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Radxa Launches M.2 AI Accelerator with Axera AX8850 and 24 TOPS NPU

The Radxa AICore AX-M1 is an M.2 M Key AI acceleration module designed for edge computing systems that require high-throughput neural processing. Built around the Axera AX8850 system-on-chip, the module combines an octa-core Cortex-A55 processor with a 24 TOPS INT8-capable NPU and an 8K-capable video processing unit, delivering AI processing capabilities in a compact footprint.

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LILYGO has announced four new ESP32-S3-based development boards targeting a diverse range of embedded and IoT applications. These boards combine wireless connectivity with specialized hardware such as e-paper displays, CAN interfaces, motion sensors, and GPS modules, and are designed for rapid prototyping and deployment using familiar platforms like Arduino IDE, PlatformIO, and ESP-IDF.

Zephyr RTOS 4.2 Released with Renesas RX Support, USB Video Class, MQTT 5.0, and Nearly 100 New Boards

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New Release: Tails 6.18

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A UK Government Order Threatens the Privacy and Security of All Internet Users

Earlier this year, the United Kingdom government ordered Apple to provide access to encrypted data in the company’s cloud storage service, iCloud. In response, Apple removed its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) system for users in the country, removing the option to store data using end-to-end encryption, and setting a dangerous precedent of privacy violation. 

Encryption Makes Us Powerful: Internet Society Hosts Encryption Advocacy Workshop for European Civil Society

In early February of this year, the Internet Society hosted an Encryption Advocacy Workshop in Brussels for European civil society organizations. We created this workshop alongside steering members of the Global Encryption Coalition to equip potential encryption advocates with:

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 20, 2025

Dog emerging from ocean water

Updated This Past Day

  1. In Norway, Android/Linux Has Just Hit All-Time High (First Time Since 2020), GNU/Linux Already Very Prevalent
    Despite its small population size, Norway gave us Qt and many other things
  2. Microsoft's Mass Layoffs Very Wide-Ranging, Media Focused on Gaming Though Microsoft Mass-Firing Lawyers and "AI" Staff (Contradicting Its Supposed "Investment" in "AI")
    Microsoft plans to fire almost half a thousand people in legal roles
  3. 2012 Article About the Free Software Foundation Blasting Canonical/Ubuntu Over Adoption of "Secure" Boot (Microsoft's Remote Control Over GNU/Linux Since PCs' Power-on)
    By Katherine Noyes (article has since then became 404, not found)
  4. Debian Can Dump Blind Users Because I am Not Blind
    the sort of mentality we're up against
  5. The European Patent Office Cannot Attract Proficient Patent Examiners Who Master Their Domain
    They are enablers and facilitators of corruption

    New

  6. Gemini Links 19/07/2025: Git For Authors and Filtered Antenna
    Links for the day
  7. UEFI 'Secure' Boot Abuses by Microsoft to be Brought Up in the UK High Court in 3 Months
    we'll seek compensation
  8. Russia Set to Ban Facebook?
    If WhatsApp is made to "leave", that means Facebook or "Meta".
  9. Next Year It'll Be Half a Decade Since the Fall of Freenode (and IRC is Still Doing OK)
    Our IRC network is still accessible using the exact same software that ran in Windows 3.x
  10. Lupa Will Soon Know of 3,100+ Active Gemini Capsules
    And some people in the "Small Web" try to tell us that Gemini is dying?
  11. The Slopfarms Are Taking Real News Articles and Replacing Them With Lies Generated by Machines
    Bluntly speaking, Fagioli is nothing short of an online scammer
  12. Links 19/07/2025: Techtarget to Cull 10% of Staff, New Threats to Free Press in the US (Home of Dangerous and Violent Stranglers From Microsoft)
    Links for the day
  13. Gemini Links 19/07/2025: "Climate Justice” and Forking Programs
    Links for the day
  14. What Wayland and Microsoft/IBM systemd Have in Common
    focus on what IBM (Red Hat) is pushing while running over critics.
  15. Linux Already Has About 60% of the "Market"
    "When mentioning the client side," opines an associate, "it is essential to recite the list of other markets where Microsoft is negligible or a no-show. It is repetitive to do so, but it needs saying

    New

    often."
  16. Finland (and NATO) Must Move to GNU/Linux and Dump Microsoft Even Faster
    "Microsoft is not a technology problem, it is a staffing problem."
  17. The Microsofters We Sued Helped Microsoft Make GNU/Linux 'Expire' This Year
    "Linux and Secure Boot certificate expiration"
  18. linuxconfig.org Joins linuxtechlab.com and Others, Becomes a Slopfarm With Fake Linux 'Articles' (LLM Slop)
    They contain "linux" in their domain names, but they are just slopfarms
  19. Links 19/07/2025: Microsoft Cuts in China and Wall Street Journal Sued for Reporting on Jeffrey Epstein
    Links for the day
  20. Fascistic Policies Got 'Normalised' in 'Public Office'. Let's Not Let the Same Happen in 'Tech'.
    Political discourse typically guides what's "normal" and what "good citizens" should believe/feel
  21. Yes, Your Mastodon Instance Will Also Shut Down
    Few people run a one-person instance in the Fediverse
  22. The Demise of GAFAM Necessitates Greater and Broader Awareness
    Morale at Microsoft is really bad
  23. Free Software Foundation Reaches 75% of Funding Goal
    Not bad for this "Fosschild"
  24. Slopwatch: 7 New Examples of Fake 'Linux' Slop Pieces (Plagiarism With Misinformation)
    Serial Sloppers need to be shunned
  25. Links 19/07/2025: Kapo-berg Settles, Software Patents Challenged
    Links for the day
  26. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  27. IRC Proceedings: Friday, July 18, 2025
    IRC logs for Friday, July 18, 2025

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

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

    Span from 2025-07-13 to 2025-07-19
    3540 /about.shtml
    2206 /n/2025/07/14/Slashdot_Media_Turned_Linux_Journal_Into_a_Slopfarm_and_Now_Sla.shtml
    1759 /n/2025/07/16/Why_I_am_Suing_the_Serial_Strangler_From_Microsoft_Alex_Balabha.shtml
    1072 /index.shtml
    1047 /browse/latest.shtml
    1034 /irc.shtml
    848 /n/2025/05/24/Free_Software_as_a_Culture_of_Resistance.shtml

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