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TechNexion TELOS-AI4000 delivers 40 TOPS in compact form factor

TELOS-AI4000 by TechNexion is a compact edge-AI accelerator module based on NXP’s Ara240 discrete neural processing unit. The module delivers up to 40 TOPS of AI performance, supports up to 16GB of LPDDR4 memory and is intended for vision, generative AI and other embedded inference workloads.

Efinix Sapphire RV64 brings 64-bit RISC-V and Linux to FPGAs

Efinix announced this week the Sapphire RV64, a configurable 64-bit RISC-V soft SoC intended for embedded Linux, edge AI and other applications requiring more memory and processing capability than the company’s existing 32-bit Sapphire architecture. The processor can be implemented across Efinix Titanium and Topaz FPGAs, as well as Trion devices from the T20 upward.

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Darktable 5.6.2 Adds White Balance Presets for Leica SL3-P and Sony Alpha 7R VI

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Communicating Effectively

“If you can’t identify what makes your story unique and interesting, chances are nobody else will either.” gatech.edu

When You Expose Microsoft Corruption and Hate Crimes

Expect further abuse

Customer Service With Humans

Reject bots, ask to speak to a person

Sirius Open Source is Bankrupt, Shut Down

Crossposted from Techrights

DRM is An Attack on Today’s Youth

And not only youth

Breaches of Civil Procedure Rules in the UK (Not That the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) Would Care)

Is this country still governed by actual laws?

Libera Chat Tolerates People Who Say “Gas the Jews” and Want to Stab Colleagues

ibera Chat (IRC network) has a CoC, but this CoC seems to not cover really tasteless things or simply does not enforce the rules against truly terrible and potentially dangerous people. In the interests of transparency, I’d like to share information about the sorts of people protected by Libera Chat:

When Will Libera Chat Ban GAFAM and GAFAM-Funded Projects?

Double standards

The Women Fight ‘Til the End

0-0 until 43rd miniute

Reform UK Lawyers Apparently Try to Censor Blog Posts About Their Latest Scandal and Winding Up Petition (Like Bankruptcy/Insolvency/Administration)

Sweaty Farage

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posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 02, 2026

Earth Rise

Updated This Past Day

  1. Creditors beware: VMS Enterprises Ltd vs Brexit Party (Reform UK Party Ltd)
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock

    New

  2. Gemini Links 01/10/2026: Gemini-to-Web Proxies Considered Harmful, ROOPHLOCH 2026 at Griffith Park Observatory
    Links for the day
  3. "SPONSORED FEATURE" of HPE and NVIDIA at The Register MS Has Just Mentioned "AI" 68 Times in One Page!
    Meanwhile, grown-ups ignore the hype and get work done without slop
  4. Microsoft's XBox Layoffs Not Finished, Won't be Finished, It's Called "Forever Layoffs"
    Microsoft will shut down (XBox) after shrinking it, there's no need to sell anything (a straw man)
  5. IBM's Red Hat Lost Lots of People Today, Chief People Officer (CPO) Dethroned
    Headcount falls shortly in secret.
  6. Microsoft is "Pushing Up Daisies" Amid Mass Layoffs (Secret Ones)
    "Longtime Microsoft research leader Peter Lee and former LinkedIn CEO Ryan Roslansky to depart"
  7. Links 01/10/2026: "Lawyer Cites ChatGPT-Invented Fake Witnesses in Murder Appeal" and The 'Linux' Foundation Technical Advisory Board (TAB) Has Vacuum
    Links for the day
  8. Brigading Against Women - Part XIII - The Offer We Didn't Ask For (and Under Threats to a Lady at the Webhost, a Form of Extortion From America)
    Two and a half months ago Garrett made an offer to my wife
  9. Techrights Turning 20 Next Month
    Our image is under attack, our finances are constantly under attack and so on
  10. Links 01/10/2026: "Meat Proxies" and "Japan’s Far Right Is Courting Young Voters"
    Links for the day
  11. Red Hat Being Phased Out of Existence (Like Many Other Companies That IBM Bought)
    The "Red Hat" brand (and badge) is being dissolved some more today [...] IBM is imploding 'creatively'.
  12. IBM Layoffs Cover-up
    thelayoff.com is censoring threads
  13. "Restricted Boot" Garrett's State is Now Implementing Kill Switches (Just What We've Warned About All Along)
    The underlying concept is hardly new
  14. Brett Wilson LLP Has Had No Annual Report in 16 Months
    A cynic might hint that they try to hide something
  15. Reform UK last minute accounts filing
    Reprinted with permission from Daniel Pocock
  16. Gemini Links 01/10/2026: "Babel With Better Hardware", Software Input That's Slop, and DWeb Cascadia 2026
    Links for the day
  17. Today is D-Day at Red Hat and People Leave in Droves
    They said there would be "bluewashing", we're mostly seeing people announcing they're leaving
  18. Over at Tux Machines...
    GNU/Linux news for the past day
  19. IRC Proceedings: Wednesday, September 30, 2026
    IRC logs for Wednesday, September 30, 2026
    The corresponding text-only bulletin for Thursday contains all the text.

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