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Tiny OSM-MF module runs Linux on Sitara AM67 and 4-TOPS AI

Ezurio has announced the Carbon AM67 OSM-MF, a compact solder-down module based on Texas Instruments’ Sitara AM67x processor family. The module offers heterogeneous Arm processing, up to 8GB LPDDR4, eMMC storage, 4-TOPS AI acceleration, multi-display and camera support, dual Gigabit Ethernet, and optional Wi-Fi 6 or Wi-Fi 6E connectivity.

Rockchip RK3576 module powers edge AI dev kit with 20-TOPS RK1820 accelerator

The reComputer RK3576 compute module is based on Rockchip’s RK3576 SoC, which integrates four Cortex-A72 cores clocked at up to 2.2GHz and four Cortex-A53 cores reaching 2.0GHz. Graphics are handled by an Arm Mali-G52 MC3 GPU, while the integrated NPU provides up to 6 TOPS of INT8 AI acceleration.

Bluetooth/UWB board based on nRF52840 offers 10cm accuracy

The board is based on Nordic Semiconductor’s nRF52840 microcontroller, which integrates a 64MHz Arm Cortex-M4 processor with floating-point support, 1MB of flash memory, and 256KB of RAM. Wireless connectivity from the MCU consists of 2.4GHz Bluetooth 5.0, with supported Bluetooth data rates of 2Mbps, 1Mbps, 500kbps, and 125kbps.

Embedded platform implements Amlogic A311Y3 octa-core SoC with PCIe 3.0 support

The Amlogic A311Y3 integrates two Arm Cortex-A78 cores running at up to 2.4GHz alongside six Cortex-A55 cores at up to 2.0GHz. Graphics are handled by an Arm Mali-G625 MC1 GPU, while the integrated neural processing unit provides up to 8 TOPS of AI acceleration with support for INT4, INT8, INT16, FP8, FP16, and BF16 workloads.

Tor Project blog

New Release: Tails 7.12

Follow our installation instructions.

New Alpha Release: Tor Browser 16.0a11

This version includes important security updates to Firefox.

schestowitz.com

Slop and Scrapers Broke Stats

A hard task

Erotica Is Not Music

reat music seems to come not from the present but from the past. This means that great musicians are “greying” and Richard Fenn seems to have virtually retired (in Australia) and the “new face of music” seems to be something like that:

“Art for art’s sake”

Collecting “money” like it’s a form of competition where they track “score”

More Food/Farms, Less Datacentres

No animal can eat datacentres

UK Government Says Start Stocking Up, But It Speaks of Weather, Not the War

It makes sense.

EnzoFC’s Next Home Test

Tomorrow

Blogging Not Dead in 2026

Still worth the effort

Dogs Bred to Become Weapons of War (or Cops)

Be prepared

“Manchester City broke the record for the most spent by a single club in one summer, with more than €500 million spent on new signings”

Sounds obscene, it’s about money rather than local talent

Russia Has Already (Silently) Declared War on Germany, Hence NATO and EU

Actions speak louder than press releases

9to5Linux

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Coming four months after Grml 2026.04, the Grml 2026.09 release is powered by the Linux 7.1 kernel series and incorporates all the package updates and security patches from the upstream Debian Testing software repositories as of September 2026, which will become Debian 14 “Forky” sometime in 2027.

Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 Is Now Available for Public Testing

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Audacity 4.0 Open-Source Audio Editor Officially Released, Here’s What’s New

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Linux Kernel 7.1 Reaches End of Life, It’s Time to Upgrade to Linux Kernel 7.2

Linux kernel 7.1 was released on June 14th, 2026, introducing new features like a new NTFS file system implementation, which has been in the works for the last 4 years, featuring full write support with delayed allocation, iomap, and folio integration to improve write performance, and a new suite of userspace utilities called ntfsprogs-plus.

Mozilla Thunderbird 155 Adds Custom OAuth Support for IMAP and SMTP Servers

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Steam Client Now Supports HDR Streaming on Steam Deck OLED

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Today in Techrights

posted by Roy Schestowitz on Aug 13, 2026

Sand dunes with beautiful blue sky and green marram grass

Updated This Past Day

Updates:

  1. Voluntary' Layoffs and 'Proper' Layoffs at IBM This Year
    When will IBM management confess that 15% of staff is already marked for potential removal?
  2. The Register MS Has Just Published Slop Spam for NVIDIA and HP, It Says "AI" 43 Times
    As usual, The Register MS ought to be ashamed of itself for participating in it
  3. The Slop Debt (Trillions of Dollars, Money That Does Not Exist) is Causing the Collapse of GAFAM et al
    This slop hype will end up like "metaverse", except "metaverse" never ended up justifying trillions of dollars in "investment"
  4. Social Control Media is the Opposite of Information
    That says a lot about social control media
  5. Lack of Empathy Rampant in the Sector
    Sociopaths are sociopaths. They cannot help themselves
  6. Before the "Big Tech" (That Almost Everybody is Forced to Use) Was Controlled by Men Who Hate Women
    Such rejection and even hatred of women qualifies/enshrines oneself as an "incel"- a dangerous and violent online cult

