Musi, a free music streaming app that had tens of millions of iPhone downloads and garnered plenty of controversy over its method of acquiring music, has lost an attempt to get back on Apple’s App Store. A federal judge dismissed Musi’s lawsuit against Apple with prejudice and sanctioned Musi’s lawyers for “mak[ing] up facts to fill the perceived gaps in Musi’s case.”

Die ID Austria soll in Österreichs Firmen heuer richtig durchstarten. 200 zusätzliche Firmenpartner sollen gewonnen werden, neue Anwendungen kommen.

Egal welcher Digitalisierungsstaatssekretär hierzulande zuständig sei, ob aktuell Alexander Pröll oder davor Claudia Plakolm (jetzt: Bauer) oder Florian Tursky (alle ÖVP), immer hätten sie die Umsetzung aufgeschoben und auf das gute Funktionieren der heimischen Insellösung verwiesen. Am von der EU kofinanzierten „Aptitude“-Konsortium ist Österreich auch nicht beteiligt.

What explains the popularity of terminals with 80×24 and 80×25 displays? A recent blog post "80x25" motivated me to investigate this. The source of 80-column lines is clearly punch cards, as commonly claimed. But why 24 or 25 lines? There are many theories, but I found a simple answer: IBM, in particular its dominance of the terminal market. In 1971, IBM introduced a terminal with an 80×24 display (the 3270) and it soon became the best-selling terminal, forcing competing terminals to match its 80×24 size. The display for the IBM PC added one more line to its screen, making the 80×25 size standard in the PC world. The impact of these systems remains decades later: 80-character lines are still a standard, along with both 80×24 and 80×25 terminal windows.

Mit dem Start der ID Austria vor mehr als zwei Jahren sollte der Alltag der Menschen eigentlich vereinfacht werden. Neben den technischen stehen Interessierten aber nach wie vor bürokratische Hürden im Weg. Für die Ausstellung des digitalen Identitätsnachweises müssen Personen bis zu vier Monate auf einen Termin warten.

Nach dem erfolgreichen Pilotprojekt bei den Wahlen 2024 wird die Stadt Salzburg heuer weiterentwickelte KI-Phone- und Chatbots für grundlegende Auskünfte per Telefon und Internet einsetzen. Künstliche Intelligenz wird als Amtshilfe eingesetzt, aber von Menschen programmiertIm Melde-, Pass- und Fremdenamt sowie im Gesundheitswesen ist der Einsatz bereits fix vorgesehen.

Europa will weg von US-Technologie. Doch die eigene Wirtschaft bremst – aus Kosten- und Zeitgründen.

Im Bund steht das Motto Public Money, Public Code bislang vor allem auf dem Papier. Schleswig-Holstein ist weiter, berichtet aber auch über Probleme.

Österreichs Wirtschaftsministerium suchte Ersatz für Skype-for-Business und wurde bei einer Kollaborationslösung aus Deutschland fündig.

KI-Anwendungen sollen die Behörden im Land effizienter machen. Bis KI in die ID Austria einzieht, wird aber noch einige Zeit vergehen

Fast die Hälfte der Beamten geht in den nächsten Jahren in Pension. Die Regierung will gegensteuern und den Bundesdienst modernisieren. Dabei setzt man auf künstliche Intelligenz und betont: „KI soll Menschen unterstützen, nicht ersetzen“.

Microsoft is removing Entra credentials for school and work from jailbroken and rooted devices running iOS and Android.

The process is automatic and there is no opt-out. If Microsoft Authenticator detects that a device has been jailbroken or rooted, it will first display a warning, then block access, and finally wipe credentials. The procedure is already underway for Android devices, and iOS devices will follow in April 2026.

Derzeit entstehen im Großraum Wien drei Rechenzentren des US-Konzerns Microsoft. Unter dem Versprechen der „digitalen Souveränität“ soll Österreich damit seine digitale Zukunft kontrollieren. Während von wachsender Wertschöpfung die Rede ist, wachsen zwei ganz andere Dinge: die Macht von Big Tech und der Ressourcenverbrauch. Mina Fahimi fordert eine Debattenverschiebung.

