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Angreifer steigen über Zero-Day-Lücke bei Logitech ein
Beim Hersteller für Computerperipherie Logitech gab es einen IT-Sicherheitsvorfall. Dabei konnten Angreifer auf interne Daten zugreifen.

A US judge rules that Apple and OpenAI must answer to a lawsuit filed by X and xAI accusing them of conspiring to thwart competition in emerging markets in AI (Madlin Mekelburg/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Another failure of #ChatGPT. I asked if a diagram had ever appeared in anything I'd published. It confidently gave me three answers, all wrong, before admitting that it couldn't find it. It even gave totally wrong Figure numbers. When I pointed this out, I got the usual dose of mock humility.
#AI…

Chicago is getting a place for sickos
#fedifc

Consequences of Undecidability in Physics on the #TheoryOfEverything: #universe is a #ComputerSiimulation: https://news.ok.ubc.ca/2025/10/30/ubco-study-debunks-the-idea-that-the-universe-is-a-computer-simulation/ - new study uses logic and physics to definitively answer one of science's biggest questions.

The year starts with a new competition case re. public EV charging prices in Italy. The competition authority has decided to conduct a further investigation into A2A Mobility, as prices charged to others were higher than in their own app.
https://www.agcm.it/pubblicazioni/bolletti<…

💥 Pro-cycling crashes can be bad, but evidence suggests slower bikes aren't the answer
#sports

Pro-cycling crashes can be bad, but evidence suggests slower bikes aren't the answer
It might seem counterintuitive in a sport built around speed, but the world governing body for competitive cycling wants to slow elite riders down.

"Christopher Bishop’s 2006 book “Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning,” arguably one of the triggers of the current popularity of machine learning, is quite literally a book about applied mathematics, diving into probabilities, linear algebra, neural networks, Markov models, and combinatorics. And rightfully so; if your objective is to find a job as an engineer at OpenAI, knowing a thing or two about eigenvalues and eigenvectors is definitely going to be useful."

In Praise Of Mathematics
How much math knowledge does a programmer need to know to fulfill their job? How deep should the mathematical knowledge of full-stack engineers, computer security experts, or large language model engineers be? The spectrum of possible answers to these questions is too large to be useful. Perhaps the eternal answer "it depends" is enough?

I loved @jasonclark.bsky.social 's #FF2025 'problem statement':
'We were given access to a weirdly confident intern that can’t explain how they got their answers.
It is a seamless interface that breaks search interaction retrieval patterns.'

{ "jason": "clark" } (@jasonclark.bsky.social)
Slides and code from my #ff2025 talk, "Reasoning with Small Language Models (SLM) for Trustworthy Generative AI (GenAI)." Slides: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1NHCuyuPd9KK3QUo8izeta2CMIk-rmcy1/edit?usp=drive_link&ouid=103883366387427181221&rtpof=true&sd=true Code: https://github.com/jasonclark/agentic-search-react

Apple's Houston manufacturing facility, originally scheduled to open in 2026, is now shipping AI servers that power Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute (Brooke Singman/Fox Business)
https://www.foxbusiness.com/politics/apple…

Apple building American-made AI servers ahead of schedule in new Houston facility, answering Trump call
EXCLUSIVE: Apple is now building and shipping American-made artificial intelligence servers in the United States — a move that has the technology giant answering President Donald Trump’s call to on shore manufacturing.