Computer History Museum software curator Al Kossow has successfully retrieved the contents of the over-half-a-century old tape found at the University of Utah last month.

UNIX V4, the first ever version of the UNIX operating system in which the kernel was written in the then-new C programming language, has been successfully recovered from a 1970s nine-track tape drive. You can download it from the Internet Archive, and run it in SimH.

Ein Viertel der befragten Schulleitungen gab an, keine Gefahren wahrzunehmen, während Radikalisierung und Datendiebstahl als weniger gefährlich eingestuft wurden. Der Rechnungshof empfiehlt, die Schulleitungen für die Gefahren im Internet stärker zu sensibilisieren und ihnen bei Vorfällen Hilfe anzubieten.

Der Rechnungshof kritisiert den Rückgang einschlägiger Lehrveranstaltungen an Pädagogischen Hochschulen im Untersuchungszeitraum. Noch deutlicher sei der Rückgang bei der Teilnahme an solchen Veranstaltungen. Nur rund fünf Prozent der Lehrkräfte haben sich zum Thema sicheres Internet weitergebildet.

Provocative reports claim Agile projects have a failure rate of up to 65 percent, while others claim up to 90 percent of DevOps initiatives fail to meet organizational expectations.

It is best to be wary of these claims while also acknowledging that successfully implementing Agile or DevOps methods takes consistent leadership, organizational discipline, patience, investment in training, and culture change.

However, the same requirements have always been true when introducing any new software platform. Given the historic lack of organizational resolve to instill proven practices, it is not surprising that novel approaches for developing and sustaining ever more complex software systems, no matter how effective they may be, will also frequently fall short.

Global internet shutdowns and growing government control have made access to free information increasingly difficult in countries such as Iran, Russia and China. DW Access addresses this challenge with features that allow users to bypass censorship and stay informed.

"DW is blazing new trails in censorship circumvention. DW Access ensures our audiences can access independent news wherever they are – even under the most challenging conditions," says Guido Baumhauer, Managing Director Distribution, Marketing and Technology at DW.

Unlike most apps today, DW Access is not available in app stores. Users can download it via the dedicated DW platform www.access-unlocked.org

or share it directly via messenger services or Bluetooth. This approach not only ensures independence from major tech companies, it also reduces exposure to government restrictions.

The app includes:

• Integrated VPN (Outline) for secure access
• No personal data transmission for user safety
• Offline functionality with pre-cached content and article sharing via Bluetooth
• Data-saving mode for regions with limited network connectivity

The Trump administration has been heavily invested in consolidating all of the government’s information into a single searchable, or perhaps AI-queryable, super database. The compiling of all of this information is being done with the dubious justification of efficiency and modernization–however, in many cases, this information was originally siloed for important reasons: to protect your privacy, to prevent different branches of government from using sensitive data to punish or harass you, and to perserve the trust in and legitimacy of important civic institutions.

Die psychologischen und sozialen Ursachen für problematische Nutzungsweisen von KI-Systemen sind vielfältig. Ein zentraler Faktor ist der sogenannte Automations-Bias: Die flüssige, selbstbewusst wirkende Sprache der KI vermittelt Autorität und nimmt Nutzern komplexe Aufgaben ab. Dadurch sinkt die Bereitschaft, Antworten kritisch zu hinterfragen – insbesondere, wenn sie schnell und kostenlos verfügbar sind.

Hinzu kommt der ausgeprägte Anthropomorphismus vieler Anwender. Sie schreiben Chatbots menschliche Eigenschaften zu und suchen bei ihnen besagte emotionale Unterstützung. Insbesondere einsame Menschen können dadurch in eine Form der Abhängigkeit geraten.

Die nächste Person, die mit "Digital Natives" argumentiert bekommt von mir diesen Artikel auf einen Baseballschläger graviert, näher gebracht

n Kronstorf soll ein für Google noch weltweit einzigartiges nachhaltiges Gebäudekonzept umgesetzt werden. Der Entwurf sieht eine Dachbegrünung und eine Photovoltaikanlage vor. Ebenfalls geplant ist eine aus der Enns gespeiste Wasserkühlung für die energieintensiven Server, die am Donnerstag präsentiert wurde.

A world at 2.6C means global disaster,” said Bill Hare, CEO of Climate Analytics.

“That all means the end of agriculture in the UK and across Europe, drought and monsoon failure in Asia and Africa, lethal heat and humidity,” said Hare. “This is not a good place to be. You want to stay away from that.”

If you’re looking at Excel, I think it is one of the most underappreciated programming environments in the world. The number of Excel programmers versus people using what you’d probably think of as more traditional languages is really something to behold.

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The fact that it’s continuously executed means that, unlike running your code and getting some error that’s hard to comprehend, the code is just continuously executed in the form of the sheets you see in front of you.

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Yep- everything is a spreadsheet. If you’re okay at Excel, you’re in the 99% percentile of most “technical” people on Earth.

In den meisten Fällen werden Cyberangriffe mittlerweile von Russland aus verübt, sagt Fabian Pober, Darknet-Analyst bei der Agentur Cyberschutz.

In celebrating 1 trillion web pages archived, the Internet Archive is proud to honor the visionary who made it all possible. As announced in The New Yorker, the 2025 Internet Archive Hero Award was presented to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web. Sir Tim’s groundbreaking work opened the door to a connected world and laid the foundation for our shared digital history.

