Qantas confirms technology issue caused data breach that exposed personal information of customers
By Kate Ainsworth

Qantas has confirmed that a technology issue was to blame for a glitch affecting its app that allowed customers to view the personal details of other travellers in an apparent privacy breach.

#AirTransportIndustry #Internet #ComputerScience #TelecommunicationsServicesIndustry #TravelandTourismLifestyleandLeisure #DataProtectionPolicy #KateAinsworth

3.5.1945: Sühnemaßnahme Suttrop (Warstein)
Als Sühnemaßnahme für Mord an Zwangsarbeitern kurz vor Kriegsende, werden die Einwohner von Suttrop gezwungen, an exhumierten Leichen der Opfer vorbeizuziehen. Ähnlich ging die US-Army an anderen Tatorten vor.

#OTD #Kriegsverbrechen #WWII #Geschichte

2/ Hier zu den Statements von #InesGeipel. Sie ist Professorin für Versmaß und keine Historikerin. Unten ist Geipels Äußerung zum #Holocaust aus der @FAZ. In meinem Blog-Post zeige ich, dass der #Holocaust stets und ständig im Leben aller DDR-Bürger*innen präsent war (z.B. über Briefmarken, Straßennahmen, Denkmäler, Schulbildung, Filme, Bücher). Die Schlussfolgerung ist, dass Ines Geipel und auch #AnettaKahane entweder gelogen haben oder keine Ahnung haben. Eine andere Möglichkeit gibt es nicht.

#Osten #Westen #Geschichte #DDR

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Top Ergebnisse für #UniStuttgart im #CHE-#Hochschulranking🎉
Studienanfänger*innen starten bestens ins Studium. Studienorga, Lehrangebot & mehr mit "sehr gut" bewertet 👏 https://sohub.io/lnfb

#Chemie #Informatik #Mathematik #Physik #Geowissenschaften #Sozialwissenschaften

🗓️ 03.05.2002: „Die #Spielkonsole #GameCube von #Nintendo wird in Europa veröffentlicht. Aufgrund der starken Konkurrenz durch die #PlayStation2 und der #Xbox ist sie allerdings kommerziell nicht sehr erfolgreich.“

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_GameCube

#wikipedia #geschichte #heute #games #gaming

Melanie Möller: „Es ist nicht meine Aufgabe, mich gegenüber Texten der Vergangenheit moralisch aufzuspielen“ https://wp.me/p36Ae-157F Literatur wird heute auch an den moralischen Maßstäben unserer Zeit gemessen #Moral #Literatur #Geschichte

Codereview feedback should only be in the form of automated tests.

If your suggested changes don't result in testable outcomes then they are a waste of time.

#codereview #softwareDevelopment #programming #tests #testing #developer #development #software #code #dev #tech #technology #computerScience #engineer #engineering #softwareEngineering

#Google verlagert in diesen Tagen seine Python- Dart- und Flutter Entwicklung weitgehend von US Standorten nach München.
Der Grund: günstigere Unternehmens- und Energiekosten.
Auf der einen Seite sind die bis jetzt arbeitenden Entwickler in den USA traurig, hierzulande dürfen sich tausende über einen neuen Job freuen.

#Wirtschaft #Politik #EnergiewendeWirkt #TechNews #Deutschland #Informatik #IT

CHE-Hochschulranking 2024/2025 veröffentlicht: @che bescheinigt der Freien Universität Berlin Spitzenleistungen in den Fächern #Physik, #Mathematik, #Informatik, #Pharmazie und #Politikwissenschaft

Weitere Informationen: https://www.fu-berlin.de/presse/informationen/fup/2024/fup_24_093-che-hochschulranking-fu-berlin/index.html

All #research has a value but I struggle with this #study right now. Was #publicmoney used to #fund this? I could understand #therapydogs being taught #communication #tech but #pet #parrots? #Medicalresearch has to fight so hard to get #funded hence all the #charities set up to boost it. #International focus on keeping #birds in the #wild would be better for them
https://news.stv.tv/scotland/parrots-taught-to-video-call-friends-prefer-live-chats-over-recorded-messages
#Glasgow #UniversityofGlasgow #Scotland #computerscience
https://www.gla.ac.uk/news/archiveofnews/2023/april/headline_949129_en.html

#fedilz #informatik Ich war heute Zeuge bei einem Aha-Erlebnis bei einer Schülerin, der ich verdeutlichte, dass sie den Index einer Liste mit dem Element an der Stelle des Index verwechselt hatte (Jg. 9, Programmieranfänger). Eine Ecke mehr, um die man herumdenken muss. Ich habe das Gefühl, dass Informatik das Potential hat, Abstraktionsvermögen besser zu schulen als Mathe.

