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(Updated) Orange Pi Unveils AI Station with Ascend 310 and 176 TOPS Compute

Orange Pi closes the year by unveiling new details about the Orange Pi AI Station, a compact board-level edge computing platform built around the Ascend 310 series processor. The system targets high-density inference workloads with large memory options, NVMe storage support, and extensive I/O in a small footprint.

Dragon Q8B SBC combines Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 with dual 2.5GbE

Radxa has introduced the Dragon Q8B, a compact single-board computer built around the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 Compute Platform. The board combines an 8-core processor, up to 29 TOPS of AI performance, dual 2.5GbE networking, and multiple PCIe expansion options in a 100 × 75 mm form factor for edge computing, robotics, industrial automation, and intelligent vision applications.

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COSMIC 1.0.15 Adds Support for Multiple Full-Screen Windows per Workspace

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Giada 1.4.2 Open-Source Loop Machine Makes Working with Scenes Smoother

Coming three weeks after Giada 1.4.1, the Giada 1.4.2 release is the second maintenance update to the Giada 1.4 “Korrigan” series, which introduced support for scenes as a new way to add greater variety and richness to your live performances.

T2 Linux 26.6 Brings Linux 7.0, Refined KDE Plasma Desktop with Flatpak Support

T2/Linux 26.6 delivers a further refined KDE Plasma desktop experience with integrated Flatpak app support, while also providing a fully reproducible Wayland-based KDE Plasma 6.7 desktop across both glibc and musl LLVM/Clang builds, and an updated toolchain with the latest GCC 16.1 and LLVM/Clang 22.1 compilers.

Transmission 4.1.2 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Important Fixes

Coming three and a half months after Transmission 4.1.1, the Transmission 4.1.2 release is here to fix a bug that could cause duplicate HTTP announces to be sent to trackers, a bug that stalled some downloads at 99%, a bug that prevented TCP peer connections on some systems, and a build failure when building Transmission with link-time optimization.

Clonezilla Live 3.3.2 Released with Linux Kernel 7.0, Improved MDRAID Support

Coming more than three months after Clonezilla Live 3.3.1, the Clonezilla Live 3.3.2 release is based on the Debian Sid (Unstable) repository as of May 17th, 2026, and it’s powered by the latest and greatest Linux 7.0 kernel series to ensure Clonezilla Live will run on newer hardware and support more devices.

New Steam Client Update Adds Support for Dimming the Steam Controller’s LED

The June 1st, 2026, Steam Client update adds support for dimming the Steam Controller‘s LED via settings in Steam, adds a potential workaround for an issue on Linux where gamepad emulation would break for Steam Controllers, and reverts changes to trackpad momentum tracking that caused a deadzone around the edges of the Steam Controller trackpad.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tor Browser 15.0.15

This release contains important security updates to the tor daemon and fixes some censorship circumvention problems.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on May 25, 2024

View of the castle in Niedzica and the river

Updated This Past Day

  1. Ireland Exits Microsoft's Vista 11
    Microsoft can't be doing too well in Ireland because Microsoft had tons of layoffs in that country last year
  2. A Recognition for Hard Work
    Running this site is a lot of work
  3. The Web We Lost...
    Vintage War Censorship Poster...
  4. Daniel Pocock (IND) in European Election Debate
    In this segment he speaks of the effects of social control media and phones on children
  5. [Meme] Next Target: Sub Domains
    Deb.Ian.Community
  6. The "D" in Debian Stands for Dictatorship That Extents to Censorship at DNS Level
    Of course the registrar, which charged for domains until 2025, just went along with it
  7. In Republic of (South) Korea, as of This Month, Android Climbs to Record High of 48%
    Judging by statCounter anyway
  8. "Linux" is Second-Class Citizen at IBM
    sends the wrong message to Red Hat staff and Red Hat clients
  9. Links 24/05/2024: More Software Patents Invalidated (US), New Fights to Protect Free Speech
    Links for the day
  10. "You Touched the Wrong Lady"
    What Rianne wrote more than 8 months ago
  11. Links 24/05/2024: Layoffs at LinkedIn and Election Interference Via Social Control Media
    Links for the day
  12. Getting a 'Thank You' From Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) Will Cost You $5,000 to $30,000 (Same as Last Year)
    Right now one of their associates (SFC) tries to spend money to censor us
  13. KDE Neon Weirdness
    Reprinted with permission from Ryan Farmer
  14. Congratulations to Sirius Open Source, Still Claiming to Employ People Who Left Half a Decade Ago (or More!)
    What signal does that send to con men?
  15. [Meme] Bluewashing
    Cent OS? No more.
  16. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, May 23, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, May 23, 2024
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. Tenfold Increase for ChromeOS+GNU/Linux in Brunei
    Brunei Darussalam is a country most people don't know about and never even heard about
  19. Coming Soon: Another Round of 'Cancel Stallman' Chorus
    The series required a great deal of patience

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2024-05-18 to 2024-05-24
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    2272 /n/2024/05/17/Microsoft_Connected_Sites_Trying_to_Shift_Attention_Away_From_M.shtml
    1379 /n/2024/05/23/The_Rumour_Said_Later_Today_Red_Hat_IBM_Might_Announce_Layoffs.shtml
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