Collaborate Disseminate
Crystal oscillators are incredibly useful components, but they come with one little snag: their oscillation is temperature-dependent. For many applications the relatively small deviation is not a problem, but especially …read more Continue reading Inside a Vintage Oven Controlled Crystal Oscillator
Friday TechCrunch reported that OpenAI “used the subreddit, r/ChangeMyView to create a test for measuring the persuasive abilities of its AI reasoning models.”
The company revealed this in a system card — a document outlining how an AI system wo… Continue reading OpenAI Tests Its AI’s Persuasiveness By Comparing It to Reddit Posts
It’s IoT time! We’re embarking on a very major home project (more detail of which is in the video), and some pretty big decisions need to be made about a very simple device: the light switch. I love having just about every light in our connected.
Layer adhesion is one of the weak points with FDM 3D printing, with annealing often recommended as a post-processing step. An interestingly creative method for this was published in Science Advances …read more Continue reading Using Microwave Heating to Locally Anneal CNT-Coated FDM Prints
Bill Gates’ blog has been updated with short videos about his upcoming book, including one about how his school ended up with an ASR-33 teletype that could connect their Seattle classroom to a computer in California. “The teachers faded away pretty qui… Continue reading Slashdot Asks: Do You Remember Your High School’s ‘Computer Room’?
On January 24th Brooklyn blogger Jeffrey Emanuel made the case for shorting NVIDIA, remembers MarketWatch, “due to a number of shifting tides in the AI world, including the emergence of a China-based company called DeepSeek.”
He published his 12,000-… Continue reading One Blogger Helped Spark NVIDIA’s $600B Stock Collapse
When you’re spitting out G-Code for a 3D print, you can pick all kinds of infill settings. You can choose the pattern, and the percentage… but the vast majority of …read more Continue reading Could Non-Planar Infill Improve The Strength Of Your 3D Prints?
Wednesday the Linux Foundation wrote that both “regulatory compliance” and “increased cybersecurity risk” were “creating burdens…that must be met” for open source communities.
And so, as Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols writes, “the Linux Foundation has r… Continue reading US Blocks Open Source ‘Help’ From These Countries
Thursday America’s FDA “raised concerns about cybersecurity vulnerabilities” in patient monitors from China-based medical device company Contec “that could allow unauthorized individuals to access and potentially manipulate those devices,” reports Reut… Continue reading America’s FDA Warns About Backdoor Found in Chinese Company’s Patient Monitors
An anonymous reader shared this report from Reuters:
New York-based cybersecurity firm Wiz says it has found a trove of sensitive data from the Chinese artificial intelligence startup DeepSeek inadvertently exposed to the open internet. In a blog pos… Continue reading Sensitive DeepSeek Data Was Exposed to the Web, Cybersecurity Firm Says