Month: December 2024

Amazon hat beheizbare Socken mit Akku und App-Steuerung im Angebot, mit denen kalte Füße der Vergangenheit angehören. (Technik/Hardware, Bluetooth)

Die Produktion von Elektroautos nimmt in Deutschland weiter zu. Doch die Verkäufe liegen deutlich unter Vorjahresniveau, vor allem bei Tesla. (Elektroauto, Tesla)

Bisher wurde der Qualcomm-Chip mit ARM-Kernen fast ausschließlich in Notebooks verbaut. Geekom hat einen Mini-PC damit angeteasert. (Qualcomm, Embedded Systems)

Wer smarte Beleuchtung zum Sparpreis sucht, findet bei Amazon derzeit einen intelligenten LED-Strip für deutlich unter 20 Euro im Angebot. (Beleuchtung, Technik/Hardware)

Ex-Vimcar-CTO Lukas Weber spricht im Interview über Euphorie, Wut und die Einsamkeit an der Spitze eines Start-ups. (Chefs von Devs, Interview)

Über die Finanzierung von GMX Free Phone ist viel spekuliert worden. Nun spricht der Anbieter über seine Vermarktungsstrategien. (GMX, E-Mail)

A system of non-competition clauses enforced by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) workforce suppliers is allegedly trapping aerospace professionals who work at ESA’s facilities across Europe in a professional dead-end street. Their contracts prevent job mobility and the possibility to earn better pay, a large number of contractors have alleged to Ars Technica. And as nations that host ESA facilities have enacted laws that give some contractors greater rights, the ESA itself has adopted a policy that will shift more of its indirect employees to service positions, which would not be protected by these laws.

When asked about these issues, an ESA spokesperson said there are “employment conditions in which ESA is not to interfere” and that non-competition clauses “remain within the remit of the employer and the employee.”

The European Space Agency, Europe’s version of NASA, is an intergovernmental organization comprising 22 member states. With facilities in six European countries, the agency relies on contractors—scientists, engineers, and admin workers—hired through payroll companies. These contractors, who work alongside ESA’s staff on the agency’s space projects, constitute over half of the agency’s workforce, according to available estimates.

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A system of non-competition clauses enforced by the European Space Agency’s (ESA) workforce suppliers is allegedly trapping aerospace professionals who work at ESA’s facilities across Europe in a professional dead-end street. Their contracts prevent job mobility and the possibility to earn better pay, a large number of contractors have alleged to Ars Technica. And as nations that host ESA facilities have enacted laws that give some contractors greater rights, the ESA itself has adopted a policy that will shift more of its indirect employees to service positions, which would not be protected by these laws.

When asked about these issues, an ESA spokesperson said there are “employment conditions in which ESA is not to interfere” and that non-competition clauses “remain within the remit of the employer and the employee.”

The European Space Agency, Europe’s version of NASA, is an intergovernmental organization comprising 22 member states. With facilities in six European countries, the agency relies on contractors—scientists, engineers, and admin workers—hired through payroll companies. These contractors, who work alongside ESA’s staff on the agency’s space projects, constitute over half of the agency’s workforce, according to available estimates.

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Indirekt hat AMD per Treiber-Update angekündigt, dass es zum Start von RDNA 4 eine Grafikkarte im Budget-Segment geben wird. Anders als bei Nvidia. (Grafikkarten, AMD)

Mit dem Infrastructure-as-Code-Werkzeug Spacelift sollen Admins komplette Setups in kürzester Zeit in der Cloud ausrollen und immun gegen Probleme machen können. Eine Analyse von Martin Loschwitz (Tools, Server)