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heise | Home Assistant: Interview über Erfolg, KI-Code und das nächste Feature
Franck Nijhof leitet die Home-Assistant-Entwicklung bei der Open Home Foundation. Im Interview erzählt er, welche Neuerungen Nutzer 2025 noch erwarten.

Meta launches a centralized support hub for Facebook and Instagram, with AI-powered search and an AI assistant to answer queries, on its iOS and Android apps (Sarah Perez/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/12/04/meta-centrali…

Meta centralizes Facebook and Instagram support, tests AI support assistant | TechCrunch
The new support hub will connect users to security tools, account recovery options, and an AI assistant.

Postdoc in the Spatial Data Science and GeoCommunication group at @…
https://jobs.univie.ac.at/job/University-Assistant-postdocto…

My department at California State University Northridge is hiring! We're looking for a new colleague studying microbiology or molecular/cellular biology. I'm not on the search committee, but happy to answer questions about the department and campus, and life in LA

🚨Job Alert!🚨Faculty position in #Geochemistry at University of Delaware. Stable isotopes, environmental, critical #minerals, carbon sequestration. #geosciences ⚒️🧪

Assistant/Associate Professor of Church History
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Fuller Theological Seminary School of Mission and Theology Tenure-Track Faculty Series Position…
via Input 4 RELCFP htt…

Homey Pro Mini: Universalzentrale fürs Smart Home startet für 250 Euro
Die LG-Firma Athom bringt eine neue Fertiglösung für die Smart-Home-Steuerung, die ähnlich flexibel wie aber weniger kompliziert als Home Assistant sein soll.

Amazon rolls out Alexa on the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, letting Alexa Early Access users request obscure information or complex recommendations (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/813102/amazon-music-alexa-plus-ai-integration

Amazon is building Alexa Plus into its Music app
The AI assistant can make nuanced song recommendations and build you a vibe-based playlist.

Boah ey, ich glaube ich gehe mett.
Seit Monaten nehme ich mir vor meinen alten Raspi 3 durch einen 5er zu ersetzen.
Bisher macht der nicht viel außer piHole DNS blocking.
Der Plan war nun unter anderem Home Assistant zu installieren.
Warum? Weil ich diverses ioT Gedöns habe, von diversen Herstellern. Ich hätte das aber gerne mit nur einer App steuerbar.
Gleichzeitig will ich den Pi noch für andere Dinge nutzen,z.B. TimeMachine für Mac Backups, LUKS-Verschlüsselte Ne…

Google Maps plans to replace Assistant with Gemini on Android and iOS, giving users a "hands-free, conversational driving experience", in the "coming weeks" (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/11/05/google-maps-gemini-navigation/

Google Maps gets Gemini for conversational navigation & traffic reporting on Android, iOS
In Google Maps, Gemini already exists in place listings, and it’s now coming to the navigation experience on Android and iOS.

Meta is to use the conversations users have with its AI assistant – both voice and text – to provide even-more personalised advertising.
Meanwhile Wikipedia opens up to more AI innovation
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/ai/meta-to-use-ai-chat…

Meta to use AI chats for targeted advertising
Meta, the company behind Facebook, is to use the conversations users have with its AI assistant – both voice and text – to provide even-more ...

I learnt this week that one of our research department secretaries* has been caught up in the round of redundancies in the state that has also affected DMI.
She's looking for other positions, so if you're looking for an efficient, friendly and experienced administrative helper, give me a shout and I'll pass on her details
*Secretary or admin assistant seems a very weak description of what is in fact a highly skilled job.