Die jährlichen Kosten sind abhängig von der konkreten Anzahl des zu lizenzierenden Personals. Für jede Personallizenz sind 25 Schülerlizenzen inbegriffen. Im vergangenen Jahr 2025 etwa betrugen die Gesamtkosten im Zuge des MS-ACH Agreements 3.717.844,89 Euro (inkl. USt.).

Fit Precast, an industrial concrete company, is dropping $102 million on a new facility in Gastonia, North Carolina, creating 125 new jobs for workers throughout the area. Pharmaceutical giant Becton Dickinson is putting $110 million into a manufacturing expansion in Columbus, Nebraska — 120 jobs. A new automotive venture in Orangeburg, South Carolina is investing $120 million into a new plant, bringing in nearly 400 jobs.

7 tips are

Talk about stuff you know are care about
Tell a story
Don't search for topics, select them
Less decoration, more focus
Manage their questions
Animate code demos
Harness your anxiety

Tell a story

Story is the oldest tool for dealing with lack of memory.

A story has flow to assist memorisation
Hierarchy - to assist comprehension and recollection. Break things down.

Historical narrative of something is a ready made story Process storyline - what were the steps we took to build something Anecdotal examples. This is what happened when I went to build X

Since you were a child you have been training yourself to understand stories.
Don't search for topics, select them

Don't ask "what should I say?" -- this is, what are the important things I can recall with mental effort, won't give us the best results.

Ask - what could I say -- what would I recognise if I saw it in front of me.

Dump your entire knowledge of the subject in any order. To analyse, don't prioritise. Just write. -- pick out the 5 main points, find a story to connect those points -- if something doesn't connect, replace it -- put each bit under those points -- drop anything that doesn't fit under a point

critical imbalance for Europe lies in software.1 Economically and politically, US high tech makes Europe look like the loser that Twitter portrays it as on a daily basis. Europe’s digital dependency on the United States has quietly become a geopolitical risk.2 The tariff wars did not create that vulnerability. They exposed it. If that infrastructure were ever used as a political weapon, the consequences would be devastating.

In 2026, this scenario is no longer that far-fetched. The US economy needs Europe buying its tech. One year without EU income would be very difficult. But Europe completely depends on US tech to function. Even a temporary disruption to core US platforms would severely disrupt European administration, logistics, and finance. With the rise of AI technologies, the dependency will only increase.3

Stimmt bei der Onlineabwicklung die Reihenfolge nicht, ist der neue Bescheid ungültig, wie mittlerweile mehrere Richter am Bundesfinanzgericht entschieden haben. Eine Sprecherin des Finanzministeriums verwies gegenüber der APA auf technische Gründe und auch darauf, dass es sich beim Zeitunterschied oft nur um Minuten oder Stunden gehandelt habe.

This is a community maintained list of TUI applications. A TUI application runs in your terminal and has some level of interactivity. Commands included in this list should not wrap other interactive commands (e.g. fzf), and should be maintained.

The group of computer scientists from around the world cautions that "those deciding which age-based controls need to exist, and those enforcing them gain a tremendous influence on what content is accessible to whom on the internet." They add that "this influence could be used to censor information and prevent users from accessing services."

"Regulating the use of VPNs, or subjecting their use to age assurance controls, will decrease the capability of users to defend their privacy online. This will not only force regular users to leave a larger footprint on the network, but will leave a number of at-risk populations unprotected, such as journalists, activists, or domestic abuse victims." It continues: "We note that we do not believe that trying to regulate VPN use for non-compliant users would be any more effective than trying to forbid the use of end-to-end encrypted communication for criminals. Secure cryptography is widely available and can no longer be put back into a box."

"If minors or adults are deplatformed via age-related bans, they are likely to migrate to find similar services," warn the scientists. "Since the main platforms would all be regulated, it is likely that they would migrate to fringe sites that escape regulation." With data on everyone collected in order to restrict the activites of minors, data abuses and privacy risks increase. "This in itself increases privacy risks, with data being potentially abused by the provider itself or its subcontractors, or third parties that get access to it, e.g., after a data breach, like the 70K users that had their government ID photos leaked after appealing age assessment errors on Discord."

Instead of mandated age restrictions, the letter urges lawmakers to consider the dangers and suggest regulating social media algorithms instead. They also recommend "support for parents to locally prevent access to non-age-appropriate content or apps, without age-based control needing to be implemented by service providers."