- Physicists Confirm The Existence of a Third Form of Magnetism
Mittwoch 7:00 – BeauHD at Slashdot
Scientists have demonstrated control over a newly theorized type of magnetism, known as altermagnetism, by manipulating nanoscale magnetic whirlpools in an ultra-thin wafer of manganese telluride. „Our experimental work has provided a bridge between theoretical concepts and real-life realization, which hopefully illuminates a path to developing altermagnetic materials for practical applications,“ says University of Nottingham physicist Oliver Amin, who led the research with PhD student Alfred Dal Din. From the report: Using a device that accelerates electrons to blinding speeds, a team led by … - USPS Halts All Packages From China, Sending the Ecommerce Industry Into Chaos
Mittwoch 5:07 – BeauHD at Slashdot
The United States Postal Service has suspended all package shipments from China and Hong Kong following President Donald Trump’s decision to eliminate the de minimis exemption, which previously allowed small packages under $800 to enter the U.S. without import duties. „The move could potentially create chaos and confusion across the online shopping industry, as well as make purchases more expensive for consumers, especially because many global manufacturers and internet sellers are located in China,“ reports Wired. „Shoppers are now on the hook not only for the additional 10 percent tariff, bu … - UK Team Invents Self-Healing Road Surface To Prevent Potholes
Mittwoch 3:30 – BeauHD at Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Guardian: For all motorists, but perhaps the Ferrari-collecting rocker Rod Stewart in particular, it will be music to the ears: researchers have developed a road surface that heals when it cracks, preventing potholes without a need for human intervention. The international team devised a self-healing bitumen that mends cracks as they form by fusing the asphalt back together. In laboratory tests, pieces of the material repaired small fractures within an hour of them first appearing. „When you close the cracks you prevent potholes forming in the futur … - OpenAI Partners With California State University System
Mittwoch 0:50 – BeauHD at Slashdot
OpenAI is partnering with the California State University (CSU) system to bring ChatGPT Edu to the 23-campus community of 500,000 students, calling it the „largest implementation of ChatGPT by any single organization or company anywhere in the world.“ Fortune reports: As part of ChatGPT Edu, members of the CSU community will get special access to ChatGPT-4o and advanced research and analysis capabilities. The partnership allows schools to create customizable AI chatbots for any project, like a campus IT help desk bot, financial aid assistant, chemistry tutor, or orientation buddy. CSU also pla … - Apple Announces 'Invites' App, Raises AppleCare+ Subscription Prices For iPhone
Mittwoch 0:10 – BeauHD at Slashdot
Apple has announced Apple Invites, a new iPhone app designed to help you manage your social life. Engadget reports: The idea behind Apple Invites is that you can create and share custom invitations for any event or occasion. You can use your own photos or backgrounds in the app as an image for the invite. Image Playground is built into Invites and you can use that to generate an images for the invitation instead. Other Apple Intelligence features such as Writing Tools are baked in as well, in case you need a hand to craft the right message for your invitation. The tech giant also said it was i … - Google Removes Pledge To Not Use AI For Weapons From Website
Dienstag 23:30 – BeauHD at Slashdot
Google has updated its public AI principles page to remove a pledge to not build AI for weapons or surveillance. TechCrunch reports: Asked for comment, the company pointed TechCrunch to a new blog post on „responsible AI.“ It notes, in part, „we believe that companies, governments, and organizations sharing these values should work together to create AI that protects people, promotes global growth, and supports national security.“ Google’s newly updated AI principles note the company will work to „mitigate unintended or harmful outcomes and avoid unfair bias,“ as well as align the company with … - AI-Generated Slop Is Already In Your Public Library
Dienstag 22:50 – BeauHD at Slashdot
An anonymous reader writes: Low quality books that appear to be AI generated are making their way into public libraries via their digital catalogs, forcing librarians who are already understaffed to either sort through a functionally infinite number of books to determine what is written by humans and what is generated by AI, or to spend taxpayer dollars to provide patrons with information they don’t realize is AI-generated. Public libraries primarily use two companies to manage and lend ebooks: Hoopla and OverDrive, the latter of which people may know from its borrowing app, Libby. Both compan … - Citigroup Is Sticking With a Hybrid Work Schedule. Here's Why It Gives the Bank a Competitive Advantage, According to Its CEO.
