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"Rachel Reeves, boasted to corporate executives that she has “unblocked” a large housing development in Sussex being held up by “some snails … a protected species or something … microscopic snails that you cannot even see”. .. The very rare little whirlpool ramshorn snail, by no means microscopic, is an indicator of fresh water not affected by sewage pollution"

"The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine."
Sythetic data using "AI" is such a toxic pattern that keeps being amplified (because of the structures that guide "science")
(Original title: Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!)

Medical research ethics is hard — but fake AI data is easy!
Medical research means dealing with ethics boards — who keep asking all these pointed questions on how you’re going to use people’s most personal data. What if we just … fake the data? Sorry,…

A new Artificial Analysis benchmark, focusing on OpenAI's gpt-oss-120b, shows how open-weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across hosting providers (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/inconsistent-performance/…

Open weight LLMs exhibit inconsistent performance across providers
Artificial Analysis published a new benchmark the other day, this time focusing on how an individual model—OpenAI’s gpt-oss-120b—performs across different hosted providers. The results showed some surprising differences. Here’s the …

WSJ restructures its health, science, and education teams, with the health group moving back under the business team, after separating during the pandemic (Chris Roush/Talking Biz News)
https://talkingbiznews.com/media-news/wsj-restructures-…

WSJ restructures health, science and education, makes layoffs - Talking Biz News
Wall Street Journal editor in chief Emma Tucker sent out the following on Wednesday: Dear all, Today we are announcing changes to how we structure our health, science and education teams at The Wall Street Journal. The health group is returning to the business team after becoming a separate coverage area during the Covid-19 pandemic. Coverage of […]

On The Road - To Xi’An/ Angles ↕️
在路上 - 去西安/ 角度 ↕️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️Fujifilm Neopan F, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

"WWF rethinks conservation after a crisis of its own making"
#WWF #Conservation
https:…

WWF rethinks conservation after a crisis of its own making
Founder’s Briefs: An occasional series where Mongabay founder Rhett Ayers Butler shares analysis, perspectives and story summaries. In the world of conservation, good intentions have not always made for good outcomes. The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), one of the most recognizable environmental organizations on the planet, learned this the hard way. In 2019, […]

"It's cheaper to buy the default search box everywhere in the world than it is to make a product that is so good that even if we tried another search engine, we'd still prefer Google.
This is enshittification."
From: @…

Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)
Angehängt: 1 Bild It's been more than a year since I gave up on Google Search (I switched to Kagi.com and never looked back). I don't miss it. It had gotten terrible. It's gotten worse since, thanks to AI (of course): https://pluralistic.net/2024/04/04/teach-me-how-to-shruggie/#kagi -- If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: https://pluralistic.net/2025/07/15/inhuman…

Floodwaters begin receding in a major Pakistani city but nearby towns face evacuations https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/09/floodwaters-begin-receding-in-a-major-pakistani-city-but-nearby-towns-face-…

Floodwaters begin receding in a major Pakistani city but nearby towns face evacuations
MULTAN, Pakistan (AP) — Officials say floodwaters that threatened a major town in eastern Punjab province have started receding, sparing its 700,000 residents. However, rising waters on Friday swamped villages near two nearby cities, forcing panicked evacuations. The Disaster Management Authority said waters around Jalalpur Pirwala, which had touched the official danger mark, are now […]

""[…] There is only one correct metric that should be counted when dealing with software, and that is the user's cognitive load. […] If my Windows/Python/Notepad setup is more ubiquitous, understandable, intuitive and replicable than your obscure Arch/Hyprland build with its hundred painstakingly typed-out customizations for every single software in it, then my setup is better and more minimalist than yours. Full stop. […]""

Genie 3, Superintelligenz und Weltmodell: Was hinter den KI-Buzzwords steckt
Deepminds Genie 3 wird als "Weltmodell" und "wichtiger Schritt" zur Superintelligenz gefeiert. Was bedeutet das eigentlich? Ein Blick hinter die KI-Kulissen.

Lizzy Schubert, die neuste Nachrückerin von den MdBs von Die Linke, hat der vorherig jüngsten MdB (Luke Hoß, auch von Die Linke) diesen Platz gestohlen.
Witzig mit wem man damals alles vor wenigen Monaten noch auf Kuba war und wer davon dann heute im Bundestag sitzt.
Bravo 👏 https://…

Linke Düsseldorf: Lizzy Schubert zieht in den Bundestag ein
Ab August ist die 22-Jährige das jüngste Mitglied des Parlaments. Die Nachrückerin steht für den klaren Bruch zur Wahlkreis-Vorgängerin Sahra Wagenknecht.

