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Linux App Summit 2026 Will Take Place on May 16-17 in Berlin, Germany

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Grinn Brings 25×25mm AstraSOM-261x Edge AI SoM Alongside Synaptics Coral Dev Board

The AstraSOM-261x is built around the Synaptics Astra SL2610 processor family and measures 25 × 25 mm, placing it among the smaller system-on-modules available for embedded AI applications. The module uses an LGA178 footprint and exposes its I/O through the carrier board, allowing developers to integrate the module into custom hardware designs.

Gateworks GW16168 M.2 AI accelerator features NXP Ara240 DNPU with up to 40 eTOPS

The GW16168 uses NXP’s Ara240 DNPU to deliver up to 40 equivalent eTOPS of AI inference performance. The card is intended to offload AI workloads from host processors, allowing embedded systems to run machine vision, large language model inference, and other AI workloads without saturating the host CPU.

TI Debuts MSPM0G5187 and AM13Ex Edge AI Microcontrollers with TinyEngine NPU

The MSPM0G5187 is based on an Arm Cortex-M0+ CPU running up to 80 MHz and integrates the TinyEngine NPU to accelerate deep learning workloads. The MCU supports up to 128 KB of flash memory and 32 KB of SRAM, along with integrated analog peripherals such as a 12-bit 1.6-MSPS ADC and a high-speed comparator with an integrated reference DAC.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 05, 2024

Autumn landscape on British countryside

Updated This Past Day

  1. When It Comes to Encryption, The Web (as in World Wide Web) Isn't Secure and Uses Weak Ciphers About as Often as Every Day, Even in 2024
    Gemini Protocol does not
  2. [Video] Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir (Iceland, SOC) Explains That Julian Assange Was Punished for Exposing Crimes (Instead of the Criminals Getting Published)
    Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir speaks out...
  3. Links 04/10/2024: Health, Asia, and Censorship
    Links for the day

    New

  4. [Meme] Who to Trust on Privacy... (Not Someone Who Boasts About Breaking Into Devices Without Authorisation)
    You're not even a computer scientist...
  5. The GPL Does Not Prohibit Use of Code for Death
    Windows kills even more people, but in other ways
  6. Journalism in Europe on Life Support
    Assange articulated some of the ordeals he went through
  7. [Video] Stella Assange and Thórhildur Sunna Ævarsdóttir on Protecting Journalists Who Expose Injustice
    Stella (the wife) says her husband received an invitation from the committee (PACE) while he still undergoes recovery
  8. Links 04/10/2024: Ingrid's Back and Creative Mornings
    Links for the day
  9. [Video] The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly on Julian Assange
    The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner
  10. Links 04/10/2024: Telegram Issues Deepen, Texas Sues TikTok
    Links for the day
  11. "The Council of Europe's Parliamentary Assembly has voted to confirm that Julian Assange was held as a political prisoner."
    This stuff should not have been in Twitter (X)
  12. Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles (ICBMs) Do Not Run Windows
    The projects that deal with ICBMs are extremely unlikely to involve Microsoft
  13. "Microsoft is asking for a handout... yet again"
    Just over a month after the last bailout fell through the cracks
  14. One Step Closer to the End of Microsoft's XBox
    XBox sales are down over 50% in the past year
  15. GNU/Linux Flaring Up in ASEAN
    We said we'd not post statCounter for a few months
  16. Gemini Links 04/10/2024: Asteroid City and Retro Gaming
    Links for the day
  17. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  18. IRC Proceedings: Thursday, October 03, 2024
    IRC logs for Thursday, October 03, 2024

    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Friday contains all the text.

    Top-read articles (excluding bot/crawler visits):

    Span from 2024-09-28 to 2024-10-04
    2215 /n/2024/09/28/Linus_Torvalds_His_Employers_and_Critics_of_His_Employers_Can_A.shtml
    844 /n/2024/09/30/Blind_Worship_of_Technology_is_a_Misguided_Fool_s_Errand.shtml
    817 /n/2024/09/28/WINAMP_Reminds_Us_That_Choosing_GitHub_is_Sign_of_Failing_to_Un.shtml
    801 /n/2024/10/01/Full_Transcript_of_Julian_Assange_s_Speech_in_Strasbourg.shtml
    755 /n/2024/10/01/Microsoft_s_Collapse_is_Continuing.shtml
    658 /n/2024/09/29/The_Web_is_Large_But_It_Stopped_Growing_It_s_Just_Consolidating.shtml
    632 /n/2024/07/22/Something_is_Happening_at_OFTC.shtml
    607 /n/2024/10/01/Red_Hat_Subsidiaries_Like_Red_Hat_and_Silent_Layoffs.shtml

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