Month: February 2025

Unternehmen müssen mit der NIS-2-Richtlinie neue Cybersicherheitsstandards erfüllen. Dieser Workshop vermittelt praxisnah, wie sich diese Anforderungen mit ISO 27001 und IT-Grundschutz verbinden lassen. (Golem Karrierewelt, Unternehmenssoftware)

The US Senate on Thursday confirmed the long-time anti-vaccine advocate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as Secretary of Health and Human Services.

The vote was largely along party lines, with a tally of 52 to 48. Sen. Mitch McConnell (R–Ky.), a polio survivor and steadfast supporter of vaccines, voted against the confirmation, the only Republican to do so.

Before the vote, Minority Leader Charles Schumer (D–N.Y.) claimed that if there had been a secret ballot today, most Republicans would have voted against Kennedy. "But sadly, and unfortunately for America, Republicans are being strong-armed by Donald Trump and will end up holding their nose and voting to confirm Mr. Kennedy... What a travesty," Schumer said.

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On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced a roadmap for how the company plans to release GPT-5, the long-awaited followup to 2023's GPT-4 AI language model that made huge waves in both tech and policy circles around the world. In a reply to a question on X, Altman said GPT-5 would be coming in "months," suggesting a release later in 2025.

Initially, Altman explained in a long post on X, the company plans to ship GPT-4.5 (previously known as "Orion" internally) in a matter of "weeks" as OpenAI's last non-simulated reasoning model. Simulated reasoning (SR) models like o3 use a special technique to iteratively process problems posed by users more deeply, but they are slower than conventional large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4o and not ideal for every task.

After that, GPT-5 will be a system that brings together features from across OpenAI's current AI model lineup, including conventional AI models, SR models, and specialized models that do tasks like web search and research. "In both ChatGPT and our API, we will release GPT-5 as a system that integrates a lot of our technology, including o3," he wrote. "We will no longer ship o3 as a standalone model."

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Bei Amazon gibt es derzeit eine beliebte PCI-Express-4.0-SSD zum Bestpreis zu kaufen. (Solid State Drive, Speichermedien)

A little less than a month after the successful debut of its New Glenn rocket, Blue Origin's workforce will be trimmed by 10 percent.

The cuts were announced during an all-hands meeting on Thursday morning led by the rocket company's chief executive, Dave Limp. During the gathering, Limp cited "business strategy" as the rationale for making the cuts to a workforce of more than 10,000 people.

Blue Origin was founded by Jeff Bezos in 2000, and he continues to provide an estimated $2 billion in funding annually to support its operations.

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Amazon hat einen Fahrradträger von Atera für die Anhängerkupplung im Angebot, der auch für E-Bikes und Pedelecs geeignet ist. (Mobilität, Elektromobilität)

Garmin hat neue Versionen der bei Soldaten beliebten Tactix-Sportuhren veröffentlicht. Es gibt AMOLED- und Solarvarianten. (Garmin Fenix, Garmin)

The proposed merger between Honda and Nissan is officially dead. The plan, announced in late December, would have created the world's third-largest automaker, displacing Volkswagen Group from the bronze on the podium. But it was also never quite seen as a merger of equals—many suspected this was a Honda takeover of beleaguered Nissan, at the behest of the Japanese government.

Nissan is already part of a triple-alliance, together with Mitsubishi and France's Renault. Although Mitsubishi considered joining the Honda-Nissan merger, in late January that was old news.

That alliance might have been part of the problem. Although not an actual merger, the car companies involved each own stakes of the other—in Renault's case, it owns 37.5 percent of Nissan. Honda would have liked Nissan to buy out Renault's stake, presumably not keen on such a significant chunk of the company under foreign ownership.

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At its heart, Avowed is a game about colonization. Your protagonist in this action-RPG from the Pillars of Eternity universe is the envoy for the Aedyran Empire, which has for years sent its occupying force to tame and control the wild and unruly islands of the Living Lands. What the Aedyrans try to spin as a civilizing effort in a naturally lawless place, the native residents of the Living Lands, by and large, see as a pillaging army stealing resources at the behest of their far-off masters.

As the Aedyran envoy, you've been sent to investigate and quell the Dreamscourge, a spreading plague that is poisoning the minds of people and beasts throughout the Living Lands. But the citizens you encounter there don't see you as the stock-standard brave hero chosen by providence to save them from an ongoing disaster. Instead, they see you first and foremost as a representative of the same occupying force that has had its metaphorical boot on their necks for years.

That fact alone adds a low-level hum of hatred and mistrust to practically every interaction you have in Avowed. Some characters will confront you with that hate right to your face, often with violence. Some will merely mutter it under their breath as they grudgingly tolerate your presence. Some show fear and/or disgust on their face even as they endeavor to play nice or desperately beg for favors.

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Ein pflanzenbasierte Seuche sorgt in Avowed für Ärger. Das neue Werk von Obsidian bietet tolle Grafik - und blutleere Dialoge (Xbox, PC). Ein Test von Peter Steinlechner (Avowed, Spieletest)