Meet Ziada Kassimu: a medical assistant doctor and climate activist in Tanzania working to empower women and girls through the REPower Afrika campaign. #climatechange #climatesolutions #climate

REpower Afrika: Ziada Kassimu
“Working with 350.org has been a joy, as it's not about words: it's about action. 350 takes action on moving communities away from fossil fuels, impacting their livelihoods and giving them opportunities to grow and speak for themselves”

STC/Asst. HC Darren Rizzi ahead of Week 10 vs. Raiders: 'We've got to play a clean game' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/stc-asst-hc-darren-rizzi-ahead-of-week-10-vs-raiders-we-ve-got-to-play-a-clean-game

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

Instacart launches an AI shopping assistant as part of its white-label e-commerce service, which powers the online shopping sites for some grocery chains (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-04/instacart-…

Assistant/Associate Professor of Church History
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Fuller Theological Seminary School of Mission and Theology Tenure-Track Faculty Series Position…
via Input 4 RELCFP htt…

Amazon rolls out Alexa on the Amazon Music app on iOS and Android, letting Alexa Early Access users request obscure information or complex recommendations (Jess Weatherbed/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/813102/amazon-music-alexa-plus-ai-integration

Amazon is building Alexa Plus into its Music app
The AI assistant can make nuanced song recommendations and build you a vibe-based playlist.

Using GPT to build a Project Management assistant for Jira environments
Joel Garcia-Escribano, Arkaitz Carbajo, Mikel Ega\~na Aranguren, Unai Lopez-Novoa
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.26014

Using GPT to build a Project Management assistant for Jira environments
In the domain of Project Management, the sheer volume of data is a challenge that project managers continually have to deal with. Effectively steering projects from inception to completion requires handling of diverse information streams, including timelines, budgetary considerations, and task dependencies. To navigate this data-driven landscape with precision and agility, project managers must rely on efficient and sophisticated tools. These tools have become essential, as they enable project …

Stanford names Washington Commanders assistant Tavita Pritchard as head coach https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6845960/2025/11/28/stanford-head-coach-tavita-pritchard-washington-commanders-comman/

Ex-financier indicted on sex trafficking charges along with former personal assistant | Financial Post
https://financialpost.com/pmn/ex-financier-indicted-on-sex-trafficking-charges-along-with-former-personal-assistant

Google Assistant: Nur noch wenige Monate auf Smartphones
Google hat dem Google Assistant ein Ablaufdatum auf Smartphones verpasst. Ab März 2026 ist Schluss, danach gibt es nur noch Gemini.
https://www.

getting very bad vibes from the 'neo' personal assistant robot being mostly remote controlled by minimum wage workers in silicon valley, which will inevitably be outsourced to india. you can pay 500 USD/month to own a digital slave.
the idea is an 'ai' robot which just does household things for you like chores and no one is being exploited since it's a robot, but in reality it's just a remote controlled slave. the exploitation is simply hidden, more abstract, l…

STC/Asst. HC Darren Rizzi on S Devon Key: 'He's playing at a Pro Bowl, All-Pro type of level' https://www.denverbroncos.com/video/stc-asst-hc-darren-rizzi-on-s-devon-key-he-s-playing-at-a-pro-bowl-all-pro-type…

A First Look at Privacy Risks of Android Task-executable Voice Assistant Applications
Shidong Pan, Yikai Ge, Xiaoyu Sun
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23680 https://

A First Look at Privacy Risks of Android Task-executable Voice Assistant Applications
With the development of foundation AI technologies, task-executable voice assistants (VAs) have become more popular, enhancing user convenience and expanding device functionality. Android task-executable VAs are applications that are capable of understanding complex tasks and performing corresponding operations. Given their prevalence and great autonomy, there is no existing work examine the privacy risks within the voice assistants from the task-execution pattern in a holistic manner. To fill …

from my link log —
Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12337
saved 2025-09-17 https://dotat.at/:/7EVGI.html…

Determination of the fifth Busy Beaver value
We prove that $S(5) = 47,176,870$ using the Coq proof assistant. The Busy Beaver value $S(n)$ is the maximum number of steps that an $n$-state 2-symbol Turing machine can perform from the all-zero tape before halting, and $S$ was historically introduced by Tibor Radó in 1962 as one of the simplest examples of an uncomputable function. The proof enumerates $181,385,789$ Turing machines with 5 states and, for each machine, decides whether it halts or not. Our result marks the first determination…

Micro1, which helps AI labs find experts for data annotation, says it has crossed $100M in annualized revenue and fielded investment offers at a $2.5B valuation (Anna Tong/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/annatong/2025

This 24 Year Old Built A Multibillion-Dollar AI Training Empire In Eight Months
Ali Ansari’s decision to turn micro1’s AI recruitment assistant into a data labeling business spiked the company’s valuation from $80 million to $2.5 billion.

