Technical Report on Counterfeit ICT Equipment

Technical Report on Counterfeit ICT Equipment

QTR-CICT - Survey report on counterfeit ICT devices in Africa region

U4SSC - Collection Methodology for Key Performance Indicators for Smart Sustainable Cities

HSTP-H812-FHIR Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems: Services interface: FHIR Observation Upload for trial implementation

HSTP-H812-FHIR - Interoperability design guidelines for personal health systems: Services interface: FHIR Observation Upload for trial implementation

HSTP.DLT-RF - Distributed ledger technologies: Regulatory framework

QSTP-TEST-UE-MS - Guideline for general test procedure and specification for measurements of the LTE, 3G/2G user equipment/mobile stations (UE/MS) for over-the-air performance testing [Withdrawn]
Withdrawn and transferred to ITU-R for further enhancement

GSTP-IPTV-QoS - Performance metrics for end-to-end IPTV video quality

JSTP-AFDI - Analysis and related solutions for full duplex interference

ESTR-KPI-RAN - Key performance indicators (KPIs) for radio access mobile networks

Methodology for measurement of Quality of Service (QoS) Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for DFS

Requirements for intelligent surface-defect detection service in industrial production line

Performance assessment methods for distributed ledger technology platforms

Testing and Test Control Notation version 3: TTCN-3 control interface (TCI)

Testing and Test Control Notation version 3: TTCN-3 control interface (TCI)

Testing and Test Control Notation version 3: TTCN-3 language extensions: Performance and real time testing

Testing and Test Control Notation version 3: TTCN-3 language extensions: Support of interfaces with continuous signals

Testing and Test Control Notation version 3: TTCN-3 runtime interface (TRI)

Testing and Test Control Notation version 3: TTCN-3 control interface (TCI)

Interface for power management in network function virtualization environments - Green abstraction Layer version 2

Interfacing of renewable energy or distributed power sources to up to 400 VDC power feeding systems

Inter-IMS network to network interface - Protocol specification

Framework for solutions to combat counterfeit ICT devices

ISDN user-network interface layer 3 specification for basic call control

Testing methodologies of Internet related performance measurements including e2e bit rate within the fixed and mobile operators' networks

Interface between the link layer and the physical layer for digital subscriber line (DSL) transceivers

Support by an ISDN of data terminal equipment with V-Series type interfaces with provision for statistical multiplexing

Support of data terminal equipments with V-Series type interfaces by an integrated services digital network

Support by an ISDN of data terminal equipment with V-series type interfaces with provision for statistical multiplexing

Support of data terminal equipments (DTEs) with V-series type interfaces by an integrated services digital network (ISDN)

Asynchronous serial command interface for assistive and multi-functional communication devices

While Donald Trump has announced a few people who will be part of his new administration, when it comes to Cabinet appointees, things appear to be ramping up fast. Trump has named people to several roles, including chief of staff and border czar, and media reports in the past 24 hours have leaked a number of potential Cabinet appointments–with more to come.

On Monday night, the Wall Street Journal reported that Trump was expected to name Florida Senator Marco Rubio as his Secretary of State—the first of the 15 Cabinet posts to be filled. And on Tuesday South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem was tapped to head Homeland Security. Trump also confirmed that former Rep. Lee Zeldin would be his EPA administrator and that John Ratcliffe, the one-time director of National Intelligence during the final year of Trump’s first term and a former congressman who is unflinchingly loyal to Trump, is his pick to lead the CIA. Trump also surprised many with his pick of Fox News host Pete Hegseth for Defense Secretary.

The job of Cabinet secretaries is to advise the president on issues that are related to their office—and whoever fills those must first be confirmed by the Senate . . . at least, for now. Trump is already calling on the Republican-controlled Senate to change those rules and let him appoint nominees without a Senate vote.

Nominees for Cabinet positions are normally trusted advisors, experts in their field, and sometimes major donors. Tesla CEO and Trump backer Elon Musk also may or may not be involved: He recently put out a call on X saying it “would be interesting to hear recommendations for roles in the new administration for consideration by the President.”

Whether those recommendations will carry any weight is, of course, unknown, but given how close Musk and Trump are now—and Trump’s fondness for social media feedback—it can’t be discounted entirely.

That said, here are some of the leading and potential candidates for select Cabinet posts:

Attorney General

Senator Mike Lee: Considered by some as the leading candidate, the Utah Senator aided efforts to overturn the 2020 election. He has also spread conspiracy theories about the January 6 attack on the Capitol. That’s a big turnaround from 2016, when he did not vote for Trump.