Hi everyone,
@joynewacc and I had the honour of speaking to three lovely people from Gaza today over video chat on Signal and we’d like to welcome them to the Gaza Verified family:
• Yasmeen (@…)
• Bilal (@…)
• Ahmed …

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

ABQ mayoral candidate campaigns on fake education, experience and made-up prior elected office - City Desk ABQ https://citydesk.org/2025/08/14/albuquerque-mayoral-candidate-makes-false-claims-echoing-george-santos-scandal/ …

Echoing George Santos, ABQ mayoral candidate campaigns on fake education, experience and made-up prior elected office - City Desk ABQ
(c) City Desk ABQ. Republication is available by request to kevin@newmexico.news According to his campaign website, Albuquerque mayoral candidate Patrick B. Sais graduated from UNM with a degree in political science, was elected to the Albuquerque City Council and earned endorsements from a local business owner, firefighter and educator in his campaign for Albuquerque mayor.  […]

GNN-based Unified Deep Learning
Furkan Pala, Islem Rekik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10583 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.10583…

GNN-based Unified Deep Learning
Deep learning models often struggle to maintain generalizability in medical imaging, particularly under domain-fracture scenarios where distribution shifts arise from varying imaging techniques, acquisition protocols, patient populations, demographics, and equipment. In practice, each hospital may need to train distinct models - differing in learning task, width, and depth - to match local data. For example, one hospital may use Euclidean architectures such as MLPs and CNNs for tabular or grid-…

Look Again, Think Slowly: Enhancing Visual Reflection in Vision-Language Models
Pu Jian, Junhong Wu, Wei Sun, Chen Wang, Shuo Ren, Jiajun Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12132 …

Look Again, Think Slowly: Enhancing Visual Reflection in Vision-Language Models
Recent advances in text-only "slow-thinking" reasoning have prompted efforts to transfer this capability to vision-language models (VLMs), for training visual reasoning models (\textbf{VRMs}). owever, such transfer faces critical challenges: Effective "slow thinking" in VRMs requires \textbf{visual reflection}, the ability to check the reasoning process based on visual information. Through quantitative analysis, we observe that current VRMs exhibit limited visual reflection, as their attention …

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Linyi Yang, Yixuan Weng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12194 https://

ResearStudio: A Human-Intervenable Framework for Building Controllable Deep-Research Agents
Current deep-research agents run in a ''fire-and-forget'' mode: once started, they give users no way to fix errors or add expert knowledge during execution. We present ResearStudio, the first open-source framework that places real-time human control at its core. The system follows a Collaborative Workshop design. A hierarchical Planner-Executor writes every step to a live ''plan-as-document,'' a fast communication layer streams each action, file change, and tool call to a web interface. At any …

Statt des zigsten "Wir waren dabei, aber sie haben nichts gesagt"-'Livetickers' lest lieber dieses Interview mit #MaksymButkewytsch, ukrainischer linker, anarchistischer Ex-Soldat, lange in russischer Gefangenschaft.

Last few pix from our Maritimes vacation, wrapped in a bunch of tourist tips: #Photography…

Maritime Wrap-up

Effects of the Strict-Tolerant Approach on Intuitionistic and Minimal Logic
Victor Barroso-Nascimento, German Mejia
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10322 https://

Effects of the Strict-Tolerant Approach on Intuitionistic and Minimal Logic
This paper extends the literature on the strict-tolerant logical approach by applying its methods to intuitionistic and minimal logic. In short, the strict-tolerant approach modifies the usual notion of logical consequence by stipulating that, in order for an inference to be valid, from the truth of the premises must follow the non-falsity of the conclusion. This notion can also be generalized to define strict-tolerant metainferences, metametainferences and so on, which may or may not generate …

Cost Analysis of Human-corrected Transcription for Predominately Oral Languages
Yacouba Diarra, Nouhoum Souleymane Coulibaly, Michael Leventhal
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.12781 …

Cost Analysis of Human-corrected Transcription for Predominately Oral Languages
Creating speech datasets for low-resource languages is a critical yet poorly understood challenge, particularly regarding the actual cost in human labor. This paper investigates the time and complexity required to produce high-quality annotated speech data for a subset of low-resource languages, low literacy Predominately Oral Languages, focusing on Bambara, a Manding language of Mali. Through a one-month field study involving ten transcribers with native proficiency, we analyze the correction …

"The understanding that the total supremacy of the “data” discourse was always a problematic, neoliberal way of seeing and structuring the world, of legitimizing violence according to the needs of those in power."
(Original title: The “Data” Narrative eats itself)
https://tante.cc/2025/09/15/…

