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US volunteer fire departments are scrambling to find software amid shrinking options and higher costs, as companies backed by private equity dominate the market (Mike Baker/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/14/us/fire-department-software-priva…

Rural Fire Departments Squeezed By Software Prices As Investors Profit
Rural departments have long relied on cheap software solutions to keep their operations running. But fire chiefs report sharp price increases as investors have entered the market.

Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
So soll Missbrauch von Palantir-Software verhindert werden

"Every morning, a spider rebuilt its web on my car mirror, only for the wind to destroy it again. Watching that tiny creature taught me something about toxic cycles, misplaced resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to stop rebuilding in the wrong place."
"True resilience isn't about stubbornly withstanding the storm; it's about having the wisdom to find a new foundation."
This piece of writing hits like a gut punch.

What a Spider Taught Me About Resilience and Letting Go
Every morning, a spider rebuilt its web on my car mirror, only for the wind to destroy it again. Watching that tiny creature taught me something about toxic cycles, misplaced resilience, and the quiet courage it takes to stop rebuilding in the wrong place.

The Great #Software #Quality #Collapse: How We Normalized Catastrophe

Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Lakshana Iruni Assalaarachchi, Zainab Masood, Rashina Hoda, John Grundy
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.10887

Generative AI for Software Project Management: Insights from a Review of Software Practitioner Literature
Software practitioners are discussing GenAI transformations in software project management openly and widely. To understand the state of affairs, we performed a grey literature review using 47 publicly available practitioner sources including blogs, articles, and industry reports. We found that software project managers primarily perceive GenAI as an "assistant", "copilot", or "friend" rather than as a "PM replacement", with support of GenAI in automating routine tasks, predictive analytics, co…

In der Episode 6 des ShareCast des Zentrums für Verantwortungsbewusste Digitalisierung (@…) geht es um Open Source und ob das alles super ist. ich darf mal wieder ein bisschen in die Suppe spucken:
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Secret spider societies reveal surprising brain differences
#spiders

Secret spider societies reveal surprising brain differences
Researchers peered inside the brains of huntsman and crab spiders using microCT scanners and found that while spiders' brains don't have to be bigger for them to live in groups, social spiders are wired for better memory, recognition and collaboration.

So soll Missbrauch von Palantir-Software verhindert werden
Mit nur einem Programm Zugang zu Millionen persönlichen Daten: Bei Kritikern löst der Polizei-Einsatz der Analyse-Software VeRA Sorge vor Missbrauch aus.

Prime Security, which develops AI agents that help with security design during software development, raised a $20M Series A led by Scale Venture Partners (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/12/09…

Exclusive: Agentic AI startup Prime Security raises $20M
Scale Venture Partners led the Series A round.

Zum Abend noch einige der heute besonders häufig geteilten #News:
OTA-Software-Update brickt Jeeps – während der Fahrt
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