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CS grads struggle to land jobs as tech companies lay off workers and embrace AI; CS majors face a 6.1% unemployment rate in the US among grads aged 22 to 27 (Natasha Singer/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/technol

Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age
As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

I think some people forget that physical security is also cybersecurity.
Postman, engineer, cleaner: Are hackers sneaking into your office?
https://www.euronews.com/business/2025/08/10/postman-engineer-cleaner-are-hackers-sneak…

Cyber security: Would you pay someone to break into your office?
Do you really know who’s coming into your office building? “If you're wearing a uniform, people don't really question you,” security expert Daniel Dilks told Euronews.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Linux: Debian 13 kommt als Trixie
https://www.heise…

Beeld dat de wereld raakt.
#Gaza

Beeld dat de wereld raakt. Hoe foto’s de publieke opinie kunnen kantelen
Fotografie: Het beeld van de achttien maanden oude, graatmagere Muhammad in Gaza schokte de wereld. Waar tot begin 20ste eeuw woorden de publieke opinie beroerden, zijn dat nu foto’s. Hoe dragen beelden bij aan de meningsvorming?

Im zug 2 Leute mit chipkarte. Statt d-Ticket ist berlinAB aufgebaut. Schaffnerin sagt, nur Schaffner können das auslesen. Wirklich? Gibt es keine nfc-Software für Linux, Windows, Android, iOS die das d-ticket auslesen kann? @jon@gruene.social @marudor@chaos.social #bahnbubble

UK would rather arrest almost 500 people rather than admit or cease its complicity in Israel’s genocide of the Palestinian people.
So I guess the next step is a 5,000-person protest.
They arrest 5,000? Time for 50,000.
Overwhelm the system until the system stops committing genocide.

UK police arrest at least 466 people at Palestine Action protest in London
Critics say ban on activist group stifles freedom of speech and assembly and aims to curb pro-Palestine demonstrations.

More than half of industries are already shedding workers,
a ‘telling’ sign that’s accompanied past recessions, top economist says
https://fortune.com/2025/08/10/recession-warning-economic-outlook-industry-job-losses-employment-…

More than half of industries are already shedding workers, a ‘telling’ sign that’s accompanied past recessions, top economist says
"Things could still turn around if the economic policies weighing on the economy soon lift. But that looks increasingly unlikely."

「SubwayTooterはいいぞ……」
そう言い残すと男は塵となって消えた

Nieuw in de supermarkt: advertentieruimte. ‘De marges daarop zijn zóveel hoger’ - #NRC
https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2025/08/08/nieuw…

Sing with me in the tune of “The Internet is for porn”:
🎶The LLM is for scam🎵

Just is now in debian stable 🥳
https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

TFW, you find an old SD card but can't remember whats on it, so you put it in your computer and it transports you to another world...
#Greenland #KalaallitNunaat

Ein dickes Danke geht für die Anregungen für meine heutige #Predigt (siehe https://bildung.social/@ebinger/114982822065266838) an
@…

"Wir können nicht zu allen nett sein, schon gar nicht zu denen, die sich auf unserem Rücken einen überdurchschnittlichen Wohlstand aufbauen, in dem sie Regeln und Gesetze brechen."
https://zackzack.at/2025/08/08/durchschnittlicher-als-der-durchschnitt

https://github.com/WordPress/wordpress-playground/

GitHub - WordPress/wordpress-playground: Run WordPress in the browser via WebAssembly PHP
Run WordPress in the browser via WebAssembly PHP. Contribute to WordPress/wordpress-playground development by creating an account on GitHub.

Und wie nerdig ist eure Fediverse-Instanz?

