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Raspberry Pi Ltd. recently announced the launch of its “Raspberry Pi AI Kit”. It includes an M.2 HAT+ with a Hailo-8L AI accelerator module. It pairs perfectly with the Raspberry Pi 5 and aims to enable both hobbyists and researchers to develop AI applications. Despite accelerators having existed for several years, I consider this announcement noteworthy. The use of AI chips is still relatively limited, with most tasks being handled by the GPU. I’m confident the Raspberry Pi’s creatively progressive community will identify use cases where such a chip is significantly more efficient than a dedicated graphics card. ...

There were significant changes in RHEL 8.10 and 9.4. Drivers for legacy hardware are being disabled in the kernel. That’s not immediately a problem for you. But Red Hat has implemented a change that prevents them from being re-enabled later. ELRepo writes in »Some elrepo kmod packages will no longer be available for RHEL 8.10 and 9.4« on elrepoproject.blogspot.com ...

Jason Koebler in »Condensation Death Is Breaking $550 AirPods Max and Driving Users Nuts« for 404media.co: Apple’s $550 flagship headphones have a problem: They can malfunction, or suddenly stop working entirely, because of users’ sweat, or because of the condensation that can build up when people exercise in them or wear them for long periods of time. I’ve now had to buy new ear cushions for the AirPods because they’ve started to smell of sweat. I still hope the AirPods Max will last a long time. ...

Motherboard berichtet reported on a box capable of cracking an iPhone’s PIN. The GrayKey itself is a small, 4×4 inches box with two lightning cables for connecting iPhones, according to photographs published by cybersecurity firm Malwarebytes. The device comes in two versions: a $15,000 one which requires online connectivity and allows 300 unlocks (or $50 per phone), and an offline, $30,000 version which can crack as many iPhones as the customer wants. Marketing material seen by Forbes says GrayKey can unlock devices running iterations of Apple’s latest mobile operating system iOS 11, including on the iPhone X, Apple’s most recent phone. ...

Ghost Minitaur ‘Ghost Minitaur’ is a 4-legged robot that can traverse tough terrain, jump, climb stairs, open doors, and even climb fences. The company hopes it could be used as a platform for “developing commercial unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs), advanced gait and locomotion research, and machine learning and training applications.” It’s crazy how far robotics has come, and the thing is apparently powered by a Raspberry Pi (see 0:45). ...