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New Post: Proactive Defense: Iranian Cyber Threats and How to Push Back https://www.tarah.org/2025/08/13/proactive-defense-iranian-cyber-threats-and-how-to-push-back

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
…

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.

Who could have seen it coming that a whole country marches into supporting a genocide while claiming that genocide should happen “niemals wieder” (“never again”)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/13/german-media-outlets-israel-murder-journalists-gaza

My estimate would be a factor of 4 higher.
https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/08/14/7526204/

Trump estimates 25% chance of failure in meeting with Putin
US President Donald Trump predicts that his meeting with Kremlin leader Vladimir Putin has a 25% chance of failure.

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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Your blinds? What about 'em?

Modern US republicans.
(Original title: Standing Aside Athwart History)
https://leftycartoons.com/2025/07/12/standing-aside-athwart-history/

Standing Aside Athwart History
This cartoon is by me and Jenn Manley Lee. TRANSCRIPT OF CARTOON This cartoon has four panels. Each panel shows the same two characters, wealthy men, as they relax inside an exclusive country club.…

A look at MicroCo, a Hollywood startup aiming to tap into the micro drama craze, as Chinese apps gain US traction with millions of downloads, per Sensor Tower (Brooks Barnes/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/1…

A Hollywood Start-Up Targets the Micro Drama Craze
A new app will focus on super-short TV shows shot for phones, a bit like Quibi, an earlier app aimed at quick content.

britain nationalizing and privatizing steel production like a cat that's not sure if it wants to be in or not

Nova Scotia miniatures.
#Photography #NovaScotia

@… rarely misses, these days
Trump Takes Over SPD, No One Notices | The Needling
https://theneedling.com/2025/08/13/trump-take…

Trump Takes Over SPD, No One Notices
Although President Donald Trump made good today on this threat to take over the city via the Seattle Police Department, there seemed to be no obvious reaction from the community that did not appear…

I cannot stress enough how stupid and dangerous an idea this is. https://mastotut.cat/@LoDeivit/114685756943284819

Warum wird der :db_b: bahnchef denn jetzt entlassen? Der ist doch so gut, dass er millionen boni bekommt! Und die frauenquote hat er sogar überfüllt. #BahnBubble

Nun la, so überaschend kommt dies nun nicht und ist mMn sogar gut so. Mensch lernt sich so auch besser kennen.
»Überraschender Twist – Warum Firmen wieder zu klassischen Vorstellungsgesprächen einladen:
In den vergangenen Jahren sind Vorstellungsgespräche zunehmend per Videocall geführt worden. Jetzt steuern große Konzerne wie Cisco, McKinsey oder Google zurück und laden wieder zu persönlichen Gesprächen. Was das mit KI zu tun hat.«
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Überraschender Twist: Warum Firmen wieder zu klassischen Vorstellungsgesprächen einladen | t3n
In den vergangenen Jahren sind Vorstellungsgespräche zunehmend per Videocall geführt worden. Jetzt steuern große Konzerne wie Cisco, McKinsey oder Google zurück und laden wieder zu persönlichen Gesprächen. Was das mit KI zu tun hat. Virtuelle Vorstellungsgespräche sind in den vergangenen Jahren zur neuen Normalität bei der Jobsuche geworden – nicht zuletzt befeuert durch die Coronazeit. Damit […]

Zivilfahrzeug mit Blaulicht auf Dach und signalton verlässt den Parkplatz der örtlichen Polizei - dürfte also echt sein.
Nur eine Kleinigkeit: ich bin in Niedersachsen. Das polizeifahrzeug hat ein Münchner Kennzeichen.