New:

  1. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, August 12, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, August 12, 2026
  2. Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Losing a Child, "The OpenWeb Needs Diversity", and Gmail Woes
    Links for the day
  3. Links 12/08/2026: Trouble in Proprietary Chaffbot Company 'Open' 'AI' and Slop "Investors Are Suddenly Quaking in Their Boots"
    Links for the day
  4. Daniel Pocock in National News in Australia the Day of the Election
    "Posted 20m ago" (Thursday in Australia), it's timed nicely to help illuminate Pocock and give him last-minute exposure
  5. Simpler Means More Reliable
    The simple old way of local storage and local backups is still the best
  6. Clownflare and statCounter See GNU/Linux at ~8% in Norway
    Norway has long championed GNU/Linux compared to the rest of Europe
  7. Clacton manifesto: Reform UK hacking, leaks, raw sewage & 8GB Swiss Archive
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  8. statCounter Today: ChromeOS + GNU/Linux Measured at 10.98% Globally (Desktops and Laptops)
    Clownflare does not quite refute this
  9. The Register MS Has Just Published Fake Article About Replacing Linux With Proprietary Google System, "Sponsored by ASUS."
    All of those things are proprietary GAFAMware
  10. Links 12/08/2026: "X’s Advertising Business Continues to Tank", "Stop Feeding the Billionaires"
    Links for the day
  11. In Defence of Hoarding CDs, More So When Digital Restrictions (DRM) Come to More 'Content' and Even Offline/Physical Media Won't Work When Some Remote Server Says "No" (or Goes Offline)
    made to serve and entertain owners, not to allow companies like Sony and Microsoft subjugate owners
  12. Clownflare: In Finland, Birthplace of Linux Kernel, GNU/Linux Now Bigger Than Apple's MacOS
    It's not just in Finland where we see such trends
  13. More Mass Layoffs Due to Monumental Debt Excused as "Investment" (in Slop)
    They're maxing up the private debt and their country is already insolvent
  14. METRO Interviews Daniel Pocock a Day Before Election
    The article is behind a wall that blocks people who block ads
  15. Enshittification More Than a Century Ago
    Is enshittification more than a century old?
  16. GNU in 1991 (35 Years Ago): Compiler and Lots More Ready, Linux Now Becoming 'Vibe Heap' (Slop Replaces Real Code)
    Without curbs in place, many Linux developers will flee
  17. Company-Wide 'Reorg' ('Redundancies') at IBM, Mark October 1st 2026 in the Calendar
    Is Oct 1 the new Apr 1?
  18. SLAPP Censorship - Part 147 Out of 200: The SLAPP Series is 'Slow' Because Timing Matters
    It is important to stress that after this series is finished there will be many more series, with some of them showing raw evidence of what we've been illuminating and telling
  19. Even ZDNet Accepts That "Market Share" of GNU/Linux May Have Doubled on Desktops and Laptops
    GNU/Linux is definitely growing, and quite quickly in fact
  20. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  21. IRC Proceedings: Tuesday, August 11, 2026
    IRC logs for Tuesday, August 11, 2026
  22. Microsoft Layoffs and Shutdowns Continue This August, Morale Low, Employees Set Up Giant Inflatable Rat to Protest Against CEO
    nothing demonstrates their anger better than what they did to the CEO
  23. Gemini Links 12/08/2026: Sophomore Slump, Mandatory Phone Addiction, and Vintage Web Game Gallery
    Links for the day

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736 /n/2026/08/10/Claims_of_Mass_Layoffs_at_IBM_in_Finance.shtml
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655 /n/2026/08/09/10_Days_Ago_Red_Hat_Formally_Terminated_Employment_of_About_500.shtml
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612 /n/2026/08/09/2026_The_Year_Richard_Stallman_Came_Back_to_American_Campuses.shtml
610 /n/2026/08/06/IBM_Cannot_Survive_for_Much_Longer_There_Are_Limits_to_RAs_and_.shtml
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590 /n/2026/08/06/Links_06_08_2026_Disney_and_Fentanylware_TikTok_Deal_Hearing_Ai.shtml
590 /n/2026/08/09/XBox_is_Rotting_Away_Technical_Issues_for_Second_Time_in_Two_We.shtml
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