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PwC Deutschland: Welche Glasfaserbetreiber den proaktiven Firmenverkauf prüfen sollten
Yelp signs a deal with OpenAI to provide ChatGPT users real-time local recommendations, and will soon let them contact local businesses for quotes via ChatGPT (Madison Mills/Axios)
Kein Weltraumschrott: Reparaturroboter verlängert Lebensdauer von Satelliten
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Screenwall ausprobiert: Alte Smartphones per Web-App als Second Screen nutzen
Online-Umfrage: Europäer können über Design neuer Euro-Banknoten abstimmen
AI inference chip startup Etched raised a $300M Series C led by Sequoia, with a16z, SK Hynix, others participating, at a $10.3B valuation, up from $5B in Dec. (Julie Bort/TechCrunch)
Gartner: Billionen US-Dollar für KI werden sich über neue Produkte amortisieren
Test verlief erfolgreich: Opendesk für Krisenkommunikation geeignet
Elgato Key Light Air MK.2: Streaming-Leuchte mit MagSafe
AI arms race in line for a reckoning after OpenAI hacking incident
Roboter für Satellitenreparatur ist auf dem Weg ins All
Collabora Online: lokale oder Cloud-KI nach Nutzerwunsch
Multi-Agent Coding & Deployment with TRAE IDE
Claude Certified Architect – Foundations: Prep for Anthropic's New Certification Exam
How an Apple Engineer Pranked Billion-Dollar Lawyers (and Won)
Nach Cyberangriff: Hacker erpressen Zugbauer Stadler um Millionenbetrag
As the AI industry recruits high-profile academics, research that was once conducted in the open is increasingly getting locked behind closed doors (The Atlantic)
A profile of Peter Beck, the New Zealand billionaire whose Rocket Lab is pushing to compete with the satellite internet ambitions of Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos (Nic Fildes/Financial Times)
Rhein heizt Kölner Wohnungen: Bau von 150-MW-Flusswasser-Wärmepumpe beginnt
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Sources: Shanghai-listed chip test instruments maker Semight, whose stock is up ~2,200% since its April debut, is considering a secondary listing in Hong Kong (Bloomberg)
Francisco Partners' co-founder Dipanjan Deb says "AI will not kill the software industry" as the tech-focused PE firm raised $21B, exceeding its $18B target (Antoine Gara/Financial Times)
Cyberattacken auf Landesverwaltung nehmen weiter zu
Autonome KI hackt Hugging Face: Weckruf für IT-Sicherheit und Politik
Online-Trading-Betrug: Opfer investieren über eine Million
Donnerstag: Warner-Übernahme in EU mit Auflage, Samsungs KI-Einstieg bei Mistral
A study of 11,989 Polymarket users finds 61% placed fewer than 100 trades over a six-week period, with 58% making or losing less than $100 during that period (Kaitlyn Radde/Pew Research Center)
Tesla reports a negative Q2 free cash flow of $1.1B, its first in over two years, partly due to increased AI and robotic investments, amid diminishing profits (Reuters)
SharePoint: Cross-post SharePoint News to Engage
How Programmatic Advertising Works
From RPC to gRPC: Understanding Remote Procedure Calls, Protocol Buffers, and Modern Distributed Systems Communication
Sales were up at Tesla but so were costs and spending
Google says its cloud computing unit had a $514B backlog of contracted work that hasn't been recorded as revenue yet, up from ~$460B held during Q1 (Julia Love/Bloomberg)
How to Take Creatine for the (Possible) Mental Health Benefits
O2 Telefónica streicht ein Sechstel aller Arbeitsplätze
I Inspected My Take-Home Interview Project. It Was a Whole Operation
Google says Gemini now has 950M MAUs, up from 900M in May and 750M in February (Emma Roth/The Verge)
Five Hacks Every Xteink User Should Know