The "Data" Narrative eats itself
“The first model fakes the data, then the second model trains on the fake data. Any problems in the synthetic data set are amplified further. Then the second model — based on fake data — is used to treat real patients. This is, of course, all fine.” Today I want to take David Gerard’s recent […]

"Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate

Heatwave: Anti-Climate Reform Politicians Represent Areas at ‘High Risk’ from Extreme Temperatures
Nigel Farage and his fellow Reform UK MPs, many of whom deny basic climate science, represent constituencies exposed to the worst effects of extreme heat, studies show. The UK has this week entered its fourth heatwave of 2025, with temperatures expected to rise to 33C on Thursday in what scientists have warned could become the […]

30 Jahre "Hackers" – wie ein Film zum Meme schlechthin wurde
1995 floppte "Hackers" nicht nur an der Kinokasse. Er wurde auch Hassobjekt für computeraffine Menschen. Heute ist er Kult, und für beides gibt es Gründe.

Good to see the EU tackling the really big problems.
Excellent work, @…! Do fries next, you muppets. https://indieweb.social/@jbz/115384438…

Non-Stationary Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Provable Guarantee
Yu-Heng Hung, Ping-Chun Hsieh, Kai Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10804 https://arxiv.…

Non-Stationary Restless Multi-Armed Bandits with Provable Guarantee
Online restless multi-armed bandits (RMABs) typically assume that each arm follows a stationary Markov Decision Process (MDP) with fixed state transitions and rewards. However, in real-world applications like healthcare and recommendation systems, these assumptions often break due to non-stationary dynamics, posing significant challenges for traditional RMAB algorithms. In this work, we specifically consider $N$-armd RMAB with non-stationary transition constrained by bounded variation budgets $…

Compressed Video Quality Enhancement: Classifying and Benchmarking over Standards
Xiem HoangVan, Dang BuiDinh, Sang NguyenQuang, Wen-Hsiao Peng
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10407 …

Compressed Video Quality Enhancement: Classifying and Benchmarking over Standards
Compressed video quality enhancement (CVQE) is crucial for improving user experience with lossy video codecs like H.264/AVC, H.265/HEVC, and H.266/VVC. While deep learning based CVQE has driven significant progress, existing surveys still suffer from limitations: lack of systematic classification linking methods to specific standards and artifacts, insufficient comparative analysis of architectural paradigms across coding types, and underdeveloped benchmarking practices. To address these gaps, …

Who Benefits from AI Explanations? Towards Accessible and Interpretable Systems
Maria J. P. Peixoto, Akriti Pandey, Ahsan Zaman, Peter R. Lewis
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10806 …

Who Benefits from AI Explanations? Towards Accessible and Interpretable Systems
As AI systems are increasingly deployed to support decision-making in critical domains, explainability has become a means to enhance the understandability of these outputs and enable users to make more informed and conscious choices. However, despite growing interest in the usability of eXplainable AI (XAI), the accessibility of these methods, particularly for users with vision impairments, remains underexplored. This paper investigates accessibility gaps in XAI through a two-pronged approach. …

News flash: There’s lots of really good new music out there! Here’s some of it: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2025/10/15/Current-Music
Featuring: Kwashibu Area Band (Ghana), New Eves (UK), The Good Ones (Rwanda), Alfa Mist (UK), Sona Jobarteh (UK/Gambia)…

Moody Urbanity - Up Up ⏏️
情绪化城市 - 上面上面 ⏏️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

ReviewRL: Towards Automated Scientific Review with RL
Sihang Zeng, Kai Tian, Kaiyan Zhang, Yuru wang, Junqi Gao, Runze Liu, Sa Yang, Jingxuan Li, Xinwei Long, Jiaheng Ma, Biqing Qi, Bowen Zhou
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10308

ReviewRL: Towards Automated Scientific Review with RL
Peer review is essential for scientific progress but faces growing challenges due to increasing submission volumes and reviewer fatigue. Existing automated review approaches struggle with factual accuracy, rating consistency, and analytical depth, often generating superficial or generic feedback lacking the insights characteristic of high-quality human reviews. We introduce ReviewRL, a reinforcement learning framework for generating comprehensive and factually grounded scientific paper reviews.…

A Google executive says users increasingly want "contextual answers and summaries", but Google is not going to abandon the model that provides "10 blue links" (Elissa Welle/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778306/google-ai-summaries-penske-…

Google thinks it can have AI summaries and a healthy web, too
Google said users increasingly want the AI summaries more than 10 blue links when asked about a lawsuit over AI Overviews.

