Deals: Apple Watch Series 10 for $299, M2 MacBook Air for $699, AirPods Pro 2 for $170
Amazon is offering some all-time-low prices on some fantastic Apple products right now, including the latest Apple Watch Series 10 for just $299 (down from $399 retail), AirPods Pro 2 with Hearing Aid functionality for just $169.99 (down from $249), and the M2 MacBook Air 13″ 16GB / 256GB model for just $699. What’s not … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/07/de … ⌘ Read more

MIA for 2.5 days and Skid found his way back home. Lord only knows what this man got into😂 (cute pics at the end!) ⌘ Read more

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Cake Wallet v4.23.3 pre-release available for testing
Cake Labs1 has released Cake Wallet beta version 4.23.32 for public beta testing:

This release brings a few minor bug fixes, migrates Quantex -> SwapTrade and re-enables them by default for swaps, and adds a new exchange called Kryptonim for buying and selling crypto in many jurisdictions.

Token whitelisting to better protect against scams
SwapTrade exchange enabled by default
UI enhancement ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/cake-wallet-v4.23.3-pre-release-available-testing/)

N1co1asB1ancon1 submits CCS proposal to develop and release ‘Monero Contract System’ v1
N1co1asB1ancon11 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 to finish developing the first version of Monero Contract System 3, a Rust web application which allows users to host their own arbitration/escrow platform:

People can create contracts like, “You will build me a website like X and Y in 1 month” or the what i think will be the most common “You will sell me 10 xmr for … ⌘ Read more

Výzva ÚSŽZ
Milé krajanky, milí krajania, na našej webovej stránke https://www.uszz.sk pribudla nová sekcia „Výročia”, kde si chceme spoločne pripomínať významné udalosti, osobnosti a okamihy z histórie slovenských komunít v zahraničí. Naším cieľom je postupne budovať databázu kľúčových historických míľnikov a zachovať tak dôležité príbehy pre budúce generácie. Máte tip na významné výročie pre rok 2025? Ak poznáte udalosti, spolky alebo osobnosti, ktoré by podľa Vás mali byť sú … ⌘ Read more

Google, DuckDuckGo massively expand “AI” search results
Clearly, online search isn’t bad enough yet, so Google is intensifying its efforts to continue speedrunning the downfall of Google Search. They’ve announced they’re going to show even more “AI”-generated answers in Search results, to more people. Today, we’re sharing that we’ve launched Gemini 2.0 for AI Overviews in the U.S. to help with harder questions, starting with coding, advanced math and multimodal queries, with mor … ⌘ Read more

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RK3566 Credit Card-Sized SBC with M.2 Expansion and 4K Video Support
The RK3566 Single Board Computer is designed for a range of applications, combining processing power with multiple connectivity options. Built with an 8-layer PCB design and featuring a compact form factor, it is powered by a quad-core Cortex-A55 processor and includes an M.2 2242 slot for expansion. The SBC features the Rockchip RK3566, a quad-core […] ⌘ Read more

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[WTB] [$5K+] Seeking Monero Supplier (Cash>XMR)
Link: https://farside.link/libreddit/r/Monero/comments/1j45xkp/

u/Legitequities (Reddit) ⌘ Read more

Monero Research Lab meeting scheduled for 12 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next Monero Research Lab1 meeting is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, March 12th 2025 at 17:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #monero-research-lab channels.

• Updates
  
• Prize contest to optimize some FCMP cryptography code3
  
• Release of OSPEAD HackerOne and CCS milestone submissions4
  
• Possible intermediate hard fork before FCMP hard fork
  
• Research on sub … ⌘ Read more

MayQueen Introduces a 2.13″ Four Color E-Paper Display for Embedded Applications
MayQueen has introduced the PIXPAPER-213-C, a 2.13-inch prototype electronic paper display developed with Triangle Alien Studio. Featuring a four-color display and an SPI interface, it is designed for low-power, high-contrast embedded applications. The PIXPAPER-213-C supports black, white, yellow, and red colors with a resolution of 250×122 pixels and a density of 130 DPI. The active … ⌘ Read more

I got Griever 2 hours ago from the shelter and he already made himself at home. ⌘ Read more

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Cuprate Meeting scheduled for 11 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Cuprate Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Tuesday, March 11 2025 at 18:00 UTC on IRC-Libera/Matrix2 in the #cuprate channels.