IBM reports Q2 revenue up 1% YoY to $17.2B, vs. $17.6B est., infrastructure revenue down 7% to $3.8B, Z mainframe revenue down 42%, and lowers its 2026 forecast (Jordan Novet/CNBC)
ISPs' long nightmare of having to list all the fees they charge is finally over
Alphabet reports YouTube's Q2 ad revenue rose 13% YoY to $11.06B, vs. $10.8B est., and Google's ad revenue reached $81.63B, up from $71.34B in Q2 2025 (Todd Spangler/Variety)
Alphabet reports Q2 revenue up 24% YoY to $119.8B, above $116.9B est., Google Cloud revenue up 82% YoY to $24.8B, and Services revenues up 15% to $94.5B (Alphabet)
Source: Stripe revenue jumped by a third to $6.8B in 2025, its fastest revenue growth since 2021, with free cash flow up 52% to $3.2B (Yueqi Yang/The Information)
How to Trace and Monitor AI Agents with LangSmith
EU-Kommission genehmigt Paramount-Warner-Übernahme mit einer Auflage
Clayface trailer leans into the body horror
Genius AI, formerly GlossGenius, which pivoted from a salon management platform to offer AI tools for service SMBs, raised a $44M Series D at a $1.15B valuation (Emma Hinchliffe/Fortune)
Everyone should know SIMD
Terrence Tao's ChatGPT Conversation about the Jacobian Conjecture Counterexample
Arcee, which develops open-weight models in the US, partners with the Department of Energy to build Genesis-Science-1, an open model for scientific research (Catherine Perloff/The Information)
GSMA: Ausschluss von Huawei und ZTE könnte Europa bis 40 Milliarden Euro kosten
How to Train a Tumor Segmentation Model on Ultrasound Data with MONAI
Breko und VATM: Welcher Leerrohrzugang der Telekom den Ausbau voranbringt
Schwerpunkt Rüstung: Regierung legt Start-up-Strategie vor
Preorder the Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 Now and Get a $50 Amazon Gift Card
(g+) Opinion: Meta's unwinding of Manus shows even forced deals have merits
Meta taps Assaf Keren, former chief security officer at Qualtrics and former CISO at PayPal, as its next CISO, succeeding Guy Rosen (Riley Griffin/Bloomberg)
OpenAI introduces Presence, to help companies better connect AI agents to their internal systems and automate customer support, sales, and other tasks (Business Insider)
Telekom muss Leerrohre fünf Jahre lang zu festen Konditionen öffnen
Does creatine make you smarter?
Branchenverbände: Umweltauflagen schleifen für OpenAI-Rechenzentrum in Deutschland
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Samsung's New Galaxy Smart Glasses Aim for Style and Google Integration
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White House OSTP Director Michael Kratsios says "we have information that Moonshot AI distilled Anthropic's Fable for the development of its K3 model" (Director Michael Kratsios/@mkratsios47)
Show HN: Bento - An entire PowerPoint in one HTML file (edit+view+data+collab)
Xbox expands its backward compatibility program to PC, starting with four classic original games with support for resolution upscaling, V-Sync, and more (Jez Corden/Windows Central)
Ship Code Safely with Laravel Pennant Feature Flags
Astronomie: Erster plausibler Hinweis auf einen „supermerkwürdigen“ Exomond
Fitness: Garmin kauft Training Peaks
Filing: Monday.com plans to cut 20% of its workforce, or ~600 employees, in H2 2026 to "support a leaner, more focused operational model"; MNDY falls 2% (Martin Peers/The Information)
Sources: Apple is set to debut new versions of every Mac it sells, including long-awaited iMac updates and a revamped MacBook Pro and Neo, across fall and 2027 (Mark Gurman/Bloomberg)
Passkeys were invented by engineers with zero understanding of consumer brain
Quality non-fiction books are the antithesis of AI slop
What happens when you try to chop a photon in half?
