
  9. Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Great Exodus, xkcd as Text, and Dead Ends
    Links for the day
  10. GNU/Linux Has Surged to 6.3% in Madagascar
    Madagascar's adoption of Free software is a subject we covered a lot in past years
  11. Microsoft's Slop Bet is Killing the XBox Even Faster
    LLMs destroy almost anything they touch
  12. The Cyber Show on "Weaponised Antisocial Technology"
    by Andy
  13. Alexandre Oliva on Slippery Slop (LLMs)
    By Alexandre Oliva
  14. RMS Won the Argument and Now GNU Wins Over Computer Users
    He can look back at nearly 43 years of GNU and say, "I was right..."
  15. statCounter Corrects GNU/Linux Estimates, Now Measured at 9% Worldwide
    Windows has sunk like a rock
  16. GNU/Linux-Centric Blogs Belatedly Pick Up News About GNU/Linux Gains: 4-8% Depending on the Surveyor
    more people will get curious and give it a go
  17. Links 03/08/2026: Strike By Flight Attendants (WestJet) and Greedflation
    Links for the day
  18. Links 03/08/2026: EU Curtailed Slop, Frank Zappa Recalled
    Links for the day
  19. Daniel Pocock on Sky News This Morning
    No harm done
  20. Morten Linderud Has Helped Microsoft Put Locks (and Kill Switches) on the PCs of Arch Linux Users
    "the first rule of "secure boot" is to disable "secure boot"
  21. In Poor Peru, GNU/Linux Surges From 1% to 5% in a Few Years
    Windows is dying
  22. All Social Control Media is a Weapon (Against Its Users, Serving the Real Owners)
    That social control networks are weaponised isn't a new concept
  23. Fanning the Flames of Journalism
    This week we have several surprises coming
  24. Forcing the Slop Bubble to Implode Fully to Save the Economy From an Even Greater Collapse and Societal Harm
    Let's blow up the bubble. The sooner, the better
  25. GNU/Linux at 8% in Croatia
    somewhat of a GNU/Linux adoption hotbed
  26. It's Easy to Predict Microsoft Layoffs for October 2026 Because of the Financial 'Results' That Month (More Faking, More Secret Debt and Buzzwords to Perfume This Debt as "Investment")
    From what we've read, Microsoft is silently laying off people this month based on LITE, which leads to PIPs
  27. Not Hard to Guess Who Will Pay for IBM's Collapse (Due to False Statements Made to Shareholders), Red Hat May Disappear
    IBM's leadership is never being punished for its failures
  28. Many Anniversaries
    Many anniversaries in quick succession
  29. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  30. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 02, 2026
    IRC logs for Sunday, August 02, 2026
  31. Gemini Links 03/08/2026: Collectibles, Cities of the Red Night, and Lali Lambda
    Links for the day

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NVIDIA 620.70.06 graphics driver is now available for download with OpenGL visual indicator support for all Vulkan backends, as well as various bug fixes.
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patch NOW
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2 new episodes
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3 stories
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hardware picks
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some releases
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more and less
today's howtos
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Games-related leftovers
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Eventually we plan to deploy improvements to both sites
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This is free and open source software
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4 picks
GTK and GNU News
GTK and more
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Shows: Linux Saloon and Texas Linux Fest Talk by Don Marti
2 picks
Releases of Waterfox 6.7.8 and Waterfox Android 1.2.11
Based on Firefox
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PG related releases
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3 picks
Fedora Linux 45 Coverage (and Updates), Asahi Linux 7.3
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Security picks
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Valnet and ZDNet
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devices and more
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Debian updates
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Programming Leftovers
Development picks
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4 stories
today's howtos
Instructionals/Technical leftovers
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gaming picks
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