Picked up the Home Assistant addon project again. Notes:
- Home Assistant was evidently designed by a committee of crackheads.
- Nothing works like it logically should: not the UI, not the backend.
- Physical directories do not correspond to paths in the application: /www/community/something/somefile.js is called /hacsfiles/something/somefile.js when you're adding it as a resource.
- I fucking hate json.
- AAAAAAAAAAAAA
- stab stab stab
- deep breath <…

heise | Kampf gegen Schimmel: So kann Home Assistant helfen
Messen, rechnen, handeln: Mit Home Assistant und passenden Sensoren lassen sich leicht Automationen erstellen, mit denen Sie Schimmelbildung zuvorkommen.
h…

FERA: Foil Fencing Referee Assistant Using Pose-Based Multi-Label Move Recognition and Rule Reasoning
Ziwen Chen, Zhong Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.18527 https://

FERA: Foil Fencing Referee Assistant Using Pose-Based Multi-Label Move Recognition and Rule Reasoning
The sport of fencing, like many other sports, faces challenges in refereeing: subjective calls, human errors, bias, and limited availability in practice environments. We present FERA (Fencing Referee Assistant), a prototype AI referee for foil fencing which integrates pose-based multi-label action recognition and rule-based reasoning. FERA extracts 2D joint positions from video, normalizes them, computes a 101-dimensional kinematic feature set, and applies a Transformer for multi-label move and…

🚨Job Alert!!🚨Assistant Professor - Mineral Science - University of Houston, Texas. High-temperature #geochemistry, #Mineralogy, igneous #petrology, and/or

Assistant Professor - Mineral Science - Houston, Texas, United States
Department: Earth & Atmospheric Sciences Salary: Commensurate with experience Description: The Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS) at the University of Houston (UH) invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in the broad field of Mineral Science. Applicants with experience in high-temperature geochemistry, mineralogy, igneous petrology, and/or metamorphic petrology are encouraged to apply. EAS seeks candidates who utilize multi-scale field, laboratory and/…

Apple is nearing a deal with Google that would see the iPhone maker pay the tech giant roughly
$1 billion a year for a custom version of Google’s Gemini AI model
to power its overhaul of Siri.
The move is a big one for Apple,
which has traditionally relied on its own technology
but plans to use Google’s model as a temporary solution until its own AI becomes powerful enough,
including to power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.
The…

Apple nears deal to pay Google $1B annually to power new Siri, report says | TechCrunch
Apple is turning to Google's technology to help revamp Siri and power a slate of upcoming features for the voice assistant.

Deterministic software was a good idea. We should go back to it. https://hachyderm.io/@jbcrawford/115551027203380125

Apparently, I am the 279ᵗʰ most followed person in the Mastodon. Cat propaganda works!!
🐱 https://most-followed-mastodon-accounts.stefanhayden.com/?page=6

Assistant/Associate Professor of Church History
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Fuller Theological Seminary School of Mission and Theology Tenure-Track Faculty Series Position…
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Neuer Wiederherstellungsassistant in macOS 26
Wie schon iPhone und iPad sollen sich nun auch Macs quasi selbst heilen können. Bei Startproblemen hilft ein neuer "Recovery Assistant":
https://www.

