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Axon Platform Featuring RockChip RK3588S and Support for LLM Frameworks

The Axon platform, powered by the RockChip RK3588S processor, combines an 8-core CPU and an NPU delivering up to 6 TOPS of AI performance. Designed for advanced computing tasks, it supports various LLMs, including Llama, Qwen, and DeepSeek, with benchmarks showcasing performance for AI workloads.

SECO Introduces New Intel-Based Embedded Solutions at Embedded World 2025

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Arti 1.4.0 is released: onion services, RPC, relay development, and more

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New Release: Tails 6.12

These vulnerabilities can only be exploited by a powerful attacker who has already exploited another vulnerability to take control of an application in Tails.

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Calibre 7.25 Adds Support for Importing KFX Files from 2024 Kindle Devices via MTP

Highlights of Calibre 7.25 include support for importing KFX files from 2024 Kindle devices that use the MTP protocol and a new option to adjust the size of the link and note icons in Book details, which you can access from Preferences > Look & feel > Book details.

KDE Gear 24.12.2 Improves Dolphin, Itinerary, Tokodon, and Many Other KDE Apps

Coming almost a month after the KDE Gear 24.12.1 point release, KDE Gear 24.12.2 is here to fix a regression in the Dolphin file manager on X11 that caused the keyboard focus to move to the Places or Terminal panels when Dolphin was minimized and then unminimized.

LibreOffice 25.2 Open-Source Office Suite Officially Released, This Is What’s New

LibreOffice 25.2 introduces a new privacy feature that removes all personal information associated with any document, such as author names and timestamps, editing time, printer name and configuration, document template, author and date for comments, and tracked changes.

Tails 6.12 Anonymous OS Fixes Security Issues in Tor Circuits, Persistent Storage

Tails 6.12 is here almost a month after Tails 6.11 to address several critical security vulnerabilities that have been discovered and disclosed by a group of security researchers from Radically Open Security, a non-profit computer security consultancy company.

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Tuxedo OS 20250115 launches with KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Vim 9.1, and more

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2025

Quoting: Tuxedo OS 20250115 launches with KDE Plasma 6.2.5, Vim 9.1, and more —

Founded in 2004, Tuxedo Computers began shipping its devices with the Ubuntu-based Tuxedo OS at the end of September 2022. Unlike Ubuntu, this in-house-developed distro lacks Canonical's Snap package manager, also using its own software repositories, located on servers operated by hosting providers located in Germany. Last but not least, Tuxedo OS is not sending out any data to Canonical or Tuxedo.

Released yesterday, the latest minor update to this German distro brings the current version to 20250115, and its most important change is the update to KDE Plasma 6.2.5, a bugfix patch that was released on the last day of 2024.

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