Server-Prozessor: Nvidia gibt Einblick in Architektur der Vera-CPU
Störung bei Instagram
London-based Arrakis, which makes AI agents for industrial companies, emerges from stealth with a $7.5M seed and a $30M Series A at a $140M post-money valuation (Jeremy Kahn/Fortune)
E-Scooter Kukirin G2 Pro ABE im Test: großer Akku, weiche Vollfederung, 450 Euro
Samsung unveils new Galaxy Z8 foldables and Galaxy Watches, available August 7
Nvidia-CEO Jensen Huang: "Diese chinesischen Modelle sind hervorragend"
Firefox 153: Native Container für mehr Privatsphäre
Autonome Kriegsführung: F-16-Kampfjets mit KI-Agent ausgerüstet
Samsung teases its smart glasses, developed with Google, Warby Parker, and Gentle Monster, and says they will have nine-hour battery life and privacy features (Chris Welch/Bloomberg)
Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 8 hands-on: the passport-esque shape feels great and is immediately intuitive, but no telephoto lens, only IP48, and $1,900+ is pricey (Dominic Preston/The Verge)
Unlimited AI tokens aren't unlimited after all as US Army burns through supply
WhatsApp updates its CarPlay and Android Auto integrations to include message playback, replies and more, now lets users sign up from its iPad app, and more (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
200 Milliarden US-Dollar pro Jahr: USA will einzelne Forscher statt ganzer Universitäten fördern
Samsung Z Fold 8 Ultra hands-on: new Flex Titanium tech makes the crease practically nonexistent, similar specs to the S26 Ultra, and a $100 price increase (David Imel/The Verge)
Cloud-Hyperscaler nehmen Nvidias Vera Rubin NVL72 in Betrieb
Samsung Galaxy Watch 9 and Ultra 2 hands-on: nice improvements with a rugged feel and new AI-powered fitness features, but a blockier shape is not for everyone (Damien Wilde/9to5Google)
Samsung Galaxy Z Flip 8 hands-on: a similar feel to the Z Flip 7 with much faster performance, identical cameras, four colors, and a $100 higher price tag (Max Buondonno/The Shortcut)
USA und China planen angeblich KI-Gespräche im September
OpenAI plans to spend $30B+ on a massive new data center in Georgia, securing 3.2GW of total energy; several hundred MW are set to come online starting in 2028 (Dina Bass/Bloomberg)
Source: OpenAI raised its projected cloud spending to ~$750B through 2030, up from a projection of ~$600B earlier this year, reflecting new cloud agreements (Anissa Gardizy/Wall Street Journal)
Matthias Döpfner: Springer-Chef will Peter Thiel seinen Demokratiepreis verleihen
Samsung says the Galaxy Z Fold 8, Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, and Galaxy Z Flip 8 use new silicon-carbon batteries, citing their performance, longevity, and safety (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Samsung debuts the $1,200+ Galaxy Z Flip 8 with a lighter, smaller, and slimmer design, and new Flex Window display features to show apps on the cover screen (Steve Dent/Engadget)
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Watch 9 and Watch Ultra 2, moving from Exynos chips to the Snapdragon Wear Elite and hiking prices by $30 to $380 and $50 to $700 (Victoria Song/The Verge)
Samsung unveils the $1,899+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 with a wider, 7.6" inner and a short, 5.5" outer display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 "for Galaxy" chip, and more (Ben Schoon/9to5Google)
Neue Galaxy Watches: Samsungs neue Galaxy Watch Ultra 2 kommt mit Trinkerinnerung
Rechenzentren mit eigener Hitze kühlen: Adsorptionskühlung mit neuen Materialien
Samsung unveils the $2,099+ Galaxy Z Fold 8 Ultra, with its "most advanced foldable design", a new Flex Titanium display, 5,000mAH battery, and Android 17 (Andrew Romero/9to5Google)
Smart Glasses von Samsung und Google starten zunächst außerhalb der EU
Neue Fold-Modelle im Hands-on: Samsung bietet die volle Falter-Dröhnung
Samsung erweitert Foldable-Reihe um breites Galaxy Z Fold 8 und erhöht Preise
Galaxy Watch Ultra2: Samsung-Smartwatch wird stärker, flacher – und teurer
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A live blog of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked in London, where the company is set to unveil its latest lineup of foldables and smartwatches (Engadget)
A livestream of Samsung's Galaxy Unpacked event (Samsung on YouTube)
Businesses with ugly AI menu redesigns
VW beschleunigt Entwicklung von automatisiertem Fahren in China
Olimex erweitert Raspberry Pi Pico um Relais und Hochspannungseingänge
Container-Images ohne CVEs: BellSofts neuer Buildpacks-Builder
Container-Images ohne CVEs: BellSofts neuer Buildpacks-Builder
AMD and Anthropic sign an AI server deal worth tens of billions; Anthropic will buy up to 2GW of MI450 chips from H1 2027, and AMD will invest $5B in Anthropic (Wall Street Journal)
The startup's Postgres survival guide
Astronomie: Nächster Hinweis auf Verbleib der fehlenden Materie im Universum
So Reddit has decided that plain HTML is unsafe
Xbox Game Pass Now Included with Quest’s Horizon+, Gamepad Emulation Coming Soon
Windows: Global Device ID führt zu gerichtswirksamer Identifikation
heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Aufgaben eines Informationssicherheitsbeauftragten
Kommentar: OpenAI – KI-Sicherheit nur ein Marketing-Gag?