AI-driven formative assessment and adaptive learning in data-science education: Evaluating an LLM-powered virtual teaching assistant
Fadjimata I Anaroua, Qing Li, Yan Tang, Hong P. Liu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.20369

AI-driven formative assessment and adaptive learning in data-science education: Evaluating an LLM-powered virtual teaching assistant
This paper presents VITA (Virtual Teaching Assistants), an adaptive distributed learning (ADL) platform that embeds a large language model (LLM)-powered chatbot (BotCaptain) to provide dialogic support, interoperable analytics, and integrity-aware assessment for workforce preparation in data science. The platform couples context-aware conversational tutoring with formative-assessment patterns designed to promote reflective reasoning. The paper describes an end-to-end data pipeline that transfor…

Coworker is using a multi-billion-dollar coding assistant to read regression-test error messages back to them
... error messages that I wrote specifically so that they could be interpreted by a non-expert, including suggestions about "what to do if you see this message"
so now they're bragging about how they're "increasing efficiency with AI tools" and SOMEHOW IT'S MY FAULT AND I'M NOT GETTING THE CREDIT AT THE SAME TIME
*ahem*
anyw…

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 Low-Temperature and/or Environmental #Geochemistry - Missouri State Univ #geology
https://jobs.missouristate.edu/posti…

Assistant Professor (Geochemistry) -9 month appointment
The School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability (SEES) invites applications for a tenure-track Geochemistry faculty position at the rank of Assistant Professor to begin August 2026 with expertise in Low-Temperature and/or Environmental Geochemistry. A Ph.D. in Geology or a closely related field is required at the time of appointment. The successful applicant will teach introductory geology general education courses, undergraduate and graduate courses in Geochemistry and the selected candid…

One Agent to Serve All: a Lite-Adaptive Stylized AI Assistant for Millions of Multi-Style Official Accounts
Xingyu Fan, Feifei Li, Wenhui Que, Hailong Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17788

One Agent to Serve All: a Lite-Adaptive Stylized AI Assistant for Millions of Multi-Style Official Accounts
Conversational agents deployed in industrial-scale official account platforms must generate responses that are both contextually grounded and stylistically aligned-requirements that existing methods struggle to meet. Chain-of-thought (CoT) prompting induces significant latency due to multi-turn reasoning; per-account fine-tuning is computationally prohibitive; and long prompt-based methods degrade the model's ability to grasp injected context and style. In this paper, we propose WeStar, a lite-…

Doc: Amazon's Q Business AI assistant struggled with accuracy and data processing in its first year, drawing complaints; Amazon says the document is outdated (Eugene Kim/Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-q-significan…

Amazon internal review found its AI tool Q fell 'significantly' behind rivals on accuracy in its first year
Amazon's AI productivity tool Q Business faced significant accuracy challenges in its first year, leading to customer complaints and service updates.

I finally finished my home server tonight. I got Home assistant, Music assistant, Portainer and linkwarden running self hosted. That means that I fully migrated everyting from a hosted server = I can save some money AND move my domain name to proton instead of having a net cube hosted somewhere else.Even managed to use a funnel via tailscale to get to the linkwarden instance so I can use the plug-ins in my browsers from outside my LAN. No certs, no reverse proxy... I'm satisfied with my …

Series B, Episode 04 - Horizon
AVON: Shut up, Orac.
[Throne room. Selma, now in a blue dress, stands beside Ro, who is seated on his throne. Blake is escorted in by Assistant]
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/204/507 B7B2

Google adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782500/google-gemini-ai-assistant-smart-tv-tcl

Gemini is coming to Google TV starting today
TCL’s QM9K series TVs will be the first to offer Gemini on Google TV, with more devices getting it later this year.

I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.”
— by @…
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I think nobody wants AI in Firefox, Mozilla
Mozilla is developing a built‑in AI assistant for Firefox that will be offered as a third browsing mode alongside Normal and Private tabs. They’re calling it “Window AI.” Details are still scarce.

I must say... :)
Meetily is the bees knees for transcribing online meetings where you cannot use the native transcription
https://meetily.ai/

Vision AI Assistant: a progressive web app (PWA) for AI scene description, runs on e.g. Android smartphones and iPhones http://visionaiassistant.com
More info at

Google unveils Gemini for Home, replacing Assistant on smart speakers with new voice options and improved conversational skills, and a redesigned Home app (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2025/10/01/gemini-for-home-app-launch/

This is Gemini for Home and the redesigned Home app, rollout starts today 
Gemini for Home does more than just replace Google Assistant on smart speakers and displays. Featuring a rebuilt Home architecture...

