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Mit einem auf den Benchmark angepassten KI-Modell konnte Meta Platz 2 bei LMArena erreichen. Ohne Cheats geht es abwärts. (Meta, KI)

Vom 1. Mai an sind in Deutschland nur noch digitale Passbilder erlaubt. Die erforderlichen Geräte und Clouddienste liegen noch nicht überall vor. Von Friedhelm Greis (Biometrie, Datenschutz)

Das System, das in großem Format seit Jahrzehnten genutzt wird, soll den Solarstrom vom Dach genauso speichern können wie eine Batterie. (Energiewende, Akku)

Über 216.000 Datensätze von Samsung Deutschland sind in die Hände eines Angreifers gelangt. Anwender können jetzt prüfen, ob sie betroffen sind. (Datenleck, Datenschutz)

Die nationale Rundfunkvereinigung der USA entwickelt eine Alternative zu GPS. Diese ist zwar weniger genau, aber auch weniger störanfällig. (Navigationssystem, GPS)

In zahlreichen Ländern bietet Spotify bereits Hörbücher an. Nun soll der Dienst auch in Deutschland starten, ohne Mehrkosten für Abonnenten. (Spotify, Streaming)

Thursday’s major data breach occurred during the upload process to the government website. As a result, the personal data of civil servants has inadvertently remained visible. NOS journalist Joost Schellevis has discovered this. The core of the problem lies in the upload process. Documents contain metadata such as the name of the author. When published […]

ThoughtSpot has expanded its Spotter conversational assistant with reasoning skills. In addition to executing queries, the assistant can brainstorm and make recommendations. The core of the update is the new ‘change analysis’ function. Spotter now also explains why certain trends occur. “I don’t think anybody wakes up in the morning and says they’re excited about […]

VMware has announced a major upgrade for its vSphere Foundation suite. The virtualization pioneer and Broadcom division announced this week that it has opened the beta for version 9 of the bundle. The Register has more. The update is intended for organizations that do not need a complete private cloud, but want software-defined compute and […]

Researchers are concerned that some AI models hide their actual thought processes. New research by Anthropic shows that one of their models masks abbreviated reasoning in 75% of cases. Instead, the application provides elaborate but made-up explanations. The research, which Ars Technica writes about, focuses on so-called simulated reasoning (SR) models, such as DeepSeek’s R1 […]

Cohesity and Google Cloud will collaborate more closely to protect organizations against cyber threats. The new solutions will help companies detect threats earlier, respond more effectively to incidents, and recover data more quickly after attacks. An important innovation is the integration of Google Threat Intelligence into Cohesity Data Cloud. This service is supported by hundreds […]

The American government revoked Chris Krebs’s security clearance. Krebs is the head of intelligence and government policy at the Israeli-American cybersecurity company SentinelOne. The measure also applies to anyone associated with Krebs. This writes Globes, Israeli business news. SentinelOne, founded by Israeli entrepreneur and CEO Tomer Weingarten, was dealt a severe blow after the US […]