KI statt Kino: Musk will eigene Odyssee per KI bis Jahresende drehen
Tribal gaming revenue reaches record $46.2B as industry growth continues
(g+) Freie Office-Suite für den Desktop: Collabora schließt zur Konkurrenz auf
heise+ | Asus ExpertBook Ultra mit mattem OLED-Touchscreen und 64 GByte RAM im Test
OpenAI's Hugging Face breach is the first known example of a misaligned AI escaping containment and carrying out a hack on a third party, a clear warning shot (Shakeel Hashim/Transformer)
macOS 27: Golden Gate kündigt DVD-Wiedergabe-Framework ab
Gas statt Batterien: Technologieoffen ist Auschreibung zu Reservekraftwerken nicht
LM Studio Bionic: Lokales KI-Agentensystem für offene Modelle
Ukrainian drones deliver robots directly into battle by sea and air
Jensen Huang says "these Chinese models are excellent", "open-source models that are excellent should be used", and "free AI should be great for hardware" (Zachary Basu/Axios)
Weltweit erstes Wellenkraftwerk erhält DNV-Zertifizierung
Ubuntu: Root-Lücke in snapd gefährdet unzählige Linux-Systeme
OverpAId – Fire your CEO. Hire the future
Ask me anything am 29.7.: Selbstständig in der IT? Stellt eure Fragen unseren Experten!
Glow, a cybersecurity startup that uses AI agents to monitor software and developer tools, emerges from stealth with a $180M Series A at a $1.2B valuation (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Xbox: Microsoft will Support für gehackte Konten verbessern
UK publisher Bloomsbury says it is among the beneficiaries of the $1.5B Anthropic settlement; 14,087 of its titles are covered, with ~$3K in compensation each (Anushka Chourasia/Reuters)
Luftfahrtunternehmen wollen Gehäuse für F-35-Kampfjet-Triebwerk 3D-drucken
Folgeschäden nicht eingerechnet: Jeder Hitzetag kostet IT-Branche 17 Millionen Euro
Reiche: Keine neuen Entlastungen bei Spritpreisen geplant
ME-South-1: Iran will AWS-Instanz in Bahrain zerstört haben
Neuralink co-founder Max Hodak's Science Corp gets EU approval for Prima, a bionic eye that treats age-related macular degeneration using an implant and glasses (Tim Bradshaw/Financial Times)
Tencent's Hong Kong-listed shares fall ~7%, the most since April 2025, as investors worry over "rumors" of weaker earnings on August 12, and NetEase drops 5%+ (Bloomberg)
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heise+ | DNS per HTTPS für Windows Server 2025
Anthropic commits another $20M to Public First Action, after giving $20M earlier in 2026; PFA says it is a counterweight to a16z-backed Leading the Future (Wall Street Journal)
Upscaler: Nvidia verspricht mehr Kontrolle über DLSS 5
CO2-Senke: Verdreifachung der deutschen Solarleistung dank Moor-PV
Apples „E-Mail-Adresse verbergen“: Sammelklage läuft trotz Bugfix weiter
Cyberangriff: Nextcloud-Nutzer wurden auf verdächtige Cloudbox umgeleitet
Australien: Die „Coolen“ ignorieren Social-Media-Sperre, viele kommen zurück
heise+ | FAQ zu Siri AI: Was Sie über Apple Intelligence 27 wissen müssen
Trainingsdaten: KI-Firmen kaufen massenhaft alte Bücher
„Live Notes“: Apple will von Support-Gesprächen im Store lernen
Datentransfersoftware Serv-U hat 15 kritische Sicherheitslücken
KI: Googles neue Gemini-Modelle sind schneller und günstiger