One of my most valued possessions:

Pro-Ukraine partisans sabotage railways in Russia's Volgograd, occupied Crimea, group claims: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/proukraine-partisans-sabotage-railways-in.html

Elecciones en Bolivia: a 10 días de la votación -Tupaj Garcia – NODAL
https://www.nodal.am/2025/08/elecciones-en-bolivia-a-10-dias-de-la-votacion-tupaj-garcia/

Elecciones en Bolivia: a 10 días de la votación -Tupaj Garcia – NODAL
NODAL - Noticias de América Latina y el Caribe

Lovely piece, and why I often take small hotel rooms in cities: so I'm forced out to go explore. I especially love this line: "I understood how a metropolis allows you to be solitary without being lonely." People who don't live in cities don't get this.
https://www.nytim…

Opinion | The Paris Métro Smell That Transports Me
A whiff of the Paris Métro flings me back to a summer I spent in France.

Trying to decide between going with a budget ebike around $1,000 or a better model from a local shop that would be double that price.
The cheaper one is definitely within my budget, while the other option is quite a bit more that I’d like to spend…
Hoping to commute to work, 7 miles each way, both could handle that easily…
#biking

This weekend, it was Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Flooding after up to 350 mm (14 inches) of rain within 24 hours. Way more than a used-to-be-1-in-1000-years event.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange

Heavy Rains in Wisconsin Lead to Flooding and Early Closure of State Fair
Record-setting rainfall caused intense flooding in and around the Milwaukee area starting on Saturday night.

« On fait des safaris dans nos jardins ! » : l’art de saisir l’infiniment petit
https://www.lemonde.fr/series-d-ete/article/2025/08/10/on-fait-des-safaris-dans-nos-jardins-l-art-de-saisir-l-in…

« On fait des safaris dans nos jardins ! » : l’art de saisir l’infiniment petit
« La photo animalière amateur sort les griffes » (4/7). Les membres de l’association Camera Natura s’essayent à la macrophotographie, permettant de saisir des sujets de petite taille, dans la Vienne. Une manière de lutter contre l’anxiété liée à la disparition du vivant.

Im zug 2 Leute mit chipkarte. Statt d-Ticket ist berlinAB aufgebaut. Schaffnerin sagt, nur Schaffner können das auslesen. Wirklich? Gibt es keine nfc-Software für Linux, Windows, Android, iOS die das d-ticket auslesen kann? @jon@gruene.social @marudor@chaos.social #bahnbubble

There Is a Specter Haunting Trump's Economy: Stagflation (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/opinion/stagflation-trump-economy.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p1#a250810p1

Q&A with OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap on GPT-5, its dynamic reasoning, defining AGI, scaling vs. post-training, hallucinations, enterprise adoption, and more (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.

OpenAI COO Brad Lightcap: GPT-5's Capabilities, Why It Matters, and Where AI Goes Next
A conversation about what OpenAI's long-anticipated flagship model tells us about different forms intelligence and AI's trajectory from here.

Die Zahlen sprechen eine klare Sprache: Windows 10 erlebt ein unerwartetes Comeback! 📊 Obwohl Microsoft seit Monaten mit aller Kraft versucht, Nutzer zum Umstieg auf Windows 11 zu bewegen, zeigt sich ein überraschender Trend.
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-106…

Among college graduates ages 22-27, computer science and computer engineering majors face unemployment rates of 6.1% and 7.5%, respectively, over double the unemployment rate among recent biology and art history graduates, which is just 3%.
Goodbye, $165,000 Tech Jobs. Student Coders Seek Work at Chipotle
https://www.…

Computer Science Grads Struggle to Find Jobs in the A.I. Age
As companies like Amazon and Microsoft lay off workers and embrace A.I. coding tools, computer science graduates say they’re struggling to land tech jobs.

