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October 22, 2026October 21, 2026 by Debashis Das - 12 Comments

GL.iNet Mango 2 mini travel router features AC1300 WiFi 5 and dual Gigabit Ethernet

GL.iNet Mango 2 (GL MG1300) Dual band Mini Travel Router

GL.iNet Mango 2 (GL-MG1300) mini dual-band WiFi 5 travel router is built around the MediaTek MT7621A dual-core processor. It is designed to share hotel WiFi, wired Ethernet, or mobile internet connections with multiple devices. The router measures just 89 x 63 x 15mm and weighs 100 grams. It supports WiFi speeds of up to 400 Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band and 866 Mbps on the 5 GHz band, along with WireGuard VPN speeds of up to 184 Mbps and OpenVPN speeds of up to 95 Mbps with DCO. Other features include dual Gigabit Ethernet ports, USB 3.0, USB-C power, and others. GL.iNet Mango 2 (GL-MG1300) specifications: Processor – Mediatek MT7621A dual core MIPS 1004Kc processor @ 880Mhz Memory – 128MB DDR3L RAM Storage – 128MB SPI NAND flash + 2MB SPI NOR flash Networking 2x Gigabit Ethernet ports (WAN/LAN) Dual-band 802.11a/b/g/n/ac WiFi 5 2.4 GHz – Up to 400 […]

October 20, 2026October 20, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Linux 7.3 release – Main Changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds announced the release of Linux 7.3 on LKML last Sunday: It’s Sunday afternoon, and this week I somehow kept my wits together long enough to keep track of the day of the week, so the release isn’t randomly delayed. Will wonders never cease? Anyway, nothing very special seems to have happened this last week, so as expected the final 7.3 is out, and thus tomorrow the merge window for 7.4 opens. Except I’m on my annual family vacation, so instead of merging anything first thing in the morning, I’ll spend most of the day on a boat and under water. I’ll get back to merging in the afternoon, but I expect my schedule to be a bit unusual for a while. I hope I can still complete the merge window in the usual two weeks, but it may be that I’ll end up with an extra week of merging […]

October 16, 2026October 15, 2026 by Debashis Das - 4 Comments

W1700K SDR turns a Wi-Fi 7 router into a 320 MSps software-defined radio receiver

Full 2.4 GHz spectrum view with flattened passband correction applied

Just a few days ago, we wrote about the ESP-SDR project, which turned an ESP32 into an SDR receiver (and now SDR transmitter), but the data was streamed over UART, which couldn’t keep up with the sample rate. Now, developer h0m3us3r has released w1700k-sdr, also an open-source project that turns a Gemtek W1700K Wi-Fi 7 router into a wideband SDR receiver. The project uses the router’s built-in MediaTek MT7996 radio to capture raw 14-bit I/Q samples at up to 320 MSps across the 2.4 GHz, 5 GHz, and 6 GHz bands. The captured data is then streamed over a 10 GbE connection using the router’s Airoha AN7581 SoC to a Linux computer, where you can view the live spectrum and waterfall in a browser. To make this work, the project replaces the router’s stock firmware with a custom Linux system and radio firmware, allowing it to capture raw I/Q data […]

September 23, 2026September 24, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 3 Comments

MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max octa-core Cortex-X925/X4/A720 SoC targets Googlebooks

MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max is a 3nm “All Big Core” octa-core Armv9 CPU with an 11-core Immortalis-G925 MC11 GPU, and MediaTek’s 890 NPU delivering up to 55 TOPS for an “upcoming premium, ultra-portable Googlebook device” with all-day battery life. Googlebook is Google’s new premium laptop category built around the company’s Gemini Intelligence and running Googlebook OS, codenamed Aluminium OS, which merges parts of Android and ChromeOS platforms. If you visit the Googlebook website, you’ll find pre-orders for Intel Core Ultra and Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite models, but Google will soon launch at least one model equipped with the new MediaTek SoC. MediaTek Dimensity CX C10 Max specifications: Octa-core CPU 1x Arm Cortex-X925 core clocked at up to 3.73 GHz with 2MB L2 cache 3x Arm Cortex-X4 cores with 1MB L2 cache 4x Arm Cortex-A720 cores with 512KB L2 cache Shared cache – 12MB L3 cache, 10MB SLC (System Level […]

August 21, 2026August 22, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 4 Comments

Linux 7.2 release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds released Linux 7.2 on LKML last Sunday: Well, this last week of the release was – once again – bigger than I would have wished for, but hey, with the whole “new normal” thing, if I delayed releases for that reason we’d probably never have a release at all. There are a number of fairly late reverts – the drm scheduling reverts stand out, but there’s a few other ones in here too. It may not be pretty, but it’s the correct way to deal with “oh, that code wasn’t ready and caused problems”. People will be trying that again later. But while the drm reverts stand out and are some of the bigger patches in here, there’s a lot of small fixes all over. Mostly in drivers, but networking remained fairly active this last week too. And then there are a few random patches to architecture files […]

July 15, 2026 by Debashis Das - 2 Comments

Bigme Hibreak Dual 2 – An Android 16 smartphone with 6.13-inch 80fps E-Ink and 5-inch LCD display (Crowdfunding)

Bigme has launched the Hibreak Dual 2, an Android 16 smartphone with a 6.13-inch 80fps E-Ink display on the front and a 5-inch LCD on the rear. Built around the MediaTek Dimensity 8300 processor and supports dual 5G connectivity, positioning it as an E-Ink smartphone with flagship-class hardware. The front E-Ink can be used for reading, writing, and general everyday use, whereas the LCD in the back serves as a conventional smartphone display for applications that require higher refresh rates and full-color output, like video gaming and navigation. This dual-screen setup allows users to switch between the two displays depending on the task. Bigme Hibreak Dual 2 specifications: SoC – MediaTek Dimensity 8300 CPU – Octa-core processor with 4x Arm Cortex-A715 and 4x Cortex-A510 GPU – Arm Mali-G615 VPU Video Encoding – H.264, HEVC Video Playback – H.264, HEVC, VP9, AV1 AI accelerator – MediaTek NPU 780 Memory – 12GB […]

June 15, 2026June 16, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - No Comments

Linux 7.1 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 7.1 on LKML: So it’s only Sunday morning back home, but it’s Sunday afternoon where I am right now, so I’m doing the 7.1 release at the regular time – just not in the regular timezone. This obviously means that the merge window opens tomorrow, but I’ll be in yet another timezone by then, so timing will all be a bit irregular. Normally I try to front-load the merge window and do as much as possible the first few days – this time I’m not sure that will work out with my laptop and a couple of long flights without internet, but I’ve made sure that I have fetched the early pull requests (thank you – you know who you are), so I will be able to do some of it off-line. Anyway, possible slight hiccups in the merge window aside, the news today […]

April 13, 2026 by Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft) - 6 Comments

Linux 7.0 Release – Main changes, Arm, RISC-V, and MIPS architectures

Linus Torvalds has just released Linux 7.0 on LKML: The last week of the release continued the same “lots of small fixes” trend, but it all really does seem pretty benign, so I’ve tagged the final 7.0 and pushed it out. I suspect it’s a lot of AI tool use that will keep finding corner cases for us for a while, so this may be the “new normal” at least for a while. Only time will tell. Anyway, this last week was a little bit of everything: networking (core and drivers), arch fixes, tooling and selftests, and various random fixes all over the place. Let’s keep testing, and obviously tomorrow the merge window for 7.1 opens. I already have four dozen pull requests pending – thank you to all the early people. Linus This follows the Linux 6.19 release about two months ago, which brought us PCIe link encryption and […]