Honor "Robot Phone": KI-Smartphone-Konzept mit Gimbal-Kamera
Der chinesische Smartphone-Hersteller Honor gibt einen Vorgeschmack auf sein Robot Phone mit integriertem Gimbal-Kameraarm und viel KI.
https:…

@… Hi there,
(I tried the email route but got an automated response, so I’m trying this instead.) :)
I just got notified that my friend Iman’s account (@emanahmed@mastodon.social) has been suspended with cause due to private messages being sent from her account to ask for donations. (One of the people who was upset about this contacted me directly to let …

Gaza Verified
I’ve personally had video conversations on Signal with the people from Gaza whose Mastodon accounts on the fediverse are listed here and I verify that their accounts are genuine. – Aral Balkan

Ordinality of Visible-Thermal Image Intensities for Intrinsic Image Decomposition
Zeqing Leo Yuan, Mani Ramanagopal, Aswin C. Sankaranarayanan, Srinivasa G. Narasimhan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.10388 …

Ordinality of Visible-Thermal Image Intensities for Intrinsic Image Decomposition
Decomposing an image into its intrinsic photometric factors--shading and reflectance--is a long-standing challenge due to the lack of extensive ground-truth data for real-world scenes. Recent methods rely on synthetic data or sparse annotations for limited indoor and even fewer outdoor scenes. We introduce a novel training-free approach for intrinsic image decomposition using only a pair of visible and thermal images. We leverage the principle that light not reflected from an opaque surface is …

Securing AI Agents: Implementing Role-Based Access Control for Industrial Applications
Aadil Gani Ganie
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11431 https://arxiv.org/…

Securing AI Agents: Implementing Role-Based Access Control for Industrial Applications
The emergence of Large Language Models (LLMs) has significantly advanced solutions across various domains, from political science to software development. However, these models are constrained by their training data, which is static and limited to information available up to a specific date. Additionally, their generalized nature often necessitates fine-tuning -- whether for classification or instructional purposes -- to effectively perform specific downstream tasks. AI agents, leveraging LLMs …

DiTTO-LLM: Framework for Discovering Topic-based Technology Opportunities via Large Language Model
Wonyoung Kim, Sujeong Seo, Juhyun Lee
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09724 https:/…

DiTTO-LLM: Framework for Discovering Topic-based Technology Opportunities via Large Language Model
Technology opportunities are critical information that serve as a foundation for advancements in technology, industry, and innovation. This paper proposes a framework based on the temporal relationships between technologies to identify emerging technology opportunities. The proposed framework begins by extracting text from a patent dataset, followed by mapping text-based topics to discover inter-technology relationships. Technology opportunities are then identified by tracking changes in these …

Moody Urbanity - Passer By 🚶‍♂️
情绪化城市 - 路人 🚶‍♂️
📷 Pentax MX
🎞️ Kentmere Pan 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite

SoftBank's $5.4B purchase of ABB's robotics unit is another setback for Europe, which risks losing its edge to Asian and US companies in the "physical AI" era (Chris Bryant/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles

KI-Update: Klage gegen Google, Mikrozahlungen, Abschaltung aller KI, Google Meet
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…

“Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI”
https://www.theverge.com/x-ai/707442/grok-antisemitic-hitler-elon-musk-opinion-reprogrammed
Anyone remember the days when we actually had a …

Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, promises xAI
After a string of controversies involving antisemitism, Hitler and more, Grok will no longer call itself Hitler or base its opinions on Elon Musk’s, xAI promised.

Performance of GPT-5 in Brain Tumor MRI Reasoning
Mojtaba Safari, Shansong Wang, Mingzhe Hu, Zach Eidex, Qiang Li, Xiaofeng Yang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10865 https://…

Performance of GPT-5 in Brain Tumor MRI Reasoning
Accurate differentiation of brain tumor types on magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is critical for guiding treatment planning in neuro-oncology. Recent advances in large language models (LLMs) have enabled visual question answering (VQA) approaches that integrate image interpretation with natural language reasoning. In this study, we evaluated GPT-4o, GPT-5-nano, GPT-5-mini, and GPT-5 on a curated brain tumor VQA benchmark derived from 3 Brain Tumor Segmentation (BraTS) datasets - glioblastoma (…

ComoRAG: A Cognitive-Inspired Memory-Organized RAG for Stateful Long Narrative Reasoning
Juyuan Wang, Rongchen Zhao, Wei Wei, Yufeng Wang, Mo Yu, Jie Zhou, Jin Xu, Liyan Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10419