Petition to rename the United Kingdom “Pound Store United States”. https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115003927188139242

ここはフォローしなくても全然成立する空間ではあるんですが、つながりたい人もいるんで、この話は、そういう場合にどうしたらいいのかなってことが切っ掛けです。
fedibird.comは、全文検索かなり強いサーバなので、探せることは探せると思うんですけど、
双方向の関係、仲良しとか、同じ考え方の人、など関係性を考えるタイプの人にとっては、フォローするって段階で慎重になるっていうのはあると思うんです。
私は、この人の投稿を継続的に見たい、という理由でフォローすれば良いと考えているので、そのへんは全然気にしてないのですが ＼(^o^)／
なんとなく会話して、感じのいい人だなとか、話していて楽しそうだな、ぐらいまでいけるといいんですけど、そういうのはないですからね。
リプライは少し慎重になると思うので、いいなと思った投稿に、絵文字リアクションするのが大事かな。何か反応があると、相手も、その人のことが気になります。ブーストなんかもそうですね。
自分の考え方とか好きなもの、ライフスタイルのわかる投稿をちょこちょこしてる人じ…

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says
the 2020 election wasn’t stolen,
tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market
and Barack Obama is seen favorably

New chatbot on Trump’s Truth Social platform keeps contradicting him 
An “answer engine” on Trump’s social media site says the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, tariffs aren’t boosting the stock market and Barack Obama is seen favorably.

Finally set up a firewall rule to block devices in my network that don’t need Internet access from trying to phone home.
My TV or soundbar categorically don’t need to access the Internet.

The Quiet Technocrat Who Enacts Putin’s Ruthless Agenda.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/world/europe/putin-russia-ukraine-war-sergei-kiriyenko.html?unlocked_article_…

The Russian Technocrat Who Helps Enable Putin and Manage the Ukraine War
For three years, Sergei V. Kiriyenko has handled the political aspects of the war in Ukraine, rising among a cadre of skilled managers who oversee the sprawling Russian state.

Germany ready to buy US Patriot systems for Ukraine, Merz says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/germany-ready-to-buy-us.html

Das geheime Wissen der Tiere
https://www.ardmediathek.de/tv-programm/68667f4cd188e339ab9e3d85
Hopelijk ook achteraf terig te kijken, maar interessante uitzending over hoe dankzij een satellieten en zenderen van een beperkt aantal dieren inzicht ontstaat in de…

How Starmer, Macron and Merz Tried To Halt the War in Gaza (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/10/world/europe/gaza-europe-peace-plan-trump-netanyahu.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250810/p2#a250810p2

CB Insights: the number of AI unicorns reached 498 with a combined value of $2.7T, 100 founded since 2023, and over 1,300 AI startups valued above $100M (Robert Frank/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/10/ai-artificial-intelligence-billionaires-wealth.html…

AI is creating new billionaires at a record pace
With time, and IPOs, many of today's private AI fortunes will eventually become more liquid, providing a historic opportunity for wealth management firms

Biometrie per WLAN: Signalstörungen erlauben Personenerkennung und Überwachung
Italienische Forscher haben ein Verfahren entwickelt, um Menschen allein anhand der Verzerrungen eines WLAN-Signals zu identifizieren. Kameras sind nicht nötig.

This is what a genocide denialist looks like.
Genocide denial is the last stage of genocide.
Phil, you’re complicit in genocide. And history is taking notes.
***
“Hamada Ice Cream shop, which has not been open for weeks, recently posted a highlight reel of the pastries, cakes and drinks the cafe once served.
‘Me and 2 million Gazans are waiting for this moment Oh God, make things easy and these days pass safely, O Lord,’ reads the video’s Arabic caption.”
…

私は30年ぐらいMac中心でやってますが、あらためて話す機会・きっかけって、あんまりないですねえ。 #fedibird

Eighty years ago, on Aug. 6, 1945, a B-29 bomber named the Enola Gay took off from Tinian Island, in the Northern Mariana Islands,
for a mission that its flight crew knew would make history
‘My teeth told me’:
What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
https://www.washingtonpost.co…

‘My teeth told me’: What it was like aboard the Enola Gay
Eighty years ago, a group of B-29 bombers flew a world-altering mission. Here are memories of the crew.

One for the scientists:
You should only use tools and processes on your data that you completely understand.
LLMs are—by design—black boxes being trained to create algorithms that are so complex that it is strictly impossible to understand them.
Therefore they are incompatible with handling data (such transforming data or generating synthetic data) for scientific research.