📰 First post: A history of online public messaging
➥ @arstechnica

#arpanet #fidonet #bbs #phpbb #retrocomputing #computinghistory

Linux User Space posts in-depth videos about the history of Linux distributions and Linux tools. You can follow them at:

➡️ @linuxuserspace

If the videos haven't federated to your server yet, you can browse them all at https://tilvids.com/a/linuxuserspace/videos

#FeaturedPeerTube #Linux #GNULinux #Distros #LinuxDistros #Distributions #FOSS #ComputingHistory #RetroComputing #Computing #PeerTube #PeerTubers

Around this month in 1974, the microcomputer industry took off. Can you imagine that 50 years has passed? It all started with the Popular Electronics cover photo and accompanying article of the Altair 8800 in January 1975. That led to the homebrew computer club and the computers with the early Intel 8080 microprocessors and S100 bus. The club led to the first orders of the Altair 8800 , followed by the Imsai 8080 competitor, which is recognizable in the movie Wargames. The homebrew club led to the Apple computer, and the rest is history. (The copy of the rare magazine in the photo is my own). Members of the classic computing community seem to agree that April 1974 marks the launch of the Altair with the first commercial release. Hence, before this month is over, I would like to share a toast with all the computer enthusiasts out there that we ought to thank the month of April 1974 for all the computing machinery that we use every day. #tech #computinghistory #retrocomputing

1978 Apple Computer Advertisement from 1978

The image features a vintage advertisement for Apple Computers.
At the center of the ad is an Apple computer, accompanied by text that reads: "The era of the personal computer".
Below this, there's an intriguing statement, "Now there's your challenge!", followed by, "Apple will change your life in just 3 years!" The ad also mentions a fun, games, and graphics show and offers a free demonstration for those interested.

#photography #illustration #madman #nocontext #sfw #AppleComputers #VintageAdvertisement #ComputingHistory #PersonalComputers #Challenges #Life-ChangingTechnology #ComputingShow #Demonstrations

🌊 The 40-Year-Old Cable Modem (part 1)
➥ Jared Boone

#Nabupc #Retrocomputing #ComputingHistory

Endlich fertig: v1.0 meiner VR-Version des legendären Mechanismus von #Antikythera. #IndianaJones, übernehmen Sie. https://www.thomasweibel.ch/antikythera/ #archaeology #history #sciencehistory #antiquity #museum #opendata #opensource #openglam #glamhack @OpendataCH

Once again, I must remind you that Watson and Crick did NOT discover #DNA.

Here is a simplified history of DNA.

Friedrich Miescher
1869 isolated DNA/RNA from the pus of used bandages. He called it "nuclein".

Albrecht Kossel
1885-1901 discovered the bases: adenine, thymine, cytosine, guanine, uracil

Phoebus Levene
1909-1929 discovered deoxyribose, and the chain-like structure of DNA

#science #biochemistry #historyOfScience

1/4

my #bookreview of
#art of #alchemy
now out in C&I
https://proseandpassion.blogspot.com/2024/04/the-art-of-alchemy.html
#HistoryOfScience

I have an old Ti-92 - the screen on it is AWFUL. I was wondering if there is any way to replace the screen?

#calculators #Ti92 #texasinstruments #graphingcalculator

Good morning, friends. 🌹🌹🌹

9 April 2024

When I was in high school, as I recall, we didn't have battery operated calculators. I'm not sure that they were a thing back then. Hmmm ... I need to look that up. ... Here's what I found out, the first battery operated portable calculator, the QT-8B was marketed by Sharp in mid-1970 (1). It was too large to be considered a pocket calculator and the cost was $495 (2), which is the equivalent of about $4K today. So, as you can imagine, we did all calculations by hand. There were slide rules and I suppose the abacus counts as well. There were mechanical calculators, and we were taught how to use them along with typewriters, in a Business Machines class.

"I am so old, I entered engineering school with a slide rule. And I left engineering school with a calculator. I can still use a slide rule but it's not a skill you especially need anymore". - Bill Nye

#photography #photographer #photographylovers #nature #morning #calculators #flower #rose

📘 O novo livro de José Pedro Sousa Dias, "Os Medicamentos na História – História da Farmácia e da Terapêutica", aborda a evolução do medicamento na dinâmica das sociedades humanas e no contexto das ciências farmacêuticas.

📅 Vai ser lançada no dia 15 de Abril, com apresentação da David Felismino.

ℹ️ https://ihc.fcsh.unl.pt/events/medicamentos-historia-lx/

#Histodons #SciHist #Pharmacy #Drugs #HistoryOfScience #HistoryOfPharmaceuticals #NewBook #NovoLivro #Medicamentos #Farmácia #HistóriaDaCiência

Quick Sunday repair: HP 48GX calculator

It belongs to a colleague and had the usual bad keyboard problem, which requires replacing a rubber strip. It keeps the keyboard membrane pressed onto the motherboard, and it gets loose over time.

It was a huge pain to take apart, but the result is rewarding 😀

#retrocomputing #calculators ​

The ultraviolet catastrophe, also called the Rayleigh–Jeans catastrophe, was the prediction of late 19th century to early 20th century classical physics that an ideal black body at thermal equilibrium would emit an unbounded quantity of energy as wavelength decreased into the ultraviolet range. #MostDiscussed #Physics #HistoryOfScience https://www.mostdiscussed.com/article/347630

Are there any actual modern alternatives to the HP 48g/gx/sx calculators? this thing is old, clunky, and pretty slow at graphing but like I literally have yet to find a modern replacement that does RPN by default, with support for algebraic notation, equation solver, grapher that does more than just basic functions, and even some basic programming stuff. I haven't even found an app that does everything it does, short of an emulator.

#mathematics #calculators