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Ok, in BW wurden „aufgrund eines Computerfehlers“ 1440 Lehrystellen nicht besetzt.¹
Aufregung, Skandal, zahlreiche Artikel. Nur: was genau passiert ist, erklärt wieder mal niemand.
Ich kann mir das ja nicht so vorstellen, daß die Mike-Krüger-Gesamtschule plötzlich feststellt, daß heute niemand die 7b unterrichtet.
Muß ich annehmen, daß ein Rektor ohne Nachfrage im Ministerium hinnimmt, daß er dieses Schuljahr zwei Lehrkräfte weniger hat (z.B. nach Pensionierung nicht nachbe…

Peinliche Computer-Panne: Mehr als tausend Lehrerstellen 20 Jahre übersehen
Über 20 Jahre fällt niemandem auf, dass hunderte Lehrerstellen unbesetzt sind. Das Kultusministerium ist peinlich berührt, kann nun aber kräftig einstellen.

Artificial Intelligence in Breast Cancer Care: Transforming Preoperative Planning and Patient Education with 3D Reconstruction
Mustafa Khanbhai, Giulia Di Nardo, Jun Ma, Vivienne Freitas, Caterina Masino, Ali Dolatabadi, Zhaoxun "Lorenz" Liu, Wey Leong, Wagner H. Souza, Amin Madani
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12242

Artificial Intelligence in Breast Cancer Care: Transforming Preoperative Planning and Patient Education with 3D Reconstruction
Effective preoperative planning requires accurate algorithms for segmenting anatomical structures across diverse datasets, but traditional models struggle with generalization. This study presents a novel machine learning methodology to improve algorithm generalization for 3D anatomical reconstruction beyond breast cancer applications. We processed 120 retrospective breast MRIs (January 2018-June 2023) through three phases: anonymization and manual segmentation of T1-weighted and dynamic contras…

Kann mir jemand mal 'Anonyme Umfrage' erklären?
Meine Tochter bekam vor ca. 4 Wochen ein Schreiben eines Frankfurter Amtes. Sie sei 1 von 5000 zufällig ausgewählten Bürger_innen und solle doch bitte
1. freiwillig und
2. anonym
an einer Umfrage teilnehmen.
Heute bekommt sie ein weiteres Schreiben. Inhalt: "Leider haben sie noch nicht an unserer Umfrage teilgenommen". Natürlich folgt dann sofort der Hinweis auf Freiwilligkeit und Anonymität. Alles D…

Protecting participants or population? Comparison of k-anonymous Origin-Destination matrices
Pietro Armenante, Kai Huang, Nikhil Jha, Luca Vassio
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12950

Protecting participants or population? Comparison of k-anonymous Origin-Destination matrices
Origin-Destination (OD) matrices are a core component of research on users' mobility and summarize how individuals move between geographical regions. These regions should be small enough to be representative of user mobility, without incurring substantial privacy risks. There are two added values of the NetMob2025 challenge dataset. Firstly, the data is extensive and contains a lot of socio-demographic information that can be used to create multiple OD matrices, based on the segments of the pop…

So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products.
Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.
https://blog.pupred.…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Aimee Mann:
🎵 Suicide Is Murder
#NowPlaying #AimeeMann
https://open.spotify.com/track/3b3gGKj8NbZXr1saznk7tz

Masked ICE agents are only the start of the assault on government transparency.
Now, government attorneys that are arguing to deport immigrants are doing so in secret.
The Intercept reports on two separate instances immigration judges in New York City declined to identify the government attorneys for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
In the first case Judge ShaSha Xu said,
“We’re not really doing names publicly.”
But that’s not really true. Because she *did* ID…

Government Attorneys Now On Board With The Whole Secret Police Thing
Judges are letting government attorneys do the ugly work of mass deportations anonymously.

Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations
Zhongtang Luo, Jianting Zhang, Akshat Neerati, Aniket Kate
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10755

Five Minutes of DDoS Brings down Tor: DDoS Attacks on the Tor Directory Protocol and Mitigations
The Tor network offers network anonymity to its users by routing their traffic through a sequence of relays. A group of nine directory authorities maintains information about all available relay nodes using a distributed directory protocol. We observe that the current protocol makes a steep synchrony assumption, which makes it vulnerable to natural as well as adversarial non-synchronous communication scenarios over the Internet. In this paper, we show that it is possible to cause a failure in t…

PrivWeb: Unobtrusive and Content-aware Privacy Protection For Web Agents
Shuning Zhang, Yutong Jiang, Rongjun Ma, Yuting Yang, Mingyao Xu, Zhixin Huang, Xin Yi, Hewu Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11939

PrivWeb: Unobtrusive and Content-aware Privacy Protection For Web Agents
While web agents gained popularity by automating web interactions, their requirement for interface access introduces significant privacy risks that are understudied, particularly from users' perspective. Through a formative study (N=15), we found users frequently misunderstand agents' data practices, and desired unobtrusive, transparent data management. To achieve this, we designed and implemented PrivWeb, a trusted add-on on web agents that utilizes a localized LLM to anonymize private informa…