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/11/u-s-government-seized-1-million-from-russian-ransomware-gang/

US government seized $1M from Russian ransomware gang | TechCrunch
A global law enforcement coalition targeted the infrastructure of the group behind the Royal and BlackSuit ransomware strains, allegedly responsible for extorting victims out of $370 million since 2022.

Zelensky considers Defense Minister Rustem Umerov for ambassador post in US: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/10/zelensky-considers-defense-minister-rustem.html

Capitalism / market economy in the US.... "In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government."
https://www.

U.S. Government to Take Cut of Nvidia and AMD A.I. Chip Sales to China
In a highly unusual arrangement with President Trump, the companies are expected to kick 15 percent of what they make in China to the U.S. government.

Bloomwell-Gründer: Cannabis-Pläne sind "Rückschritt in die analoge Steinzeit"
Künftig will das BMG den von Karl Lauterbach begrüßten Versand von medizinischem Cannabis wieder verbieten. Bei Anbietern und Patienten wächst die Sorge.

Sources: Apple is testing upgraded App Intents with Uber, Temu, Amazon, YouTube, WhatsApp, and other apps to transform Siri into a true voice-first interface (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/newsletters

フォロー、何をきっかけにするのがいいんでしょうねえ。 #fedibird

The worst unsolved problem in computer science when you have a folder of TV episodes and all episodes of the season are off by one

Circle the Continental Divide, Wyoming

The drive: On the 480-mile loop, join the club of adventurers who have crossed the Continental Divide not once but twice
— at the scenic Togwotee Pass and the point between Grand Teton and Yellowstone national parks.
After traversing the natural landmark,
you still have hundreds of miles to explore.
On the Wind River Indian Reservation, cue up the TravelStorys audio tour
and spend a night in a furnished tepee owned and o…

8 scenic road trips to explore America this summer
Volcanoes, lakes and oceans await for those willing to take a scenic U.S. road trip.

Not a good day for news about digital tech jobs.
Coding bootcamps have been a mainstay in Silicon Valley for more than a decade. Now, as AI eliminates the kind of entry-level roles for which they trained people, they’re disappearing.
https://www.reuters.com…

Missing Link: Zehn Jahre Landesverrat – Blogger im Zentrum einer Staatsaffäre
Sie enttarnten Geheimdienstpläne und wurden gejagt. Ein Blick auf den Kampf um das Fundament der Pressefreiheit und Staatsgeheimnisse mit zehn Jahren Abstand.

Investors are increasingly divesting from companies they fear are at risk of AI disruption, like Wix and Shutterstock, which are down at least 30% in 2025 (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-09/traders-ar…

:are_ha_uso_da:

Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Die Stimme von "Houston, we’ve had a problem" ist verstummt

Cynicism among reporters is a useful cipher for
the fear, desperation and impotence that news industry norms do not allow them,
but it has a dangerous side-effect:
it dulls outrage.
Without outrage,
crimes such as apartheid, ethnic cleansing and genocide
can continue uninterrupted
– and they have.

AI startups like Anthropic and OpenAI are ramping up efforts to recruit quant researchers from Wall Street firms, offering competitive pay and benefits (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-08-08/open-ai-…

Etwas mehr der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Dobrindt will mehr digitale Ermittlungsbefugnisse: CCC & Co. protestieren massiv
…

:ureteralstone: こわい

Source: StubHub now aims to hold its IPO in September after pausing plans in April; it updated its IPO prospectus, reporting Q1 revenue up 10% YoY to $397.6M (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/11/stubhub-ipo-back-on-for-september-a…

StubHub IPO is back on for September after ticketing company delayed plans on tariff concerns
StubHub updated its IPO prospectus on Monday, effectively restarting the process to go public.

