Perceptron Mk1.5 Explained: Vision-Language Model Capabilities and Pricing
Perceptron Mk1.5 explained: an embodied reasoning model for image, video and audio. Confirmed capabilities, pricing, open questions and how to evaluate it.
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview Explained: Architecture, Pricing and Benchmarks
MiniMax M3.1 Flash Preview explained: documented context, effort levels, access and pricing, what is still unpublished, and how to evaluate it.
LTX Video Model Explained: Lightricks Architecture, Open Weights and Hardware
LTX from Lightricks explained: diffusion transformer video architecture, open weights license, resolution and length limits, and the GPU needed to run it locally.
Brownfield Modbus Retrofit to Unified Namespace: Edge Gateway Options Compared
Retrofit Modbus RTU and TCP machines into a Unified Namespace: gateway options, polling vs report-by-exception, data modeling, and failure modes in brownfield plants.
Sovereign Industrial AI Cloud: A Reference Architecture for Physical AI in Europe
What sovereign industrial AI cloud means for physical AI: data residency, GPU capacity, edge-to-cloud flows, and a reference architecture with trade-offs.
Microsoft MAI-Voice-2.1 and MAI-Transcribe-2 Explained: Speech Models, Pricing and Use Cases
Microsoft AI released MAI-Voice-2.1, a Flash variant and MAI-Transcribe-2-Streaming. What is confirmed on languages, pricing and latency, and where speech.
SUIT (RFC 9124) vs Uptane vs Mender, RAUC and SWUpdate: IoT OTA Update Comparison
OTA update stacks compared: IETF SUIT manifests, Uptane, Mender, RAUC and SWUpdate. Threat models, A/B partitioning, delta updates, rollback, and which.
EU CRA vs NIS2 vs IEC 62443: Compliance Mapping for IoT and OT Vendors
How the EU Cyber Resilience Act, NIS2 and IEC 62443 overlap for IoT and OT vendors: scope, obligations, deadlines, evidence, and a control-mapping.
Rust in the Linux Kernel Goes Mainstream: What It Means for Embedded and IoT Drivers
Rust is no longer experimental in the Linux kernel. What changed, how Rust drivers work, and what embedded and IoT teams should do about out-of-tree.
OpenTelemetry Specification 1.61 and Q3 2026 Changes: What Platform Teams Should Do
OpenTelemetry Specification v1.61 and recent Collector, Rust 0.33 and Demo 3.1 releases: what changed in Q3 2026, migration risks, and a pragmatic upgrade.