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Darktable 5.6.2 Adds White Balance Presets for Leica SL3-P and Sony Alpha 7R VI

Coming a little over a month after Darktable 5.6.1, the Darktable 5.6.2 release adds white balance presets for the Leica SL3-P (DNG) and Sony Alpha 7R VI (Sony ILCE-7RM6) cameras, improves highlights modes for 4BAYER (CYGM/RGBE) raws, and improves OpenCL support for recent Intel graphics drivers.

schestowitz.com

Customer Service With Humans

Reject bots, ask to speak to a person

Sirius Open Source is Bankrupt, Shut Down

Crossposted from Techrights

DRM is An Attack on Today’s Youth

And not only youth

Breaches of Civil Procedure Rules in the UK (Not That the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Would Care)

Is this country still governed by actual laws?

Libera Chat Tolerates People Who Say “Gas the Jews” and Want to Stab Colleagues

ibera Chat (IRC network) has a CoC, but this CoC seems to not cover really tasteless things or simply does not enforce the rules against truly terrible and potentially dangerous people. In the interests of transparency, I’d like to share information about the sorts of people protected by Libera Chat:

When Will Libera Chat Ban GAFAM and GAFAM-Funded Projects?

Double standards

The Women Fight ‘Til the End

0-0 until 43rd miniute

Reform UK Lawyers Apparently Try to Censor Blog Posts About Their Latest Scandal and Winding Up Petition (Like Bankruptcy/Insolvency/Administration)

Sweaty Farage

Manchester City v Arsenal Today (Women’s)

Kick-off in 5 minutes

Money Does Not Make People Beautiful

Harsh.

LinuxGizmos.com

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.

Efinix Sapphire RV64 brings 64-bit RISC-V and Linux to FPGAs

Efinix announced this week the Sapphire RV64, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft SoC intended for embedded Linux, edge AI and other applications requiring more memory and processing capability than the company’s existing 32-bit Sapphire architecture. The processor can be implemented across Efinix Titanium and Topaz FPGAs, as well as Trion devices from the T20 upward.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jan 16, 2026

A dog is peacefully relaxing in the sun. This photo was taken on top of a Buddhist school in Kathmandu, Nepal.

Updated This Past Day

  1. Linuxiac May Have Reverted Back to LLM Slop (Updated Same Day)
    Is he back off the wagon?
  2. Links 15/01/2026: Internet Blackouts, Jackboots Society in US
    Links for the day
  3. GAFAM is a National and International Threat to Everybody
    GAFAM is just a tentacle in service of imperialism
  4. Don't Cry for Gaslighting Media in a Country Which Loathes the Press
    my wife and I received threats for merely writing about Americans

    New

  5. Links 15/01/2026: Starlink Weaponised for Regime Change (by Man Who Boasted About Annexing South American Countries for Tesla's Mining), Corruption in Switzerland Uncovered by JuristGate
    Links for the day
  6. GAFAM and IBM Layoffs Outline
    a lot of the layoffs happen in secrecy and involve convincing people to resign, retire, relocate etc.
  7. Coming Soon: Impact With EPO Cocainegate
    Will Campinos survive 2026?
  8. The Creator of Git Probably Doesn't Know How to Install and Deploy Git
    Nobody disputes this: Mr. Torvalds created Git
  9. Slop is a Liability
    Slopfarms too will become extinct because people aren't interested in them
  10. EPO People Power - Part XXXVI - In Conclusion and Taking Things Up Another Notch
    They often say that the law won't deter or stop criminals because it's hard to enforce laws against people who reject the law
  11. Running Techrights is Fun, Rewarding, and Gratifying
    In Geminispace we are already quite dominant
  12. Red Hat is Connected to the Military, Its Chief Comes From Military Family (From Both Sides)
    The founder of Red Hat's parent company literally saluted Hitler himself (yes, a Nazi salute)
  13. Red Hat (IBM) is Driving Away Remaining Fedora Users
    I've not used Fedora since Moonshine
  14. Robert X. Cringely Has Already Explained IBM's Bullying Culture (Towards Its Own Staff)
    IBM is a fairly nasty company
  15. Proton Mail compromise, Hannah Natanson (Washington Post) police raid & Debian
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  16. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  17. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, January 14, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, January 14, 2026
  18. Gemini Links 15/01/2026: "Ode to elinks", envs.net Pubnix and Downtime at geminiprotocol.net
    Links for the day
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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