Month: June 2025

Nahtlose Integration mit Garmin Connect, besonders gute Daten: Garmin stellt mit dem Index Sleep Monitor ein Wearable zur Schlafanalyse vor. (Garmin, Wearable)

Die EU-Kommission hat bei Aliexpress eine Verletzung der Pflichten gegen die Verbreitung illegaler Produkte festgestellt und konkrete Gegenmaßnahmen mit dem Versandhändler vereinbart. (EU, Wirtschaft)

An experimental reusable rocket developed by the research and development arm of Honda Motor Company flew to an altitude of nearly 900 feet Tuesday, then landed with pinpoint precision at the carmaker's test facility in northern Japan.

The accomplishment may not sound like much, but it's important to put it into perspective. Honda's hopper is the first prototype rocket outside of the United States and China to complete a flight of this kind, demonstrating vertical takeoff and vertical landing technology that could underpin development of a reusable launch vehicle.

While Tuesday's announcement by Honda was unexpected, the company has talked about rockets before. In 2021, Honda officials revealed they had been working on a rocket engine for at least two years. At the time, officials said a small satellite launch vehicle was part of Honda's roadmap.

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Drei Satelliten sollen fernab der Erde Gravitationswellen aufspüren. Die Erschütterungen der Raumzeit lassen sich im Weltall besser messen. (Gravitationswellen, Laser)

Ein deutsch-französisches Start-up stellt eine europäische Raumkapsel für die astronautische Raumfahrt vor. Das erste Modell wird aber nur Fracht transportieren. (Raumschiff, Raumfahrt)

Datenaufnahme und -verarbeitung sind wichtige Teile der Datenpipeline. Wir erklären mit Codebeispielen, welche Design Patterns hier die Arbeit erleichtern. Eine Anleitung von Antony Ghiroz (Ein Datenmuster für alle, Python)

Former Cloudflare executive John Graham-Cumming recently announced that he launched a website, lowbackgroundsteel.ai, that treats pre-AI, human-created content like a precious commodity—a time capsule of organic creative expression from a time before machines joined the conversation. "The idea is to point to sources of text, images and video that were created prior to the explosion of AI-generated content," Graham-Cumming wrote on his blog last week. The reason? To preserve what made non-AI media uniquely human.

The archive name comes from a scientific phenomenon from the Cold War era. After nuclear weapons testing began in 1945, atmospheric radiation contaminated new steel production worldwide. For decades, scientists needing radiation-free metal for sensitive instruments had to salvage steel from pre-war shipwrecks. Scientists called this steel "low-background steel." Graham-Cumming sees a parallel with today's web, where AI-generated content increasingly mingles with human-created material and contaminates it.

With the advent of generative AI models like ChatGPT and Stable Diffusion in 2022, it has become far more difficult for researchers to ensure that media found on the Internet was created by humans without using AI tools. ChatGPT in particular triggered an avalanche of AI-generated text across the web, forcing at least one research project to shut down entirely.

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Das Singleplayer-Actionspiel Control gilt als kleiner Kult, die frisch veröffentlichte Koop-Version FBC Firebreak kommt bei Fans nur mäßig an. (Control, Spiele)

Packende Unterhaltung beim Schauen von Filmen, Serien und Sport bietet ein beliebter Samsung-TV, der bei Amazon jetzt besonders günstig ist. (Samsung, Heimkino)

Durch Verkettung der beiden Lücken lassen sich Linux-Systeme vollständig kompromittieren. Admins sollten so bald wie möglich patchen. (Sicherheitslücke, Ubuntu)