ComoRAG: A Cognitive-Inspired Memory-Organized RAG for Stateful Long Narrative Reasoning
Narrative comprehension on long stories and novels has been a challenging domain attributed to their intricate plotlines and entangled, often evolving relations among characters and entities. Given the LLM's diminished reasoning over extended context and high computational cost, retrieval-based approaches remain a pivotal role in practice. However, traditional RAG methods can fall short due to their stateless, single-step retrieval process, which often overlooks the dynamic nature of capturing …

xAI's Grok is rated for kids age 12 and up in the iOS App Store, despite adding "companions"; one includes an NSFW "Bad Rudy" mode and the other becomes NSFW (Casey Newton/Platformer)
https://www.platformer.news/grok-ani-app-store-rating-nsfw-…

Grok's new porn companion is rated for kids 12+ in the App Store
AI companions are arriving faster than platforms can build guardrails around them. Parents need to pay attention

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
"End-to-End-Betrug" mit Festplatten: Seagate findet Fälscherwerkstatt in Asien
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LoRA-fine-tuned Large Vision Models for Automated Assessment of Post-SBRT Lung Injury
M. Bolhassani, B. Veasey, E. Daugherty, S. Keltner, N. Kumar, N. Dunlap, A. Amini
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12155 …

LoRA-fine-tuned Large Vision Models for Automated Assessment of Post-SBRT Lung Injury
This study investigates the efficacy of Low-Rank Adaptation (LoRA) for fine-tuning large Vision Models, DinoV2 and SwinV2, to diagnose Radiation-Induced Lung Injury (RILI) from X-ray CT scans following Stereotactic Body Radiation Therapy (SBRT). To evaluate the robustness and efficiency of this approach, we compare LoRA with traditional full fine-tuning and inference-only (no fine-tuning) methods. Cropped images of two sizes (50 mm3 and 75 mm3), centered at the treatment isocenter, in addition …

Microsoft launches new Windows features to help weave AI into regular Windows 11 PCs, including rolling out a "Hey, Copilot!" wake word and Copilot Vision (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799768/microsoft-windows-ai-copilot-…

Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it
Microsoft is bringing new AI features to all Windows 11 PCs. Copilot Voice and Copilot Vision are now rolling out to turn computers into AI PCs.

KI-Update kompakt: unfreundliches GPT-5, Meta, KI-Mutterinstinkte, Krebsvorsorge
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.…

STream3R: Scalable Sequential 3D Reconstruction with Causal Transformer
Yushi Lan, Yihang Luo, Fangzhou Hong, Shangchen Zhou, Honghua Chen, Zhaoyang Lyu, Shuai Yang, Bo Dai, Chen Change Loy, Xingang Pan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10893

STream3R: Scalable Sequential 3D Reconstruction with Causal Transformer
We present STream3R, a novel approach to 3D reconstruction that reformulates pointmap prediction as a decoder-only Transformer problem. Existing state-of-the-art methods for multi-view reconstruction either depend on expensive global optimization or rely on simplistic memory mechanisms that scale poorly with sequence length. In contrast, STream3R introduces an streaming framework that processes image sequences efficiently using causal attention, inspired by advances in modern language modeling.…

Smarter Staub: Wie millimetergroße Computer unsere Welt unbemerkt vermessen
"Smarter Staub" ist keine Science-Fiction mehr: Winzige Sensoren könnten in Zukunft unsere Umwelt unbemerkt überwachen.

DoorDash and Waymo announce a partnership to let DoorDash use Waymo's robotaxis for delivery, starting with deliveries from Phoenix's DashMart store (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/800455/waymo-doordash-autonomous-food-…

DoorDash will use Waymo’s robotaxis for delivery in Phoenix
Waymo is teaming up with DoorDash to use its driverless vehicles to delivery takeout orders to customers in Phoenix.

heise | Nextcloud Notes: Notizen schreiben und auf dem eigenen Server sichern
Notizen in der eigenen Cloud statt bei Google: Mit Nextcloud Hub und der App "Notes" behalten Sie Ihre Gedanken und Aufgaben in der eigenen Hand. So geht es.

YouTube's creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU's GDP in 2024 and supported 200K full-time equivalent jobs, according to advising firm Oxford Economics (David Wheeldon/YouTube Official Blog)
https://blog.youtube/inside-youtube/2025-youtube-europe-impact-…

New report explores YouTube's growing impact in Europe
YouTube’s creative ecosystem added over €7B to the EU’s GDP in 2024, while supporting over 200,000 jobs.

