(g+) Datenverarbeitung: Zehn große Herausforderungen für Big Data

Der Umgang mit Big Data ist der Schlüssel für optimierte Unternehmensabläufe und bessere Geschäftsstrategien, aber auch herausfordernd. Wir geben einen Überblick. Ein Ratgebertext von Klaus Manhart (Big Data, Unternehmenssoftware)

Der Umgang mit Big Data ist der Schlüssel für optimierte Unternehmensabläufe und bessere Geschäftsstrategien, aber auch herausfordernd. Wir geben einen Überblick. Ein Ratgebertext von Klaus Manhart (Big Data, Unternehmenssoftware)

Das Tommy-Westphall-Universum: Das größte Shared Universe mit über 400 Serien

1988 wurde der Startschuss für ein inoffizielles, aber riesiges Shared Universe gegeben, das bis dato mehr als 400 Serien umfasst. Von Peter Osteried (Filme & Serien, Star Trek)

1988 wurde der Startschuss für ein inoffizielles, aber riesiges Shared Universe gegeben, das bis dato mehr als 400 Serien umfasst. Von Peter Osteried (Filme & Serien, Star Trek)

Anzeige: Microsoft-365-Admin werden leicht gemacht

In diesem zweiteiligen E-Learning-Starterpaket mit über 90 Lektionen und mehr als acht Stunden Videoinhalt wird Junior-Admins gezeigt, wie Microsoft 365 erfolgreich eingerichtet und verwaltet werden kann. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

In diesem zweiteiligen E-Learning-Starterpaket mit über 90 Lektionen und mehr als acht Stunden Videoinhalt wird Junior-Admins gezeigt, wie Microsoft 365 erfolgreich eingerichtet und verwaltet werden kann. (Golem Karrierewelt, Sicherheitslücke)

NASA’s Starliner decision was the right one, but it’s a crushing blow for Boeing

It’s unlikely Boeing can fly all six of its Starliner missions before retirement of the ISS in 2030.

A Starliner spacecraft mounted on top of an Atlas V rocket before an unpiloted test flight in 2022.

Enlarge / A Starliner spacecraft mounted on top of an Atlas V rocket before an unpiloted test flight in 2022. (credit: Boeing)

Ten years ago next month NASA announced that Boeing, one of the agency's most experienced contractors, won the lion's share of government money available to end the agency's sole reliance on Russia to ferry its astronauts to and from low-Earth orbit.

At the time, Boeing won $4.2 billion from NASA to complete development of the Starliner spacecraft and fly a minimum of two, and potentially up to six, operational crew flights to rotate crews between Earth and the International Space Station (ISS). SpaceX won a $2.6 billion contract for essentially the same scope of work.

A decade later the Starliner program finds itself at a crossroads after Boeing learned it will not complete the spacecraft's first Crew Flight Test with astronauts onboard. NASA formally decided Saturday that Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who launched on the Starliner capsule June 5, will instead return to Earth inside a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft. Put simply, NASA isn't confident enough in Boeing's spacecraft after it suffered multiple thrusters failures and helium leaks on the way to the ISS.

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Shocker: French make surprise arrest of Telegram founder at Paris airport

Lack of moderation on Telegram claimed to be reason for arrest.

Pavel Durov, Telegram founder and former CEO of Vkontakte, in happier (and younger) days.

Pavel Durov, Telegram founder and former CEO of Vkontakte, in happier (and younger) days. (credit: Pavel Durov/VK)

Late this afternoon at a Parisian airport, French authorities detained Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging/publication service. They are allegedly planning to hit him tomorrow with serious charges related to abetting terrorism, fraud, money laundering, and crimes against children, all of it apparently stemming from a near-total lack of moderation on Telegram. According to French authorities, thanks to its encryption and support for crypto, Telegram has become the new top tool for organized crime.

The French outlet TF1 had the news first from sources within the investigation. (Reuters and CNN have since run stories as well.) Their source said, "Pavel Durov will definitely end up in pretrial detention. On his platform, he allowed an incalculable number of offenses and crimes to be committed, which he does nothing to moderate nor does he cooperate."

Durov is a 39-year-old who gained a fortune by building VKontakte, a Russian version of Facebook, before being forced out of his company by the Kremlin. He left Russia and went on to start Telegram, which became widely popular, especially in Europe. He was arrested today when his private plane flew from Azerbaijan to Paris's Bourget Airport.

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Shocker: French make surprise arrest of Telegram founder at Paris airport

Lack of moderation on Telegram claimed to be reason for arrest.

Pavel Durov, Telegram founder and former CEO of Vkontakte, in happier (and younger) days.

Pavel Durov, Telegram founder and former CEO of Vkontakte, in happier (and younger) days. (credit: Pavel Durov/VK)

Late this afternoon at a Parisian airport, French authorities detained Pavel Durov, the founder of the Telegram messaging/publication service. They are allegedly planning to hit him tomorrow with serious charges related to abetting terrorism, fraud, money laundering, and crimes against children, all of it apparently stemming from a near-total lack of moderation on Telegram. According to French authorities, thanks to its encryption and support for crypto, Telegram has become the new top tool for organized crime.

The French outlet TF1 had the news first from sources within the investigation. (Reuters and CNN have since run stories as well.) Their source said, "Pavel Durov will definitely end up in pretrial detention. On his platform, he allowed an incalculable number of offenses and crimes to be committed, which he does nothing to moderate nor does he cooperate."

Durov is a 39-year-old who gained a fortune by building VKontakte, a Russian version of Facebook, before being forced out of his company by the Kremlin. He left Russia and went on to start Telegram, which became widely popular, especially in Europe. He was arrested today when his private plane flew from Azerbaijan to Paris's Bourget Airport.

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NASA not comfortable with Starliner thrusters, so crew will fly home on Dragon

“I would say the White Sands testing did give us a surprise.”

Photos of Crew Dragon relocation on the International Space Station.

Enlarge / Crew Dragon approaches the International Space Station (credit: NASA TV)

Following weeks of speculation, NASA finally made it official on Saturday: two astronauts who flew to the International Space Station on Boeing's Starliner spacecraft in June will not return home on that vehicle. Instead, the agency has asked SpaceX to use its Crew Dragon spacecraft to fly astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams back to Earth.

"NASA has decided that Butch and Suni will return with Crew-9 next February," said NASA Administrator Bill Nelson at the outset of a news conference on Saturday afternoon at Johnson Space Center.

In a sign of the gravity surrounding the agency's decision, both Nelson and NASA's deputy administrator, Pam Melroy, attended a Flight Readiness Review meeting held Saturday in Houston. During that gathering of the agency's senior officials, an informal "go/no go" poll was taken. Those present voted unanimously for Wilmore and Williams to return to Earth on Crew Dragon. The official recommendation of the Commercial Crew Program was the same, and Nelson accepted it.

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