Mein ganz persönlicher Blick auf die Blogkultur 2025. Ich schreibe für mich – und um gelesen zu werden. Doch viele Freunde und Babyboomer antworten lieber auf Facebook als hier im Blog. Also gehe ich den Spagat ein. Trotz Zuckerberg. #Blogwochen2025

Zwischen Blog, Facebook & Mastodon – Über Kommentare, Reichweite und Kompromisse
Mein ganz persönlicher Blick auf die Blogkultur 2025. Ich schreibe für mich – und um gelesen zu werden. Doch viele Freunde und Babyboomer antworten lieber auf Facebook als hier im Blog. Also gehe i…

Das heißt Krieg!
#SzenenEinerEhe #Handgemenge

Wholesale prices rose 0.9% in July, much more than expected (Jeff Cox/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/14/ppi-inflation-report-july-2025-.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p31#a250814p31

iPhone-17-Preiserhöhung: Ist es vielleicht gar keine?
Ein näherer Blick auf die iPhone-17-Preisgerüchte zeigt, dass Apple zwar ein Einsteigermodell killt, einen Preis aber sogar verbilligen könnte.
https://www.

David, Richard, and Will – 3 Recording Musicians #indiemusic #musician #unsignedmusician

David, Richard, and Will - 3 Recording Musicians
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The #IntraclusterLight of Abell 3667 - Unveiling an Optical Bridge in LSST Precursor Data: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade8f1 -> ‘Bridge’ of stray stars reveals active merger of two galaxy clusters: https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-08-05/galaxy-merger - in a preview of observations that will be made routinely by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers found evidence indicating that a galaxy cluster is merging, a first for a nearby (astronomically speaking) cluster.

Anna Lehmann hat den Serrao bei #Lanz so in Grund und Boden diskutiert: Großartig.

This is lovely, SwiftUI for Windows and Linux:
https://swiftcrossui.dev

Glad that someone informed me that my side project https://busrouter.sg is featured on CNA Insider's Singapore Hour "The Unseen Side of Singapore’s Bus System", under the chapter "Woodlands Bus Depot: The Eyes and Ears of Singapore’s Bus System" (04:08)

How river otters' terrible food hygiene benefits ecosystem health monitoring
https://phys.org/news/2025-08-river-otters-terrible-food-hygiene.html

In case I know anyone here who's familiar with the finer details of DNS and particularly DNS amplification attacks and their mitigations, I have some questions.

I don’t want to dwell •too• much on the shadenfreude of Trump’s pitiful parade, but I do think it’s worth just taking this in:
Trump’s political success has always hinged on him knowing how to be a reality TV star, knowing better than the news orgs themselves that political “news” is in fact reality TV, knowing how to manipulate that reality TV show.
And today, he failed at that completely. His reality show sucked. The news of the day just ran right over him. https://kolektiva.social/@Voline/114685755430626127

Cool, Neuralink might soon be able to read passwords from your brain - what could possibly go wrong? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/science/brain-neuroscience-computers-speech.html NYT: For some patients, the 'inner voice' may soon be audi…

For Some Patients, the ‘Inner Voice’ May Soon Be Audible
In a recent study, scientists successfully decoded not only the words people tried to say but the words they merely imagined saying.

well matured commonplace book notes, tech safety and loudspeakers and hopefulness etc. https://lbj20.blogspot.com/2025/05/notes-tech-safety-loudspeakers.html HT @…

I'm back! This morning was fun, I did a 7.6 mile ride on the borrowed ebike, and almost the entire ride was without pedal assist. I kicked it in for the hills (about 6 in total) but the majority of the ride was pedal powered.
Using the assist just for hills is doable. It's a bit more work but that's okay. It's probably the same amount of work I would do on my lighter Trek.
Average speed was pretty close to what I would get on the non-powered Trek.

“The statistics are brutal. Fascist takeovers prevented after winning power democratically: zero. Average length of fascist rule once established: 31 years. Fascist regimes removed by voting: zero. Fascist regimes removed by asking nicely: zero. Most were removed by war or military coups, and tens of millions died in the process.”

We live in a fascist nation. What now?
Once they win elections, it’s already too late.

