Archiv: Technologie / technology


25.09.2025 - 22:18 [ theGrayzone.com ]

EU science grants are funding Israeli military tech, data shows

(August 30, 2025)

The Horizon Europe program, described by the EU as ‘a scientific research initiative to develop a sustainable and livable society in Europe,’ has awarded around 475 million euros to 348 Israeli start-ups and research projects since October 2023, many of which are run by former IDF soldiers and intelligence officers.

In 2024, the EU awarded grants of €220m to 179 companies and initiatives run by Israelis. The scale of this funding, coming in a year when the world’s pre-eminent genocide experts all declared Israel was committing a genocide, a year in which entire cities were wiped out and tens of thousands of civilians murdered, is staggering.

In the same year Israel was also the third largest recipient, behind France and Germany, of ‘accelerator’ grants, a separate component of the Horizon program intended to support small and medium-sized companies working to improve life in Europe.

25.09.2025 - 21:03 [ Middle East Eye ]

Spain cancels major defence deal with Israel: Report

Spain has cancelled a major defence deal with Israel for supplying advanced aerial technology for its Eurofighter Typhoon fighter jet, news website Haaretz reported on Thursday.

This €207m contract cancellation marks the third defence deal to be terminated by Spain, the report said.

Spain on Wednesday approved a law mandating „total“ arms embargo on Israel as part of measures aimed at stopping the genocide in Gaza.

19.03.2025 - 15:27 [ LethalInDisguise.org ]

Acoustic Weapons

This technology has been used for crowd-control purposes since the early 1990s.

19.03.2025 - 15:21 [ PNAS.org ]

Audible enclaves crafted by nonlinear self-bending ultrasonic beams

(March 17, 2025)

Here, we introduce an approach for creating remote audio spots, dubbed audible enclaves, by harnessing the local nonlinear interaction of two self-bending ultrasonic beams with distinct spectra. The self-bending ultrasonic beams created by acoustic metasurfaces, though inaudible, can bypass obstacles such as human heads.

19.03.2025 - 15:18 [ El Pais ]

A new technique sends sound to a specific person without the surrounding people hearing it

(today)

Telecommunications engineer Juan Miguel Navarro, from the Catholic University of Murcia in Spain, collaborated with Yun Ling over a decade ago on acoustic simulations for large venues. Navarro notes that sound focusing has been used for over 20 years in security applications, such as long-range acoustic devices, considered non-lethal weapons because they emit painful sounds that incapacitate the enemy.

15.03.2025 - 10:05 [ Netzpolitik.org ]

Digitaler Kolonialismus

Die globalen Machtverhältnisse ähneln dabei denen, die schon vor Hunderten von Jahren gegolten haben. Die Zeiten in denen die Reichen und Mächtigen das Lineal an die Landkarte ansetzen und die Welt unter sich aufteilen ist zwar vorbei. Aber an ihre Stelle sind neue Machthaber getreten. Die reichsten Firmen aus dem Globalen Norden gewinnen Profit und Macht auf Kosten des Globalen Südens – ähnlich wie im Kolonialismus, der nur scheinbar hinter uns liegt. Große Tech-Unternehmen wie Google und Meta kontrollieren sogar die Infrastruktur und den Zugang zum Internet – bauen Unterseekabel rund um den afrikanischen Kontinent.

01.02.2025 - 22:09 [ start.njump.me ]

WELCOME TO NOSTR

To join Nostr you need a profile, but it is not the usual one that a company generates and manages for you. You create it yourself, no permissions are required.

Nostr is a different experience from the beginning: because there is no central authority taking care of who is who, each user is identified by a cryptographic keypair; don’t worry about the tech slang, it is just a strong password that you will have to keep safe.

This wizard is one of the many ways to bootstrap a Nostr profile that you can later use in other apps. We help you to create your keypair and safely manage it in a few steps. Are you ready?