Jeffrey Clark: Known best as the assistant Attorney General who pressured officials in the Justice Department to overturn Trump’s loss in 2020, Clark is currently under indictment in Georgia for his role in that election. Three months ago, a disciplinary committee in Washington, D.C., said Clark should be disbarred for two years for efforts to interfere with election results.

Treasury Secretary

Scott Bessent: The former Soros Fund Management executive (and founder and CEO of Key Square Group) is reportedly Trump’s “go-to economic advisor” and has become the frontrunner in the race for Treasury Secretary after John Paulson removed himself from consideration Tuesday.  He has known the Trump family for decades and is friends with JD Vance. Bessent has expressed concerns about the country’s debt levels and believes the way to correct that is by increasing growth. Asked about a possible Treasury secretary role by CNBC, he said, “I’m going to do whatever Donald Trump asks.”

Howard Lutnick: While Lutnick, who is CEO of investment firm Cantor Fitzgerald, might be under consideration, he’s busy right now leading the Trump transition team with Linda McMahon (who was administrator of the Small Business Administration, 2017-2019, during Trump’s first term). Lutnick and Trump have been friends for more than 20 years and he raised or donated more than $75 million for Trump’s reelection bid.

Larry Kudlow: Best known as a Fox Business financial commentator, Kudlow served as director of the National Economic Council during the Trump Administration, 2018-2021. Throughout this election cycle, Kudlow has been a vocal supporter of Trump and his economic policies on Fox.

Wild cards

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: While Kennedy has said Trump “promised” him “control of the public health agencies,” the exact role he will play in the administration (if any) is still very much up in the air. Asked by CNN in August if he would appoint the independent politician to his cabinet, Trump said “he probably would,” but public criticism of Kennedy’s stance on vaccines and water fluoridation has grown considerably since then.

Elon Musk: Musk has stuck close to Trump since the election, even sitting in on a call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Musk has, however, taken himself out of the running for any Cabinet positions, according to Trump. “He doesn’t want to be in the Cabinet, he just wants to be in charge of cost-cutting. We’ll have a new position, secretary of cost-cutting—Elon wants to do that.” On Tuesday, Trump announced that Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy would indeed head a new agency called the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to cut government spending, although a new agency cannot be created without Congress.

Update, November 12, 2024: This article has been updated with Trump’s picks for CIA and Defense Secretary, and announcement about Musk and Ramaswamy.

LG Electronics' latest CineBeam Q Portable Laser Projector punches above its weightless in an ever-growing infrastructure of moving image displays.

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Anton Shilov reports via Tom's Hardware: FFmpeg is an open-source video decoding project developed by volunteers who contribute to its codebase, fix bugs, and add new features. The project is led by a small group of core developers and maintainers who oversee its direction and ensure that contributions meet certain standards. They coordinate the project's development and release cycles, merging contributions from other developers. This group of developers tried to implement a handwritten AVX512 assembly code path, something that has rarely been done before, at least not in the video industry. The developers have created an optimized code path using the AVX-512 instruction set to accelerate specific functions within the FFmpeg multimedia processing library. By leveraging AVX-512, they were able to achieve significant performance improvements -- from three to 94 times faster -- compared to standard implementations. AVX-512 enables processing large chunks of data in parallel using 512-bit registers, which can handle up to 16 single-precision FLOPS or 8 double-precision FLOPS in one operation. This optimization is ideal for compute-heavy tasks in general, but in the case of video and image processing in particular. The benchmarking results show that the new handwritten AVX-512 code path performs considerably faster than other implementations, including baseline C code and lower SIMD instruction sets like AVX2 and SSSE3. In some cases, the revamped AVX-512 codepath achieves a speedup of nearly 94 times over the baseline, highlighting the efficiency of hand-optimized assembly code for AVX-512.

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When cedar shingles proved to be unfeasible for a historic structure in New York, roofing contractors turned to a CertainTeed shingle to match the site's harmony with nature.

S-5!'s new system boasts that it is quick and simple to install, lasts the life of the roof, maintains roof warranties and is less expensive than other mounting methods.

An above-average storm season combined with material issues means roofing contractors need to prepare their contracts and teams to better serve customers.

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Roofing contractors will want to keep an eye out for synthetic underlayments meeting the ASTM’s new standard in the coming months.

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