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LinuxGizmos.com

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.

schestowitz.com

‘Be Ready’

They tell people to hoard food and water

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 8 – “Customers Services” is 4 Times More Than Needed, Far Bigger Than Required, Other Departments Criminally Understaffed

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

Do Good

Don’t expect that being bad will pay off

A United Tradition

Sack, sack, sack

Misuse of the Legal System Against Reporters

A game of money

Working With Fine Tools

“Teach a man how to fish…”

December 10th

Special day

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 7 – “Customer Services” Desk That Treats Citizens Worse Than Customers

Manchester City Council ‘services’ aren’t really services, just pretence thereof or disservices

Peer, Not Manager

You won’t “own” other people

Busy Weekend for Techrights.org and TuxMachines.org

Probably lots of bots, too

9to5Linux

Mozilla Thunderbird 160 Email Client Released with Various Improvements

Mozilla Thunderbird 160 adds support for the Ctrl+A keyboard shortcut for selecting all filters in the Message Filters dialog, improves OAuth sign-in windows to explain when blocked cookies may prevent sign-in, and updates Office 365 account setup to no longer automatically offer EWS configuration.

XOrg Server 21.1.26 and Xwayland 24.1.15 Are Out to Patch More Security Issues

The fixes include CVE-2026-109091, a vulnerability that could allow a malicious monitor or crafted EDID to supply extra descriptors that overrun those arrays and clobber adjacent MonRec fields (Modes, Last, DDC), causing an out-of-bounds write that can crash the server or corrupt memory.

Blender 5.3 Is Out with the Vulkan Backend by Default on Linux

Coming four months after Blender 5.2 LTS, the Blender 5.3 release enables the Vulkan backend by default on Linux, replacing the OpenGL backend, with the minimum Vulkan requirements being lowered to Vulkan 1.1 and some GPU/driver features made optional to support more devices.

KDE Plasma 6.8.3 Released with More Improvements for Multi-Monitor Setups

Coming two weeks after KDE Plasma 6.8.2, the KDE Plasma 6.8.3 release improves support for multi-screen setups so that the position of icons no longer gets scrambled when one screen is disconnected at the same time as another one is connected.

Mesa 26.3 Open-Source Graphics Stack Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

Coming three months after Mesa 26.2, the Mesa 26.3 release introduces Vulkan 1.3 support for the PanVK Vulkan driver on Arm Mali v6 and v7 GPUs, OpenGL ES 3.0 support in the etnaviv driver for Vivante GPUs on HALTI5 hardware, and support for the Mali G68 GPU on Panfrost, the Mali G715 and G615 GPUs on Panfrost and PanVK, and the BXM-4-64 GPU on the PVR driver.

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

Mozilla Firefox 160 introduces Mini Window, a feature that lets you move a tab or a selected part of a page into an always-on-top window while you browse, a new playback speed setting for the Picture-in-Picture player with options ranging from 0.25x to 2.0x speed, and support for playing Matroska (MKV) files with FLAC, MP3, or PCM audio.

Mozilla Firefox 161 Enters Public Beta Testing, Here’s What to Expect

Firefox 161 looks like a small update that only introduces the ability to copy the current tab’s URL with a keyboard shortcut. No shortcut is assigned by default for this feature, so you can choose your own key combination in Firefox’s Settings, under Customize keyboard shortcuts.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 16.0.1

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

New Release (Android Only): Tor Browser 16.0.2

This is an Android-only release which fixes a platform-specific breakage caused by a zlib update.

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Sculpt OS release 26.10

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 06, 2026

A few user conveniences like a scalable and user-customizable mouse pointer, an added visual overview of dependent components, improved flexibility of using webcams, or new support for UK keyboards notwithstanding, the four major shifts of the current release are below the surface.

First, Sculpt 26.10 is the first version based on Genode's custom microkernel instead of relying on a 3rd-party kernel. This kernel - designed from the ground up for the needs of Genode and Sculpt OS in particular - is not only more "micro" than any other of the microkernels supported by Genode, it also solves long-standing deficiencies concerning CPU scheduling and kernel-memory management. Sculpt OS finally stands on Genode's own footing!

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