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/
#ai

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.

Being an Apple customer is like being in a 24/7 BDSM relationship…without a safe-word. Maybe you like the control Apple exerts over your life most of the time, but if they ever start to hurt you, there's no way to make them stop

"Am Schwarzmarkt werden wir uns als Staat nicht beteiligen", stellte Haijawi-Pirchner klar. Auch sonst verwehrte er sich der Kritik, man gefährde dadurch die Gesamtbevölkerung: "Wir gefährden dadurch niemanden, weil diese Sicherheitslücken ja bestehen. Wir machen keine Sicherheitslücken". Bisher habe man lediglich mit "hochseriösen" Anbietern für die technische Umsetzung der Überwachungssoftware gesprochen, versicherte er.

Dem widersprach auch René Mayrhofer vom Institut für Netzwerke und Sicherheit an der Linzer JKU. Dass Sicherheitslücken nur von gewissen Geheimdiensten ausgenützt würden, sei eine "legistische Illusion". Diese offen zu halten führe demnach dazu, "dass alle Handys offen für Angreifer sind." Außerdem stelle sich ihm die Frage, wie man bei der Software garantieren wolle, dass nicht auch ausländische Dienste mitlesen. Oft würden sich Extremisten, ob Islamisten oder Rechtsextreme, aber auch in Großgruppen auf Messenger-Diensten austauschen. In diesen Fällen brauche man gar keine Überwachungssoftware, sondern müsse lediglich einen Account in die Gruppe einschleusen.

Österreich: Mangelberufe 2022-25: "TechnikerInnen mit höherer Ausbildung (Ing.) für Datenverarbeitung"
https://www.migration.gv.at/de/formen-der-zuwanderung/dauerhafte-zuwanderung/bundesweite-mangelberufe/

Auch Österreich, TU Wien:
2025/26, Informatik: 1.167 Anwärter_innen für 670 Studienplätze
https://www.tuwien.at/tu-wien/aktuelles/news/news/immer-der-reihe-nach
2024: 1352/670 Studienplätze
2022: 742/670 Studienplätze
#itfails #itfailsAT

The instructions here describe how to create systemd service and timers to automate updating both user and system Flatpak installations. The system systemd units will only update the system Flatpaks, whereas the user systemd units will update both the user’s Flatpaks and the system’s. In most cases, having both user and system services to update Flatpaks is unnecessary. The system systemd units are handy for the default Flatpak behavior, which installs Flatpaks system-wide. The user systemd units are great for users who opt to install Flatpaks in their user-specific installation, such as Flatpak developers.

Alle Marketing-Souverenitätsversprechen von #Microsoft an Europa mit paar wenigen Aussagen im französischen Senat zerlegt. Monsieur Carniaux arbeitet für Microsoft France.

Zur NSA/FISA wisse er nichts (das mag gut sein, weil hier die Geheimdienste direkte Kanäle haben zu den amerikanischen Konzernen). Ansonsten sagte er unter Eid aus, dass die Daten im Fall des Cloud Acts an die amerikanischen Behörden weitergegeben werden müssen (natürlich mit Gerichtsverfahren angestrengt usw).

https://www.senat.fr/compte-rendu-commissions/20250609/ce_commande_publique.html

• They employed folks like Nyquist and Shannon, who laid the foundations of modern information theory and electronic engineering while they were employees at Bell.
• They discovered the first evidence of the black hole at the center of our galaxy in the 1930s while analyzing static noise on shortwave transmissions.
• They developed in 1937 the first speech codec and the first speech synthesizer.
• They developed the photovoltaic cell in the 1940, and the first solar cell in the 1950s.
• They built the first transistor in 1947.
• They built the first large-scale electronic computers (from Model I in 1939 to Model VI in 1949).
  -They employed Karnaugh in the 1950s, who worked on the Karnaugh maps that we still study in engineering while he was an employee at Bell.
• They contributed in 1956 (together with AT&T and the British and Canadian telephone companies) to the first transatlantic communications cable.
  -They developed the first electronic musics program in 1957.
  -They employed Kernighan, Thompson and Ritchie, who created UNIX and the C programming language while they were Bell employees.

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Many developers are terrified of losing their jobs for this very reason: AIs sometimes program better than them. And, in my opinion, they are right to be afraid. But I'm more afraid of a world (and not just in IT) where code will depend exclusively on the companies that sell us AIs.

Today, writing code is something free, potentially doable even on a beat-up laptop. But tomorrow? Will we be completely dependent on AIs (even) for this?