HackerBox 0119 Geopositioning Explores GPS and Mapping

HackerBox has released Issue 0119, titled “Geopositioning.” This edition marks ten years of the subscription series and focuses on satellite positioning and mapping through the ESP-WROOM-32 system-on-chip and the Thrifty Yeti Locator (TYL) platform. The kit combines hardware assembly with firmware development in the Arduino IDE to demonstrate GNSS and geolocation principles. According to the […]

AMD ROCm 7.9 Running In Early Tests On Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo”

The most unexpected surprise today was AMD releasing ROCm 7.9 as a new technology preview / development branch for the open-source ROCm GPU compute stack just one month after formally releasing ROCm 7.0. While not a fan of how they handled the version discontinuity, ROCm 7.9 has been working out well in my very initial tests on AMD Ryzen AI Max “Strix Halo”…

Tellusim Core SDK Opens Up For Use By OSI-Approved Open-Source Projects

Over the weekend we wrote about the visually-impressive Tellusim Core SDK being posted to GitHub as a C++ SDK for high-end graphics and compute. The downside was that the Tellusim Core SKD was rather restrictive in only being free for education, free for companies with less than $200k USD in annual revenue, and evaluation purposes. Or you needed to obtain a negotiated license for the software. As a pleasant surprise, OSI-approved open-source projects not backed by for-profit organizations can now openly use this superb graphics SDK…

How to Use OpenAI Whisper Voice-to-Text with NVIDIA GPU on Debian/Ubuntu

OpenAI Whisper is a powerful speech recognition system that can transcribe audio files with impressive accuracy. When combined with NVIDIA GPU acceleration through CUDA, Whisper can process audio files significantly faster than CPU-only processing. This guide demonstrates how to install and use Whisper with GPU support on Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.

[$] The RubyGems.org takeover

In September, a group of long-time maintainers of Ruby packaging tools
projects had their GitHub privileges for revoked by nonprofit corporation Ruby Central
in what many people are calling a
hostile takeover. Ruby Central and its board members have issued
several public statements that have, so far, failed to satisfy many in
the Ruby community. In response, some of the former contributors to
RubyGems are working on an alternative service called gem.coop. On October 17, ownership
of the RubyGems and
Bundler
repositories was handed over to the Ruby core team, even though those projects had never been part of core Ruby
previously. The takeover and subsequent events have raised a number of
questions in the Ruby community.