ASRock Industrial has announced four compact platforms based on Intel Core Series 3 “Wildcat Lake-U” processors. The lineup includes the NUC BOX-320 and NUC BOX-304 mini PCs, alongside the NUC-320 and NUC-304 motherboards, with up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, DDR5 memory, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multi-display support for embedded applications.
Forlinx Embedded has listed an M.2 AI accelerator card based on Rockchip’s RK1820 and RK1828 processors, providing 20 TOPS of INT8 computing performance and up to 5GB of integrated DRAM. The module uses an M.2 2280 interface and is designed to handle local AI inference, including large language models, vision-language models, and computer vision workloads on embedded Linux and Android systems.
Mozilla Thunderbird 157 introduces two new enterprise policies, namely DisableChat and DisableFileLink, to disable the Thunderbird Chat functionality and the Thunderbird FileLink functionality, respectively, makes the IMAP/POP manual configuration port field optional, and updates the built-in Thundermail add-on to version 2.0.16.
Audacity 4.0.1 adds support for exporting each track or each labelled region to its own file, restores the missing keyboard shortcuts from the Audacity 3 series, adds clickable carousel dots on the Welcome screen, adds a Liquid Glass app icon on macOS, and adds an “Open in file manager” option to the Cloud projects tab.
Coming three months after Archinstall 4.4, the Archinstall 4.5 release introduces AArch64 support for GRUB and Limine EFI installations, AArch64 root partition type GUID support, RT kernel variants from upstream, optdepends support for the linux-firmware package, and Norwegian, Serbian, and Vietnamese translations.
Still based on the Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series, antiX Linux 26.1 ships with updated packages from the upstream Debian Stable repositories and updated kernels across all supported architectures, namely the customised Linux 5.10.256 LTS kernel for the core edition and the Linux 6.6.139 LTS kernel for the 64-bit full edition.
Coming a month after OpenSSL 4.0.2, the OpenSSL 4.0.3 release is here to address several important security vulnerabilities, including a use-after-free in X.509 extension cache under concurrent use (CVE-2026-84783), and a potential CPU DoS via O(n^2) fragment reassembly in QUIC (CVE-2026-42772).
To ensure a safe upgrade process for existing Ubuntu LTS users, Canonical delayed the upgrade path by about three weeks, but now it’s officially open, allowing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS to upgrade to Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and enjoy its new features and improvements.
