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Interview: "Digitalzwang ist nicht Fortschritt, sondern kurzsichtig"
Die Diplom-Informatikerin Karin Schuler und der Jurist Thilo Weichert vom Netzwerk Datenschutzexpertise warnen davor, dass Digitalzwang zu Ausgrenzung führt.

Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/

Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on 'Massive Scale'
Disney is accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" using AI models and services to "commercially exploit and distribute" infringing images and videos.

Information from my (Dutch) grid operator Stedin: if you would like to upgrade your 1x25A (one-phase) connection to a 3x25A (three-phase) connection, that'll be €495.59.
And then "Oh wait, if we need to replace the connection cable we may add €1,786.82 to the bill"...
And no info on how to find out.

Goed om te herhalen, data residency is niet hetzelfde als digitale soevereiniteit.
Voor meer informatie zie deze Linkedin post: https://www.

Disney sends Google a cease-and-desist, accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" and using AI to "exploit and distribute" the content (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/

Disney Accuses Google of Using AI to Engage in Copyright Infringement on 'Massive Scale'
Disney is accusing Google of copyright infringement on a "massive scale" using AI models and services to "commercially exploit and distribute" infringing images and videos.

A Semantic Framework for Patient Digital Twins in Chronic Care
Amal Elgammal, Bernd J. Kr\"amer, Michael P. Papazoglou, Mira Raheem
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09134 https:/…

A Semantic Framework for Patient Digital Twins in Chronic Care
Personalized chronic care requires the integration of multimodal health data to enable precise, adaptive, and preventive decision-making. Yet most current digital twin (DT) applications remain organ-specific or tied to isolated data types, lacking a unified and privacy-preserving foundation. This paper introduces the Patient Medical Digital Twin (PMDT), an ontology-driven in silico patient framework that integrates physiological, psychosocial, behavioral, and genomic information into a coherent…

Stop the Government Redefining Animal Testing Sites as “National Infrastructure” #AnimalRights

Animal testing petition - Protect the Wild
Stop the Government Redefining Animal Testing Sites as “National Infrastructure” The Government is quietly pushing through a change to the law that would dramatically restrict the public’s right to protest. A new Statutory Instrument, due to be considered by MPs this week, would amend the Public Order Act 2023 to…

VITA-VLA: Efficiently Teaching Vision-Language Models to Act via Action Expert Distillation
Shaoqi Dong, Chaoyou Fu, Haihan Gao, Yi-Fan Zhang, Chi Yan, Chu Wu, Xiaoyu Liu, Yunhang Shen, Jing Huo, Deqiang Jiang, Haoyu Cao, Yang Gao, Xing Sun, Ran He, Caifeng Shan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09607

VITA-VLA: Efficiently Teaching Vision-Language Models to Act via Action Expert Distillation
Vision-Language Action (VLA) models significantly advance robotic manipulation by leveraging the strong perception capabilities of pretrained vision-language models (VLMs). By integrating action modules into these pretrained models, VLA methods exhibit improved generalization. However, training them from scratch is costly. In this work, we propose a simple yet effective distillation-based framework that equips VLMs with action-execution capability by transferring knowledge from pretrained small…

"To future historians—not just of computing, but of humanity—the current period will be a dark age.
How was Facebook used by students in the 2010s? We cannot show you, that version of Facebook is not hosted anywhere.
What correspondence did Vint Cerf have as president of the ACM with other luminaries of computing industry and research? We do not know; Google will not publish his emails."

The Digital Dark Ages
There are three interesting things to do with a computing museum. Museum directors and curators should be aware of all three and design galleries, present information, and make archives available to address them all.

Investeren in digitale infrastructuur, inderdaad meer datacenters... , is keihard nodig, lees:
"Reken er maar (niet meer) op - de digitale infrastructuren voor onderzoek 2027-2035"
https://berthub.eu/tkconv/document.html?nummer=2025D51169