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O2-Kunden können ab sofort RedCap für Smartwatches nutzen
O2 bietet Vertragskunden ein kostenloses 5G Plus Pack mit RedCap-Technologie an. Die energiesparende 5G-Variante richtet sich an Wearables und IoT-Geräte.

TeamLease Digital: Global Capability Centers in India have grown tech headcount to ~2M from 1.2M in 2022, rising 18%-27% YoY, compared to 4%-6% at IT companies (Tanya Pandey/The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/t

Techtonic shift: GCCs hiring 4x faster than IT cos now
GCCs are expanding headcount by 18-27% year on year, compared with 4-6% for IT services, according to data from staffing firm TeamLease Digital. Together, they employ nearly 2 million people now, up from 1.2 million in 2022, creating about 300,000 jobs annually. In contrast, IT services have added only 25,000-40,000 employees a year on a net basis during this period.

Audio-Based Crowd-Sourced Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality
Sami Ul Haq, Sheila Castilho, Yvette Graham
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.14023 https://ar…

Audio-Based Crowd-Sourced Evaluation of Machine Translation Quality
Machine Translation (MT) has achieved remarkable performance, with growing interest in speech translation and multimodal approaches. However, despite these advancements, MT quality assessment remains largely text centric, typically relying on human experts who read and compare texts. Since many real-world MT applications (e.g Google Translate Voice Mode, iFLYTEK Translator) involve translation being spoken rather printed or read, a more natural way to assess translation quality would be through…

PSA about food labeling in the US
We have a gluten detection service dog because many things that should be gluten free/say they’re gluten free are not actually gluten free.
Stuff gets contaminated when growing (e.g. next to wheat field), by shared equipment, in factories, from packaging, during transport and in-store.
Every US consumer should know:
1. The list of ingredients on food isn't exhaustive
2. Allergen labeling:
a) limited to just some allergens
b) manufacturers don't actually have to test
c) "certified" foods are tested—but not continuously
d) testing only works with enough contamination
Some certifications may require batch-testing, but usually they don't.
A "certified gluten free" product may e.g. contain oats which sometimes are contaminated with gluten—but as not every batch is tested it's impossible to know unless you test yourself (hence the service dog).
Even if the product is properly batch-tested, you might get a part of the product that has the allergen in it, whereas the tested part didn't.
Or the threshold was too low (our dog can detect gluten better than any available lab testing equipment; yes, dogs are amazing).
Food products also contain ingredients that do not have to be included on the label when they're "incidental" (included in an another ingredient) or if they're considered part of the manufacturing process but not of the final product (e.g. various coatings on factory equipment).
Don't need to list flavors or specific spices either. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
As for allergens, only those responsible for ~90% of food allergies* have to be specifically declared, and they're not tested for as it's simply based on the ingredients list.
Good luck if you have other allergies.
*milk, egg, egg, fish, Crustacean shellfish, tree nuts, wheat, peanuts, soybeans

Copenhagen increased its bicycle budget - I was asked to comment: https://www.verdensmaal.org/nyheder/k�%B8benhavns-kommune-vil-gøre-det-lettere-at-suse-ge

Dear USians,
How about you don’t call a Middle Eastern guy “white” and go on to tell him he’s “no better than any other oppressor we encounter” simply for trying to warn his Palestinian friends to not take any unnecessary risks and to be careful on Mastodon?
Also, apparently Divya has blocked me for this, which sucks because it has made it impossible for me to keep boosting her fundraiser, which you should, of course, still follow and support (link below).
I’m not going to …

Lufthansa will 100 Inlandsflüge pro Woche streichen
Weil sich einige Strecken seit Jahren nicht mehr lohnen, will Lufthansa sie nicht mehr bedienen. Im Sommer 2026 sollen Verbindungen wegfallen.
https://www.

heise | Gehälter 2025: Das verdienen IT-Berater in Deutschland
IT-Berater müssen komplexe Abläufe verstehen, praxisnahe Lösungen entwickeln und den Kunden kompetent begleiten. Dafür erhalten sie ein hohes Gehalt.

Meta testet Limit für Link-Beiträge
Noch zweimal am Tag können professionelle Nutzer und Seitenbetreiber Links in einem Beitrag auf Facebook posten. Mehr kostet Geld.
https://www.heise.de/news/Meta-teste…

Display im USB-Stick-Format zeigt PC-Daten an
WeAct Studio bietet ein günstiges Gimmick für PCs und Notebooks an: ein 0,96 Zoll kleines Display an einem USB-Anschluss.
https://www.heise.de/news/D…