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Grinn Brings 25×25mm AstraSOM-261x Edge AI SoM Alongside Synaptics Coral Dev Board

The AstraSOM-261x is built around the Synaptics Astra SL2610 processor family and measures 25 × 25 mm, placing it among the smaller system-on-modules available for embedded AI applications. The module uses an LGA178 footprint and exposes its I/O through the carrier board, allowing developers to integrate the module into custom hardware designs.

Gateworks GW16168 M.2 AI accelerator features NXP Ara240 DNPU with up to 40 eTOPS

The GW16168 uses NXP’s Ara240 DNPU to deliver up to 40 equivalent eTOPS of AI inference performance. The card is intended to offload AI workloads from host processors, allowing embedded systems to run machine vision, large language model inference, and other AI workloads without saturating the host CPU.

TI Debuts MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex Edge AI Microcontrollers with TinyEngine NPU

The MSPM0G5187 is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ CPU running up to 80 MHz and integrates the TinyEngine NPU to accelerate deep learning workloads. The MCU supports up to 128 KB of flash memory and 32 KB of SRAM, along with integrated analog peripherals such as a 12-bit 1.6-MSPS ADC and a high-speed comparator with an integrated reference DAC.

Arduino expands lineup with Ventuno Q board pairing Dragonwing IQ8 and STM32H5

The board integrates a Qualcomm Dragonwing IQ-8275 processor, which provides CPU, GPU, and NPU resources for neural network inference and data processing. The platform delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI compute, allowing the system to run vision models, speech processing pipelines, and multimodal workloads directly on the device.

BeagleBadge wearable platform boasts TI AM62L SoC, ePaper display, and Linux support

The platform is built around the Texas Instruments AM62L Sitara SoC. The AM62L32 integrates a dual-core Arm Cortex-A53 processor running up to 1.25 GHz and includes a 256 KB shared L2 cache along with per-core 32 KB instruction and 32 KB data caches.

9to5Linux

OBS Studio 32.1 Released with New Audio Mixer, WebRTC Simulcast Support

OBS Studio 32.1 introduces new features like an audio mixer, WebRTC simulcast support, partial support for Canvases to obs-websocket, along with missing undo/redo actions for scale filtering, blending mode, blending method, deinterlacing mode, and deinterlacing field order scene items.

Sigil 2.7.5 Open-Source EPUB Ebook Editor Is Out with New Features and Bug Fixes

The new Sigil release introduces several enhancements, including the addition of possible shortcut ID numbers to the ClipEditor to make assigning clip shortcuts easier, as well as “min” and “max” buttons to the titlebar in the Reports and Spellcheck Editor to ease use on small screens.

Calamares Linux Graphical Installer Now Supports KDE’s Plasma Login Manager

Calamares 3.4.2 is a small update, but an important one as it introduces support for KDE’s Plasma Login Manager (PLM) display manager, allowing distributions that use Calamares as their default graphical installer and offer the KDE Plasma desktop environment to install Plasma Login Manager.

NVIDIA 580.142 Production-Ready Linux Graphics Driver Released with Bug Fixes

NVIDIA 580.142 is here as a small bugfix release that addresses a bug causing adaptive sync displays to go blank when connected with an active USB-C-to-HDMI adapter, and a bug that could cause Vulkan swapchains to stop presenting new frames on X11 sessions.

OpenSSL 4.0 Promises Support for Encrypted Client Hello, SNMP KDF, and SRTP KDF

OpenSSL 4.0 promises support for Encrypted Client Hello (ECH, RFC 9849), support for RFC 8998, support for SNMP KDF and SRTP KDF, support for signature algorithm sm2sig_sm3, support for [tls-hybrid-sm2-mlkem] post-quantum group curveSM2MLKEM768, and key exchange group curveSM2 support.

KeePassXC 2.7.12 Password Manager Adds Support for Bitwarden’s Nested Folders

Coming more than three months after KeePassXC 2.7.11, the new release adds support for nested folders when importing passwords from Bitwarden, adds support for TIMEOTP autotype and entry placeholder, and adds support for setting BE and BS flags to true for Passkeys.

KDE Plasma 6.5.6 Released as the Last Update in the Series with More Fixes

Coming almost a month after KDE Plasma 6.5.5, the KDE Plasma 6.5.6 release is here to update the HDR calibration wizard to temporarily disable the Night Light feature while calibrating your monitor to ensure that you get an accurate result.

Fedora Linux 44 Beta Released with Linux 6.19, GNOME 50, and KDE Plasma 6.6

Powered by the latest and greatest Linux 6.19 kernel series, the Fedora Linux 44 beta ships with the soon-to-be-released GNOME 50 desktop environment for the flagship Fedora Workstation edition, as well as the latest KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop environment for the Fedora KDE Plasma Desktop edition.

Latest Steam Client Update Improves Support for Proton Games on Linux

The new Steam Client update introduces an option to attach hardware specs when writing or updating a Steam User Review on a game’s store page, adds notification settings for showing a toast and playing a sound when an achievement is unlocked, and adds an option to provide anonymized framerate data.

Tor Project blog

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a4

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.