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IBASE IB966 3.5-inch SBC with Panther Lake and up to 180 TOPS

IBASE has announced the IB966, a 3.5-inch SBC based on Intel Core Ultra Series 3 “Panther Lake” processors, with up to 180 TOPS of aggregate AI performance, 128GB of DDR5-7200 memory, dual 2.5GbE and three M.2 slots.

Raspberry Pi 5 cluster runs Qwen3-30B-A3B at 15 tokens/s on CPU

Hellomatik has published a study and a modified distributed-llama implementation for running the Qwen3-30B-A3B language model across four Raspberry Pi 5 boards. Using only the boards’ Arm Cortex-A76 CPUs, the cluster reached a reported decode throughput of 15.143 tokens per second, without GPU or NPU acceleration or CPU overclocking.

TechNexion TELOS-AI4000 delivers 40 TOPS in compact form factor

TELOS-AI4000 by TechNexion is a compact edge-AI accelerator module based on NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit. The module delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, supports up to 16GB of LPDDR4 memory and is intended for vision, generative AI and other embedded inference workloads.

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Debian 14 “Forky” Artwork Proposals Are Now Open for Submission

This is the moment for aspiring artists and designers who want to display their work in front of millions of Debian users to submit their best artwork for the upcoming Debian 14 (codename Forky – continuing the “Toy Story” naming) operating system series, due for release in mid-2027.

Canonical Beefs Up Security for Ubuntu 26.10 with Slimmed-Down GRUB, Linux 7.3

Ubuntu 26.10 (codename Stonking Stingray) is scheduled for release next week, on October 15th, 2026, with the latest and greatest GNOME 51 “A Coruña” desktop environment, the unreleased Linux 7.3 kernel series (yes, Ubuntu 26.10 will ship with an RC (Release Candidate) kernel), OpenSSL 4.0, OpenSSH 10.5, and Rust-based core utilities.

Raspberry Pi OS Updated with Battery and Squeekboard Dock Widgets

Based on the latest Debian 13 “Trixie” operating system series and powered by Linux kernel 6.18.50 LTS, the new Raspberry Pi OS release ships with battery and squeekboard widgets for the new dock, support for automounting encrypted drives, Control Centre debug code, and new, better-quality Raspberry Pi menu icons.

Debian Trixie-Based Raspberry Pi Desktop Is Now Available for PC and Mac

The wait is finally over, and you can download an updated Raspberry Pi Desktop ISO image that you can install on your x86_64 (not ARM) laptop or desktop computer, or on a 64-bit Mac. The latest Raspberry Pi Desktop release is based on Debian 13 “Trixie,” and it’s powered by the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel series.

GNOME 52 “Terengganu” Desktop Environment Is Scheduled for March 17th, 2027

With GNOME 51 “A Coruña” being released last month and slowly making its way into the stable software repositories of popular GNU/Linux distributions, such as openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Linux, Ubuntu, and Arch Linux, the GNOME devs have started work on the GNOME 52 release.

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"Journalism in Twitter" is a Paradox

"I am writing an article" is not the same as "I am writing a set of tweets" (usually random thoughts and unverified assertions, citing other unverified assertions)
The Future of the World Wide Web is Just 'Webapps' in Chrome, Not Web Pages in One's Browser of Choice

The monoculture gets worse, not better
EPO Corruption is a Real Threat to the European Union (EU). The EPO Helps Russia. If It Does Not Reform or Reboot, It Can Contribute to the Collapse of the EU and UPC (Which Was Never Legal or Even Constitutional, It's a Captured Kangaroo Court Controlled by the Patent Litigation Industry).

second-largest institution in Europe
Linux is Becoming Non-free Software and the So-called 'Linux' Foundation Likes It That Way (It's Fronting for Companies That Violate the GPL, the Licence of Linux)

What's happening here is, they rip off people using their "stolen" (GPL-violating) product

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Playing Social Control Media 'Games' Instead of Writing Articles

someone will need to run two sites. One is "In Support of Richard Stallman", which is run by oneself, and other is "Stallman Support".
The Patent Litigation 'Industry' Controls the European Patent Office (Vendor Capture) and Everyone Suffers, Even the European Union

Today we relay an EPO publications dated just 4 days ago (this past Tuesday)
No, Mr. "Journalist", You Might be Corrupt (But Denying It to Yourself and to Others to Pacify Your Consciousness)

"Journalists" like the label because it makes the job sound like an honourable profession and they're presumed objective
Stop Glorifying Murderers, They Aren't Helping Anybody

Murder isn't the solution. Murder is a problem.
Europe's "Manhattan Project" Should be Abandoning Microsoft, Moving Everything to Free (Libre) Software

At the moment, Microsoft draws much of its budget from taxpayers
Gemini Links 14/12/2024: Minor Thing About git and jujutsu

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Links 14/12/2024: Adobe's Shares Collapse, Apple Publishes Fake News With LLMs

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Links 14/12/2024: ChatGPT Down, Microsofter Bracing for Layoffs

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Gemini Links 13/12/2024: Firing at Work, jujutsu, and Gemini Mode

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GNOME 52 “Terengganu” Desktop Environment Is Scheduled for March 17th, 2027: The development cycle of the upcoming GNOME 52 “Terengganu” desktop environment kicks off with a draft release schedule and a final release set for March 17th, 2027.
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