Trump and his officials are waging a war on electricity infrastructure.
This campaign is primarily driven by their opposition to the solar and wind farms that they associate with their foils, the Democrats.
Even as electricity has clearly become more important to the economy
— and even as the country’s biggest technology firms strive to secure any spare electron for their new metropolis-size data centers
— Trump and his team have begun a regulatory coup to smother n…

Opinion | Trump Is Destroying the Future of America to Own the Libs
Smothering electric vehicles might have been a regrettable mistake for a Republican to make 10 years ago. Today, it is economic idiocy.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Missing Link: Zehn Jahre Landesverrat – Blogger im Zentrum einer Staatsaffäre

Mastodon / Fediverseは、Twitter / X よりずっと、マイクロブログとしての性質が強いように思います。
Twitter / Xはアテンションエコノミーの性質が強く、多くの人の注目・関心を引き寄せることを意識させられ、また投稿できる文字数が限られているので、短く、より強く印象づける言葉を選び、投稿に至る背景や考えの説明を省く傾向が強いように感じます。
Mastodon / Fediverseでは、注目や関心を強化する仕組みが抑制的に設計されており、絶対人数の少なさや分散の構造的問題もあって、それにあまり効果がなく、またより多くの文字数が使えるので、落ち着いて、自身の言いたいことを、背景や考えを含めて丁寧に記述する傾向が強いように感じます。
利用者が多くデファクトスタンダードで歴史の長いTwitter / Xの方が、そうした中でもしっかりと考えを述べることができ、知識や経験を備えている投稿者の絶対人数も多いのですが、その一方でその相対的な人数は少なくなっていて、
Mastodon / Fediverseは、絶…

Bo Hines, the head of the White House Presidential Council of Advisers for Digital Assets, says he is stepping down and returning to the private sector (Hadriana Lowenkron/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…

Starting this week in the U.S., Instagram rolled out a new map view, which you access at the top of the direct-message inbox.
The map, confusingly, combines two forms of location sharing:
First, it includes locations you have actively tagged in recent Instagram stories or posts.
Second, the app nudges you to opt in to a new form of passive location sharing
— letting friends see wherever you last opened the app,
even just to scroll through it.

Many users…

Instagram Map lets your friends, and possibly exes, track your every move
A guide to how Instagram is now sharing your location and how to stop it.

Neuer Rekord-Diebstahl: Bitcoin-Beute ist heute 14,5 Milliarden US-Dollar wert
Ein chinesischer Mining-Pool wurde Opfer des größten bisher bekannten Bitcoin-Klaus. Erst fünf Jahre später wird das bekannt.

Palantir wehrt sich: Datenabfluss "technisch ausgeschlossen"
Sollten deutsche Polizeien eine Datenanalyse-Software aus den USA nutzen? Kritiker warnen vor Datenabfluss. Jetzt kontert Palantir.
https://w…

ひとのいない時間に長文流しておくよ。ﾊﾊﾊﾊ

AOL is discontinuing its dial-up internet service on September 30; it was launched in 1991 and reportedly had subscribers "in the low thousands" in 2021 (Stevie Bonifield/PC Gamer)
https://www.pcgamer.com/gaming-industry/ao

AOL discontinues its dial-up internet, and we're just surprised they even offered it in 2025
Dial-up's days are numbered, after 34 years of service.

The latest Los Angeles protest march against Donald Trump's aggressive deportation arrests
took off from the city's MacArthur Park uneventfully on Friday night,
which is just as well for journalists
In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death
-- Will Bunch
htt…

In L.A., police nightsticks are clubbing press freedom to death
On Friday, LAPD cops allegedly battered and detained journalists at a protest — the ugliest of the many threats to U.S. press freedom.

KI-Branche fürchtet größte jemals zugelassene US-Sammelklage zum Copyright
KI-Verbände appellieren an ein US-Berufungsgericht, eine Sammelklage wegen Copyright-Verstößen zu stoppen. Drei Autoren könnten die Industrie ruinieren.

