Adafruit and the maker community are criticizing Qualcomm's new terms of service for Arduino, citing concerns about user data, reverse-engineering restrictions, and a departure from open-hardware principles. The article also details the history of Arduino and its origins in the Wiring project.
An article about theHarvester, a Linux tool that maps your online footprint by gathering public data from search engines and repositories, revealing exposed emails, subdomains, and more.
The author details their journey from commercial smart speakers like Google Nest and Amazon Echo to building custom open-source voice assistants using ESP32-based hardware, ESPHome, and Home Assistant, highlighting benefits like privacy, control, and cost savings.
Local Micro-Agents That Observe, Log and React. Build powerful micro-agents that observe your digital world, remember what matters, and react intelligently—all while keeping your data 100% private and secure.
LocalAI is a free and open-source AI stack that allows you to run language models, autonomous agents, and document intelligence locally on your hardware. It's an OpenAI API-compatible alternative focused on privacy, ease of use, and extensibility.
The article discusses the growing trend of running Large Language Models (LLMs) locally on personal machines, exploring the motivations behind this shift – including privacy concerns, cost savings, and a desire for technological sovereignty – as well as the hardware and software advancements making it increasingly feasible.
Stream Assist is a Home Assistant integration that allows users to turn almost any camera and speaker into a local voice assistant, offering privacy and customization benefits over commercial solutions like Alexa or Nest. It uses components like Stream, Assist pipeline, openWakeWord, Whisper, and Piper to process voice commands and control smart home devices.
This document provides a developer guide for the Tiny Code Reader from Useful Sensors, a small, low-cost hardware module that reads QR codes. It covers connecting, mounting, powering up, reading data, configuration, sensor characteristics, example code, privacy considerations, and an appendix with data formats and CAD files.
Regeneron Pharmaceuticals is acquiring 23andMe for $256 million, gaining access to the genetic data of around 15 million customers. This raises data privacy concerns, despite assurances from Regeneron to honor existing privacy practices. The sale also brings up questions about potential compensation for customers if the data leads to profitable medications.
The author details their switch from Google Docs to Outline, a free and open-source collaborative editor, highlighting its simplicity, Slack integration, privacy features, and sufficient functionality for their needs, despite some missing features like advanced table creation and detailed version history.
