Long web shop URLs
I sometimes look for products in webshops for colleagues or friends and send them links. I feel like URLs are getting longer every year – is there a good trick to shorten them? In...
Category: IT
Gordon Moore is dead
Gordon E. Moore is dead. The legend of processor technology died on Friday at the age of 94 surrounded by his family in Hawaii. Moore co-founded Intel Corporation with Robert Noyce in 1968 and...
Professional photographers are demanding comprehensive regulation for AI images
As one of the first associations of photographers, the Professional Association of Freelance Photographers and Film Designers (BFF) has taken a detailed position on AI-generated images. The association calls for comprehensive regulation both for...
Software developers: Are the gold rush days on the job market over?
Until recently, those who aspired to a career in software development seemed to be guaranteed a job. The IT job market was desperately looking for skilled workers. The mass layoffs at Amazon, Meta, and...
Large AI language model on your own computer: A LLaMA for your pocket?
Three weeks before the launch of GPT-4 by OpenAI, Facebook’s parent company Meta presented its own large language model (LLM): the LLaMA (Large Language Model Meta AI) pre-trained with open data. Facebook Research made...
New Mac & i Webinar: Automated Deployment and Release Management
The more developers work on an app, the more complicated the app deployment becomes. While the tools from Apple’s Xcode development environment are often sufficient for individual developers, tools such as Fastlane or Xcode...
HDMI glitch: Fast media switching does not work on some HDMI devices
The sentence, which can be read in LG’s recently published press release about the technical capabilities of the company’s new OLED televisions, does not stand out very much at first: “The 2023 LG OLED...
AI chatbot learns how to surf the Internet: OpenAI offers plug-ins for ChatGPT
OpenAI now offers plug-ins for ChatGPT. This allows third-party apps to be integrated into the AI chatbot. This significantly expands the capabilities of artificial intelligence (AI), because it allows ChatGPT to access current information...
FSM hotline: Significantly more justified complaints about pornography
Hardly any relaxation on the Internet hotline of the voluntary self-regulation of multimedia service providers (FSM): In 2022, a total of 12,956 complaints about illegal or harmful online content were received there. Although this...
Unreal Engine 5.2: Procedural worlds have never been simpler and so pretty
Epic Games has given a preview of upcoming updates for its Unreal Engine. One feature in particular stood out at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) presentation, taking place this week in San Francisco: a...