Sources: SoftBank has selected banks for a potential US IPO of its payments app operator PayPay, which may raise over $2B and could take place as soon as Q4 (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/finance/softbank-selects-…

If Republicans succeed in pulling off an aggressively partisan gerrymander of congressional districts in Texas,
they will owe the Supreme Court a debt of gratitude.
In the two decades Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. has led the Supreme Court,
And the justices have reshaped American elections not just by letting state lawmakers like those in Texas draw voting maps warped by politics,
but also by gutting the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and amplifying the role of money in…

In Election Cases, Supreme Court Keeps Removing Guardrails
The justices, having effectively blessed partisan gerrymandering, may be poised to eliminate the remaining pillar of the Voting Rights Act.

Datenschutz: Psychologen gegen geplante Weitergabe sensibler Daten an Behörden
Erste Bundesländer wie Hessen planen die Weitergabe sensibler Patientendaten. Experten warnen vor Stigmatisierung und Vertrauensverlust.
…

Rumble says it plans to acquire German AI cloud group Northern Data in an all-stock deal; estimates show the deal could be valued at $1.17B (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/business/rumble-considers-near-12-billion-offe…

KI-Chips für China: AMD und Nvidia beteiligen US-Regierung an den Einnahmen
Vorige Woche hat die US-Regierung erste Genehmigungen für den Export von Nvidia-GPUs nach China vergeben. Im Gegenzug gibt es eine Gewinnbeteiligung.

iPhone 17 event tidbits: the new MagSafe battery is iPhone Air exclusive, the Air likely uses binned A19 Pro chips, and older AirPods will get Live Translation (Dan Moren/Six Colors)
https://sixcolors.com/post/2025/09/a-few-details-apple-di…

A few details Apple didn’t mention during its “awe-dropping” event
Apple crams a lot into its keynotes, but almost as notable is what it chooses not to talk about. Having had some time after today’s “awe-dropping” event announcing the iPhone 17 l…

heise | heise Update vom 11. Juli 2025: Lesetipps fürs Wochenende
Der wöchentliche Newsletter von heise dieses Mal mit Glasfasertarifen, Open-Source-Clouds, WSUS-Alternativen, Stalkerware enttarnen und überfülltem Erdorbit

Sources: Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan is set to meet Trump on Monday to propose ways the US and Intel could work together, show his commitment to the US, and more (Lauren Thomas/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/intel-ceo-singled-out-by-tru…

iX-Redakteurin Madeleine Domogalla zeigt in ihrem Kommentar ein Paradoxon auf dem IT-Arbeitsmarkt: Während überall von Fachkräftemangel die Rede ist, verschwinden ausgerechnet die Einstiegspositionen. 💻
Zum Kommentar: https://heise.de/-10636341?wt_mc=sm.re

GPT-5's release was underwhelming, offering incremental improvements and failing to meet expectations, showing that pure scaling simply isn't the path to AGI (Gary Marcus/Marcus on AI)
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-overdue-overhyped-and-underwhel…

GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble

Nostalgie Pur: Neues "Star Wars"-Spiel bringt digitale Spielsets auf die Quest 3
"Star Wars: Beyond Victory" bietet auf der Meta Quest 3 eine neue Geschichte, digitale Actionfiguren und Diorama-Welten samt holografischer Rennstrecken.

Viture Luma: Neue Display-Brillen bieten bis zu 173 Zoll Bildschirmdiagonale
Ab Juli kommen vier neue Modelle der Viture-Luma-Serie auf den Markt. Wir klären, wie sich die Smart Glasses mit Schwerpunkt Medienwiedergabe unterscheiden.

