Month: May 2025

Statt im Direktvertrieb gibt es Vinfasts Elektroautos künftig nur noch bei Händlern. Das Unternehmen hat eine neue Kooperation bekannt gegeben. (Elektroauto, Wirtschaft)

Eine private Mail-Adresse eines Doge-Mitarbeiters soll in 51 bekannten Datenlecks enthalten sein. Zudem sind seine Zugangsdaten in mehreren Stealer-Logs aufgetaucht. (Datenleck, Virus)

Laut Bundesarbeitsgericht können Arbeitnehmer Schadenersatz verlangen, wenn ihre Daten unzulässig im Konzern weitergegeben werden. (Datenschutz, Politik)

Das Hypershell-Exoskelett unterstützt beim Wandern - hilft es auch Menschen mit körperlichen Einschränkungen? Betroffene haben es mit uns ausprobiert. Ein Bericht von Tobias Költzsch (Exoskelett, Medizin)

Protokolle, Hardware, Monitoring - dieser fünftägige Online-Workshop vermittelt IT-Admins kompakt das essenzielle Praxiswissen, um Netzwerke effizient aufzubauen, zu betreiben und sicher zu gestalten. (Golem Karrierewelt, Security)

Far fewer babies went to the hospital struggling to breathe from RSV, a severe respiratory infection, after the debut of a new vaccine and treatment this season, according to an analysis published today by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

RSV, or respiratory syncytial (sin-SISH-uhl) virus, is the leading cause of hospitalization for infants in the US. An estimated 58,000–80,000 children younger than 5 years old are hospitalized each year. Newborns—babies between 0 and 2 months—are the most at risk of being hospitalized with RSV. The virus circulates seasonally, typically rising in the fall and peaking in the winter, like many other respiratory infections.

But the 2024–2025 season was different—there were two new ways to protect against the infection. One is a maternal vaccine, Pfizer's Abrysvo, which is given to pregnant people when their third trimester aligns with RSV season (generally September through January). Maternal antibodies generated from the vaccination pass to the fetus in the uterus and can protect a newborn in the first few months of life. The other new protection against RSV is a long-acting monoclonal antibody treatment, nirsevimab, which is given to babies under 8 months old as they enter or are born into their first RSV season and may not be protected by maternal antibodies.

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Kosmos 482, a Soviet-era spacecraft shrouded in Cold War secrecy, will reenter the Earth's atmosphere in the next few days after misfiring on a journey to Venus more than 50 years ago.

On average, a piece of space junk the size of Kosmos 482, with a mass of about a half-ton, falls into the atmosphere about once per week. What's different this time is that Kosmos 482 was designed to land on Venus, with a titanium heat shield built to withstand scorching temperatures, and structures engineered to survive atmospheric pressures nearly 100 times higher than Earth's.

So, there's a good chance the spacecraft will survive the extreme forces it encounters during its plunge through the atmosphere. Typically, space debris breaks apart and burns up during reentry, with only a small fraction of material reaching the Earth's surface. The European Space Agency, one of several institutions that track space debris, says Kosmos 482 is "highly likely" to reach Earth's surface in one piece.

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Using AI can be a double-edged sword, according to new research from Duke University. While generative AI tools may boost productivity for some, they might also secretly damage your professional reputation.

On Thursday, the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) published a study showing that employees who use AI tools like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini at work face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from colleagues and managers.

"Our findings reveal a dilemma for people considering adopting AI tools: Although AI can enhance productivity, its use carries social costs," write researchers Jessica A. Reif, Richard P. Larrick, and Jack B. Soll of Duke's Fuqua School of Business.

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A startup called Zettlab is running a Kickstarter crowdfunding campaign for a new line of network-attached storage devices that not only store your data and make it available across all your gadgets, but can also leverage on-device AI capabilities to classify your data and make it searchable using natural language. The Zettlab AI NAS systems feature support […]

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On Wednesday, OpenAI announced that Instacart CEO Fidji Simo will join the maker of ChatGPT as "CEO of Applications" later this year, according to a company blog post. Simo, who has served on the company's board since March 2024, will oversee business and operational teams while continuing to report directly to Altman in the newly created role. Altman will remain the primary CEO of OpenAI.

According to Reuters, Simo spent a decade at Meta, including a stint serving as the head of Facebook from 2019 to 2021. She also currently sits on the board of e-commerce services site Shopify.

The announcement came earlier than planned due to what Altman described as "a leak" that "accelerated our timeline." At OpenAI, Simo will manage what Altman called "traditional company functions" as the organization enters its "next phase of growth." The applications category at OpenAI includes products like ChatGPT, the popular AI assistant.

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