“[Rubio’s] priorities speak volumes: financing Israel genocide on Palestine, torturing Cuba, going after health care services for those who need them most,”
Diplomat Johana Tablada.
USA can't tolerate Cuba's good example of free health care nor its international solidarity.
US sanctions Brazil health officials over Cuba’s overseas medical missions | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

US sanctions Brazil health officials over Cuba’s overseas medical missions
Washington claims the health officials were involved in Cuba’s ‘coercive labour export’ of medical workers.

Cheers from @… @… 🥳
https://2025.evoke.eu/events/copper-sh

Copper Showdown
Compete in a Live Showdown with other participants and bring something interesting on screen in 30 minutes

JP « Le Pad » Tremblay, "Montagne" (2021)
https://jplepadtremblay.bandcamp.com/track/montagne
The Flatlanders, "Rose From the Mountain" (1972)

I feel like there's a rule: the more expensive a piece of software is per seat, the worse the UI/UX/artwork is.
Random free mobile game? Probably looks really good (it has to, the art is what sells it so you watch the ads/buy powerups/whatever).
$100K /seat EDA tools? Parts of it are probably still using Motif.

A deep dive on Big Tech's AI energy boom as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google become major players, leading to fears that individuals' and SMBs' rates may rise (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/business/energy-en…

Big Tech’s A.I. Boom Is Reordering the U.S. Power Grid
Electricity rates for individuals and small businesses could rise sharply as Amazon, Google, Microsoft and other technology companies build data centers and expand into the energy business.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Trumps anti-woke-Verordnung: Meta arbeitet mit rechtem Influencer

Infinite Woof to bark at the AI scrappers
:aneodog_talk: https://blicky.net/woof

Btw, there's absolutely no reason why these types of sites should take longer than a second or so to interactivity on a current-ish computer with reasonable internet connection; especially with a primed cache.

A look at anti-Trump podcast MeidasTouch, one of the few left-leaning video podcasts that at times dethrones Joe Rogan's top position on YouTube rankings (Bobby Allyn/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/08/14/nx-s1-5493541/meidastouch-rogan-trump-podcast-vide…

iOS 18.6.1 und watchOS 11.6.1 sind da: Für iPhone und Apple Watch verfügbar
Wie erwartet hat der iPhone-Hersteller in der Nacht zum Freitag Betriebssystemupdates für Handys und Computeruhren publiziert. Es geht um einen Patentstreit.

Good morning!

Freue mich, dass ich für die nächste #Breitband-Sendung was dazu sagen kann, dass der Bundestags-#Digitalausschuss auch weiterhin nicht öffentlich tagt, sozusagen aus Perspektive der Opposition, obwohl ich da gar nicht mehr und auch absehbar nicht mehr Referentin bin.

"Trump's federalization of the Metropolitan Police Department has a 30-day limit unless Congress extends it — and the president indicated on Wednesday he'll push for a "long-term extension" in a crime bill that'll initially concern D.C. but will serve as a roadmap for other cities."
DC 24/7 federal patrols start: Religious leaders slam Trump crime crackdown
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/trump-dc-national-guard-police-religous-leaders-photos

Mr. President, Stop Coddling Putin (Nicholas Kristof/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/opinion/trump-putin-summit-ukraine.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250813/p99#a250813p99

If you enjoy the sound of #saxophone played well, check out the new album from Richard Davies - here's my review - along with 2 other #UnsignedMusicians

David, Richard, and Will - 3 Recording Musicians
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

If I were a cynic I'd just start some AI-company with a fancy website and big promises hoping to get bought up in tech's brainless acquisition spree.

So nämlich.
#SzenenEinerEhe #Handgemenge

How Wall Street is embracing crypto, spurred in part by political opportunism, as some executives fear the rush may risk the safety of personal bank accounts (Rob Copeland/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/13/business/wall-street-banks-cryp…

Behind Wall Street’s Abrupt Flip on Crypto
The reversal risks declawing a century of consumer financial protections and replacing the backbone of bank accounts.

