As cyber threats escalate globally, Syrian civil society organizations (CSOs) face increasing risks due to financial constraints, technical challenges, and political pressures. Unfortunately, these have led to security gaps that jeopardize the data and archives of civil society workers.
Our society’s growing reliance on digital technologies such as AI incurs an ever-growing ecological footprint. Kristina Irion, Associate Professor at the Institute for Information Law, examines the European Union law and policy surrounding data centres. In a recent article, she and co-author Jessica Commins explain why, despite measures to increase energy efficiency and renewable energy consumption, the unfettered growth of the data centres sector jeopardizes the achievement of the 2030 sustainability goal.
In collaboration with Patricio Del Boca
This post discusses Open Knowledge Foundation’s (OKFN) approach to integrating AI into the Open Data Editor (ODE), our new open source desktop application for data practitioners to detect errors in tables.
AdobeStock/pressmasterStudents and staff of the University of Klagenfurt are once again called upon to step on the pedals of their bicycles as part of the ‘The University gets cycling’ initiative to replace as many car kilometres as possible with bicycle kilometres. From 20 March to 30 September 2025, kilometres can be collected via the ‘Kärnten radelt’ platform – and the most diligent cyclists can once again win great prizes!
Insatiable. Technology had become a sun around which all life orbited, pulling everyone into its gravitational field. The draw towards scrolling became all too strong.
aau/MüllerSome want to simplify the shopping experience, others want to prepare financial data, and yet others want to offer businesses customized AI tools. What unites these potential founders is that they all use AI technologies to solve challenging problems for various target groups. The six prospective founders are supported in developing their ideas by vor.GRÜNDEN, an initiative run by the Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (KWF). Isabella Hold, spin-off manager at the University of Klagenfurt, is there to provide support.
aau/MüllerUsing non-intrusive load monitoring (NILM), it is possible to analyse which devices in a household are currently consuming electricity without having to attach separate measuring instruments to all of the consumers. Emir Sinanović, a university assistant in the Smart Grids working group at the Department of Networked and Embedded Systems, hopes to combine this analysis with a large-language model that works rather like ChatGPT.
Los Angeles, March 24, 2025
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The Carinthian Academic Badminton Championships were once again held this year at the USI-Klagenfurt sports facility. On Fri. 21.03.2025, almost 25 enthusiastic badminton players battled it out in the individual competitions. The champions in the various categories were determined in exciting competitions: Women’s Singles, Men’s Singles, Mixed Doubles, Women’s Doubles and Men’s Doubles.
Sei es für Reparaturen, den Austausch von Sensoren oder die Montage neuer Ausrüstung: Außenbordeinsätze an Weltraumstationen verlangen ein umfassendes Training der Besatzung. Geübt wird, um die Schwerelosigkeit des Weltalls zu simulieren, häufig in riesigen Wassertanks. Darin eingelassen sind Nachbauten von Shuttles und Raumstationen in Originalgröße. Das Problem: Solche Tanks sind äußerst kostspielig und existieren deshalb weltweit nur an wenigen Standorten.
Mercator-Journalist in Residence im April 2025
Luca Neuperti is a science slammer and science communicator.
Ob in Nahrungsergänzungsmitteln, Schokolade, Tee oder Gummibärchen – Cannabidiol (CBD) hat sich in den vergangenen Jahren zu einem Lifestyle-Trend auf dem Lebensmittelmarkt entwickelt. Eine berauschende Wirkung hat CBD nicht, Hersteller werben allerdings mit einer Vielzahl an positiven Effekten: gesteigerte körperliche Leistungsfähigkeit, ein verbessertes Immunsystem sowie Abhilfe bei Stress, Schmerzen oder Menstruationsbeschwerden.
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Melanie Siebenhofer successfully defended her dissertation, entitled “A Provably Good Connection: Spanning Trees, Edge Expansion, and Semidefinite Programming”, on March 20, 2025, with an mpressive presentation. This marks the fifth defense by a doctoral candidate from the doc.funds doctoral school “Modeling – Analysis – Optimization of discrete, continuous, and stochastic ystems.”