Deutsches Robotik-Start-up sammelt größte Seed-Runde ein – Koop mit Google Cloud
heise-Angebot: iX-Workshop: Microsoft 365 Copilot für IT-Administratoren
Griechenland erlaubt E-Scooter-Fahren nur noch mit Helm und erst ab 17 Jahren
Mental Health: Viele wissenschaftlich fundierte Apps nicht mehr verfügbar
Jugendschutzgesetz wirkungslos: Australiens Social-Media-Verbot scheitert an Teenagern
Pkw-Dichte in Deutschland erreicht mit 593 Autos je 1000 Einwohner neuen Rekord
Backupsoftware Veeam: Updater ermöglicht Rechteausweitung
Solarfenster nutzt Sonnenlicht von außen und Kunstlicht von innen
7,7 Mio. Deutsche nutzen illegales IPTV, immer mehr werden erwischt: Welche Konsequenzen drohen?
China: Weltweit größte Hybrid-Solaranlage liefert Energie auch bei Nacht
„Passwort“ Folge 62: IETF-Grabenkämpfe, Umbrella-CVEs, Riksha-Hacking und mehr
heise+ | Digitale Souveränität in der Cloud: vom Buzzword zur prüfbaren Realität
Frankreich: Social Media wird ab September für unter 15-Jährige gesperrt
Bei internen KI-Tests: OpenAI hat versehentlich Hugging Face gehackt
Von Koalas und Kobolden: Wenn KI den Urlaub plant
Dune: since January 2021, wallets funded via US-regulated exchanges accounted for ~50% of all traceable trading volume on Polymarket's US-banned global platform (Bloomberg)
Classic WTF: Server Room Fans and More Fun
Oracle Critical Patch Update: 1449 Softwareflicken im Juli
Booking.com: Geschäftsmodell Endreinigung
Freelancer: SAP- und ERP-Spezialisten trotzen Abwärtstrend
Neue Eskalation im Nahen Osten: Iran hat AWS-Infrastruktur in Bahrain „zerstört“
heise-Angebot: c’t KI-Wissen 2026: So entkommen Sie dem Räderwerk der KI
TSMC forecasts "several years" of margin dilution as overseas fab projects ramp up; the company has announced $200B in investment into US manufacturing (Kai Nicol-Schwarz/CNBC)
heise+ | Kompakte NAS für KMU im Überblick
KI-Modelle von OpenAI haben Cyberangriff auf Hugging Face autonom ausgeführt
Chinese AI models account for ~60% of token usage by US companies on OpenRouter, making restrictions harder to impose without disrupting US users and businesses (Nectar Gan/Bloomberg)
heise+ | Motorrad Yamaha Tracer 9 GT+ im Test: Komfortables Reisen auf hohem Niveau
Sources: Samsung may invest up to €1B in Mistral as part of a broader round valuing it at ~€20B, after previously backing the AI startup through its venture arm (Financial Times)
Mittwoch: Googles neue Lite-KI ohne Pro, Rechenzentren als zu hohe Stromfresser
Memo: the White House OSTP plans to redirect federal research funding from universities to individual scientists and AI use, reshaping ~$200B in annual spending (Amrith Ramkumar/Wall Street Journal)
Studie: US-Rechenzentren werden 2035 ein Fünftel des Landesstroms verbrauchen
Sources: Reddit, Politico, and others mull cutting Google's access to their content for AI as traffic drops; Reddit signed a $60M/year deal with Google in 2024 (Alexandra Bruell/Wall Street Journal)
Late.sh – a command-line Clubhouse for computer people
LG to ban residential proxies from smart TV apps
Doc: nearly 200 US utilities, data center developers, and others have signed Trump's pledge to ensure AI energy use doesn't push up consumer electric bills (Wall Street Journal)