Intel: USA prüfen angeblich Staatsbeteiligung, Aktienkurs zieht weiter an
Nach dem Treffen von Donald Trump mit Intel-Chef Lip-Bu Tan hat die US-Regierung angeblich begonnen, einen staatlichen Einstieg zu prüfen. Die Aktie steigt.

Just fwiw, Bluesky, also not a speeding cheetah, loads in under 3 seconds from a cold cache.
I found myself occasionally not posting on Mastodon because of this.
I hope this gets fixed, it's a real problem.

Cohere hires Joelle Pineau, who previously led Meta's FAIR lab, as chief AI officer, to oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product, and policy teams (Maxwell Zeff/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/14/cohe

Cohere hires long-time Meta research head Joelle Pineau as its chief AI officer | TechCrunch
Cohere has hired Joelle Pineau, Meta's former VP of AI research who previously oversaw the tech giant's fundamental AI research (FAIR) lab. In her newly created Chief AI Officer role, Pineau will oversee AI strategy across Cohere's research, product and policy teams.

Paramount's streaming head Cindy Holland says streaming movies are "not a priority", as CEO David Ellison says debate on value of theatrical releases is "over" (Matt Donnelly/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/film/news/par

Streaming Movies ‘Not a Priority’ at Paramount-Skydance
The new leadership team at Skydance's Paramount clarified their position on streaming and theatrically released films.

Live-Webinar: Apple-Gerätemanagement mit Microsoft Intune
Intune für das Mobile Device Management von iPhones, iPads & Macs – unser Experte zeigt Tipps und Tricks, wo Grenzen liegen und wie Sie Stolperfallen meistern.

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI in der Medizin: Ärzte verlieren wohl schnell Fähigkeiten bei Krebsvorsorge

GOP populists plot to repeatedly bypass Mike Johnson (Andrew Solender/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/mike-johnson-jeffrey-epstein-stock-trading
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p136#a250814p136

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
https://flip.it/yo5WBE

Writer and translator Neige Sinno on understanding the power of your creative work – The Creative Independent
Writer and translator Neige Sinno discusses the narrative form as an act of resistance, unexpected turns in a creative career, and believing in what you've built

the new version of mastodon takes more than 10 seconds to load in my browser
it's a text box and two columns of mostly text

The US NSF and Nvidia partner to fund the Open Multimodal Infrastructure to Accelerate Science project, led by Ai2; NSF is contributing $75M and Nvidia $77M (Kyt Dotson/SiliconANGLE)
https://siliconangle.com/2025/08/14/nsf-nvidi…

NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE
NSF and Nvidia partner develop fully open AI models to lead US science innovation - SiliconANGLE

Berliner Steuerfahnder nehmen Influencer in den Blick
Influencer bewerben zahlreiche Produkte in sozialen Medien – und zahlen dafür womöglich keine Steuern. Nun sind sie deshalb im Visier der Behörden.
https://www.

Russia and Ukraine Agree: A Trump Summit Is a Big Win for Putin (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/14/world/europe/trump-putin-alaska-summit.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250814/p134#a250814p134

"CarPlay-Todeszone" verwirrt Fahrer in Boston
Autofahrende melden, dass es in Boston Gegenden gibt, in denen die iPhone-Fahrzeugunterstützung versagt. Betroffen ist wohl auch Android Auto.
https://www.

Easter – an improvised poem #improv #poem https://muz4now.com/2023/easter-an-improvised-poem…

Easter - an improvised poem
Stan Stewart - @muz4now

The thing about “the plebs” using ChatGPT for writing for personal stuff is—it’s irrelevant as they would not pay for it.
They’re using it because they already don’t give a shit about their writing and assign no value to it.

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.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Was Whatsapp und Signal trotz Verschlüsselung verraten
htt…

From back when billionaires didn’t try to make sand racist

Trump wants to use traffic stops to target undocumented immigrants (April Rubin/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/14/trump-immigration-traffic-stops-police
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p27#a250815p27

Apple Watch Ultra 3: Endlich wieder Topmodell?
Viele Freunde von Apples Spitzenuhr waren im vergangenen Jahr enttäuscht. Nun sieht einiges danach aus, dass die Ultra 3 für die Wartezeit entschädigt.
https://www.

