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ASRock Industrial Introduces 4X4 BOX AI300 Series with AMD Ryzen AI Processors

ASRock Industrial has introduced the 4X4 BOX AI300 Series, a compact system built around AMD’s Ryzen AI 300 Series processors. This fanned system includes features such as 2.5GbE and 1GbE ports, support for four displays, and flexible storage options.

RISC-V Based Milk-V Oasis Gets Canceled and Refunds Are Issued to Supporters

The Milk-V Oasis, a highly anticipated RISC-V-based Mini-ITX motherboard, has been officially put on hold. Despite its promising features and bold vision, the project was suspended indefinitely due to development challenges and uncontrollable factors, according to the Milk-V team.

Luckfox Brings Linux to Stamp Form Factor with Rockchip RV1106 Processor

The Luckfox Core1106 is a compact development board built around the Rockchip RV1106 chip. Designed to simplify hardware integration, it allows developers to efficiently verify designs or embed the board into products. With dimensions of 30 × 30 mm, the Core1106 is suitable for applications such as edge computing, IoT devices, and video processing.

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Today’s US Executive Order is a Serious Win for Cybersecurity

The United States government is taking a major leap forward for cybersecurity. The newly released Executive Order on Strengthening and Promoting Innovation in the Nation’s Cybersecurity calls on the US government to improve the security of its own systems. New cybersecurity procurement requirements for federal contractors will have a broad impact by leveraging the “power of the purse” to drive market demand for strong cybersecurity.

Understanding and Identifying Scams: Digitally Empowering Older Adults in Mexico

In 2023, some 15,000 financial frauds took place every day in Mexico, with nearly 15% of the population getting scammed. As the Internet continues to become a more prominent part of our lives, online scams are growing in popularity, and older adults face unique risks.

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5 Handy Free Linux Typesetting Systems

posted by Rianne Schestowitz on Apr 12, 2024

TeX was one of the earliest typesetting systems, first released in 1978. Many of its design decisions have stood the test of time, and TeX is still an extremely well-used typesetting system more than forty years after its inception. In particular, it’s renowned for its means of typesetting complex mathematical formulae; it has been noted as one of the most sophisticated digital typographical systems.

LaTeX is a document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. It’s a generalised set of macros to help users do many things. Most people don’t want to have to program TeX, especially to set up things like sections, title pages, bibliographies and so on. LaTeX provides all of that: these are the ‘macros’ it offers.

There are quite a few good typesetting systems available for Linux besides TeX. Here’s our roundup of ones which are most useful. Only free and open source software is included.

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