Cuprate is an effort to create an alternative Monero node implementation.

Greetings
Updates: What is everyone working on?
Project: What is next for Cuprate?
Any other business

The meeting’s moderator should be Boog9003. Consult the Cuprate code reposi … ⌘ Read more

b4n6_b4n6, not-a-money-printer propose bounties to make Monero GUI, RetoSwap, UnstoppableSwap ‘Whonix friendly’
b4n6_b4n61 and not-a-money-printer2 have proposed bounties3’4’5 to make monero-wallet-gui6, RetoSwap7, and UnstoppableSwap8 Whonix friendly 9:

”`
#1 Make monero-wallet-gui whonix friendly
Total Bounty: ~0.12 XMR (to date)

#2 Make reto swap whonix friendly
To … ⌘ Read more”`

Beta 2 of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, iPadOS 18.4, Available for Testing
The second beta versions of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and MacOS Sequoia 15.4 are available for users enrolled in the beta testing programs for the Apple operating system suite. The latest beta builds continue to refine Apple Intelligence features, add a new Ambient music feature from Control Center, and for iPadOS and MacOS include the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/03/beta-2-of- … ⌘ Read more

Beta 2 of iOS 18.4, MacOS Sequoia 15.4, iPadOS 18.4, Available for Testing
The second beta versions of iOS 18.4, iPadOS 18.4, and MacOS Sequoia 15.4 are available for users enrolled in the beta testing programs for the Apple operating system suite. The latest beta builds continue to refine Apple Intelligence features, add a new Ambient music feature from Control Center, and for iPadOS and MacOS include the … [Read More](https://osxdaily.com/2025/03/03/beta-2-of- … ⌘ Read more

Zima s knihou v Kysáči
Tradičné zimné putovné podujatie Slovenského vydavateľského centra (SVC) a Slovenského kultúrneho klubu z Báčskeho Petrovca po zastávke v Hložanoch zavítalo v nedeľu 2. marca 2025 do Kysáča. Včerajší literárny večer Zima s knihou sa v Kysáči tešil mimoriadnemu úspechu – nezostala voľná ani jedna stolička. Tento vydarený večer bol výsledkom výbornej organizačnej spolupráce Spolku kysáčskych žien a Spolku kysáčskych starobných penzistov, ktorého novou predsedníčkou sa … ⌘ Read more

My little baby is almost 2, they grow so fast 🥹 ⌘ Read more

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Monero Tech meeting scheduled for 10 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Tech meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, March 10 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #no-wallet-left-behind 1 IRC-Libera/Matrix channels.

This meeting’s chairperson will probably be r​brunner72 and the agenda should include various topics: Seraphis3/JAMTIS4, FCMPs5, and other long-term Monero development issues.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer6.

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selsta submits CCS proposal for 3 months of Monero dev work until end of May 2025
selsta1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 to continue working part-time on Monero development for 3 more months, until the end of May 2025:

Work for 30 hours per week over the next 3 months (from March to end of May) at a rate of 50€ / hour. At 210€ / XMR this makes ~93 XMR.

Total funding: 93 XMR.

ETA: (end of) May 2025.

The dev will continue testing and reviewing PR’s, Mone … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel publishes ‘Revuo Monero’ Issue href=”https://we.loveprivacy.club/search?q=%23229”>#229**
rottenwheel1 has published Issue #2292’3 of the weekly Revuo Monero audience-funded newsletter, which covers February 23-2 March 2025 news:

Recent News
Upcoming Events
CCS Proposals
Price & Blockchain Stats
Volunteer Opportunities
Support

To support Revuo Monero, you can contribute XMR to the address listed in the footer of each issue and on the Support 4 page.

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[ANN] The arbitration system in Haveno doesn’t prevent arbitrators from pulling the funds

[Issue confirmed by official monero moderator on dread:] After some thoughts, I think you are right and that the arbitration system in Haveno doesn’t prevent arbitrators from pulling the funds. They would need to create a bot that takes all the offers and automatically unlock the funds with the key of the taker and arbitrator (Quote from /u/monero_desk_support)

Link: [Dread discussion (onion)](http://dreadytofatroptsdj6io7l3xptbet6ono … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.1
This release resolves an issue with Gajim’s preferences window and fixes some bugs. Thank you for all your contributions!