HyImpulse: Millionen für die geplante Weltraumrakete
Im Jahr 2027 will das deutsche Start-up HyImpulse eine Weltraumrakete starten. In einer ersten Finanzierungsrunde sind nun 45 Millionen Euro zusammengekommen.
https:…

A proposed class action lawsuit accuses Otter.ai of "deceptively and surreptitiously" recording private conversations to train its AI without user consent (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/15/g-s1-83087/otter-ai-transcription-class-…

EU-Drohnenabwehr soll bis Ende 2026 starten
Unter dem Eindruck russischer Luftraumverletzungen macht Brüssel Tempo bei der Drohnenabwehr. Ziel ist, ein mehrschichtiges Hightech-System.
https://www.…

Kraken acquires Small Exchange, a US-licensed futures exchange, from the IG Group, for $32.5M in cash and $67.5M in Kraken parent's Payward stock (Emily Nicolle/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-16/…

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Data Poisoning bei LLMs: Feste Zahl Gift-Dokumente reicht für Angriff

Intel's former CEO backs President Trump's proposed sovereign wealth fund to secure US leadership in quantum, AI, and chips and combat China's tech advances (Pat Gelsinger/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.…

RWE liefert Fracht mit autonomen Drohnen an Windkraftanlagen
Die Versorgung von Windkraftanlagen in Offshore-Windparks könne mit Drohnen schneller, kostengünstiger und umweltfreundlicher erfolgen, hat RWE herausgefunden.

heise | heise Expertentalk: Alles rund um iOS 26 & iPadOS 26
iPhones und iPads erhalten aktualisierte Betriebssysteme. Im Live-Talk beantwortet unser Experte Leo Becker Ihre Fragen rund um iOS 26 und iPadOS 26.
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OpenAI says all Sora 2 users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on the app and web, while Pro users can generate videos up to 25 seconds on the web (@openai)
https://x.com/openai/status/1978661828419822066

OpenAI (@OpenAI) on X
2 Sora 2 updates: - Storyboards are now available on web to Pro users - All users can now generate videos up to 15 seconds on app and web, Pro users up to 25 seconds on web

Mittwoch: AMDs KI-Chips auch für Oracle, smarter Blutdruckmesser mit Bildschirm
50.000 MI450-GPUs für Oracle Blutdruckmessgerät mit HD-Display GM-Verluste wegen E-Auto-Flaute Interview zu jugendlicher Mediensucht Googles Nano Banana

Finch, which offers a voice-based AI system to automate administrative tasks done by paralegals, raised a $20M Series A, source says at a $100M valuation (Rashi Shrivastava/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/the-prompt/2025/10/14/a-paralegals-ai-best-friend/…

A Paralegal’s AI Best Friend
Plus: Tech leaders propound the dead internet theory.

Gravitationswellen: Schwarzes Loch nach Kollision auf 180.000 km/h beschleunigt
Zehn Jahre nach dem ersten Nachweis von Gravitationswellen konnte erstmals ermittelt werden, auf welche Geschwindigkeit sich zwei Schwarze Löcher katapultieren.

Waymo plans to launch a fully driverless robotaxi service in London, starting in 2026, its first European launch; human-supervised cars will first collect data (Andrew J. Hawkins/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/799259/waymo-london-robotaxi-launch-2026…

Waymo’s robotaxis are coming to London
Waymo is launching a driverless robotaxi service in London in 2026. The news comes as the UK prepares for fully driverless vehicles.

Clearingstelle Urheberrecht: Gremium für Websperren setzt künftig auf die Justiz
Die private "Clearingstelle Urheberrecht im Internet" lässt fortan jede eigene Empfehlung für DNS-Sperren von Webseiten durch Gerichte im Einzelfall prüfen.

How Google's Jigsaw and longtime pollster Scott Rasmussen plan to use AI to survey Americans to find common ground ahead of the US' 250th anniversary (Richard Nieva/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/richardnieva/

Google And Pollster Scott Rasmussen Will Use AI To Survey Americans’ Political Views
A collaboration between the tech giant and a longtime pollster will gather five to 10 people each from every congressional district to answer questions about the nation’s most pressing issues. If it works, it could upend the fraught world of political polling.

Wegen Handyverbots: Schulen schaffen 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung ab
81 Schulen in Oregon schalten bei den Google-Konten ihrer 44.000 Schüler die 2-Faktor-Authentifizierung ab. Denn die dürfen ja kein Handy nutzen.

