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Flipper One Linux handheld rocks RK3576 with SDR and cellular options via M.2

Flipper Devices is preparing a Kickstarter campaign for its “Flipper One,” a portable Linux computer powered by an octa-core Rockchip RK3576 processor and a Raspberry Pi RP2350 microcontroller. The handheld combines 8GB LPDDR5, Wi-Fi 6E, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and M.2 expansion for cellular modems, SDR modules, and other peripherals.

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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Linux’s exFAT Progs 1.4.4 Adds Optional I/O Statistics Collection for Profiling

Exfatprogs 1.4.4 is the fourth minor update in the Exfatprogs 1.4 series, coming three months after Exfatprogs 1.4.3. This release introduces a new feature to the exfatprogs command, namely optional I/O statistics collection for profiling read, write, discard, zero-out, and sync operations.

Mozilla Thunderbird 160 Email Client Released with Various Improvements

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Mozilla Firefox 160 Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New

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Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 16.0.1

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

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schestowitz.com

Freedom Takes Struggle

Others try to take it away

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 9 – Services Phased Out

Out of service

Dental Health

Not just gums and chewing gum

‘Be Ready’

They tell people to hoard food and water

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The icing on the —-cake, a virtually empty hall staffed by about 5 times more workers than customers

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December 10th

Special day

news

Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 28, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Gemini Links 28/10/2026: BaseFree Numerical System, Tolino Vision 2, and More
    Links for the day
  2. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVIII - Microsoft is Not the Victim (It Was Never the Victim), It's Just DARVO
    "DARVO is now in the dictionary. That’s a win for abuse survivors"
  3. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XVII - The Relevance of Silent Layoffs at Microsoft
    "Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act: strategic lawsuits against public participation (SLAPPs)"

    New

  4. The Cyber Show on Plagiarism (BS Artists) and Fear of GNU/Linux Users
    Take a look at these articles
  5. "EVENTS" as Paid Spam (Marketing) at The Register MS
    Now that layoffs are "buyouts" and debt is "credit" (or "investment" in slop) why not call spam "event"?
  6. Just Jealous
    LLMs vs Developers
  7. The Need for Operating System Kernels That Forbid LLM Slop
    Not even OpenBSD is an alternative to Linux slop
  8. Links 27/10/2026: "Why My Dad Didn’t Have a Cell Phone" and Sudan Famine Risk
    Links for the day
  9. Links 27/10/2026: Google Increases Spying on Online Everything (Personal Files, Mail), Anthropic Takes Its Losses and Debt Public
    Links for the day
  10. The British Economy Too Dependent on an American Slop Scheme
    United States Government debt will soon eclipse 40.5 trillion dollars
  11. We've Already Begun Work on the 20th Year of Techrights
    We'll do a yearlong endeavour of improvement instead of a one-day hurrah
  12. Volunteers or Unpaid Developers Won't Bother Interacting With Mindless LLMs That Pass Labour From Lazy Companies to Human Beings
    The people who run Debian are killing the will to do Free software
  13. Slop is Killing the Open Web
    The Web is a jungle and "open sites" (without restrictions or walls) are exposed to the 'feeding frenzy' of reckless plagiarists who call their "theft" something like "super intelligence" or "training"
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Monday, October 26, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, October 26, 2026
  16. As Microsoft Tells Close to 30% of Its Staff to Leave IBM Takes Notes
    IBM does the same with PIPs
  17. It's Perfectly Possible That Microsoft Has Just Told Most of Its American Workers to Leave
    A better news headline might focus on the US and give a figure like 50%, not "quarter"
  18. Richard Stallman Was Right About "Hey Hi"
    Now the chicken come home to roost
  19. Gemini Links 27/10/2026: "To Change or Not To Change?" and "Initial Planner Plans"
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Tuesday contains all the text.

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