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Gajim 2.0

A note for Windows users: At the time of writing, there are some issues with emoji rendering on Windows. That’s why there is no release of Gajim 2.0 for Windows yet. This issue should soon be resolved and we will post an update once Gajim 2.0 is released on Windows.

Spomienka na Zlatu Kišgeciovú
Zlata Kišgeciová sa narodila pred 110 rokmi 2. marca 1915. Zakončila Filozofickú fakultu v Belehrade a na petrovskom gymnáziu v období rokov 1957 – 1975 (s prerušením) prednášala hudobnú a výtvarnú kultúru, dejiny umenia a nemecký jazyk. Do dôchodku ju vyprevadili z tohto nášho stredoškolského ústavu pred 50 rokmi 31. augusta 1975. Kolektív sa s ňou rozlúčil i týmito vetami: … „Ak človek v sebe nosí lásku k ľuďom, ochotu prispieť k stvárňovaniu nových gen … ⌘ Read more

ASUS NUC 15 Pro+ Starts at $810 with Intel Core Ultra 9 285H
ASUS has just provided pricing details for the ASUS NUC 15 Pro+, a compact computing system powered by Intel Core Ultra Processors (Series 2), offering up to 99 TOPS of AI acceleration and an 18% increase in performance compared to the previous generation.   As of now, the product page indicates that the ASUS NUC […] ⌘ Read more

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SChernykh releases P2Pool v4.4
SChernykh1 has released P2Pool 2 version 4.43 with various new features and fixes.

New Features:
* Added RPC-SSL support for Monero node connections
* Removed deprecated --config command line parameter
* Faster initial sync (0.5-1 seconds saved on verification of blocks)
Bugfixes:
* Updated internal dependencies

The full list of changes since v4.3 is available on Github4.

Before using the software, you should v … ⌘ Read more

Monero Dev Activity Report - Week 9 2025: 20 PRs, 9 Issues
This weekly report aims to provide a big picture view of Monero development activity, increase community support for existing devs and, hopefully, encourage new contributions.

Opened (4)

monero-project/monero:

• #98211 Fix HTTP unit tests (broken with new Boost versions) (vtnerd)
  
• #98202 Add incoming only test (vtnerd)
  
• #98233 Add incoming only test [0.18] (vtnerd)
  
• **#9824 … ⌘ Read more

MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting scheduled for 8 March 2025 1700 UTC
The next MoneroKon 2025 Planning Meeting 1 is scheduled to take place on Saturday, March 8th 2025 at 17:00 UTC in the #monerokon 2 Matrix/IRC channels.

The meeting’s discussion topics should be available on agenda.monerokon.org 3.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer4.

It is worth mentioning that a CCS proposal to partially fund this year’s event is cu … ⌘ Read more

Genode OS Framework 25.02 released
The prime feature is the continuation of the multi-monitor topic of the previous release, covering multi-monitor window management and going as far as seamlessly integrating multi-monitor virtual machines (Section Multi-monitor window management and virtual machines). The second and long anticipated feature is the Chromium engine version 112 in combination with Qt 6.6.2, which brings our port of the Falkon web browser on par with the modern web (Section Qt, WebE … ⌘ Read more

X8390ABV4 Development Board with MediaTek Genio 510/700 and PCIe Expansion
Youyeetoo recently listed a motherboard based on the MediaTek Genio 510/700 platform, built around the MT8390 and MT8370 processors. The X8390ABV4 MediaTek Development Board includes Gigabit Ethernet, dual-band Wi-Fi, and multiple multimedia interfaces, making it applicable for AI and IoT applications. The MT8390 features an octa-core processor with two ARM Cortex-A78 cores clocked at 2.2GHz [… … ⌘ Read more

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Monero Observer Artistic Saturday Top 5 - Week 9, 2025
Previous Artistic Saturday weekly reports can be found in the [art] 1 section.

