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Raspberry Pi

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Wednesday 23 September 20261 story

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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Tuesday 22 September 20261 story

AIRaspberry Pi

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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Monday 21 September 20261 story

HardwareRaspberry Pi

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.

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