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Researchers have tested the software of three satellites. And they found many standard security mechanisms missing. Thousands of satellites are currently orbiting the Earth, and there will be many more in the future. Researchers from Ruhr University Bochum and the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Saarbrücken have assessed the security of these systems from an IT perspective.

Future artificial intelligence (AI) systems, and AI-based robots in particular, must be able to understand and gauge not only their own actions, but also those of others.

University managements award four Collaboration Grants / Interview with Claudia Voelcker-Rehage about a winning project in 2022 On June 30, the managements of the Universities of Münster and Twente a

Who has ever been hit by cybercrime? How do people protect themselves from it? A survey reveals similarities and differences between different groups around the world.

Humans often have no chance whatsoever of distinguishing artificially generated images, audios and videos from real ones. This is why researchers are currently working on automated recognition solutions. All it takes is a simple text command: in no time at all, artificial intelligence can generate an image that looks like a real photo and is indistinguishable from it to human eyes.

University of Freiburg data for all city districts now available in real time via app A thunderstorm is raging in the Zähringen district of Freiburg, but in Rieselfeld there is hardly a drop of rain.

Digital twins and cybersecurity strategies for the modern world of work Our researchers are responsible for two long-term projects, the "KI.FABRIK" and the "German-French Academy for the Indus

Wide-ranging research on embodied intelligence at TUM A robot can be as small as a pill or as big as a (self-driving) car.

Researchers from Leipzig University will present an interactive digital cube that can visualise climate data from anywhere in the world in space and time at the Building Bridges for the Next Generations conference on 16 May. As a freely accessible website, LexCube makes terabytes of data available to everyone.

Increasing heat and drought are changing forests faster than expected. Researchers at the University of Würzburg want to keep a better eye on these dynamics.

Engineer Edoardo Milana will research bioinspired soft robotic systems made of deformable and adaptive materials at the University of Freiburg Dr. Edoardo Milana has been appointed Tenure-Trac

Munich Data Science Institute Data Science, Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence now share a joint home at TUM: The Munich Data Science Institute, a research center and service facility for scientific projects.

"Flora Incognita," Germany's most popular plant identification app, has received new artificial intelligence - as a result, the number of plant species that can be determined has tripled: Around 16,000 species can now be identified worldwide. In addition, the app, which is now available in 20 languages, now also works in offline mode, and its digital educational offering includes a wealth of new information, such as improved distribution maps of many species.

The Technische Universität Ilmenau has developed an innovative audio technology for augmented and virtual reality that makes it possible to generate virtual sound sources in a natural environment.

The AI programme ChatGPT is -a new milestone- / It presents both opportunities and risks - not only for universities The programme provides answers to almost every conceivable question - within seconds.

The TU Ilmenau is involved in a large-scale research project that will further develop 6G, the next-generation mobile network, to enable new multimedia applications.

Interim assessment of medical informatics project DIFUTURE People suffering from rare diseases often face a major difficulty: Their illnesses occur so infrequently that only a handful of physicians are very familiar with them.

Software makes more ethically differentiated decisions Researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed autonomous driving software which distributes risk on the street in a fair manner. The algorithm contained in the software is considered to be the first to incorporate the 20 ethics recommendations of the EU Commission expert group, thus making significantly more differentiated decisions than previous algorithms.

Shortly after the National Socialists seized power, a wave of repression began, to which political opponents as well as Jews or other "unpopular" persons were subjected.

New power for the Digital Transformation As part of its TUM Agenda 2030 the Technical University of Munich (TUM) opened its TUM School of Computation, Information and Technology (CIT) with a gala ceremony.

Researchers from the University of Freiburg present interdisciplinary perspectives on responsible artificial intelligence A research group led by Silja Vöneky , Institute of Public Law, Dr. Ph

Kick-Off for the project "Desirable Digitalization". Sponsored by Stiftung Mercator Artificial intelligence is on everyone's lips. But what does AI do to us and our society? How does it change our view of humanity? How can AI applications be steered in an ethically desirable direction? In the project "Desirable Digitalization" of the Center for Science and Thought at the University of Bonn and the Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence at the University of Cambridge, which is funded by Stiftung Mercator, researchers take a look at the challenges of AI for society as a whole.

The University of Tübingen is boosting research and development into science communication by establishing a specialist research center.

The METATOOL project received 4 million euros from the European Innovation Council (EIC) and the 'Awareness Inside' Pathfinder Challenge to investigate how robots can invent new tools as ancient humans did.