Raspberry Pi lifts 2GB prices as the memory crunch tightens
A $12.50 increase on the 2GB Pi 4 and Pi 5, straight from the memory market, while Micron says supply stays tight through 2028 and its margins say it is not suffering.
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Linux 7.4 will reset a hung Raspberry Pi GPU through the V3D block's own reset line
The vc4 driver has been recovering a hung GPU by forcing the V3D power domain down and back up, with a private refcount wrapped around every runtime PM call to keep the count honest. An Igalia series moves the reset onto the BCM2835 PM block's reset line instead, and it is queued for the Linux 7.4 merge window.
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Raspberry Pi OS gets a dock and a launcher, and nothing changes unless you ask for it
The September update modernises the desktop with an icon dock, a full-screen launcher and a rebuilt Control Centre, all optional. The same week, the two-year-old firmware lock on RAM upgrades resurfaced because memory prices keep climbing.
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Needle 2 turns plain English into local actions on a Raspberry Pi 5
Raspberry Pi's walkthrough runs Cactus's Needle 2 on a Pi 5's CPU: 'turn the LED on' becomes code in 78 milliseconds, with no AI HAT and no cloud call in the loop.
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A Pi 5 EEPROM update stops boards whose SDRAM the bootloader does not expect
EEPROM 2026-05-11 stops a Raspberry Pi 5 booting when the memory it finds does not match the memory it expects, and the halt happens before the OS loads, so the fix is a recovery image and a downgrade.