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"Despite their promises, governments’ new emission-cutting plans submitted for the Cop30 climate talks taking place in Brazil have done little to avert dangerous global heating for the fourth consecutive year, according to the Climate Action Tracker update.
The world is now anticipated to heat up by 2.6C above preindustrial times by the end of the century"
#ClimateCatastrophe

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08981 https://

SEER: Sustainability Enhanced Engineering of Software Requirements
The rapid expansion of software development has significant environmental, technical, social, and economic impacts. Achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 compels developers to adopt sustainable practices. Existing methods mostly offer high-level guidelines, which are time-consuming to implement and rely on team adaptability. Moreover, they focus on design or implementation, while sustainability assessment should start at the requirements engineering phase. In this p…

Wow, ist das kaputt.
https://www.heise.de/news/OTA-Software-Update-brickt-Jeeps-waehrend-der-Fahrt-10751765.html

Jeeps nach OTA-Software-Update unbrauchbar
Ein Software-Update für die Telemetrie-Einheit hat Jeeps mit Hybridantrieb in den USA ausfallen lassen – bei einigen auf dem Highway.

Exploring Teachers' Perceptions of ChatGPT Through Prompt Engineering
Dimitrios Gousopoulos
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08634 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2510…

Exploring Teachers' Perceptions of ChatGPT Through Prompt Engineering
Artificial Intelligence and especially Large Language Models (LLM), such as ChatGPT has revolutionized the way educators work. The results we get from LLMs depend on how we ask them to help us. The process and the technique behind an effective input is called prompt engineering. The aim of this study is to investigate whether science educators in secondary education improve their attitude toward ChatGPT as a learning assistant after appropriate training in prompt engineering. The results of the…

A tiny side-project that I can hopefully pull through: reverse engineering an audio box for kids that works with proprietary “tokens.” Like a cassette player but rigid af. Use and dispose. #hackerspace #netz39
First stop, getting info about chips and pins. A cheap USB microcontroller it i…

A Model-Driven Engineering Approach to AI-Powered Healthcare Platforms
Mira Raheem, Amal Elgammal, Michael Papazoglou, Bernd Kr\"amer, Neamat El-Tazi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09308

A Model-Driven Engineering Approach to AI-Powered Healthcare Platforms
Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform healthcare by supporting more accurate diagnoses and personalized treatments. However, its adoption in practice remains constrained by fragmented data sources, strict privacy rules, and the technical complexity of building reliable clinical systems. To address these challenges, we introduce a model driven engineering (MDE) framework designed specifically for healthcare AI. The framework relies on formal metamodels, domain-specific lang…

My most favorite subgenre of AI stan is the "AI software engineer" [programmers aren't engineers, engineering has formal requirements like e.g. engineering ethics].
Their logic goes like this:
"LLMs can generate a TODO-list application that pretty much works and only has a few hundred subtle bugs; therefore—as programming is the hardest and by far most intellectually taxing occupation that a human being such as myself can strive for to be an expert in—they obviously will excel and far outshine any human at any of those other, lesser, activities such as writing or art!"

#RealityTV encounters reality.
BBC News - Love Island villa evacuated and filming postponed over wildfires
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy09yp2wl5wo

Towards a Taxonomy of Sustainability Requirements for Software Design
Mandira Roy, Novarun Deb, Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08990 https://

Towards a Taxonomy of Sustainability Requirements for Software Design
Software systems are a significant contributor to global sustainability concerns, demanding that environmental, social, technical, and economic factors be systematically addressed from the initial requirements engineering phase. Although existing research provides various sustainability requirements (SRs), these contributions are often fragmented, specific to certain dimensions, or limited to particular application domains, resulting in a critical lack of a unified, comprehensive taxonomy for t…