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![‘Owning and using Monero is not a crime’ picture](/assets/img/art/25-9/owning-and-using-monero-is-not-a-cri … ⌘ Read more

plowsof submits proposal to continue working as CCS coordinator until end of June 2025
plowsof1 has submitted a new proposal2 looking to continue working as CCS Coordinator for 3 more months (from April to end of June 2025), after a successful fifth term3:

Hello, plowsof here, I show up and try to be helpful. My previous proposals happened, previously again. I would like to make it happen again, and do more of the same things.

Total funding: 72.6 XMR ... ⌘ [Read more](https://monero.observer/plowsof-submits-proposal-ccs-coordinator-april-june-2025/)

Monero Observer Blitz #39 - February 2025
Here’s a recap of what happened this February in the Monero community:

• binaryFate published a long overdue February 2025 Monero General Fund transparency report ( 1)
  
• Rucknium publicly released all OSPEAD-related documents and code after 3+ years of research ( 2)
  

• **There were four Monero Research Lab … ⌘ Read more

acx submits CCS proposal to develop and maintain ‘Monfluo’ XMR wallet
acx1 has submitted their first CCS proposal2 looking to continue developing and maintaining Monfluo 3, a pure Monero wallet for Android:

About six months ago I have forked Mysu (an abandoned Android wallet) and continued its development and maintenance. The fork is named Monfluo [..] a very simple wallet, and one of the goals is having no “integrations” such as swapping services, se … ⌘ Read more

rottenwheel submits CCS proposal to maintain ‘Revuo Monero’ in Q2 2025
rottenwheel1 has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to continue maintaining the Revuo Monero 3 newsletter for 3 months (April-June 2025):

I will maintain Revuo Monero (https://www.revuo-xmr.com/) for the next 3 months (2025 Q2): April, May and June. There is a chance I may skip one week to tend to real life issues, in such case, next issue will just cover 2 weeks instead of … ⌘ Read more

@andros@twtxt.andros.dev

• System Design Interview Vol. 1 and 2, Alex Xu and Sahn Lam
  
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppmann

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Walletverse submits CCS proposal to integrate Monero into their ‘community-driven crypto wallet’
The Walletverse 1 team has submitted a CCS proposal2 looking to integrate Monero into their community-driven crypto wallet 3:

This integration will enhance the privacy and functionality of the Walletverse wallet and contribute to the wider adoption of Monero by making it more accessible.

Total funding: 135 XMR.

ETA: 3+ months.

• M1: Core Moner … ⌘ Read more

Gajim: Gajim 2.0.0
Gajim 2.0 is here and it comes with a big upgrade 🎉 Gajim migrated its user interface toolkit to GTK 4, which brings performance improvements and sets the ground for great features to follow. Additionally, this release brings improved image previews, better tools for fighting spam, and much more. All of these changes were only possible by touching a lot of Gajim’s code base, and we appreciate all the feedback we got from you.

Switching Gajim’s major ver … ⌘ Read more

Kiwi SOM Featuring Wi-Fi 7 Qualcomm IPQ-9570 Dual USXGMII and PCIe Expansion
Following the development of its Wi-Fi 6 System-on-Modules, Mango and Cherry, 8DEVICES has introduced Kiwi, a Wi-Fi 7 SOM based on the Qualcomm IPQ-9570 network processor. The Kiwi SOM runs Linux OpenWRT, providing flexibility for various embedded networking applications. This module features a quad-core Cortex-A73 CPU running at 2.2 GHz with a 1 MB L2 […] ⌘ Read more

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Community Workgroup Meeting scheduled for 1 March 2025 1800 UTC
The next Monero Community Workgroup Meeting is scheduled1 to take place on Saturday, 1st of March 2025 at 18:00 UTC, in the #monero-community 2’3 channels.

Discussions should be focused on community highlights, CCS updates and workgroup reports. plowsof4 will moderate the meeting.

Logs for the previous meeting are available on Monero Observer5.

_This is an ongoing story and the repor … ⌘ Read more

Understanding surrogate pairs: why some Windows filenames can’t be read
Windows was an early adopter of Unicode, and its file APIs use UTF‑16 internally since Windows 2000-used to be UCS-2 in Windows 95 era, when Unicode standard was only a draft on paper, but that’s another topic. Using UTF-16 means that filenames, text strings, and other data are stored as sequences of 16‑bit units. For Windows, a properly formed surrogate pair is perfectly acceptable. However … ⌘ Read more