Tetris on ATtiny10
Deciding to use the last days of vacation to bring my stock of electronic components to some semblance of order, I came across an unknown SOT-23-6 chip with barely readable…
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Doom on the dial phone Dialrhea
Dialrhea is a modified dial phone, redesigned to control Doom via Bluetooth.
1C flies south — our experience of migration to K2 Cloud
Imagine: you have a large company with offices from Moscow to the Far East, hundreds of facilities, thousands of shift workers, and an ancient 1C server that barely copes…
Can GPT-4o be trusted with confidential data?
We delve into Open AI's privacy policy and find out why experts have dubbed GPT-4o the "data turbo vacuum cleaner".
Portable gaming consoles: five new products of autumn 2024
Hello, tekkix! Idar Tabukhov is here. Last time I talked about five interesting computer games that will be released this fall. And today we will discuss new gaming hardware.…
Incident Response in Linux Systems: Basics
In a world where cyberattacks are becoming more frequent, it is important to understand the process of incident response in information security.
Imaginarium of Mr. Altman: beautiful far away?
Vegetarian pasta on the table, wine served, loud music playing — everything to distract from the eventful Thanksgiving Day 2023. OpenAI head Sam Altman realized that…
Qucs-S: Guide to Simulation Types, Part 2
Qucs-S is an open-source program for electronic circuit simulation. Qucs-S is cross-platform and written in C++ using the Qt library set. My previous articles discuss…
Hardware Timer as a Microphone
In the development of electronics that includes a sound source, it is sometimes necessary to test for the presence of sound.
Experience of tuning Llama3 405B on AMD MI300x
Open-source models are becoming more voluminous, so the need for reliable infrastructure for large-scale AI training is higher than ever today. Recently, our company…
Adapting fuzzing to find vulnerabilities
Fuzzing is a very popular software testing technique using random input data. There are a huge number of materials on the web about how to find software defects using…
Access to multiple Kubernetes pods via TCP protocol and a single external IP
In the Amvera cloud, microservices and user databases run in a Kubernetes cluster. To access applications, it is usually sufficient to use the nginx ingress controller,…
How to choose a case fan for a PC: 5 interesting models from 120 to 360 mm
15 years ago, users and manufacturers did not think much about good computer cooling. There was one 120 mm fan in the front of the system unit, which barely pushed cool…
The Intelligence Age. Translation of Sam Altman's essay
Yesterday, Sam Altman published a note on his website titled "The Intelligence Age," in which the CEO of OpenAI discusses the future of artificial intelligence and the…
How to improve the security risk assessment process in 4 steps
Hello, tekkix! My name is Irina, I am an information security analyst at Avito. In this article, I share our experience and my personal impressions of building the information…
Encrypt this, encrypt that, or LLM under lock and key
Hello, dear readers of tekkix. The more I delve into LLM, the more I am convinced that they have now taken, if not the most important, then certainly one of the very…
Detection of DGA domains or a test task for the position of intern ML-engineer
In this article, we will consider a simple task that is used by one company as a test task for interns for the position of ML-engineer.
Sovereign AI, honor killings, and R&D deficit. Where is the Indian economy heading today?
We continue to talk about the successes and failures of the independent Indian economy. In the previous article, we showed what happened to the country's economy from…