An interview with Sam Altman on spending billions on AI infrastructure, wanting Chrome if it's really selling, AI models saturating the chat use case, and more (Ina Fried/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/15/sam-altman-gpt5-launch-chatgpt-future
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Sam Altman: Never mind the launch mess — full speed ahead
After the GPT-5 furor, the OpenAI CEO is more determined than ever to build big and spend trillions.

Google-Mutter Alphabet ist erstmals 3 Billionen US-Dollar wert
Die Aktie des Google-Mutterkonzerns hat ein neues Rekordhoch erreicht – der US-Konzern durchbricht die Schallmauer von drei Billionen US-Dollar.
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Nur 5-prozentige Chance zu entkommen: KI lokalisiert feindliche U-Boote
Chinesische Forscher haben eine KI entwickelt, die Sensordaten aus der Unterwasserbeobachtung auswertet, um feindliche U-Boote aufzuspüren.

Apple and NBCUniversal announce an Apple TV and Peacock Premium bundle for $14.99 per month, a 30% discount over the individual subscriptions (Alex Weprin/The Hollywood Reporter)
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/…

Apple TV and Peacock Ink Extensive Streaming Bundle Deal
In addition to getting both services at a discount of more than 30 percent, Apple TV will add select Peacock programming, while Peacock will get selected Apple TV shows.

Samsung steht vor Massenfertigung des hauseigenen Chips für das Galaxy S26
Das nächste Samsung-Tophandy S26 soll mit einem 2-Nanometer-SoC auftrumpfen. Gelingt die Produktion im eigenen Haus, wäre das ein doppelter Erfolg.

Sources: Oracle is among a consortium of companies that would enable TikTok to continue US operations if a framework deal between the US and China is finalized (Jennifer Jacobs/CBS News)
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oracle-tiktok-deal-trump-administration-china/…

OWC stellt Thunderbolt-5-Dock mit zwei 10-Gigabit-Ethernet-Ports vor
OWC stellt sein erstes Thunderbolt-5-Dock mit zwei 10-Gigabit-Ethernet-Ports vor. Bündelt man die Anschlüsse, stehen bis zu 20 Gbit/s brutto zur Verfügung.
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Campfire, an AI-powered ERP and accounting services provider, raised a $65M Series B co-led by Accel and Ribbit Capital, after raising a $35M Series A in June (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)
https://news.crunchbase.com/venture/ai-fintech-campfire-raise-…

Why Accel Led A Round For Fintech Startup Campfire For The Second Time In Under 4 Months
Campfire, a San Francisco-based AI-powered accounting startup, has raised $65 million in a Series B round just months after closing on its Series A.

Intel-Gerüchte: Achtkern-CPU für Budget-PCs und Core Ultra X für Notebooks
Das Auslese-Tool CPU-Z gibt einen Ausblick auf neue Intel-Prozessoren. Für Budget-PCs könnte der Core Ultra 3 205 spannend werden.

Documents: Rhoda AI, which raised a $162.6M Series A in April, and Genesis AI, which raised a $105M seed earlier this year, have been developing humanoid robots (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025

Startups Rhoda AI And Genesis AI Are Building Humanoid Robots In Stealth
Flush with hundreds of millions of dollars in new funding, Rhoda AI and Genesis AI are developing humanoids they hope can go head-to-head with robots from Figure AI and Tesla.

#TGIQF: Das Quiz der Computerfehler
Wenn der Computer nicht so arbeiten will, wie er soll, wird es schnell stressig. Ein Quiz zu Computerburgs, Fehlermeldungen und Co.

How facial recognition software rejects people with facial differences, who number an estimated 100M worldwide, blocking them from accessing essential services (Matt Burgess/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/when-face-recognition-doesnt-know-your-face-is-…

When Face Recognition Doesn’t Know Your Face Is a Face
An estimated 100 million people live with facial differences. As face recognition tech becomes widespread, some say they’re getting blocked from accessing essential systems and services.

KI-Serverbetreiber fegen den Festplattenmarkt leer, SSDs könnten folgen
Serverbetreiber, die HDDs bestellen wollen, müssen ein Jahr warten. SSDs als Alternative für Cold Storage rücken in den Fokus.
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TSMC reports Q3 net profit up 39% YoY to ~$14.8B, beating est., after previously reporting a 30% rise in revenue, the latest sign of robust spending on AI chips (Debby Wu/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Energiehunger von KI-Rechenzentren: Sind die Stromnetze stabil genug?
Der Energiehunger von generativer KI ist weithin bekannt, neben dem Zubau von Kraftwerken müssen auch die Stromnetze die höhere Last aushalten.