Unfortunately in the USA:

How can the 19th century history of the Luddites help us understand contemporary resistance to workplace technology? What does New Luddism look like on the ground? As an analytic framework, what are its strengths and weaknesses for understanding the current state of labor, worker resistance, and the tech industry?

This one-day conference will bring together an interdisciplinary group of scholars from sociology, economics, history, and other disciplines, as well as journalists, organizers, and workers with firsthand knowledge of the implementation of new technologies in the workplace. Through a series of themed panels and workshops, the conference will provide a forum for these groups to discuss the utility of the New Luddism framework, its drawbacks, and its implications in research and in practice.

Odds are you’re acquaint­ed with the lady pic­tured above.

She’s called La Cat­ri­na, and her like­ness adorns count­less t‑shirts and tote bags.

She is a pop­u­lar Hal­loween cos­tume and a main­stay of Day of the Dead cel­e­bra­tions.

She pops up in the ani­mat­ed fam­i­ly fea­ture, Coco, to guide its young hero to the Land of the Dead.

She’s spent the bet­ter part of a cen­tu­ry mak­ing cameos in numer­ous artists works, most famous­ly Diego Rivera’s sur­re­al 1947 mur­al, Sueño de una Tarde Domini­cal en la Alame­da Cen­tral, a fever dream that places her front and cen­ter, arm in arm with a dis­tin­guished-look­ing, mus­ta­chioed gent in a bowler hat.

That gent is her orig­i­nal cre­ator, José Guadalupe Posa­da, a hard­work­ing print­mak­er and polit­i­cal car­toon­ist who pro­duced over 20,000 images dur­ing his life­time, on sub­jects rang­ing from the Mex­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion and oth­er events, both cur­rent and his­tor­i­cal, to pop­u­lar enter­tain­ment and the dai­ly lives of aver­age men and women.

The political economy of the dot-com bubble reflected neoliberalism at full tilt, as the state retreated from the technology sector and private capital flooded in. …
Today’s accelerationist MAGA-AI boom is different. The initial spark is technological, but the state is now applying accelerant liberally. … The sums involved now dwarf the dot-com era.

What the history of tech bubbles can tell us about AI
https://www.euractiv.com/opinion/what-the-history-of-tech-bubbles-can-tell-us-about-ai/
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Marks and Spencer (M&S) has terminated a key IT contract with long-time partner Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), months after a devastating cyberattack hit the retailer.

The move follows a major hack on M&S in April, which forced the retailer to suspend online orders and resulted in bare shelves, with the total hit to operating profits expected to reach £300 million this year.

Die Stabstelle für Cybersecurity im Bundeskanzleramt verwies später auf weiteren „internationalen Abstimmungsbedarf" und Arbeit am Gesetzesentwurf.

Innenminister Gerhard Karner (ÖVP) sprach im September von „intensiven Gesprächen mit der Opposition", nannte aber keinen konkreten Zeitplan.

Im Regierungsprogramm wird die Umsetzung von NIS 2 mit keiner Silbe erwähnt.

Im Büro von Digitalisierungsstaatssekretär Alexander Pröll im Bundeskanzleramt erklärt man sich für nicht zuständig. Auf der Hilfeseite des Bundes ist das Bundeskanzleramt als "strategische NIS-Behörde" angeführt, es ist also durchaus eine gewisse Zuständigkeit anzunehmen.

Dennoch verweist man auf das Innenministerium. Dort ist nämlich die "operative NIS-Behörde" zu Hause. Auf Nachfrage bestätigt man dort, dass über die genaue Ausgestaltung des Gesetzestextes verhandelt werde. Noch befinde man sich in der "finalen Verhandlungsphase der Koalitionspartner". Demnach wird also noch regierungsintern verhandelt.

Some bubbles leave nothing or next-to-nothing behind. Enron left nothing behind but the cooling corpse of a CEO who popped his clogs before he could be sentenced to life in prison. Worldcom left behind a CEO who survived long enough to die behind bars…and a ton of fiber in the ground that people are still getting use out of….

Crypto's not going to leave much behind: a few Rust programmers who've really taken security by design to heart, sure, but mostly it'll be shitty Austrian economics and even shittier JPEGs.

So what kind of bubble is AI? That's the $2 trillion question:

You don't need to be an AI investor to get wiped out by the AI investment bubble, either. With 30+% of the S&P 500 tied up in seven AI companies' stock, the coming crash will definitely escape containment and crash the whole damned economy.

So the bubble is bad. Really bad. But even so, there will be things we can salvage from it: open source models, skilled programmers, cheap GPUs bought out of bankruptcy for pennies on the dollar.

The tender, published a day earlier by the Commission’s IT department DG DIGIT, introduces a new “sovereignty score” formula to assess cloud providers’ compliance with EU rules. The score weighs multiple factors, including whether services are hosted within EU jurisdiction, exposed to foreign laws such as the US Cloud Act, or able to maintain operations in the event of foreign sanctions.

The moral of this story is that we can achieve positive outcomes for workers and the public interest as AI transforms governance, but it requires two things: electing leaders who legitimately represent and act on behalf of the public interest and increasing transparency in how the government deploys technology.

Agencies need to implement technologies under ethical frameworks, enforced by independent inspectors and backed by law. Public scrutiny helps bind present and future governments to their application in the public interest and to ward against corruption.

These are not new ideas and are the very guardrails that Trump, Musk and DOGE have steamrolled over the past six months.