Dienstag 22:17 – Sherin Shibu at Entrepreneur
Citigroup is standing its ground as other Wall Street banks enforce strict return-to-office mandates. - RISC-V Mainboard For the Framework Laptop 13 Is Now Available
Dienstag 22:10 – BeauHD at Slashdot
The DeepComputing RISC-V Mainboard that Framework announced last year for its 13-inch laptops is now available for $199. Liliputing reports: If you already have a Framework Laptop 13 with an Intel or AMD motherboard, the new board is a drop-in replacement. But if you don’t have a Framework Laptop you can also use the mainboard as a standalone computer: Framework sells a $39 Cooler Master case that effectively turns its mainboards into mini desktop computers. The RISC-V Mainboard comes from a partnership between Framework and DeepComputing, the Chinese company behind the DC-ROMA laptops, which … - Keycloak and Docker Integration: A Step-by-Step Tutorial
Dienstag 22:00 – Michał Zięba at DZone.com Feed
Keycloak is a powerful authentication and authorization solution that provides plenty of useful features, such as roles and subgroups, an advanced password policy, and single sign-on. It’s also very easy to integrate with other solutions. We’ve already shown you how to connect Keycloak to your Angular app, but there’s more you can do. For example, by integrating this technology with Cypress, you can enable the simulation of real-user login scenarios, including multi-factor authentication and social logins, ensuring that security protocols are correctly implemented and functioning as expected. … - $42 Billion Broadband Grant Program May Scrap Biden Admin's Preference For Fiber
Dienstag 21:30 – BeauHD at Slashdot
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: US Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas) has been demanding an overhaul of a $42.45 billion broadband deployment program, and now his telecom policy director has been chosen to lead the federal agency in charge of the grant money. „Congratulations to my Telecom Policy Director, Arielle Roth, for being nominated to lead NTIA,“ Cruz wrote last night, referring to President Trump’s pick to lead the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. Roth’s nomination is pending Senate approval. Roth works for the Senate Commerce Committee, which … - Teradata Performance and Skew Prevention Tips
Dienstag 21:00 – Sudheer Kumar Lagisetty at DZone.com Feed
Understanding Teradata Data Distribution and Performance Optimization Teradata performance optimization and database tuning are crucial for modern enterprise data warehouses. Effective data distribution strategies and data placement mechanisms are key to maintaining fast query responses and system performance, especially when handling petabyte-scale data and real-time analytics. Understanding data distribution mechanisms, workload management, and data warehouse management directly affects query optimization, system throughput, and database performance optimization. These database management t … - Red Hat Plans to Add AI to Fedora and GNOME
Dienstag 20:50 – BeauHD at Slashdot
In his post about the future of Fedora Workstation, Christian F.K. Schaller discusses how the Red Hat team plans to integrate AI with IBM’s open-source Granite engine to enhance developer tools, such as IDEs, and create an AI-powered Code Assistant. He says the team is also working on streamlining AI acceleration in Toolbx and ensuring Fedora users have access to tools like RamaLama. From the post: One big item on our list for the year is looking at ways Fedora Workstation can make use of artificial intelligence. Thanks to IBMs Granite effort we know have an AI engine that is available under p … - 'Pride of His Hometown': Who Is DeepSeek Founder Liang Wenfeng? What to Know About the 40-Year Old Billionaire
Dienstag 20:02 – Sherin Shibu at Entrepreneur
Wenfeng previously ran a hedge fund with $14 billion in assets. - Productivity and Organization Tips for Software Engineers
Dienstag 20:00 – Tyler Hawkins at DZone.com Feed
I’ve been a software engineer for a little over a decade now, and I like to think I’m a pretty organized person. I have a system for everything, and these systems help my mind and my day run more smoothly.
Organization isn’t something that comes naturally to everyone, so today, I thought I’d share some of my strategies that help me have a productive and fulfilling work day. - Amazon, King of Online Retail, Can't Seem To Make Its Physical Stores Work
Dienstag 19:21 – msmash at Slashdot
Amazon’s brick-and-mortar expansion has faltered, WSJ reported Tuesday, as the e-commerce giant plans to close its Amazon Go store in Woodland Hills, California, shrinking the cashierless convenience store chain to 16 locations across four states, down from roughly twice that number in early 2023. The company is pivoting to license its „Just Walk Out“ technology, now used by more than 200 retailers including colleges and airports, while focusing its physical retail strategy on grocery stores through Whole Foods Market and Amazon Fresh locations. Amazon’s other physical retail experiments, incl … - 'Restaurants Are Being Forced to Make Difficult Decisions': Waffle House Is Adding a Per Egg Surcharge
Dienstag 19:07 – Erin Davis at Entrepreneur
Egg shortages are causing prices to skyrocket. - Leveraging Neo4j for Effective Identity Access Management
Dienstag 19:00 – Ramesh Manickavel at DZone.com Feed
A while ago, I explored Neo4j, a powerful graph database, earlier for the implementation of the „six degrees of separation“ concept. I like the way it simplified the complexity of the relationship visually with the advantage of flexible schema representation.
