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"Es ist höchste Zeit, dass sich deutsche Wissenschaftsinstitutionen nicht nur mit Solidaritätsbekundungen an die USA wenden, sondern sich auch gegen die wachsende Bedrohung für Wissenschaft und Demokratie in Deutschland positionieren."
"Überpolitisierung im Namen der Depolitisierung ist das Programm, mit dem die Wissenschaft nach rechtsextremer Façon umgeformt wird."
Andreas #FischerLescano

Wer die Wissenschaft schützen will, muss die AfD verbieten
Die Angriffe auf Universitäten in den USA sind ein Warnsignal. Während deutsche Forschungsorganisationen noch Solidaritätsbekundungen formulieren, bläst die AfD zu ihrem eigenen Feldzug gegen die freie Wissenschaft. Zeit zum Handeln. Ein Gastbeitrag von Andreas Fischer-Lescano.

heise | Kryptografie: Mehr Wissenswertes über altertümliche Schriften
Viele Kryptosysteme sind im Laufe der Jahrhunderte in Vergessenheit geraten. Wir holen ein paar Juwelen aus der Versenkung und sehen sie uns genauer an.

How Palantir has benefited since President Trump took office, securing new and expanded government contracts and becoming the S&P's top-performing stock of 2025 (Washington Post)

In Trump’s Washington, Palantir is winning big
From warfighting and tracking deportations to writing State Department cables with AI, the company is benefiting from a new technology-driven cost-cutting ethos.

Defendant accused of faking Trump death threats so witness would be deported (Victoria Craw/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/06/03/trump-threat-letters-wisconsin-migrant-morales-reyes/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250603/p142#a250603p142

Analysis: since his inauguration, President Trump posted 2,262 times on Truth Social in 132 days, 3x the volume of tweets in the same period of his first term (Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/06/03/trump-truth-socia…

Tallying Trump’s online posting frenzy: 2,262 ‘truths’ in 132 days
In his current term, the president has left his own record for social media missives in the dust. He posts day and night.

After 47 years on the political beat for The Post, it's transition time (Dan Balz/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/08/03/washington-post-dan-balz-political-column-final-sunday-take/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250803/p6#a250803p6

ChatGPT-4o, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Gemini 2.0 Flash, Llama 4, and Copilot comparison: Claude was the best overall with the highest consistency and no hallucinations (Geoffrey A. Fowler/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

Review | 5 AI bots took our tough reading test. One was smartest — and it wasn’t ChatGPT.
We challenged AI helpers to decode legal contracts, simplify medical research, speed-read a novel and make sense of Trump speeches. Some of the AI analysis was impressive — and some was downright dumb.

White collar workers are increasingly using AI note-taking apps to assist them during Zoom meetings or fully represent them when they choose not to attend (Washington Post)

No one likes meetings. They’re sending their AI note takers instead.
Artificial intelligence apps that record and summarize meetings can tempt workers into skipping calls, leaving humans who join in the company of silent bots.

Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to memorialize the dead, as critics worry about AI's impact on how people remember one another (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)

The rise of AI tools that write about you when you die
Families and funeral directors are using AI obituary generators to more efficiently memorialize the dead. What happens when they get it wrong?

An interview with X VP of Product Keith Coleman about plans to let developers program AI agents to propose Community Notes notes, the old system, and more (Will Oremus/Washington Post)

Analysis | X will let AI bots fact-check posts. It isn’t as crazy as it sounds.
The head of Community Notes explains the logic behind the move.