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Rockchip RK3668 Targets Edge AI with 44 TOPS NPU and PCIe 5.0

Rockchip’s upcoming RK3668 is a 6nm octa-core processor featuring six Arm Cortex-A725 cores, two Cortex-A520 cores, and a Mali-G2 Pro MC4 GPU. The SoC integrates a 44 TOPS NPU, LPDDR6 memory support, and high-speed interfaces including PCIe 5.0, SATA 3.1, and 10 Gigabit Ethernet, targeting edge AI, networking, industrial automation, and multimedia systems.

Panther Lake Linux-ready SBC delivers 180 TOPS AI and 64GB RAM

LattePanda has announced the Sigma 2, an x86 single-board computer based on Intel’s Core Ultra X7 358H Panther Lake processor. The compact system combines up to 180 TOPS of AI performance with 64GB of LPDDR5X memory, dual 10GbE networking, and multiple expansion interfaces for local AI inference, robotics, and embedded computing applications.

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New Release: Tails 7.15.1

Follow our installation instructions.

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Transmission 4.1.4 Open-Source BitTorrent Client Released with Various Fixes

Coming almost four months after Transmission 4.1.3, which was a small update fixing a CORS bug that leaked the anti-CSRF nonce, a use-after-free bug in peer code, and a build error when compiling with fmt 12.2.0, the Transmission 4.1.4 release hardens the torrent-add RPC method against malformed requests.

OBS Studio 33 Officially Released with Many New Features and Improvements

Highlights of OBS Studio 33 include support for the newest NVIDIA Broadcast SDKs for NVIDIA Audio Effects and Video Effects, a check for encoders being missing when loading a profile, hotkeys for controlling audio monitoring of a source, and NVENC (NVIDIA Encoder) support on AArch64 (ARM64).

Fwupd 2.1.9 Linux Firmware Updater Released with New Features

Coming a month after fwupd 2.1.8, the fwupd 2.1.9 release introduces support for Pixart PID 38CA devices, an instance ID for each Redfish HPE device class and target pair, and the ability to include whether the machine is a container or hypervisor in the report data.

OpenSSL 4.1 Released with Support for DTLS 1.3, IKEV2 KDF, and GREASE

Highlights of OpenSSL 4.1 include support for the DTLS (Datagram Transport Layer Security) 1.3 protocol, support for the GREASE (Generate Random Extensions And Sustain Extensibility) mechanism to prevent extensibility failures in the TLS ecosystem, support for the IKEV2 KDF cryptographic mechanism, and initial support for the Elbrus2000 (e2k) architecture.

Calibre 9.17 E-Book Manager Adds JPEG XL Support and Performance Improvements

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Shelly 3.1.9 GUI Package Manager for Arch Linux Improves AUR Support

Shelly is a modern alternative to Arch Linux’s default package manager, supporting third-party app stores like AUR (Arch User Repository) and Flathub, as well as Flatpak, AppImage, and native Arch Linux packages. Shelly comes with both graphical and command-line interfaces.

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Jul 15, 2026

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Updated This Past Day

  1. IBM Stock Collapses and It's Only the Beginning
    Will GAFAM soon follow and will any executives be arrested for the accounting fraud insiders have long cautioned about?

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  2. Heshan de Silva-Weeramuni Becomes Program Manager at the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
    Heshan's addition means that the FSF is growing after a solid financial year (best in years)
  3. Michael McMahon Explains Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) Attacks on the Free Software Foundation (FSF)
    The real solution is a curb on botnets. A mitigation strategy, however, would involve going static.
  4. Matters of Public Safety
    "Police say Ann Widdecombe killed in 'targeted attack' as motive investigated"
  5. The Register MS and Its Promotional Microsoft Content
    It's not too hard to see what the business model of The Register MS is
  6. IBM: From $306 to $212 in 7 Days, IBM Won't Go Up More Than 50% to Where It Was at 'Peak Vapourware'
    There's a limit to how much or how long a company can fake its performance and its potential [...] Early this morning a few insiders ("traders") cashed in on their "pump-n-dump"
  7. Red Hat Staff Needs to Start Looking for the Next Job
    Workers can conveniently lie or deny it to themselves, but waves of PIPs ("silent layoffs") will sweep over more and more units or teams as the company runs out of money to play with
  8. IBM the Next Bear Stearns
    IBM cannot recover if all it has to show is vapourware
  9. I'll Be Extremely Difficult for Microsoft to Sell Any XBox Consoles Now
    Microsoft understands this
  10. How Software Freedom Would Benefit Everybody
    A society that denies control by greedy companies would do a disservice to monopolies and improve all services to citizens
  11. Links 14/07/2026: Harsh But Also Fair Criticism of Hey Hi (AI) Slop, 'Open' AI Shuts Down Its Own Products as Funds Run Out
    Links for the day
  12. Gemini Links 14/07/2026: Old CD Binder and AWK
    Links for the day
  13. In Defence of Physical Tickets
    Tickets are not some "app" and not some "code" on some "screen"
  14. Microsoft Layoffs Not Limited to XBox (False Narrative in the Mainstream Media)
    Microsoft is becoming less relevant and workforce reductions won't end any time soon
  15. Links 14/07/2026: Plagiarism Spun as "Training", Zelensky Announces Leadership Shuffle
    Links for the day
  16. The Register MS Has Just Published "AI" Webspam That Mentions "AI" 54 Times. It Was Paid to Do This.
    Who pays for all this "AI" hype or "buzz"?
  17. Gemini Links 14/07/2026: Self-Advocacy Online; "The Internet Is Dead: How the Web Lost Its Human Soul"
    Links for the day
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Monday, July 13, 2026
    IRC logs for Monday, July 13, 2026
  20. Modern Technology Harms Women More Than Men (Because the 'Tech Bros' Who Dominate STEM Have a Poor View of Women)
    “Privacy protects us from abuses by those in power, even if we're doing nothing wrong at the time of surveillance.”
  21. Internet Relay Chat Trolls Are Not Expressing Opinions, They Are Saboteurs
    For the record
  22. Links 14/07/2026: "The Freedom of Information Act Is in Serious Trouble"; Irish Datacenters Use Up Almost 25% of Total Energy
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