Volksbanken öffnen sich für Bitcoin
Immer mehr Genossenschaftsbanken wollen Bitcoin & Co. anbieten – doch viele ihrer Kunden müssen noch warten. Wer schon bald Krypto handeln kann.
https://www.heise.…

The White House says representatives from Microsoft, Meta, Google, and other corporate donors to the $250M ballroom attended a dinner with President Trump (Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-…

Porno-Streit in Frankreich: Betreiber kassiert Schlappe
Frankreich verlangt zum Jugendschutz eine strenge Alterskontrolle. Nicht allen Betreibern von Pornoseiten passt das. Legt ein Gerichtsentscheid den Streit bei?
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Basis Theory, which provides data management and payments infrastructure tools, raised a $33M Series B led by Costanoa, taking its total funding to $50M (David Penn/Finovate)
https://finovate.com/data-privacy-management-software-provider-basis-…

Data Privacy Management Software Provider Basis Theory Secures $33 Million - Finovate
Data management innovator Basis Theory has secured $33 million in Series B funding.

heise | DJI-Alternative: Kameradrohne Potensic Atom 2 im Test
Man könnte meinen, DJI sei der einzige verbliebene Drohnenhersteller auf dem deutschen Markt. Doch mit Potensics Atom 2 gibt es eine Alternative.
https://…

Better Payment Network, a BNB Chain-based cross-border stablecoin payments network, raised a $50M seed led by YZi Labs, formerly known as Binance Labs (Timmy Shen/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/374874/yzi-labs-leads-50-million-round-better-…

Sichere Akkus: Lithium-Metall-Batterien mit integriertem Flammschutzmittel
Lithium-Metall-Batterien sind energiereich, können jedoch bei Überhitzung schnell in Brand geraten. Ein Polymer soll das verhindern.

The US FCC announces proceedings to potentially bar Hong Kong telecom HKT and its subsidiaries from accessing domestic US networks, citing its ties to China (Dylan Butts/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/16/us-block-h

FCC moves to expel one of Hong Kong’s largest telco companies from U.S. networks
The U.S. has taken steps to block one of Hong Kong’s largest phone companies from accessing the country's domestic telecom networks over national security concerns.

Astronomie: Erstmals Beginn einer Planetenentstehung beobachtet
Verschiedene Teile der Planetenentstehung wurden bereits beobachtet, der Beginn aber bislang nicht. Das hat sich jetzt geändert, dank zweier Observatorien.

Sources: some N26 investors seek to replace its co-CEOs after German regulator Bafin identified new deficiencies in the digital bank's internal controls (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-15/n26-…

Globales Abkommen gegen Plastikmüll vorerst gescheitert
Über das Problem sind sich alle einig: Plastikabfall vermüllt die Welt und ist eine Gefahr für den Menschen. Bei den Lösungen scheiden sich aber die Geister.
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Für alle, die beim Gedanken an Fahrschulkosten in Ohnmacht fallen: Es gibt Hoffnung! Ein Führerschein darf kein Luxusgut sein – das findet Bundesverkehrsminister Patrick Schnieder (CDU). 🚗💡
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10768279?wt_mc=sm.re

Amazon schedules its annual fall hardware event for September 30 in NYC, where it is expected to launch new Echo smart speakers and Kindle devices (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/778008/amazon-fall-hardware-event-…

Amazon announces its fall hardware event
The company will likely launch its latest Echo devices and new Kindles at the September 30th event.

Ein ewiges hin und her. 🔄 Beim dritten strategischen Dialog zur Zukunft der europäischen Automobilindustrie hat EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen neue Signale in der Debatte um das Verbrenner-Aus gesetzt. 🚗
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10643646?…

Apple AirPods Pro 3 review: significantly better fit, sound quality, noise cancellation, and battery life, but heart-rate monitoring is buried in fitness apps (David Carnoy/CNET)
https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/my-apple-airpods-pro-…

My Apple AirPods Pro 3 Review: Big Improvements, Same Price, No Compromises
They cost the same at a hefty $249, but Apple's third-generation noise-canceling earbuds have improved in all the key areas, including fit, noise cancellation, sound quality and battery life.

Uber will Robotaxi-Fahrten mit Baidu aus China bald weltweit vermitteln
Die Uber-App könnte künftig zur Robotaxi-App werden. Denn der Fahrdienstvermittler kooperiert mit Baidu und plant die Expansion autonomer Fahrten weltweit.

Unsichtbar war gestern – Neurodiversität & Female Empowerment in Tech
Im Online-Meetup sprechen wir am Montag, 18. August, darüber, wie vielfältige Perspektiven Technologie und Teams stärken.
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