AI-Driven Self-Evolving Software: A Promising Path Toward Software Automation
Liyi Cai, Yijie Ren, Yitong Zhang, Jia Li
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00591 https://

AI-Driven Self-Evolving Software: A Promising Path Toward Software Automation
Software automation has long been a central goal of software engineering, striving for software development that proceeds without human intervention. Recent efforts have leveraged Artificial Intelligence (AI) to advance software automation with notable progress. However, current AI functions primarily as assistants to human developers, leaving software development still dependent on explicit human intervention. This raises a fundamental question: Can AI move beyond its role as an assistant to b…

Argh. Ungefähr sieben unterschiedliche IoT-Dinge sind plötzlich nicht mehr im Netz/werden von Home Assistant nicht mehr erkannt. Andere der selben Kategorie schon Ich befürchte, ich weiß, womit ich morgen Zeit verbringen werde.

Raiders fire yet another assistant coach on offensive side of the ball https://www.sportingnews.com/us/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/news/raiders-fire-yet-another-assistant-coach-offensive-side-ball/86c5d24a79…

MICA: Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant
Di Wen, Kunyu Peng, Junwei Zheng, Yufan Chen, Yitain Shi, Jiale Wei, Ruiping Liu, Kailun Yang, Rainer Stiefelhagen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.15237

MICA: Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant
Industrial workflows demand adaptive and trustworthy assistance that can operate under limited computing, connectivity, and strict privacy constraints. In this work, we present MICA (Multi-Agent Industrial Coordination Assistant), a perception-grounded and speech-interactive system that delivers real-time guidance for assembly, troubleshooting, part queries, and maintenance. MICA coordinates five role-specialized language agents, audited by a safety checker, to ensure accurate and compliant sup…

The people who tried to overturn the 2020 election have more power than ever – and they plan to use it.
Bolstered by the president,
they have prominent roles in key parts of the federal government.
🔸Harmeet Dhillon, a lawyer who helped advance Donald Trump’s claims of a stolen election in 2020, now leads the civil rights division of the justice department.
An election denier, 🔸Heather Honey, now serves as the deputy assistant secretary for election integrity in the …

ByteDance launches an AI voice assistant powered by its Doubao LLM, available first on ZTE's Nubia M153 smartphone prototype; Doubao has an estimated 159M MAUs (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/bytedance-rolls-out-ai-…

Things that Google Assistant (opted out of AI) has added to our grocery list recently:
★ hi (instead of hydrocortisone cream)
★ lunch (instead of lunch meat)
★ aqua 4 (instead of aquaphor)
All things that have been easily understood for ten years by Google Assistant but now, for mysterious reasons, is no longer working consistently

Android Auto: Gemini ersetzt den Google Assistant
Google ersetzt den Google Assistant durch den neuen KI-Assistenten Gemini. Erste Nutzer können die Funktion bereits verwenden.
https://www.hei…

Assistant/Associate Professor of Church History
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Fuller Theological Seminary School of Mission and Theology Tenure-Track Faculty Series Position…
via Input 4 RELCFP htt…

🚨Job Alert!!🚨Assistant Professor position at University of Wyoming in Structural #Geology and/or Tectonics ⚒️

heise | Finanzdaten in Home Assistant: So tracken Sie Aktien, ETFs und Kryptos
Mal schnell das Portfolio checken: Wir zeigen, wie Sie Yahoo Finance mit Home Assistant verknüpfen und die Kurse all ihrer Anlagen ins Dashboard bringen.

Chiefs assistant says President Donald Trump 'has no idea what's going on' with NFL's new kickoff rules

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/preside

Reparatur: macOS Tahoe bekommt Kalibrierungsassistenten für Ersatzteile
Apple hat auf dem iPhone bereits einen Repair Assistant parat, mit dem sich Komponenten mit dem System verdongeln lassen. Das kommt nun für den Mac.

