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Ploopy upgraded its new Classic 2 open-source trackball with better scrolling
Ploopy, a Canadian company known for its customizable open-source peripherals, has announced an upgraded version of its Classic trackball mouse. The Classic 2 has the exact same shape and ergonomics as the original but offers improved connectivity, a more accurate and reliable scroll wheel, and an upgraded design, making it easier to 3D print without the need for adding support…
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This New Open-Source Alternative to Google Docs and Notion Is Backed by France and Germany
Docs is a new open-source collaborative text editor, intended as an alternative to Notion, Google Docs, Outline, and other similar web-based services. Interestingly, the project is being led by the governments of France and Germany. Docs is a web-based collaborative writing tool, with the ability for multiple people to view and edit the same page simultaneously. Apple Pages and Microsoft…
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Open-source tool ‘Rayhunter’ helps users detect Stingray attacks
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) has released a free, open-source tool named Rayhunter that is designed to detect cell-site simulators (CSS), also known as IMSI catchers or Stingrays. Stingray devices mimic legitimate cell towers to trick phones into connecting, allowing them to capture sensitive data, accurately geolocate users, and potentially intercept communications. With the release of the Rayhunter, EFF seeks…
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Chinese AI startup DeepSeek unveils open-source model to rival OpenAI o1 – Computerworld
In real-world enterprise applications, DeepSeek-R1’s performance on key metrics translates to improved capabilities in mathematical reasoning, problem-solving, and coding tasks. “Although this suggests that DeepSeek-R1 could potentially outperform OpenAI’s o1 in practical scenarios requiring these specific competencies, the eventual outcome still depends on various factors within the broader AI ecosystem, such as the AI readiness of data, RAG and agent…
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AMD rolls out open-source OLMo LLM, to compete with AI giants – Computerworld
Competitive performance and benchmark success In internal benchmarks, AMD’s OLMo models performed well against similarly sized open-source models, such as TinyLlama-1.1B and OpenELM-1_1B, in multi-task and general reasoning tests, the company claimed. Specifically, its performance increased by over 15% on tasks in GSM8k, a substantial gain attributed to AMD’s multi-phase supervised fine-tuning and Direct Preference Optimization (DPO). ‘ In multi-turn…
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7 Best Free Open-source Hypervisors
If you are thinking of implementing virtualization on your system, you need to get a hypervisor package. Open-source hypervisors provide a path to getting this technology for free. Be aware that some open-source systems are difficult to set up and a bit clunky because they don’t have the big development budgets that commercial virtualization providers enjoy. So, we wrote this…
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IT gains open-source tools to manage iPhones, iPads, and Macs – Computerworld
Fleet’s solution lets larger users add multiple ABM and VPP tokens across a single Fleet instance. While most smaller enterprises won’t put much store in that feature, larger businesses, especially Managed Service Providers (MSPs), will see immediate benefit from being able to use one instance of Fleet to handle multiple customer needs. “Whether an MSP or an enterprise with multiple…
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