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Radxa Rolls Out Dragon Q6A Featuring Qualcomm QCS6490, 12 TOPS NPU, and 6th-Gen AI Engine

Radxa has rolled out the Dragon Q6A, a compact single-board computer built on Qualcomm’s QCS6490 octa-core platform. Designed for industrial, IoT, and edge computing environments, the board combines high-performance CPU and GPU cores with integrated AI acceleration, multiple display interfaces, and flexible storage options.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 21, 2024

Spring Flower On The Branch

Updated This Past Day

  1. Red Hat Loves Microsoft Monopoly (and Proprietary Surveillance With Back Doors)
    full posting history in RedHat.com
  2. Windows Has Fallen Below 5% in Iraq, GNU/Linux Surged Beyond 7% Based on statCounter's Stats
    Must be something going on!
  3. Read "Google Is Not What It Seems" by Julian Assange
    In this extract from his new book When Google Met Wikileaks, WikiLeaks' publisher Julian Assange describes the special relationship between Google, Hillary Clinton and the State Department

    New

    and what that means for the future of the internet
  4. Julian Assange: Factual Timeline From an Online Friend
    a friend's account
  5. Breaking News: Assange Wins Right to Challenge Extradition to the US
    This is great news, but maybe the full legal text will reveal some caveat
  6. Brittany Day, Plagiarist in Chief (Chatbot Slinger)
    3 articles in the front page of LXer.com right now are chatbot spew
  7. Guardian Digital, Inc (linuxsecurity.com) Has Resorted to Plagiarism by Chatbots, Flooding the World Wide Web With Fake 'Articles' Wrongly Attributed to Brittany Day
    busted

    New

  8. [Video] Just Let Julian Assange Go Back to Australia
    Assange needs to be freed
  9. Microsoft Windows Used to Have Nearly 100% in China and Now Google Has 50% (With Android)
    Will China bring about a faster "fall" for Microsoft?
  10. The WWW declares the end of Google
    Reprinted with permission from Cyber|Show
  11. Gemini Links 20/05/2024: CMSs and Lua "Post to midnight.pub" Script Alternative
    Links for the day
  12. Brodie Robertson - Never Criticise The Linux Foundation Expenses (With Transcript)
    Transcript included
  13. Links 20/05/2024: Protests and Aggression by Beijing
    Links for the day
  14. Can an election campaign succeed without social media accounts?
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  15. Fact check: relation to Julian Assange, founded Wikileaks at University of Melbourne and Arjen Kamphuis
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  16. Gambia: Windows Down to 5% Overall, 50% on Desktops/Laptops
    Windows was measured at 94% in 2015
  17. Links 20/05/2024: Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns, RTO as Silent Layoffs
    Links for the day
  18. The Issue With Junk Traffic in Geminispace (Gemini Protocol)
    Some people have openly complained that their capsule was getting hammered by bot
  19. Peter Eckersley, Laura Smyth & the rushed closure of dial-up Internet in Australian universities
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  20. [Meme] Bullying the Victims
    IBM: crybully of the year 2024
  21. Ian.Community Should be Safer From Trademark Censorship
    We wish to discuss this matter very quickly
  22. Microsoft and Its Vicious Attack Dogs (Attacking Women or Wives in Particular)
    Sad, pathetic, destructive people
  23. Upcoming Series About the Campaign to 'Disappear' the Father of GNU/Linux
    Today we have Julian Assange's fate to focus on
  24. A Month From Now Gemini Protocol Turns 5
    June 20
  25. Colombia: From Less Than 0.5% to Nearly 4% for GNU/Linux
    it's not limited to this one country
  26. Rumour: Well Overdue Red Hat Layoffs to be Announced in About 3 Days
    we know they've planned the layoffs for a while
  27. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  28. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, May 19, 2024
    IRC logs for Sunday, May 19, 2024
  29. Gemini Links 20/05/2024: Updated Noto Fontpacks and gemfeed2atom
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-05-14 to 2024-05-20
    2082 /n/2024/05/16/People_Who_Defend_Richard_Stallman_s_Right_to_Deliver_Talks_Abo.shtml
    1871 /n/2024/05/20/Guardian_Digital_Inc_linuxsecurity_com_Has_Resorted_to_Plagiari.shtml
    1815 /n/2024/05/14/Video_LinuxFest_Northwest_is_Letting_GAFAM_Take_Over_and_Why_It.shtml
    1691 /n/2024/05/15/Video_Late_Stage_Capitalism_Microsoft_as_an_Elaborate_Ponzi_Sch.shtml
    1304 /n/2024/05/15/Ebury_is_Not_Linux_That_s_Just_the_Media_Shifting_Attention_Mic.shtml

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