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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.

(Updated) ALPHA-One Leverages RISC-V StarPro64 for Compact Local LLM Deployment

PINE64 has shared early details of the ALPHA-One, a compact generative AI agent powered by the RISC-V-based StarPro64 SBC. Priced at $329.99, the device is aimed at developers and testers, and comes preloaded with a 7 billion parameter LLM running in a Docker container.

NanoPi R76S Brings Dual 2.5GbE to Fanless RK3576-Based Router Board

Following the recent launch of the NanoPi R3S LTS, FriendlyELEC introduces the NanoPi R76S, a compact router board powered by the Rockchip RK3576. Designed for edge networking and IoT, it features dual 2.5Gbps Ethernet, HDMI, USB 3.2, and AI acceleration.

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VirtualBox 7.1.12 Improves Support for Linux Kernel 6.16 on Linux Hosts and Guests

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

Coming four months after Blender 4.4, the Blender 4.5 LTS release finally makes the Vulkan backend stable, improving its performance and also adding support for OpenXR, Subdivision, USD/Hydra, and other features. On Linux, the Vulkan backend requires NVIDIA 550 or later for NVIDIA GPUs and Mesa 25.3 or later for AMD GPUs.

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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For This New Year, 2025, We Need More Writers Out There

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 03, 2025,
updated Jan 03, 2025

It's a New Year and it's good to mention the writers who still write about FOSS, GNU, Linux, Android, and digital freedom. Among the prominent ones:

Bobby Borisov;

Andy Farnell;

Daniel Pocock;

Joey Sneddon;

Jack Wallen;

SJVN;

Steve Elms (LinuxLinks);

Michael Larabel;

Liam Dawe;

Liam Proven;

Christine Hall;

Marius Nestor;

How-to Geek;

It's FOSS News.

A sysadmin added that Ruben Schade covers FOSS a lot and if we are including random bloggers in the list we should name him too; as does Chris Siebenmann at University of Toronto, he blogs every day; Dan Langille kind of does; Igor Ljubuncic aka 'Dedoimedo' tends to cover FOSS; Dr. Brian Robert Callahan does but posts infrequently. Likewise for Peter N M Hansteen (though from a 'BSD' perspective); Simon Phipps has gone quiet, but used to cover it... ¡Muy Linux! covers FOSS and posts almost daily.

We hope that the real passion and intentions of these writers will not be easily 'bribed' by big tech and that their collective principles set is (must be) stronger than any amount of money. We need more people to expose injustices in the world, not just in the tech industry but in any form of activism. If you know something is wrong and you don't (or didn't) do anything about it, then there is something very wrong. We all live in the same planet - I do my share... you should do yours as well. Don't be a parasite and don't just be a passive contented citizen, always playing on the 'safe side' of things. It doesn't make you good, you are not better than a greedy and wealthy sociopaths if you stay quiet. Don't be a loser like them... you are better than them.

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