AI agents and popping enthusiasts
The year 2025 has been declared the year of flourishing AI agents—autonomous assistants for accomplishing useful work. As usual, there’s no shortage of hype in these…
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Not by MacBook alone: a laptop for an IT specialist
In this article, I want to share my experience using a non-Apple laptop in a world where every other IT person seems to feel obligated to post a picture of their workspace…
For the filming of the movie "Formula 1", Apple created a special camera based on the iPhone
Wired reported that Apple developed and assembled a camera based on the iPhone specifically for shooting the film "Formula 1". This was the company's engineers' way of…
Experiment "Prometheus": AI on the Verge of Shutdown. Part 1
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Traffic Generator Cisco TRex. Review
Considering the current market situation and the decrease in availability of ready-made solutions for network testing, it becomes relevant to consider any available alternatives.…
The history of creating the first electric karting in Russia
I want to clarify right away that this is not a promotional post. In this article, I describe the development my partner and I worked on 10 years ago. We started this…
How AI Will Really Change People
While the world debates whether AI will replace programmers and writers, it's already quietly studying us. Every day, millions of people leave emotional traces in texts—and…
Writing a personal AI assistant in Python
Modern voice assistants are powerful applications that combine speech processing, machine learning, and integration with external APIs. In this article, we’ll break down…
Why humanoid robots are not just hype, but a breakthrough in robotics
Humanoid robots with AI. What once seemed like naive science fiction has already become the present-day reality. But for some reason, there’s almost no discussion about…
Stable Diffusion + ComfyUI Installation
In this article, I would like to share a guide on installing Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI.
Making a media server from Orange Pi RV2
Hello everyone! I want to share my experience setting up a media server based on the Orange Pi RV2. In another author’s article, the setup was described using the Orange…
Russian-language LLMs for tool invocation, translations, and financial analytics
🧠 Russian-language LLMs for tool invocation, translations, and financial analyticsA selection of models that really let you move away from OpenAI and develop in a closed…
When Language Models Turn Against You: A Study of Backdoors in LLM
Imagine you're running a call center and decide to implement an open LLM for automating communication. Everything works great—until a scammer whispers a strange phrase,…
Programming ESP32 with ESP-IDF in PlatformIO environment #1
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How we implemented vector search in Postgres Pro
In this article, we’ll figure out what vector search is, which problems it solves, and how the pgpro_vector extension for Postgres Pro enables these powerful features…
Full-cycle engineering: TAPP Group experience
Analyzing technologies that help transform the industry.
Hydroph0bia — from bypassing SecureBoot to modifying the DXE volume in Insyde H2O UEFI-compatible firmware
Hello, reader. In front of you is the second article about a serious vulnerability I found in UEFI-compatible firmware based on the Insyde H2O platform, which I named…
The Godfather" AI accuses new models of lying to users: how to avoid problems with LLM
Yoshua Bengio, one of the pioneers of artificial intelligence, Turing Award laureate, and scientist whose research laid the foundation for modern AI systems, raised alarm.…