After some time, while exploring another use case in Identity Access Management (IAM) policies, I revisited Neo4j. I was amazed by the analytical capabilities it offered and the potential for building Generative AI applications using Neo4j’s GraphRAG. - What HVAC Marketing Can Teach Every Industry About Winning in 2025
Dienstag 19:00 – Scott Baradell at Entrepreneur
The HVAC industry is rewriting the marketing playbook, leveraging data, sustainability and digital transformation to engage customers in ways other industries can’t ignore. - Cruise To Slash Workforce By Nearly 50% After GM Cuts Funding To Robotaxi Operations
Dienstag 18:40 – msmash at Slashdot
Autonomous vehicle company Cruise will lay off about half of its 2,100 employees and remove several top executives, including CEO Marc Whitten, as parent company General Motors shifts away from robotaxi development to focus on personal autonomous vehicles. The cuts come two months after GM said it would stop funding Cruise’s robotaxi program to save $1 billion annually. Affected workers will receive severance packages including eight weeks of pay and benefits through April. The restructuring follows an October incident where a Cruise vehicle dragged a pedestrian, leading to the suspension of i … - These Are the Top 5 Threats Facing Retailers Right Now — and What You Can Do to Get Ahead of Them
Dienstag 18:30 – Ben Crudo at Entrepreneur
Brands that confront these challenges will improve their odds of success in the year ahead. - Panasonic To Cut Costs To Support Shift Into AI
Dienstag 18:00 – msmash at Slashdot
Panasonic will cut its costs, restructure underperforming units and revamp its workforce as it pivots toward AI data centers and away from its consumer electronics roots, the company said on Tuesday. The Japanese conglomerate aims to boost profits by 300 billion yen ($1.93 billion) by March 2029, partly by consolidating production and logistics operations. Bloomberg reports that CEO Yuki Kusumi has declined to confirm if the company would divest its TV business but said alternatives were being considered. The Tesla battery supplier plans to integrate AI across operations through a partnership … - A Guide to Automating AWS Infrastructure Deployment
Dienstag 18:00 – Praveen Kumar Thopalle at DZone.com Feed
When it comes to managing infrastructure in the cloud, AWS provides several powerful tools that help automate the creation and management of resources.
One of the most effective ways to handle deployments is through AWS CloudFormation. It allows you to define your infrastructure in a declarative way, making it easy to automate the provisioning of AWS services, including Elastic Beanstalk, serverless applications, EC2 instances, security groups, load balancers, and more. - 5 Key Digital Marketing Statistics to Improve Your Law Firm's Strategy in 2025
Dienstag 18:00 – Chris Dreyer at Entrepreneur
In 2025, law firms must embrace the rapidly evolving digital marketing landscape to stay competitive and capitalize on emerging opportunities. - Making Money Matters, But So Does Your Mission — Here's How to Balance Both
Dienstag 17:30 – Darian Shimy at Entrepreneur
Balancing mission and revenue is crucial — stay focused, avoid distractions and align financial opportunities with your startup’s core vision. - Americans Kiss Job Hopping Goodbye
Dienstag 17:20 – msmash at Slashdot
Americans quit 39.6 million jobs in 2024, an 11% drop from 2023 and 22% below the 2022 peak, Labor Department data showed Tuesday, signaling an end to the post-pandemic job-switching frenzy. The monthly quit rate fell below pre-pandemic levels as workers faced diminishing options in a cooling labor market. Available positions per unemployed worker dropped to 1.1 from 2 in March 2022, while hiring declined to a monthly average of 3.5% in 2024 from 4.4% in 2021. Total hiring fell to 66 million in 2024 from 71 million in 2023, though the job market remained stable. The unemployment rate held at 4 … - 'Every Single One of These Countries Wants to Make Deal': How President Donald Trump's Tariffs Are Transforming Trade With Mexico, Canada and China
Dienstag 17:09 – David James at Entrepreneur
Canada and Mexico have made concessions, the White House announced, while China plans retaliation as its tariffs go into effect. - Data Governance Essentials: Policies and Procedures (Part 6)
Dienstag 17:00 – Sukanya Konatam at DZone.com Feed
What Is Data Governance, and How Do Data Quality, Policies, and Procedures Strengthen It?
Data governance refers to the overall management of data availability, usability, integrity, and security in an organization. It encompasses people, processes, policies, standards, and roles that ensure the effective use of information.
Data quality is a foundational aspect of data governance, ensuring that data is reliable, accurate, and fit for purpose. High-quality data is accurate, complete, consistent, and timely, which is essential for informed decision-making. - Young U.S. Workers Expect $200,000 Salaries By Age 30. Here's What They Actually Earn — How Do Your Stats Compare?