Perplexity debuts Email Assistant for Gmail and Outlook, which can manage inboxes, schedule meetings, and more, for subscribers of its $200/month Max plan (Zac Bowden/Windows Central)
https://www.

Perplexity launches AI email assistant that can manage your Outlook or Gmail inbox for you — but it will cost $200 a month
Perplexity's $200 subscription is gaining a new feature that lets it manage your inbox by drafting replies to threads, scheduling meetings, and labeling emails using a new AI email assistant.

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
https://ift.tt/C34mFRL
Phillips Theological Seminary seeks a scholar of the Hebrew Bible for a tenure-trackposition at the…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

heise | KI in Home Assistant: C3PO-Wetterbericht und Mülltonnenerkennung einbauen
Mit KI wird das Haus nicht nur smart, sondern intelligent: Die KI analysiert etwa Bilder oder erstellt kreative Benachrichtigungen.

Fallout continues as Raiders fire another offensive coach after Chip Kelly ouster https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/raiders/2025/11/24/raiders-fire-senior-offensive-assistant-coa…

🚨Job Alert! 🚨 "University of Georgia invites applications for two tenure-track positions at the Assistant or Associate Professor level with a focus on critical mineral resources. We especially seek applicants in the areas of #Economic #Geology and in

Hallucination-Resistant, Domain-Specific Research Assistant with Self-Evaluation and Vector-Grounded Retrieval
Vivek Bhavsar, Joseph Ereifej, Aravanan Gurusami
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.02326

Hallucination-Resistant, Domain-Specific Research Assistant with Self-Evaluation and Vector-Grounded Retrieval
Large language models accelerate literature synthesis but can hallucinate and mis-cite, limiting their usefulness in expert workflows. We present RA-FSM (Research Assistant - Finite State Machine), a modular GPT-based research assistant that wraps generation in a finite-state control loop: Relevance -> Confidence -> Knowledge. The system is grounded in vector retrieval and a deterministic citation pipeline. The controller filters out-of-scope queries, scores answerability, decomposes questions,…

A GPU-Accelerated RAG-Based Telegram Assistant for Supporting Parallel Processing Students
Guy Tel-Zur
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.11947 https://arxiv.org/p…

A GPU-Accelerated RAG-Based Telegram Assistant for Supporting Parallel Processing Students
This project addresses a critical pedagogical need: offering students continuous, on-demand academic assistance beyond conventional reception hours. I present a domain-specific Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system powered by a quantized Mistral-7B Instruct model and deployed as a Telegram bot. The assistant enhances learning by delivering real-time, personalized responses aligned with the "Introduction to Parallel Processing" course materials. GPU acceleration significantly improves infe…

Microsoft has committed $33B to neocloud providers; sources: its $19.4B Nebius deal will provide computing power for creating LLMs and a consumer AI assistant (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-0…

heise | Akkus und Batterien: Ladestände von smarten Geräten in Home Assistant verwalten
Viele Geräte im Smart Home benötigen Batterien oder Akkus. Mit Home Assistant muss man sich nie wieder um niedrige Ladestände Sorgen machen.

Evaluating SAP Joule for Code Generation
Joshua Heisler, Johannes Reisinger, Andreas Fischer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.24828 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2509.24…

Evaluating SAP Joule for Code Generation
SAP has released its own proprietary generative model SAP Joule, intended for various generative tasks, including serving as a code assistant for software engineers. While Joule is yet not focused on SAP-specific ABAP code generation, it can be used for other common languages, including Javascript. This paper compares SAP Joules Javascript coding capabilities against a total of 29 other models using the HumanEval-X Javascript benchmark. SAP Joule achieves a strict accuracy of 80.49% as the fift…

Around 31,000 registered nurses and front-line healthcare workers at Kaiser Permanente are on strike,
demanding better wages, working hours, and proper staffing.
The strike began on Tuesday, Oct 14, and spans hundreds of medical centers and offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaii.
Calling in from the picket line in Portland, Oregon, Registered Nurse First Assistant (RNFA) and Executive Secretary of the Oregon Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals (OFNHP) Nick …

31,000 healthcare workers are on strike at Kaiser Permanente—and more may be joining soon
The strike began on Tuesday, Oct. 14, and spans hundreds of medical centers and offices in California, Oregon, and Hawaii. Calling in from the picket line, we speak with striking Registered Nurse First Assistant Nick Eng.