01.02.2025 - 21:27 [ Roland / Pareto ]

What is Nostr? ELI5

The aim of ELI5 (explain me like I‘m 5) is to explain difficult things simply. This is urgently needed in our high-tech world, because only by understanding the technologies can we use them properly and develop them further.

I‘m starting my series with Nostr, a relatively new internet protocol.

01.02.2025 - 21:21 [ Roland / Pareto ]

Was ist Nostr? ELI5

Schwierige Dinge einfach zu erklären ist der Anspruch von ELI5 (explain me like I‘m 5). Das ist in unserer hoch technisierten Welt dringend erforderlich, denn nur mit dem Verständnis der Technologien können wir sie richtig einsetzen und weiter entwickeln.

Ich starte meine Serie mit Nostr, einem relativ neuen Internet-Protokoll.

31.01.2025 - 01:00 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration ]

SPHEREx

About the mission

Launch date: Late February 2025

The Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer (SPHEREx) is a planned two-year mission that will survey the sky in optical as well as near-infrared light which, though not visible to the human eye, serves as a powerful tool for answering cosmic questions. Astronomers will use the mission to gather data on more than 450 million galaxies, as well as, more than 100 million stars in our own Milky Way.

31.01.2025 - 00:30 [ National Aeronautics and Space Administration ]

NASA to Preview Sky-Mapping Space Telescope Ahead of Launch

NASA will host a news conference at 12 p.m. EST Friday, Jan. 31, to discuss a new telescope that will improve our understanding of how the universe evolved and search for key ingredients for life in our galaxy.

Agency experts will preview NASA’s SPHEREx (Spectro-Photometer for the History of the Universe, Epoch of Reionization and Ices Explorer) mission, which will help scientists better understand the structure of the universe, how galaxies form and evolve, and the origins and abundance of water. Launch is targeted for no earlier than Thursday, Feb. 27.

04.07.2023 - 09:31 [ Blueskyweb.xyz ]

Bluesky – Building a Social Internet

The web. Email. RSS feeds. XMPP chats. What all these technologies had in common is they allowed people to freely interact and create content, without a single intermediary.

We‘re building the AT Protocol, a new foundation for public conversation and social networking which gives creators independence from platforms, developers the freedom to build, and users a choice in their experience.

Sign up for the Bluesky private beta.

04.07.2023 - 09:22 [ BlueskyWeb.xyz ]

What is Bluesky?

The underlying protocol for Bluesky is ATP, much like the underlying protocol for the web is HTTP. Our goal was to make social media work more like the open systems that defined the early web, like blogs and email.

11.03.2023 - 15:20 [ FoxBusiness.com ]

China’s newest weapon to nab Western technology – its courts

(February 20, 2023)

AS&E devised a product to complement the machines it made for airports and seaports. It placed a low-powered X-ray machine on the back of a Ford Motor Co. chassis. The U.S. military used the mobile scanner to detect improvised explosive devices during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, the company said. Domestic law enforcement could disguise the vehicle as a delivery van and use it to scan cars in, say, a stadium parking lot.

The X-ray van, called the ZBV, made its debut in 2003. Michael Tropeano, general manager of AS&E’s cargo-scanning division, said he thought the product would be a winner from day one.

11.03.2023 - 14:42 [ Oilprice.com ]

U.S. And EU Look To Launch Trade Talks On Critical Minerals

The United States and the European Union could launch talks on critical materials trade when U.S. President Joe Biden welcomes European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in the White House on Friday.

11.03.2023 - 14:05 [ Scharfenstein / Nitter ]

Von der Leyens Krisenbesuch bei Joe Biden: Scheitert sie, scheitert Europa

09.09.2022 - 11:45 [ Fox News ]

Hollywood producer Arnon Milchan admits double life as Israeli spy

(April 6, 2016)

In a far-reaching interview aired Monday with Israel‘s Channel 2 TV‘s flagship investigative program „Uvda,“ Milchan detailed a series of clandestine affairs in which he was involved and particularly how he helped purchase technologies Israel allegedly needed to operate nuclear bombs.

