The hot mic comes in the wake of acting New Jersey U.S. Attorney Alina Habba stepping down after a court found her to be occupying the post illegally.

That's why I eventually migrated away from these proprietary assistants and built my own using a large language model (LLM), Proxmox server, Home Assistant, and Home Assistant Voice Preview Edition.

Boom mics, those big puffballs at the end of a long pole, were once the most common method to record movie dialogue. Now ...