Dienstag 17:00 – Amanda Breen at Entrepreneur
A six-figure salary doesn’t go as far as it once did — especially in certain areas of the country. - Time Is Money — Here's How to Leverage It to Add Value to a Product
Dienstag 17:00 – Cheri Beranek at Entrepreneur
Don’t let time be an afterthought. Learn to use it wisely in product development and drive profitability. - Salesforce Is Laying Off Over 1,000 Employees. Here's What We Know.
Dienstag 16:59 – Sherin Shibu at Entrepreneur
The layoffs affect Salesforce employees in unspecified divisions. - Microsoft Quietly Makes It Harder To Install Windows 11 on Old PCs Ahead of Windows 10's End of Support
Dienstag 16:40 – msmash at Slashdot
Microsoft has intensified efforts to block unsupported Windows 11 installations, removing documentation about bypassing system requirements and flagging third-party workaround tools as potential malware. The move comes as Windows 10 approaches end of support in October 2025, when users must either continue without updates, upgrade to Windows 11, or purchase new hardware compatible with Windows 11’s TPM 2.0 requirement. Microsoft Defender now identifies Flyby11, a popular tool for installing Windows 11 on incompatible devices, as „PUA:Win32/Patcher.“ Users are also reporting that unsupported Wi … - Processing Cloud Data With DuckDB And AWS S3
Dienstag 16:00 – Anil Kumar Moka at DZone.com Feed
DuckDb is a powerful in-memory database that has a parallel processing feature, which makes it a good choice to read/transform cloud storage data, in this case, AWS S3. I’ve had a lot of success using it and I will walk you through the steps in implementing it.
I will also include some learnings and best practices for you. Using the DuckDb, httpfs extension and pyarrow, we can efficiently process Parquet files stored in S3 buckets. Let’s dive in: - How to Grow Your Small Business Without Breaking the Bank
Dienstag 15:00 – Thomas Helfrich at Entrepreneur
Here’s how small business owners can level up their marketing game without breaking the bank. - SOC 2 Made Simple: Your Guide to Certification
Dienstag 15:00 – Roman Misyurin at DZone.com Feed
No matter where your company is located and in which field it operates, one thing is always true: today, SOC 2 is one of the standards tech companies should meet to be recognized for their security practices.
If you’re tackling an audit for the first time, it can feel like you don’t even know where to start. And let’s be honest, hiring expensive security consultants isn’t always an option, especially if cash is tight. That’s exactly why I’m writing this — a practical guide with just enough theory to get you through it. - 4 Reasons Agentic AI Is Reshaping Enterprise Search
Dienstag 14:00 – Taranjeet Singh at DZone.com Feed
Generative AI has been the cutting-edge technology that greatly reshaped the enterprise search landscape. But now, artificial intelligence (AI) development communities are delving into a new industry-leading innovation — Agentic AI.
Agentic AI is a system that exhibits a high degree of autonomy. It designs workflow and uses available tools to take action independently on behalf of the users and solve complex problems that require multi-step solutions. It also interacts with external environments and goes beyond the data on which the system’s machine learning models were trained. - Why Business Owners are Leaving TurboTax for This Affordable Alternative
Dienstag 14:00 – Entrepreneur Store at Entrepreneur
H&R Tax Software Deluxe works for State and Federal returns, checks hundreds of deductions, and has audit support. - Build Modern Data Architectures With Azure Data Services
Dienstag 13:00 – Aravind Nuthalapati at DZone.com Feed
Modern data architecture is necessary for organizations trying to remain competitive. It is not a choice. Organizations are finding it difficult to use the exponentially expanding amounts of data effectively.
Importance of Modern Data Architectures
Modern data architectures remain relevant, considering that they offer businesses and foster a systematic way of dealing with large quantities of data and, in return, make faster and quicker decisions. Modern businesses rely on these architectures because they provide real-time processing, powerful analytics, and numerous data sources. - To Make the Perfect Cocktail, You Need Collaboration. It's the Same When You Own a Restaurant.
Dienstag 13:00 – Shawn P. Walchef at Entrepreneur
Alba Huerta discusses the art of mixology and leading a James Beard Award-winning cocktail program. - Limitations of LLM Reasoning
Dienstag 12:00 – Bhala Ranganathan at DZone.com Feed
Large language models (LLMs) have disrupted AI with their ability to generate coherent text, translate languages, and even carry on conversations. However, despite their impressive capabilities, LLMs still face significant challenges when it comes to reasoning and understanding complex contexts. These models, while adept at identifying and replicating patterns in vast amounts of training text, often struggle with tasks that require true comprehension and logical reasoning. This can result in problems such as inconsistencies in long conversations, errors in connecting disparate pieces of infor …