FOSDEM 2026 Recap

• They quit their job to build wearables for cows... using Zephyr!
• Raspberry Pi 4 redesigned for dual RAM chips
• Texas Instruments to acquire Silicon Labs for $7.5B
• Heap canary support for corruption detection
• ARMv9 PACBTI support for pointer authentication
• New biometrics subsystem with fingerprint sensor drivers, code samples, emulator
• MAX42500 combined watchdog and voltage monitor driver
• Netsol S3A MRAM driver
• Fast Prototyping Board for RX140
• RedMonk blog post: AI Slopageddon and the OSS Maintainers
• Embedded FM ep 520 on AI in embedded dev
• Zephyr meetup in Nagoya at the Brother museum
• FOSDEM talks:
  • Git 3.0 – Evolving Git for the next decade
  • Git workflow for high-stakes projects
  • How to make package managers scream
  • KiCad status update
  • Daniel Stenberg's closing keynote: OSS in spite of AI

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