Doomer predictions of a rapid, monopolistic AGI were wrong, as recent AI model releases resemble a Goldilocks scenario with competitive, specialized models (David Sacks/@davidsacks)
https://x.com/davidsacks/status/1954244614304739360

David Sacks (@DavidSacks) on X
A BEST CASE SCENARIO FOR AI? The Doomer narratives were wrong. Predicated on a “rapid take-off” to AGI, they predicted that the leading AI model would use its intelligence to self-improve, leaving others in the dust, and quickly achieving a godlike superintelligence. Instead, we

heise | Entspannt surfen: Zen-Browser vereint Arc und Firefox
Zen ist ein quelloffener Browser, der von Firefox abstammt und sich von Arc inspirieren ließ. Was macht Zen besser als die starken Konkurrenten?
https:…

Microsoft launches Copilot 3D, a free AI-powered tool allowing users to transform 2D images into 3D models without a text prompt, available in Copilot Labs (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/hands-on/756587/microsoft-copilot-3d-feature-hands-on

Microsoft’s new Copilot 3D feature is great for Ikea, bad for my dog
Microsoft has created a new Copilot 3D feature. It converts 2D images into 3D models that can be used for 3D printing or in 3D editing software.

"Oblivion Remastered": Erster Patch für Performance-Probleme ist da
Über zwei Monate nach dem Release von "Oblivion Remastered" gibt es nun einen Patch, der die mangelhafte Performance verbessern soll.

Sources: Chinese officials have urged the Trump administration to relax HBM chip export controls during trade talks, after the Biden administration ban in 2024 (Demetri Sevastopulo/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/19442dba-c724-4825-9388-26219a12cb8a

Mehr Geld, mehr Schutz vor KI: US-Synchronsprecher stimmen neuem Vertrag zu
Nach monatelangen Streiks haben sich die Mitglieder der US-Gewerkschaft SAG-AFTRA auf einen neuen Vertrag geeinigt. Synchronsprecher werden vor KI geschützt.

How AI is upending the music industry in Latin America, as artists push back against a flood of AI-generated music on Spotify, Deezer, and YouTube Music (Laura Rodríguez Salamanca/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-music-spotify-deezer-latin-america/

Latin American musicians say AI is stealing their streams
Musicians from Chile to Mexico say bots are stealing streams, siphoning income, and shortening the lifespan of songs. Even Bad Bunny isn’t safe.

Nicht nur für Pixel und Galaxy Watch: Google bringt Gemini auf Smartwatches
Google verpasst Smartwatches mit Wear OS den hauseigenen KI-Assistenten Gemini. Der Google Assistant fliegt damit raus. 

Trade experts: Nvidia and AMD's deal to export AI chips to China and pay the US 15% of revenue is "unprecedented" and a sign of "a new and dangerous world" (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Malaysian startup Zetrix unveils NurAI, a chatbot for Muslims built using similar techniques to DeepSeek's V3, and plans AI avatars of Islamic scholars (Saritha Rai/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-0…

USA vergeben erste Genehmigungen für Export von Nvidia-GPUs nach China
Nach einem weiteren Treffen zwischen Trump und Huang dürfen H20-Chips exportiert werden. Der Schwarzmarkt für KI-Beschleuniger floriert derweil.

Urlaub auf Teneriffa kann teuer werden - besonders wenn man seine Drohne ohne Genehmigung fliegen lässt! 🚨
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-10513317?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodo…

GrapheneOS veröffentlicht Android 16 im Stable-Kanal
Das datensparsame GrapheneOS steht als Stable-Version auf Basis von Android 16 zur Installation für Pixel-Geräte bereit. Einfach hatten es die Entwickler nicht.
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heise | Von giftig zu fruchtbar: Wie Forscher die Mars-Landwirtschaft starten wollen
Sollen Menschen den Mars besiedeln, muss Nahrung angebaut werden. Doch wie lässt sich trockener, giftiger Boden zum Leben erwecken?

3I/ATLAS: Interstellarer Komet ist wohl deutlich älter als das Sonnensystem
Anderthalb Wochen nach seiner Entdeckung gibt es Hinweise auf Herkunft sowie Alter des interstellaren Kometen 3I/ATLAS – und Vorhersagen zur Zusammensetzung.

China entdeckt riesige Lithium-Lagerstätte
China hat eine große Lithium-Lagerstätte entdeckt und plant deren Ausbeutung. Die Dominanz Chinas auf dem Markt für Elektroauto-Batterien könnte weiter wachsen.
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