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OpenNMS is a powerful open-source solution for visualizing and monitoring networks of any size. It offers fault, performance, and traffic monitoring all in one place, and is highly customizable and scalable. With the ability to handle up to 350,000 data points per second, OpenNMS is used by Fortune 500 companies across various sectors. It comes […]
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Chili is a Rust port of Spice, a low-overhead parallelization library similar to rayon::join. It allows for running two closures in parallel at fork points during computation, ideal for scenarios with many small computations where estimating remaining work on a branch is costly. An example is provided for summing nodes in a binary tree in […]
Since the rollout of 5G networks in 2018 or 2019, the need for more base stations to support the higher frequencies required for faster connections has led Japanese companies to develop transparent glass antennas that turn windows into base stations. This innovative technology, created by AGC and NTT Docomo, offers a solution to the challenge […]
GitLab and others are affected by CVE-2024-45409, a new XML signature wrapping attack impacting the Ruby implementation of SAML. This vulnerability allows attackers to log in as any user in the system. XML signatures are complex and prone to bugs, leading to multiple attacks affecting a wide range of the internet. SAML, used for enterprise […]
The Flexify Air Fryer Oven by Chinese brand Midea has French doors, a design choice that has left the author puzzled. Despite being voted best-in-show by The Kitchn, the chunky handles and linked doors seem to add unnecessary complexity. The product copy highlights the “elegant” dual-opening door system, but the author questions the practicality of […]
General Motors has updated their electric vehicles’ software to allow customers access to Tesla’s Supercharging network. Owners of Chevy, Cadillac, and GMC EVs can now purchase GM-approved Tesla adapters through brand apps for $225. GM plans to include Tesla’s charging port in future vehicles. This move, which took over 15 months to implement, will provide […]
Moshi is a cutting-edge speech-text foundation model and spoken dialogue framework that utilizes Mimi, an advanced neural audio codec. Moshi predicts text tokens corresponding to its own speech and inner monologue, enhancing the quality of its output. The model achieves a theoretical latency of 160ms with practical latency as low as 200ms on an L4 […]
LLaMA-Omni is a cutting-edge speech-language model that allows for seamless speech interactions with low latency and high quality responses. It is built on Llama-3.1-8B-Instruct, ensuring top-notch performance. Surprisingly, it can simultaneously generate text and speech responses based on speech instructions. This model was trained in less than 3 days using just 4 GPUs, showcasing its […]
Sergei, a veteran of the Soviet computing industry, shares his experience with a shocking bug in an SM-1800 computer at a railway station near Sverdlovsk in 1986. The crashes were linked to radiation from cattle shipments contaminated by the Chernobyl disaster. Despite government plans to mix the radioactive meat with uncontaminated meat to mask radiation […]
Comic Mono is a legible monospace font created by a software developer by adjusting Comic Shanns (version 1) using a Python script. The font has consistent glyph width, improved display with system fonts like Cousine, and a bold version generated with FontForge. The font files are available for download in both regular and bold versions. […]