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BentoIO CMX0 IO-Carrier Board adds low-profile platform for Raspberry Pi CM5

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ESP32-E22 debuts with tri-band Wi-Fi 6E and dual-mode Bluetooth

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Banana Pi’s BPI-CM6 compute module runs on SpacemiT K1 RISC-V processor

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Axiomtek Previews Jetson Thor T5000/T4000 Developer Kit for Robotics Systems

The platform is shown with Jetson Thor T5000 or T4000 modules, offering up to 2070 TFLOPS of compute performance. Axiomtek notes support for software frameworks such as NVIDIA Isaac, Holoscan, and Metropolis, with capabilities aligned with sensor fusion, autonomous systems, and edge inference use cases.

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MX Linux 25.1 Is Out with Dual-Init Support, Debian 13.3 Base, and Linux 6.18 LTS

After a quick, one-week beta testing phase, MX Linux 25.1 is now available for download based on the latest Debian 13.3 “Trixie” operating system and featuring the long-term supported Linux 6.12 LTS kernel on the standard ISOs and Linux 6.18 LTS on the AHS (Advanced Hardware Support) ISOs.

Mozilla Now Offers an Official Firefox RPM Package for RPM-Based Linux Distros

Mozilla already provided a DEB binary package for Debian-based systems, so they’re now offering the same native package installation of Firefox for RPM-based systems, making it a lot easier for users of RPM-based distributions to update their Firefox installations to the latest version on the day of the release.

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Amarok 3.3.2 Brings Improvements to User Interface, Audio Backend, and More

Coming more than five months after Amarok 3.3.1, the Amarok 3.3.2 release introduces the ability to show the “added to collection” time in the tag dialog when available and adds support for opening items in the playlist with a single click and adding them to the playlist in the collection browser with a double click.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 16, 2025

Driving on the road

Updated This Past Day

  1. Alex Oliva, the Potential 'Successor' of RMS, Has a New Web Site
    More freedom for Alex Oliva
  2. Azure is Turning 17 This Year, Still Losing Money and Staff
    Hallmark of pyramid schemes, deriving "value" out of things that do not really exist?
  3. Richard Stallman on RISC-V and Free Hardware
    Invidious is under attack by Google
  4. IDG 'Reviews' of GNU/Linux Now Contain LLM Slop
    It's typically ads or commercials... or sometimes spin disguised as news
  5. In Gopher and Gemini Protocol People Abandon Services Based in the United States
    There's no resistance whatsoever
  6. Python and Microsoft: Pandas Should Have Known OpenDocument Format (ODF) and Microsoft Excel Are Different and Competing Things
    now we're meant to think that in order to open ODF files we need some functions with "Excel" in their name
  7. Not Only Windows, Surface, and "Hey Hi" PCs; Microsoft's Hardware Ventures Are a Dumpster Fire; HoloLens Mixed Reality Hardware Now Axed Altogether and Staff is Miserable
    Microsoft is in a terrible state
  8. Links 15/02/2025: University Price Hikes and Copyright Action Against Slop Companies
    Links for the day

    New

  9. Links 15/02/2025: Harms to Health, Public Domain, and More
    Links for the day
  10. Gemini Links 15/02/2025: On Autistic People, AuraGem Over HTTPS
    Links for the day
  11. The Cyber Show (C|S) Speaks of the "Rise of the Nerd Reich."
    This 'Valentine Episode' is quite good
  12. Strong Momentum for the Free Software Foundation (FSF) as Winter Approaches Its End in Boston or in the Northern Hemisphere
    FSF's founder, Richard Stallman, gives another talk in Italy in 9 days from now
  13. The 'Drunken Plagiarists' Are Harming Journalism About GNU/Linux
    They lessen the incentive to do real journalism abut GNU/Linux
  14. Female Nazis and racist Swiss women
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  15. Links 15/02/2025: Erasing of American Science and Tesla SLAPPing Critics
    Links for the day
  16. Gemini Links 15/02/2025: Spectacles and "Before Sunset", Moving Domains Out of the US
    Links for the day
  17. Microsoft Has Only $17,482 Million Left, "Cash on Hand" Sank 40 Billion Dollars in 2 Years
    Microsoft runs low on money in the bank
  18. YouTube Layoffs Mean That YouTube is Still Losing a Lot of Money (Net Income or Profit Almost Definitely Negative)
    In more recent years Google defunded many vloggers
  19. Certificate Authority (CA) Let's Encrypt Now Down to TEN (0.3% of the Whole) in Geminispace
    The number of capsules that use Let's Encrypt is, according to Lupa, about to fall to single-digit figures
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Friday, February 14, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, February 14, 2025
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Saturday contains all the text.

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

    Span from 2025-02-09 to 2025-02-15
    1380 /n/2025/02/08/Today_s_IBM_Red_Hat_Isn_t_the_Company_That_Fought_a_Microsoft_S.shtml
    1357 /n/2025/02/10/If_Matthias_Kirschner_Loves_Free_Software_He_ll_Change_the_Name.shtml
    785 /n/2025/02/06/New_Rumours_of_IBM_Layoffs_in_2025_IBM_Consulting_Still_Struggl.shtml
    696 /n/2025/02/10/Soylent_News_Lessens_the_Scope_of_Discussion_Due_to_Persistent_.shtml
    666 /browse/latest.shtml
    610 /n/2025/02/09/Debian_s_Human_Rights_violations_Swiss_women_Nazi_symbolism.shtml
    591 /n/2025/02/06/Tons_of_Anti_Linux_Articles_Published_by_Bots_LLMs_Maybe_Micros.shtml
    589 /n/2025/02/10/New_Paper_From_the_EPO_Highlights_Large_Scale_Discrimination_at.shtml
    576 /n/2025/02/10/Macao_is_Leaving_Microsoft_Behind.shtml
    555 /n/2025/02/10/Activism_in_Times_of_War_and_a_Coup.shtml
    547 /n/2025/02/09/Links_09_02_2025_Russian_Energy_Cut_Off_LLM_Pushers_Show_Signs_.shtml

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