Do you waddle the waddle?
This won’t be the last. The below is only the beginning.
Can Enzo replicate Sunday?
Rianne in Bearlin
It probably goes without saying, it’s actually an understatement
I opened two tickets with Evri recently.
Is failure intentional?
Staying in Manchester all August
HE good news of the day is, RMS is open to feedback – including to criticism – on systemd.
ime flies.
welve years ago we travelled around the same time SCOTUS delivered Alice and with 35 U.S.C. § 101 it became easier to squash software patents in the US. Now in Europe we see the opposite trend. This means I’d need to get back to writing a lot more about patents.
Orange Pi has shown the Orange Pi Zero 4, a compact single-board computer based on the Allwinner A733 SoC. The board combines an octa-core Arm CPU, a PowerVR GPU, a 3 TOPS NPU, up to 16GB of LPDDR5/LPDDR4X/LPDDR4 memory, Gigabit Ethernet, Wi-Fi 6, Bluetooth 5.4, and multiple display and camera interfaces in a 50 x 55mm form factor.
MSI has detailed the XpertStation WS300T60L, a tower workstation based on NVIDIA’s DGX Station architecture and GB300 Grace Blackwell Ultra platform. The system is aimed at AI development, data science, inference, AI agents, and physical AI workloads, with a 72-core Arm processor, Blackwell Ultra GPU, up to 748GB of coherent memory, and dual 400GbE connectivity.
A recent Crowd Supply campaign features the Firehat, an open-source FireWire HAT designed for PCIe-capable single-board computers including the Raspberry Pi 5 and Radxa ROCK 2F. The board uses a VIA VT6315N IEEE 1394 controller and targets direct DV and HDV capture from older digital camcorders and tape decks using Linux.
NVIDIA has announced the Jetson Orin Nano 2, an updated edge AI platform aimed at robotics, drones, machine vision, and other embedded AI applications. The new module provides up to 78 TOPS of AI performance, 8GB of memory, and an 8-core Arm CPU while retaining the compact form factor of the previous Jetson Orin Nano generation.
Coming three weeks after Calibre 9.13, the Calibre 9.14 release is here to introduce more AI features, including the ability to generate book covers using AI with different cover styles such as romance, sci-fi, pulp fiction, etc., as well as Anthropic and Grok backends for Claude and Grok models, while removing the GitHub backend.
Designed as a collection of security patches and software updates released since April 2024, the Ubuntu 26.04.1 LTS point release is here for those who want to deploy Ubuntu 26.04 LTS on new computers without having to download hundreds of updates from the repositories during or after installation.
Darktable 5.6.1 comes two months after Darktable 5.6 with a small UI performance boost by reverting the increased preview pipe dimension, as well as support for copying color labels, ratings, and manually applied geotags to images created by AI denoise and upscale, in addition to EXIF data and tags.
Highlights of LibreOffice 26.8 include the Paragraph Composer in Writer as a text layout algorithm that balances word spacing across consecutive lines, along with support for OpenType font variations, and the ability to detect paragraph direction automatically when documents or plain text are opened or pasted.
In the UK, today is the last working day for August. In the US, Monday is a normal day. The same is true for Canada. In Cuba, GNU/Linux was at one point measured at 22% yesterday:
In North America, GNU/Linux is measured at 9% (statCounter sees the same worldwide). There will be statCounter data for September on Wednesday morning around 10AM BST. █
Image source: Tavern in Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia