There are two things that connect the names Gauss, Riemann, Hilbert and Noether. One is their outstanding breadth of contributions to the field of mathematics. The other is that each was a professor at the same university in Göttingen, Germany. … Read more
Enlarge / An example of an 8-inch floppy disk. It’s unclear which brand disks the German Navy uses. Cromemco, CC BY-SA 4.0 The German Navy is working on modernizing its Brandenburg-class F123 frigates, which means ending their reliance on 8-inch … Read more
Stand: 14.06.2024, 04:51 Uhr Von: Sören Kemnade DruckenTeilen Öl-Konzerne betrügen vermutlich deutsche Verbraucher mit nicht existenten Anlagen. Auch, weil Deutschland keine Kontrolle hatte? Der Umweltausschuss nimmt Stellung. Update vom 12. Juni, 16.21 Uhr: Schwere Vorwürfe gegen das Umweltministerium des Bundes: … Read more
The Document Foundation Thanks to hardware vendors working hand-in-glove with Microsoft, many people never realize there are alternatives to Windows and Office. But that’s not the case in the European Union (EU) and China, where computer users know all about … Read more
Following a successful pilot project, the northern German federal state of Schleswig-Holstein has decided to move from Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office to Linux and LibreOffice (and other free and open source software) on the 30,000 PCs used in the … Read more
Nach langer politischer Auseinandersetzung hat der Bundestag am Freitag, 23. Februar 2024, den Gesetzentwurf der Bundesregierung „zum kontrollierten Umgang mit Cannabis“ (20/8704, 20/8763) gebilligt. Mit dem Gesetz soll Erwachsenen künftig der Besitz von bis zu 50 Gramm Cannabis für den … Read more
Today, noyb has filed a complaint and report against the German credit agency SCHUFA with the Hessian data protection authority. The company appears to be making millions of euros by selling people in Germany their own data. With the help … Read more
We proudly introduce LeoLM (Linguistically Enhanced Open Language Model), the first comprehensive suite of German-language Foundation Language Models trained in collaboration with HessianAI on their new supercomputer 42! Built on Llama-2 and trained on a large-scale, high-quality German text corpus, … Read more
Authorities in Germany this week seized Internet servers that powered FlyHosting, a dark web offering that catered to cybercriminals operating DDoS-for-hire services, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. FlyHosting first advertised on cybercrime forums in November 2022, saying it was a Germany-based hosting … Read more
Serendipity strikes again: Your curator of Economics in the Rear-View Mirror was culling yearbooks of the University of Vermont in the vain hope of finding a photo of the economist Charles W. Mixter when he came upon the following short essay. While … Read more