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Milk-V Titan Brings RISC-V Performance in Mini-ITX Form with UltraRISC UR-DP1000

Milk-V has revealed early details of the upcoming Milk-V Titan, a high-performance RISC-V platform built in a compact Mini-ITX form factor. It features the UltraRISC UR-DP1000 processor, which complies with the RV64GC(BHX) standard and supports hardware virtualization via the RV64 Hypervisor extension.

AAEON Launches World’s First NanoCOM-MTU with 28W Intel Core Ultra CPUs on COM Express Type 10

AAEON has introduced the NanoCOM-MTU, described as the first COM Express Type 10 module to feature 28W Intel Core Ultra processors. Designed for compact edge computing, industrial robotics, and embedded systems, the module delivers high-performance processing in a space-efficient 84 mm by 55 mm footprint.

ASRock Industrial Launches Jetson AGX Orin Platform for Edge & Autonomous Applications

The announcement highlights that the developer kit is built around the NVIDIA Jetson AGX Orin system-on-module, available in Industrial, 64GB, and 32GB configurations. Each variant integrates the NVIDIA Ampere GPU architecture and Arm Cortex-A78AE CPUs, delivering up to eight times the AI performance of the Jetson AGX Xavier platform.

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VirtualBox 7.1.12 is here about five weeks after VirtualBox 7.1.10 and promises to add additional fixes to improve support for the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel series for both Linux hosts and guests. Initial support for Linux kernel 6.16 landed in the previous update, VirtualBox 7.1.10.

Blender 4.5 LTS Open-Source 3D Graphics App Makes the Vulkan Backend Stable

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KDE Plasma 6.4.3 Improves the Automatic Screen Scale Calculator on Wayland

Coming two weeks after KDE Plasma 6.4.2, the KDE Plasma 6.4.3 release improves the automatic screen scale calculator on Wayland to no longer offer a default scale factor that’s only a little bit higher than 100%. Instead, it will now round the calculated default scale factor down to 100% if it would otherwise be only a little bit higher.

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How Standard Setters Run the Internet

Think about some of the emails you have sent recently. If you sent one from your iPhone, the person you sent it to can still open it using an HP laptop, right? And even if you have different Internet service providers and use different browsers, you can both still see the message. 

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  2. The FSF (Free Software Foundation, Inc.) Can Reach Its Funding Goal of $400,000. This Bothers the Imposters and Foes of the FSF.
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  3. Linux Foundation Pays for LLM Slop (Puff Pieces Made by Bots) About the Linux Foundation
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  4. General Consultative Committee (GCC) Meeting at the European Patent Office (EPO) Shows Existing Problems
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  5. Google Has Only Solidified Its Search Monopoly in Africa Since Microsoft's Chatbot/LLM Hype Started
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  6. [Meme] Leave My /home Alone
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  7. There's a New Version of Lagrange (Gemini Reader) and Its Developer is Making an IDE/Editor
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  8. Nick's Job at OSI: Promote Microsoft, Promote Proprietary Software
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  9. [Meme] Award-Winning Back-stabbing Opportunists
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  10. Azerbaijan Rejects Microsoft
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  11. [Meme] You Just Grab Him by the CoC
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  12. Explaining What Deb Nicholson Does to the Python Software Foundation
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  13. IBM Said to Be Firing People Days Before Christmas
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  14. Microsoft Falls to Just 11% in Ivory Coast
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  16. Gemini Links 12/12/2024: AuraGem TV and Advent of Code 2024
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  17. Fake "Linux" News, Produced by Microsoft Chatbots in 'Brittany Day' or "LinuxSecurity" Clothing
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  18. Microsoft OSI Promoting GitHub, Which is Proprietary and a Massive GPL Violator
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  19. Links 12/12/2024: Another 'Self-driving' Cars Dead End, Infowars Sale Blocked by Court
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  20. Links 12/12/2024: "Hey Hi" Hype Debunked, ActivityPub and Gemini Software on Same Server
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  22. South Korea Has Its Own Alternative to IBM's Proprietary RHEL
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