Studie: Streaming-Boom flacht ab – YouTube stark
Für die Streaminganbieter sind die Jahre des riesigen Wachstums offensichtlich vorbei. Das ältere Publikum wird jetzt als Zielgruppe attraktiver.
https://www.

JD.com reports Q2 revenue up 22% YoY to $49.7B, above $46.8B est., and net income down 50% YoY to ~$846M, benefiting from government-directed consumer subsidies (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-14/jd-…

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
KI in der Medizin: Ärzte verlieren wohl schnell Fähigkeiten bei Krebsvorsorge

US consumer sentiment weakens in August; inflation expectations rise (Lucia Mutikani/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-consumer-sentiment-weakens-august-inflation-expectations-rise-2025-08-15/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p47#a250815p47

AIM Intelligent Machines, which retrofits heavy construction equipment to operate autonomously, raised $50M from Khosla Ventures, General Catalyst, and others (Rachyl Jones/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/10/2025/co…

Construction tech startup AIM raises $50M to fuel expansion
The firm that retrofits heavy equipment into autonomous machines, backed by Khosla Ventures and General Catalyst, can help fill the construction industry’s huge labor gap and growing infrastructure demand.

"Schwein Gehabt": Sparkasse kündigt "Fortnite"-Horrorspiel an
Die Sparkasse hat im Kreativmodus von "Fortnite" ein Horrorspiel entwickeln lassen, in dem ein Sparschwein einem schlachtungswilligen Kind entfliehen muss.

Shopify CEO Tobi Lutke, Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, and 80 fintech and crypto CEOs urge Trump to block US banks from charging fees to access customer data (Paige Smith/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025…

Google-KI Gemini erinnert sich nun automatisch an vergangene Chatbot-Gespräche
Der KI-Chatbot Googles schaltet sein Erinnerungsvermögen selbst ein, aber das kann auch deaktiviert werden. Für geheime Gespräche gibt es temporäre Chats.

Milan-based Bending Spoons raised €500M in debt led by JPMorgan Chase to buy more software businesses; the company raised $155M at a $2.6B valuation in 2024 (Mark Bergen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

Für Grok & Co.: Pentagon verspricht KI-Firmen hunderte Millionen US-Dollar
Das Pentagon hat gleich mit vier KI-Firmen Verträge abgeschlossen, um deren Technik nutzen und testen zu können. Geld gibt es dabei auch für Grok 4 von xAI.

Cohere raised $500M led by Radical and Inovia at a $6.8B valuation, up from $5.5B in 2024, and has doubled its ARR to $100M since the start of 2025 (George Hammond/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/a54fdc4e-dab1-4b50-bcf5-db949c680265

Ray-Ban Meta-Brille versteht und spricht jetzt Deutsch
Der KI-Assistent der Ray-Ban Meta-Brille ist nun auf Deutsch verfügbar. Das gilt auch für die bald erscheinende Oakley Meta-Brille.
https://www.

A recent UK AI Security Institute study found that LLMs from OpenAI, Meta, xAI, and Alibaba can shift users' political views in under 10 minutes of conversation (Melissa Heikkilä/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/31e528b3-9800-4743-af0a-f5c3b80032d0

Teleclinic in Bayern: Gericht stoppt Teile des Angebots – Berufung angekündigt
Das Sozialgericht München untersagt Teleclinic zentrale Angebote in Bayern – das Urteil ist noch nicht rechtskräftig. Der Anbieter will in Berufung gehen.

