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Astra SL2600 processors from Synaptics combine Arm cores and RISC-V Coral NPU

Synaptics has unveiled the Astra SL2600, a family of multimodal processors designed for edge computing across consumer, enterprise, and industrial IoT applications. The lineup debuts with the SL2610 product line, targeting low-power and high-performance designs used in smart home, automation, robotics, and retail systems.

GIGABYTE AI TOP ATOM Introduces NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB10 Performance for the Desktop

GIGABYTE has announced the AI TOP ATOM personal AI supercomputer designed for on-premises AI development. The compact system is powered by the NVIDIA Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip and delivers supercomputer-level performance within a 1-liter chassis.

Orange Pi Previews Compact SBC with Eight-Core Allwinner A733 SoC

Orange Pi has unveiled the Orange Pi 4 Pro, a compact single-board computer designed for high-performance edge applications. It integrates an octa-core Allwinner A733 processor, a 3 TOPS NPU, and supports up to 16 GB of LPDDR5 memory, combining AI acceleration with a wide range of expansion interfaces.

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Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 Adds Support for Cloning MTD Block and eMMC Boot Devices

Powered by the Linux 6.16 kernel series, the Clonezilla Live 3.3.0-33 release adds support for imaging MTD block and eMMC boot devices in expert mode, adds a new ocs-blkdev-sorter tool that allows udev to create Clonezilla alias block devices in /dev/ocs-disks/, and adds a new ocs-live-time-sync tool used by ocs-live-netcfg for time synchronization.

VirtualBox 7.2.4 Released with Initial Support for Linux Kernel 6.18

Coming five weeks after VirtualBox 7.2.2, the VirtualBox 7.2.4 release introduces initial support for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel series for both Linux hosts and guests, which means that you will be able to virtualize Linux distributions powered by Linux 6.18 and also install VirtualBox on a machine powered by Linux 6.18.

KDE Plasma 6.5 Desktop Environment Officially Released, This Is What’s New

Highlights of KDE Plasma 6.5 include rounded bottom corners for Breeze-decorated windows, the ability to display ink levels on supported printers, improved tone mapping curve when displaying HDR content, and a grayscale mode to colorblindness correction filters to desaturate all the colors on the screen.

SuperTuxKart 1.5 Open-Source Kart Racing Game Released with Major Changes

Coming three years after SuperTuxKart 1.4, the SuperTuxKart 1.5 release brings a new benchmark mode, new LoD (Level of Detail) settings to reduce “popping”, finer control of the game’s audio levels, new egg hunts on the Black Forest, Gran Paradisio Island, and The Old Mine tracks, and support for spotlights.

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2025

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Updated This Past Day

  1. Writing and Coding Isn't Always Enough
    Last year we had to assume a role we didn't have before: litigants
  2. Autumn Has Come
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  3. When You Turn Web Sites About Tech Into Political Sites
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  4. Gemini Links 02/09/2025: ROOPHLOCH 2025 and Lagrange 1.19 Released
    Links for the day
  5. Gemini Links 01/09/2025: News Corp. WSJ and A Month With NixOS
    Links for the day
  6. Slopfarms Already Peaked, They Will Die When Slop Companies Run Out of Money to Borrow
    slopfarms will lack an actual "engine"
  7. “Sideloading” Never Killed Anybody
    There are many online discussions this week about the misnomer "sideloading"
  8. Slopwatch: Google News as FUD Vector Against Linux and Plagiarism Enhancer, Serial Slopper (SS) Uses LLMs to Googlebomb "Linux"
    Slop destroys the Web not just by screwing with search engines and helping plagiarists. It's also responsible for de facto DDoS attacks...
  9. Links 01/09/2025: "Attacks on Science" and China's "Soft Power" Grows
    Links for the day
  10. Links 01/09/2025: Fresh Backlash Against Slop and "Norway’s Electricity Crisis is About to Hit Britain"
    Links for the day
  11. Links 01/09/2025: Catching Up (Mostly via Deutsche Welle), "Windows TCO" Effect in UK
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 01/09/2025: Linguistic Barriers and "Web 1.0 Hosting"
    Links for the day
  13. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  14. IRC Proceedings: Sunday, August 31, 2025
    IRC logs for Sunday, August 31, 2025
  15. The UEFI 9/11 - Part IV - External Interference
    They all seem to be playing a role in crushing Software Freedom and self-determination for users
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Monday contains all the text.

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