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Volker Ketzer wrote that Schleswig-Holstein distributed nearly 35,000 service laptops to teachers. 10,900 of them had not been turned on even once during the entire year of 2025; the purchase value was around 6.75 million euros. As part of the problem, he mentioned the centrally managed software, which restricts usage and leads to many teachers preferring to use their personal devices. Ketzer criticized the procurement and mockingly addressed Günther. #Bildung #SchleswigHolstein #Technologie (translated)

The article addresses the ironic turn that AI producers, who have for years justified the unauthorized use of intellectual property as training material, are now themselves confronted with open-source alternatives to paid software packages. #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Urheberrecht #Microsoft (translated)

Laudelino said that he was closely following the situation in France, a country where he worked for a French company, studied the language, and had friends. In his assessment, the French situation resembled that of Brazil: although he considered the people good, he stated that they had lost the means to have their will respected. He wrote that in both countries, the parties, the press, and the state apparatus were leftist and that representative democracy had failed, leaving the interests of the population as a secondary concern. He also mentioned that there were already discussions about restoring the monarchy in France. Regarding French politics, he noted that Marie le Pen, a right-wing candidate, was emerging as the favorite, while the political structure resisted the possibility of losing space or rights. According to Laudelino, the French state consumed 57% of GDP per year, and since Mitterrand, the political proposal had been to continue spending and raising taxes. He stated that France was a Christian country but had become socialist and, for that reason, was bankrupt. As a solution for France and Brazil, he pointed to the past and cited Vendée, Louis IX, and Joan of Arc, in addition to criticizing the French Revolution, Bonapartism, and socialism. In conclusion, he said that the problem of both countries was the "software." #França #Democracia #História (translated)

"If it happened last night, I don't know exactly. I know that a few nights ago there was a software problem that involved their early warning system." Speaking in the early hours of Monday, during a trip to Samarkand, Uzbekistan, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio stated: "If it happened last night, I don't know exactly. I know that a few nights ago there was a software problem that involved their early warning system." #Ucraina #Zelenski #Rusia (translated)

The invention by Erna Schneider Hoover from the 1960s, who developed an algorithm for prioritizing tasks in computer systems, has had a decisive influence on the functioning of the internet and digital systems to this day. #ErnaSchneiderHoover #Digitalisierung #Softwaregeschichte (translated)

NATO has restored full operational capability of the deployable Air Command and Control Center in Italy, located in Poggio Renatico, following a hardware and software update, enhancing training and testing capabilities for allied operations. #Nato #Difesa #Addestramento (translated)

Emanuel Boeminghaus stated that his company has been working with AI assistants since March and initially switched the entire development team to AI. Since then, among other things, the research, export, and import software as well as the SAP export have been newly developed or automated. The carve-out export software and the data encryption tool have also been revised. In addition, the company has developed AI-driven software that automatically uploads standardized SAP, Navision, and other reports into databases. For the migration of the research software, a dedicated tool and an automated testing tool have been created. Boeminghaus also mentioned an automatic deletion software for SAP HCM and improvements in automatic deletion within the research software. With the help of AI, the company has also increased the security of its data center. Before the use of AI, there were 45 software developers; now there are only 14 AI developers. Since many projects have been implemented, Boeminghaus has asked the sales team for urgently needed new ideas and requirements. Furthermore, the project management is currently being restructured and is to be monitored by AI assistants starting in January. #KünstlicheIntelligenz #SoftwareEntwicklung #Automatisierung (translated)

The AI researcher Katharina Zweig describes the current software as unsafe in an interview and emphasizes that the providers are aware of these risks while discussing the responsibility of corporations and the handling of language models. #KünstlicheIntelligenz #KI #Risiken (translated)

An Israeli spyware called Candiru has spread through online advertisements, potentially affecting hundreds of millions of users in Spain and in institutions like NATO and the UN, having previously been used in the 'catalangate' against Catalan politicians. #Malware #Ciberseguridad #Espionaje (translated)

RCraven1 wrote that Emmanuel Macron persuaded Friedrich Merz to make concessions on the easing of the ban on combustion engines starting in 2035 and received support for stricter European production regulations in return. However, France is already pursuing a different strategy: In September, 42 percent of new registrations were pure electric cars, and Renault is increasing electric car production due to demand. Macron is also ensuring that batteries and as many vehicle components as possible will be produced in Europe in the future. Merz, however, continues to fight for the combustion engine, even though the challenges for the German automotive industry, according to the author, lie in batteries, software, production costs, and increasing competition from China. RCraven1 suggested that France not only wants to sell electric cars but also wants to profit from their production. He asked whether Merz had realized that Macron was conceding on a technology from which France is increasingly turning away and receiving concessions on future technologies in return. #Elektroautos #Automobilindustrie #Zukunftstechnologien (translated)

Maxim Röder wrote that a graphic shows why he was still carefree and fully invested in 2023 and 2024, but is now thinking more about it. He explained that the planned investments from Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Meta, and Oracle have reached historically unprecedented levels. As risks, Röder mentioned that annual investments of one trillion dollars required revenues from AI software amounting to hundreds of billions of dollars. Additionally, chips with cycles of three to six years could later burden operating margins due to depreciations. He questioned how much free cash flow would remain for stock buybacks when the funds were flowing into data centers and transformers. Röder wrote that no one knows how the developments will turn out. However, the risk today is significantly higher than in 2023, 2024, or 2025. #Investitionen #BigTech #Risiko (translated)

In Paris, physicists and metrology experts are coming together to decide the future of the leap second, with the proposal to significantly increase the allowable deviation between atomic time and astronomical time in order to minimize issues with software and networks. #schrikkelseconde #tijdmeting #digitalisering (translated)

A comment expresses the view that the AI company Anthropic is trying to promote public awareness of its language models like Claude as sentient beings, possibly to legitimize its interests in societal and regulatory conflicts, while simultaneously obscuring the developers' responsibility for potential harm from the software. #KünstlicheIntelligenz #Ethik #Maschinenbewusstsein (translated)