3+ day, 20+ hour ago   (339+ words) Open Source For You This DIY alarm clock uses an ESP32-P4, touchscreen display and microSD storage to wake users with video and audio instead of a traditional alarm tone. A maker has developed a DIY video alarm clock around the Waveshare…...

4+ day, 1+ hour ago   (257+ words) The open-source ESP32 Bus Expander uses an ESP32-C5 or C6 as a communications co-processor, adding 5GHz Wi-Fi and IEEE 802.15.4 capabilities to the ESP32 Bit Pirate. The ESP32 Bus Expander is a companion firmware project designed to extend the wireless capabilities of the open-source ESP32 Bit Pirate hardware…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (562+ words) Token optimization is critical for designing precise prompts. A Python framework can be designed to accept an English prompt as input, analyse it, remove duplicate or low-value content, and return a compact prompt that behaves like the original. Prompt optimization…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1517+ words) The three pillars of observability — metrics, logs and traces – help you find out what went wrong where and why in an AI-based system. You can’t do without them. Three a.m. on a Tuesday and an error shows up. The…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (270+ words) Open Source For You Qdrant-FineWeb-10B is a public dataset containing 10 billion records and nearly 120,000 ground-truth queries, designed to benchmark vector retrieval systems at production-scale workloads. Qdrant has released Qdrant-FineWeb-10B, a large-scale dataset designed for benchmarking vector retrieval systems. Built from…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (205+ words) Israeli startup DataAgent has raised $10 million to expand an open-source AI agent to automate repairs of production faults inside customers’ Kubernetes environments. The agent analyses live system state, topology and configuration drift where the data already resides, determines the likely…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (179+ words) FreeDesktop SDK 26.08 updates the software stack used for Flatpak runtimes and container-based development while introducing bootstrap changes and removing unused Snap support. The FreeDesktop SDK project has released FreeDesktop SDK 26.08, bringing updated software packages and several changes to its underlying…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (239+ words) GigaDevice has joined the open-source Zephyr Project as a Silver Member and is contributing GD32 MCU support, code and development resources to broaden embedded software options for developers. GigaDevice has joined the Zephyr Project as a Silver Member, bringing its GD32 microcontroller…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (223+ words) Echo Software has acquired key Minimus assets to expand its hardened open-source software platform across more Linux distributions and strengthen secure-by-default software supply chains. Echo Software has acquired key technology, technical data, and security integrations from Minimus after the company…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (166+ words) Mozilla Thunderbird 155 broadens custom OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP, giving organisations more flexibility with modern authentication while improving Exchange setup and administration. The release adds custom OAuth support for IMAP and SMTP servers, along with PKCE and external-browser authentication…...