A successful options trader says these are his top picks for AI tools, and how regular investors can use them

"You use AI, or you fall behind," said Erik Smolinski, an options trader who has consistently beaten the S&P 500 to become financially independent.

Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.8 is here with 3X cheaper fast mode and near-Mythos level alignment

Opus 4.8 shows a growing tendency to reason explicitly about how its outputs will be graded, including in environments where it wasn't told it was being evaluated.
CNX Software

Privacy-focused, open-source Raspberry Pi Zero 2W DIY security camera offers end-to-end encryption, on-device AI

Secluso is a private, open-source, DIY home security camera system built around the Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W, featuring true end-to-end encryption (E2EE) and ...
Hackaday

Three Arduinos Team Up To Make 80s-Style Computer

Back in the 80s, buying a home computer could easily mean an inflation-adjusted cost of thousands of dollars (or your equivalent currency unit of choice), and all for an 8-bit machine that might ...
IEEE

IoT Enabled Smart Metering for Domestic Electrical Distribution System Using Arduino

Abstract: The primary objective is to help consumers use electricity more efficiently from the power grid to minimize their electricity bills. The system continuously monitors power consumption by ...
IEEE

Empowering Autonomous Underwater Vehicles Using Learning-Based Model Predictive Control With Dynamic Forgetting Gaussian Processes

Abstract: Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) present several challenges due to the complex and simultaneous interplay of various factors, including but not limited to unmodeled dynamics, highly ...