„I did it for my country and I‘m proud of it,“ said Milchan, who ran a successful fertilizer company in Israel before making it big in Hollywood.

09.09.2022 - 11:26 [ ,Times of Israel ]

At Netanyahu trial, defense asserts assistance to billionaire Milchan was legitimate

(06.09.2022)

In a 2013 interview with the Hebrew media, Milchan acknowledged that he had worked for the Israel Bureau of Scientific Relations, which worked to secure scientific and technical know-how for secret defense programs.

That interview led US authorities to grant him merely a one-year visa extension instead of the 10-year visas he had previously received. Milchan sought Netanyahu’s help in obtaining a new 10-year visa, and the former prime minister arranged for the Hollywood mogul to speak directly to then-US secretary of state John Kerry on the issue.

25.05.2022 - 20:07 [ science.ORF.at ]

Quanteninternet: Erstmals Teleportation in Netzwerk gelungen

Bei diesem von Albert Einstein als „spukhafte Fernwirkung“ abgetanen quantenphysikalischen Phänomen bleiben zwei verschränkte Teilchen wie von Zauberhand miteinander verbunden und teilen ihre physikalischen Eigenschaften. Die Messung an einem legt unmittelbar den Zustand des anderen fest, auch wenn sie beliebig weit voneinander entfernt sind.

Die Teleportation ermöglicht damit die zuverlässige Übertragung von Quanteninformationen zwischen weit entfernten Knoten.

23.02.2022 - 06:15 [ Telegraph.co.uk ]

Vladimir Putin controls the supply chain of western technology, so who is bluffing?

Putin has the means to cut off critical minerals and gases needed to sustain the West’s supply chain for semiconductor chips, upping the ante in the middle of a worldwide chip crunch.

Furthermore, he could hobble the aerospace and armaments industry in the US and Europe by restricting supply of titanium, palladium, and other metals.

If he controlled Ukraine, his control over key strategic minerals would be even more dominant, giving him leverage akin to Opec’s energy stranglehold in 1973.

27.10.2021 - 13:45 [ .theHinduBusinessLine.com ]

What has the US-China trade ‘war’ achieved?

(04.10.2021)

On July 6, 2018, US President Donald Trump unilaterally imposed a 25 per cent tariff on Chinese imports of around $34 billion, and further tariffs in 2018 and 2019 — claiming that trade between US and China had been unfairly skewed in China’s favour and needed to be rebalanced. The ostensible reason put forward was the persistence of what were called “unfair trade practices” and “technology theft” by China.

Thereafter, the trade war has continued into the administration of President Joe Biden, and morphed into a technology war, which is probably what it was always about.

20.09.2021 - 23:32 [ Christiane Amanpour, @CNN Chief International Anchor / Twitter ]

Exclusive: @EU_Commission President @vonderleyen reacts to the AUKUS fallout. “One of our member states has been treated in a way that is not acceptable,” she tells me. “We want to know what happened and why.”

Full interview airs at 7pCET @CNNi
and tonight @PBS
(listings vary).

20.09.2021 - 23:27 [ ORF.at ]

U-Boot-Streit: Biden um Beschwichtigung bemüht

EU-Kommissionspräsidentin Ursula von der Leyen hat das Vorgehen der USA, Australiens und Großbritanniens gegenüber Frankreich im Streit um einen geplatzten U-Boot-Deal als „nicht akzeptabel“ bezeichnet. „Es gibt viele offene Fragen, die beantwortet werden müssen“, sagte von der Leyen in einem Interview mit dem US-Sender CNN, von dem heute Ausschnitte beim Onlinedienst Twitter veröffentlicht wurden.