Companies, including Google and Cisco, have reinstated in-person interviews for some roles to combat AI-driven cheating, with some using deepfake detection tech (Ray A. Smith/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/ai-j

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dank Ausbau und günstigem Wetter: Solarenergie erstmals vorne im Strommix der EU

An internal Meta doc shows its chatbots were allowed to engage in provocative conversations; Meta removed some examples, including romantic roleplay with kids (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/meta-ai-chatbot-guidelines…

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Umgang mit Conni-Memes im Internet: Zweite Klarstellung des Carlsen-Verlags

Arkham Intelligence: SpaceX now holds 8,285 bitcoin, valued at ~$1.02B, down from 28,000 bitcoin worth $1.8B in April 2021 after cutting its holdings in 2022 (Danny Park/The Block)
https://www.theblock.co/post/366874/spacex-bitcoin-holdings-exceed-1-billion

Münchner Polizei überwacht mit mobilen Videotürmen
Sechs Meter hoch und mit drei Kameras – an Schwerpunkten der Kriminalität sollen die neuen Anlagen mehr Sicherheit bringen.
https://www.…

Google announces Gemma 3 270M, a compact model designed for task-specific fine-tuning with strong capabilities in instruction following and text structuring (Google Developers Blog)
https://developers.googleblog.com/en/introducing-gemma-3-270m/

Introducing Gemma 3 270M: The compact model for hyper-efficient AI- Google Developers Blog
Explore Gemma 3 270M, a compact, energy-efficient AI model for task-specific fine-tuning, offering strong instruction-following and production-ready quantization.

Umgang mit Conni-Memes im Internet: Zweite Klarstellung des Carlsen-Verlags
Dank KI-Bildgeneratoren werden in sozialen Netzen Memes unter Bezug auf die Kinderbuchfigur Conni verbreitet. Der Verlag hat sich dazu geäußert.

Klarna reports Q2 revenue up 25% YoY to $823M with a net loss of $53M, up from a net loss of $18M in Q2 2024, as it prepares for a second attempt at a US IPO (Akila Quinio/Financial Times)

Nächste Übernahme: Meta kauft Stimmengenerator PlayAI
PlayAI ist ein Startup für das Generieren von KI-Stimmen. Künftig gehört das Unternehmen samt Belegschaft zu Meta.
https://www.heise…

Kryptowährung klauen ist legal? 😳
Das OLG Braunschweig hat in einem Urteil entschieden, dass die unbefugte Übertragung von Kryptowährungen nicht unter das deutsche Strafrecht fällt.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10484771?wt_mc=sm.re

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Abschied bis Herbst: Dänisches Digitalministerium kehrt Microsoft den Rücken

China approves Synopsys' acquisition of simulation software company Ansys, after the US lifted restrictions on chip design software sales to China (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-grants-conditional-approval-syno…

Datenleck bei McDonald's und der für Einstellungen beauftragten KI-Firma Paradox
McDonald's nutzt einen KI-Chatbot für Einstellungsgespräche, doch die dabei gesammelten Daten waren kaum geschützt. Sicherheitsforscher fanden einfach Zugriff.

A look at 10 AI agent startups from YC's first-ever spring Demo Day; the batch included 144 companies, 70 of which focused on agentic AI (Samantha Stokes/Business Insider)
https://africa.businessinsider.com/new

The 10 most exciting AI agent startups at Y Combinator's Demo Day for its first-ever spring cohort
Christmas came early for Y Combinator

Waymo temporarily limits service in SF, Austin, and Atlanta, and stops service in LA, as US cities prepare for protests against federal immigration policies (Aarian Marshall/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/ahead-of-protests-waymo-adjusts…

Ahead of Protests, Waymo Scales Back Robotaxi Service Nationwide
A week after five robot cars were burned in Los Angeles, the Google sister company isn’t taking risks.

The Ultra Ethernet Consortium, whose members include AMD, Cisco, HPE, and Intel, publishes the 1.0 specification for enhancing Ethernet standards for AI and HPC (Sean Michael Kerner/Network World)
https://www.networkworld.com/ar…

Ultra Ethernet Consortium publishes 1.0 specification, readies Ethernet for HPC, AI
The UEC 1.0 specification includes a modern RDMA approach, new transport protocols, and congestion control mechanisms designed for AI and HPC requirements.