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Milliarden-Grab oder Effizienz-Wunder? Der steinige Weg zur EU-Interoperabilität
Die EU-Kommission verspricht 5 Milliarden Euro Ersparnis pro Jahr durch vernetzte Ämter. Doch ihre erste Bilanz zeigt: Bisher wurde vor allem Papier produziert.

Das US-Start-up #KarmanIndustries entwickelt eine CO₂-basierte #Wärmepumpe zur effizienteren #Kühlung von

Karman Industries: Neue Wärmepumpe soll Rechenzentren effizienter kühlen - Golem.de
Raketen- und Elektroautotechnik soll Rechenzentren wirkungsvoller kühlen. Trotz Marketing-Hype ist das Konzept interessant.

Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web
WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The first version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C , and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.
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Making WebAssembly a first-class language on the Web – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
This post is an expanded version of a presentation I gave at the recent WebAssembly CG meeting in Munich. WebAssembly has come a long way since its first release in 2017. The 1.0 version of WebAssembly was already a great fit for low-level languages like C and C++, and immediately enabled many new kinds of applications to efficiently target the web.

Polars is a lightning fast DataFrame library/in-memory query engine with parallel execution and cache efficiency. And now you can use is with the tidyverse syntax: #rstats

More Efficient Tidyverse Code, Using Polars in the Background
Polars is a cross-language tool for manipulating very large data. However, one drawback is that the R implementation has a syntax that will look odd to many R users who are not used to Python syntax. The objective of tidypolars is to improve the ease-of-use of Polars in R by providing tidyverse syntax to polars.

Google Research details TurboQuant, a quantization algorithm to enable massive compression of LLMs and vector search engines without sacrificing accuracy (Google Research)
https://research.google/blog/turboquant-redefining-ai-efficiency-with-extreme…

TurboQuant: Redefining AI efficiency with extreme compression

heise | Wie Sie den richtigen Aufstellort für Ihre Wärmepumpe finden
Der Aufstellort einer Wärmepumpe ist keine Nebensache. Er entscheidet über Effizienz und Nachbarschaftsfrieden. So vermeiden Sie Fehler und Nachbesserungen.

Long awaited: efficiency standards for electric vehicles. Good news for the energy transition.
Can't beat an e-bike, though ;)
https://carnewschina.com/2025/12/26/china-to-enforce…

China to enforce world’s first mandatory EV energy standard in 2026, capping two-tonne models at 15.1 kWh per 100 km
China will implement the world’s first mandatory electric vehicle energy consumption standard in January 2026.

Flapping Airplanes, an AI research lab "devoted to solving the data efficiency problem", raised $180M at a $1.5B valuation from GV, Sequoia, Index, and others (Kate Clark/Wall Street Journal)
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Amazon appears to mistakenly alert some AWS employees about planned layoffs in an email invite to a Wednesday "Project Dawn" meeting about company efficiency (Business Insider)
https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-staff-calen…

Some Amazon employees get 'Project Dawn' calendar invitation discussing upcoming job cuts
The invitation was written by Amazon executive Colleen Aubrey. It was cancelled soon after being sent, stoking confusion among some employees.