Towards an AI-based knowledge assistant for goat farmers based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Nana Han, Dong Liu, Tomas Norton
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.09848 https://

Towards an AI-based knowledge assistant for goat farmers based on Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly being recognised as valuable knowledge communication tools in many industries. However, their application in livestock farming remains limited, being constrained by several factors not least the availability, diversity and complexity of knowledge sources. This study introduces an intelligent knowledge assistant system designed to support health management in farmed goats. Leveraging the Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), two structured knowledge …

Chiefs assistant says President Donald Trump 'has no idea what's going on' with NFL's new kickoff rules

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/preside

Paramount Skydance Names Makan Delrahim, formerly head of the DOJ's antitrust division during President Trump's first term, as chief legal officer (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/biz/news/paramount-skydance-makan-de…

Paramount Skydance Names Makan Delrahim Chief Legal Officer
Paramount Skydance announced the appointment of Makan Delrahim, formerly an assistant attorney general overseeing the DOJ's antitrust division, as chief legal officer.

Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible
https://ift.tt/P0hub1f
Phillips Theological Seminary seeks a scholar of the Hebrew Bible for a tenure-trackposition at the…
via Input 4 RELCFP https://

Google Home Speaker hands-on: the new $99 speaker is a similar size to the HomePod Mini, comes in four colors, and Gemini is a vastly improved assistant (Jennifer Pattison Tuohy/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/788085/hands-on-google-home-speaker

Hands-on with the new Google Home Speaker coming next year
Hands-on with Google’s new $99 Home Speaker coming in Spring 2026.

Adobe plans to support custom AI models in Firefly, updates Firefly to generate soundtracks and speech, adds an AI assistant to Photoshop and Express, and more (Jacob Roach/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/adobe-max-2025-firefly-photoshop-updates/

Adobe MAX 2025: All the Top Announcements for Adobe’s Creative Suite
At Adobe’s annual MAX conference, the company also teased a ChatGPT integration and a new AI assistant in Photoshop.

Assistant Professor of the History(ies) of Global Christianity(ies)
https://ift.tt/CobF7uq
Phillips Theological Seminary invites applications for a full-time, tenure-trackposition in the…
via Input 4 RELCFP

Richie Incognito Pushes Raiders to Fire One More Key Assistant Coach https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brennan-carroll-fire-richie-incognito/?adt_ei=[email]

A new attack was shown to use AI to hack into Gmail accounts.
“It illustrates why developing robust protections against prompt injection attacks is important."
Direct and indirect prompt injection attacks hide instructions for AI assistants in emails, messages, websites, attachments and calendar invites.
You won’t see them, but your AI assistant will. -- And all too often that assistant will do as it’s told.
This threat “is not specific to Google," the compan…

Google Confirms Gmail Warning — New Attack Hacks Your Email
"AI might be super smart but it can be tricked" — change your account settings now as new threat revealed.

Google adds Gemini to Google TV, starting on TCL's new QM9K series TVs and expanding to Google TV Streamer 4K and other major TV brands later in 2025 (Andrew Liszewski/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/782500/google-gemini-ai-assistant-smart-tv-tcl

Gemini is coming to Google TV starting today
TCL’s QM9K series TVs will be the first to offer Gemini on Google TV, with more devices getting it later this year.

