Month: June 2025

Die Digitalisierung der Verwaltung soll langfristig Geld sparen. Zunächst kostet sie aber Geld: Vor allem die Kosten für Softwarelizenzen sind stark gestiegen. (Digitalisierung, Politik)

Ein Arbeitsgericht hat den Begriff Digital Natives in Stellenanzeigen verboten. Wir fragen nach: Fühlen sich Ältere auf dem IT-Jobmarkt diskriminiert? Ein Bericht von Lars Lubienetzki (Arbeit, Wirtschaft)

Star Trek: Voyager startete am 21. Juni 1995 im deutschen TV. Ein paar kuriose Fakten zum Geburtstag. Von Peter Osteried (Star Trek, Usenet)

Vom 21. Juni bis 21. September bietet die Golem Karrierewelt 25 Prozent Rabatt auf zahlreiche Kurse und E-Learning-Pakete - ideal für alle, die digitale Kompetenzen gezielt und selbsbestimmt ausbauen möchten. (Golem Karrierewelt, Unternehmenssoftware)

This week AAEON introduced a credit card-sized computer with an Intel Twin lake processor and optional support for a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO header. But if you’re looking for something even more powerful and don’t need the compatibility with Raspberry Pi add-ons, the company has also launched a similarly-sized single-board PC with an Intel Raptor […]

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This week AAEON introduced a credit card-sized computer with an Intel Twin lake processor and optional support for a Raspberry Pi-compatible 40-pin GPIO header. But if you’re looking for something even more powerful and don’t need the compatibility with Raspberry Pi add-ons, the company has also launched a similarly-sized single-board PC with an Intel Raptor […]

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Today marks the 50th anniversary of Jaws, Steven Spielberg's blockbuster horror movie based on the bestselling novel by Peter Benchley. We're marking the occasion with a tribute to this classic film and its enduring impact on the popular perception of sharks, shark conservation efforts, and our culture at large.

(Many spoilers below.)

Jaws tells the story of Chief Martin Brody (Roy Scheider), the new police chief for Amity Island, a New England beach town and prime summer tourist attraction. But that thriving industry is threatened by a series of shark attacks, although the local mayor, Larry Vaughn (Murray Hamilton), initially dismisses the possibility, ridiculing the findings of visiting marine biologist Matt Hooper (Richard Dreyfuss). The attacks keep escalating and the body count grows, until the town hires a grizzled shark hunter named Quint (Robert Shaw) to hunt down and kill the great white shark, with the help of Brody and Hooper.

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Large-scale attacks designed to bring down Internet services by sending them more traffic than they can process keep getting bigger, with the largest one yet, measured at 7.3 terabits per second, being reported Friday by Internet security and performance provider Cloudflare.

The 7.3Tbps attack amounted to 37.4 terabytes of junk traffic that hit the target in just 45 seconds. That's an almost comprehensible amount of data, equivalent to more than 9,300 full-length HD movies or 7,500 hours of HD streaming content in well under a minute.

Indiscriminate target bombing

Cloudflare said the attackers “carpet bombed” an average of nearly 22,000 destination ports of a single IP address belonging to the target, identified only as a Cloudflare customer. A total of 34,500 ports were targeted, indicating the thoroughness and well-engineered nature of the attack.

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On Thursday, Microsoft's Azure Quantum group announced that it has settled on a plan for getting error correction on quantum computers. While the company pursues its own hardware efforts, the Azure team is a platform provider that currently gives access to several distinct types of hardware qubits. So it has chosen a scheme that is suitable for several different quantum computing technologies (notably excluding its own). The company estimates that the system it has settled on can take hardware qubits with an error rate of about 1 in 1,000 and use them to build logical qubits where errors are instead 1 in 1 million.

While it's describing the scheme in terms of mathematical proofs and simulations, it hasn't shown that it works using actual hardware yet. But one of its partners, Atom Computing, is accompanying the announcement with a description of how its machine is capable of performing all the operations that will be needed.

Arbitrary connections

There are similarities and differences between what the company is talking about today and IBM's recent update of its roadmap, which described another path to error-resistant quantum computing. In IBM's case, it makes both the software stack that will perform the error correction and the hardware needed to implement it. It uses chip-based hardware, with the connections among qubits mediated by wiring that's laid out when the chip is fabricated. Since error correction schemes require a very specific layout of connections among qubits, once IBM decides on a quantum error correction scheme, it can design chips with the wiring needed to implement that scheme.

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MIT graduate student Alex Kachkine once spent nine months meticulously restoring a damaged baroque Italian painting, which left him plenty of time to wonder if technology could speed things up. Last week, MIT News announced his solution: a technique that uses AI-generated polymer films to physically restore damaged paintings in hours rather than months. The research appears in Nature.

Kachkine's method works by printing a transparent "mask" containing thousands of precisely color-matched regions that conservators can apply directly to an original artwork. Unlike traditional restoration, which permanently alters the painting, these masks can reportedly be removed whenever needed. So it's a reversible process that does not permanently change a painting.

"Because there's a digital record of what mask was used, in 100 years, the next time someone is working with this, they'll have an extremely clear understanding of what was done to the painting," Kachkine told MIT News. "And that's never really been possible in conservation before."

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