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Qualcomm Technologies has announced its plan to acquire Arduino, marking a major development in the embedded and maker ecosystems. The acquisition aims to combine Qualcomm’s edge computing and AI expertise with Arduino’s large developer community and open hardware approach.

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Featuring a stunning 16-inch 2K matte display with a 16:10 aspect ratio and 240Hz refresh rate, the new Oryx Pro laptop is powered by an AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 processor with 12 cores, 24 threads, and 5.1 GHz clock speed, up to 96GB DDR5 5600 MHz RAM, up to 8TB M.2 PCIe Gen4 storage, and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 10, 2024

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Republished Today: Why the US Declared War on Wikileaks
    The world’s most powerful government vs. the internet’s most influential whistleblower site. Is America’s war on Wikileaks an attack on journalism and free speech?
  2. [Video] Microsoft's Plan is Doomed: Expensive LLM 'Games', Clown Computing Losses, and Mass Layoffs Several Times Per Month
    Microsoft is trying to sweep the bad news under some rug or wardrobe
  3. ZDNet Kills the Linux RSS Feed (Syndication Redirected to Loads of Marketing Spam and Fake Articles)
    Jack Wallen and SJVN have been screwed
  4. Links 09/07/2024: Update on DMCA Case Regarding GitHub Copilot, "There Will be More Like Julian Assange"
    Links for the day

    New

  5. [Video] Apple Still Unleashes Software Patent Menaces That Can Discourage Adoption of GNU/Linux
    Apple's role in spreading patented formats deserves more frequent scrutiny
  6. Links 09/07/2024: Against Slack, Adventures in Webmastery
    Links for the day
  7. [Meme] From Innocence to GNUisance in 41 Years
    Always keep an eye on the goal
  8. Faroe Islands: GNU/Linux Climbs to All-time High of 4%
    It used to be at around 0%
  9. "Empowering Diversity" at IBM/Red Hat Was Failed PR Stunt
    They know it was a failure
  10. Videos Still Important to Us
    Will we be back to an average of a video per day? Knock on wood!
  11. [Video] What the Freedom of Julian Assange Means to the Rest of Us Who Obtain Incriminating Information From Insiders (Sometimes Without Authorisation)
    It's difficult to say anything negative about what happened
  12. Microsoft's LLM Bubble Has Already Burst
    Microsoft's gambit or crazy gamble on "Hey Hi" (AI) hype is running out of steam
  13. Links 09/07/2024: Software Patents Challenged Again, Russia and North Korea Escalate
    Links for the day
  14. Gemini Links 09/07/2024: Asian Hornet, Boundaries, and Gopher
    Links for the day
  15. Canonical is a Microsoft/Wintel Company
    Can Canonical ever recover from this relationship?
  16. Microsoft Media Operative, Citing Leaked Document From Google: "Google’s Numbers Also Show Azure Had a Roughly $3 Billion Operating Loss"
    Fiscal 2023 ended days ago
  17. Why There Are Mass Layoffs in Azure, Thousands Have Been Fired Several Times So Far This Year (and Every Year Since 2020)
    This is why they hop onto "HEY HI" (AI) hype
  18. "No Institution or Project is Too Small to Evade Their Interference and Scrutiny"
    "See what has become of the OSI and Ubuntu / Canonical etc."
  19. Template for Ambitious 'Security' 'Journalists'
    explain why the user downloading and installing a malicious program is the fault of Linux
  20. A Leap for GNU/Linux in Barbados
    2019 - July 2024
  21. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  22. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 08, 2024
    IRC logs for Monday, July 08, 2024
  23. Thinking of the Next Phase of Wikileaks (and Beyond Wikileaks)
    Wikileaks must become about Wikileaks again, i.e. new leaks, not about the Assange case
  24. The Paper Tiger
    Paper tigers don't last long
  25. GNU/Linux Surge in Qatar
    It's well over 4% is one counts Chromebooks too
  26. Even Notepad Has Become a Microsoft Keylogger (Spying on Keystrokes)
    To you those are "suggestions"
  27. Windows Falls to an All-time Low Again (26%)
    It'll soon fall to just a quarter of Web requests worldwide

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

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

    Span from 2024-07-03 to 2024-07-09
    2564 /n/2024/07/03/News_Calm_Now_July_4th_Time_for_Microsoft_to_Unearth_First_Batc.shtml
    1724 /n/2024/07/08/What_s_Growing_in_the_United_States_This_Year_is_GNU_Linux_Not_.shtml
    1584 /n/2024/07/06/Larissa_Brown_Shapiro_Mozilla_concerned_other_organizations_tak.shtml
    1526 /n/2024/07/04/Whistleblowers_from_Open_Labs_Hackerspace_Albania_in_GNOME_Wiki.shtml
    1323 /n/2024/07/08/Debian_Needs_a_Significant_Change_of_Direction_and_Recognition_.shtml
    1313 /n/2024/07/02/GNU_Linux_and_ChromeOS_Rising_in_Zambia_Android_Rises_Above_72_.shtml
    1063 /n/2024/07/03/Things_to_be_Pleased_About.shtml
    1040 /n/2024/07/03/It_s_Time_to_Say_Goodbye_to_Microsoft_and_Bill_Gates.shtml

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