Eve, an AI assistant for plaintiff lawyers, raised $103M led by Spark, with a16z, Lightspeed, and Menlo participating, at a $1B valuation and has 450 clients (Kate Clark/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-09-30/eve-…

Slack is testing an AI-based version of Slackbot that acts as a personalized assistant, operating via AWS' virtual private cloud, rolling out by the end of 2025 (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/797890/slack-slackbot-ai-assistant-upgrade

Slack is turning Slackbot into an AI assistant
Slack is piloting an upgraded Slackbot that will transform the tool into an AI companion that draws from your conversations, workspace, and files to provide customized assistance.

Dolphins Announce Ex-Raiders Executive Will Serve as Interim GM https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/dolphins-interim-gm-champ-kelly/?adt_ei=[email]

Assistant Professor of the History(ies) of Global Christianity(ies)
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Phillips Theological Seminary invites applications for a full-time, tenure-trackposition in the…
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Graney: Here’s an obvious take — Chip Kelly’s offense isn’t working https://www.reviewjournal.com/sports/sports-columns/ed-graney/graney-heres-an-obvious-take-chip-kellys-offense-isnt-working-3530977/…

Marissa Mayer is dissolving AI startup Sunshine, founded in 2018, and sells its assets to her new company Dazzle, which sources say is making an AI assistant (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/marissa-mayer-sunshine-startup-shut-down/

Marissa Mayer Is Dissolving Her Sunshine Startup Lab
After seven rocky years, the company’s assets will be sold to Dazzle, a new AI firm that Mayer founded.

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OpenAI launches its first extended ad campaign for ChatGPT featuring three 30-second cinematic ads with a focus on everyday AI use cases in the US and the UK (Tim Nudd/Ad Age)
https://adage.com/creativity/creative-strategy-tactics/aa-chatgpt-firs…

Inside ChatGPT’s first major brand campaign—OpenAI marketing leaders discuss the work
Cinematic spots, made with agency Isle of Any, show everyday uses of the AI assistant helping people “learn, create and grow.”

Raiders Told to Fire Key Assistant Coach Amid Fan Backlash https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/brennan-carroll-fire-offensive-line-coach/?adt_ei=[email]

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Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible https://churchhistory.org/assistant-professor-of-hebrew-bible/

JOB> Editor at Yin-Cheng Journal https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20130436/job-editor-yin-cheng-journal

Windows 11 Copilot AI hands-on: despite Microsoft advertising the feature as able to "understand you", it delivers inconsistent and often incorrect responses (Antonio G. Di Benedetto/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/report/822443/mic

Talking to Windows’ Copilot AI makes a computer feel incompetent
Microsoft is advertising its Windows Copilot AI as “the computer you can talk to.” How does that hold up to testing, and how does it track with CEO Satya Nadella’s ambitions?

An overview of detailed AI usage reports from OpenAI and others, as Microsoft's AI for Good Lab estimates that 15% of the world's working population is using AI (Financial Times)
https://ig.ft.com/ai-personal-assistant/

Meta rolls out an AI assistant for Facebook Dating in the US and Canada, to reduce "swipe fatigue" by letting users find matches via natural language prompts (Sydney Bradley/Business Insider)
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Why Facebook thinks AI can help you land better dates
Facebook has an answer for swipe fatigue

Microsoft updates Copilot to add Copilot Groups, enabling up to 32 people to collaborate in a session, and a "real talk" mode to add more personality to Copilot (Tom Warren/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/804122/microsoft-copilot-…

Copilot is getting more personality with a ‘real talk’ mode and group chats
Microsoft is adding new features to its Copilot AI assistant. A new “real talk” mode adds more personality, and a groups feature aims to make AI more social.

Data from 300K pull requests shows OpenAI is catching up to Anthropic in AI coding: Codex has a 74.3% success rate vs. Claude Code's 73.7% in code approvals (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/openai-catching-anthropi…

OpenAI Is Catching Up To Anthropic in AI Coding
OpenAI’s effort to catch up to Anthropic in code-generating artificial intelligence seems to be working.New data show OpenAI’s Codex coding assistant has pulled ahead of Anthropic’s Claude Code assistant in certain coding capabilities. Codex usage among developers is also catching up to Claude ...