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New Release: Tails 7.17

The Persistent Storage on the USB stick will be lost if you install instead of upgrading.

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Miniature industrial IoT gateway with dual Gigabit Ethernet and optional Wi-Fi 6, LTE

Compulab has detailed its IOT-GATE-IMX8PV2, a fanless industrial IoT gateway powered by NXP’s i.MX8M Plus processor. The small-form-factor system combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, optional Wi-Fi 6 and LTE connectivity, and isolated industrial I/O in a 105 × 80 × 30mm aluminum enclosure.

OSM dev board supports NXP i.MX and Qualcomm IQ615 SoCs

Tria Technologies has unveiled its OSM-SB-EP5, a 146 × 102mm development platform supporting Open Standard Module (OSM) Size-S, Size-M, and Size-L modules. The carrier board combines dual Gigabit Ethernet, USB 3.0, MIPI camera and display interfaces ti  intended for industrial IoT, edge AI, robotics, and embedded vision development.

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

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LibreOffice 26.8.3 Open-Source Office Suite Released with More Than 40 Bug Fixes

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New Steam Client Update Introduces Linux 64-Bit Support, Steam Achievement Sets

The November 11th Steam Client update is the first stable release to run the Steam Client itself as a 64-bit application on Linux, rather than a 32-bit one. However, Steam installations will still download 32-bit libraries as part of the Steam Runtime, since Steam needs to be able to run the many 32-bit games in its catalog.

Ardour 9.10 Open-Source DAW Is Out with Live Gain Envelope Waveform Updates

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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.3 Released with Sealed Images for Image Mode

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From today’s Techrights Daily Links:

My Ph.D. Supervisor is Still Working in His 80s

He loves what he does

Techrights S/N Ratio

Signal-to-noise

Explaining What Microsoft Did

bout 3 days ago I received a PDF of a submission made by a proponent of Microsoft-controlled Restricted Boot. I was unconvinced by what was said there, as it seemed like an appeal to emotion, not facts. If you spend decades promoting an American monopoly and undermining security, do you expect protection from critics? Do you even believe that critics are allowed to exist?

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 11 – Almost an Hour Waiting in Line (on the Phone) and Big Phone Bills Just to Speak to a Person

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Slow Down, Squirrel Ahead

They coexist with birds

Red-rimmed Melania in Wintertime

Red-rimmed melania considered robust

Never Make Threats to People

It won’t help

British Mercenaries With Suits and Ties

Shadowy ‘industry’

Manchester City Council Report Card – Part 10 – Cultural Rot and Discrimination (Even Therein)

A month ago: “A scathing report into Manchester City Council’s working culture has found a prevailing “boys’ club” mentality and widespread bad behaviour”

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Nov 13, 2026,
updated Nov 13, 2026

The Pope Revenge

Updated This Past Day

  1. NVIDIA Turns Out to be Serial Cheater, Stock Plunges 33% in 5 Weeks
    The "slop bros" have long relied on patience and blind faith

    New

  2. Gemini Links 12/11/2026: A Firing of a Boss and Geminispace Growing Fast
    Links for the day
  3. Bill Epsteingate-Funded BBC "Totally Ignoring the $1.7 Trillion Wiped off NVIDIA Stocks"
    Imagine how many pension funds are tied to this NVIDIA pyramid scheme
  4. A Few Hours Before NVIDIA CEO Canned (and NVIDIA Shares Plunged) the NVIDIA-Funded The Register MS Published Paid Spam With "AI" 18 Times in It
    Anything to inflate the bubble
  5. Links 11/11/2026: NVIDIA Decapitated, "The Company That Published Fake Journalists in Sports Illustrated is Collapsing Dramatically"
    Links for the day
  6. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXIX - We Didn't Start the Fire
    It started in 2012
  7. Photo Ops Are Liabilities
    NVIDIA is not a "family business" and its CEO isn't some modest genius
  8. NVIDIA’s Total Debt Trebled in Three Months!
    Not the hallmark of a rich company unless its accounting is fraudulent
  9. Adopting LLM Slop is Still Suicide
    Suicide (in the literal sense) is also linked to adoption of chatbots
  10. On Laundering Licences and Code
    A "Second SCO" waiting to happen
  11. The Cyber Show on Slop and the Ministry Of Truth in "Nineteen Eighty Four"
    "cultural erasure" by slop
  12. Intercontinental Brigading - Part XXXXVIII - Keeping Both Eyes on the Ball
    One upside of these disputes is that they raise at least two very important issues concerning the law
  13. Gemini Links 12/11/2026: Encryption is Easy, Human Emacs, and Legislation in Italy
    Links for the day
  14. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  15. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, November 11, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, November 11, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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