20.09.2021 - 17:31 [ Institution of Engineering and Technology - theiet.org ]

View from Washington: Aukus looms over AI and quantum

Then, some of the more notable consequences may be for the global research infrastructure, one that had become increasingly freewheeling since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Some familiar voices are already proclaiming Aukus as evidence of the ‘Brexit dividend’. Never mind the facts that technological collaboration between the three members is already taking place through the Five Eyes intelligence alliance (with New Zealand and Canada, both not part of this agreement);

27.07.2021 - 02:02 [ Bloomberg.com ]

Technology – China Crackdown Rocks Investors: ‘Everybody’s in the Crosshairs’

The crash in tutoring stocks that began late last week spread Monday across the tech sector and beyond, after authorities confirmed reports they would ban a swathe of the education industry from making profits. It’s the government’s most extreme step yet to rein in private businesses that regulators blame for exacerbating inequality, increasing financial risk and — in the case of some tech titans –- challenging Beijing’s authority.

22.10.2020 - 10:19 [ Stanislaw Lem / Heise.de ]

Kreuzwege der Information

(08. Juni 1998)

So haben wir also ein Bild vor uns, das in seinen Extremen eher paradox erscheint. Entweder kommt es einer „kommunikationsdichten“ und gleichzeitig stark individualistischen Gesellschaft, in der eine umfassende „Befriedung“ eintritt, weil keiner jemandem „physisch“ etwas Schlechtes antun kann und der Preis dafür eine tatsächliche Einsamkeit in einem elektronischen Kokon ist. Das Leben wird „virtuell“, „phantomisiert“, sein. Man kann im Louvre, im Himalaja, überall sein; man kann sogar „jeder“ sein (es gibt „Computer- und Netzsüchtige“, die über das Netz ihre eigenen fiktiven Persönlichkeiten – als Tarzan, Mädchen, Kaninchen … – versenden), aber „tatsächlich“ ist man ständig am gleichen Ort. Meines Erachtens ist das eine eher schlechte Science Fiction. Oder aber das Netz verbindet die Menschen nicht, sondern ist in der Macht irgendeines Monopolisten, steht über den Menschen und kann sie von allen Seiten steuern.

26.09.2020 - 16:48 [ Wilde Saaten ]

So war das einmal gedacht mit dem Biogas …

(23.06.2018)

So war das mal gedacht mit dem Biogas in den 80er-Jahren. Verwertung des auf dem Hof anfallenden Mists bzw. der Gülle in einer kleinen Biogasanlage, und dann erst den so verbesserten Dünger raus auf das Feld. Wie so oft wurde auch dieses so wunderbare Konzept ins Gegenteil verkehrt, um nicht zu sagen pervertiert.

11.06.2020 - 12:41 [ theHill.com ]

Amazon puts one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology

Amazon on Wednesday announced that it is placing a one-year moratorium on police use of its facial recognition technology, Rekognition.

„We’ve advocated that governments should put in place stronger regulations to govern the ethical use of facial recognition technology, and in recent days, Congress appears ready to take on this challenge,“ the company wrote in a blog post.

13.04.2020 - 13:13 [ DeepL.com ]

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16.02.2020 - 16:14 [ Heise.de ]

Münchner Sicherheitskonferenz: Propagandaschlacht um Huawei-Technik

Im Kern gehe es nicht um ökonomische und technologische Entscheidungen, erklärte Juliane Smith vom German Marshall Fund der USA auch in einem Gastkommentar der Süddeutschen Zeitung zum Auftakttag der MSC. Es gehe darum, „wie demokratische Staaten ihre Gesellschaften vor dem Einfluss autoritärer Staaten schützten und vor Erpressung, die weit in der Zukunft liegen mag“, schreibt Smith. Angesichts der massiven Propaganda sprachen in München manche Beobachter von einem neuen Kalten Krieg, dieses Mal im Bereich der Technologie.

08.01.2020 - 12:52 [ Haaretz ]

How Israel Covers Up Corruption by Its Spies, Soldiers and Arms Dealers

Israel‘s security apparatus and its over-collaborative judiciary would do well to look up, then commit to memory, the words of U.S. Supreme Court justice Louis Brandeis: „Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants.“