Two days to go until the start of #arselectronica25 - we are getting ready! On the very right side, directly next to the main registration booth our #DigitalShadows interactive tour will start. Looking forward to meeting you there!

#JKU #JKULinz #arselectronica

Kann man mit Chatbots befreundet sein? Welche psychologischen Mechanismen und welche Eigenschaften der Systeme bewirken, dass wir KIs vermenschlichen - und welche Chancen und Risiken sind damit verbunden? 🤖 In unserer Reihe an der #JGUMainz beleuchtet die Psychologin Martina Mara vom LIT Robopsychology Lab der #JKULinz psychologische Mechanismen des Anthropomorphismus, seine Auswirkungen auf die Mensch-Maschine-Beziehung sowie Strategien zur Förderung von KI-Verständnis. 📅 Heute um 18:15 Uhr im Hörsaal N1 auf dem Campus der #JGU und demnächst als Aufzeichnung.
👉 Infos unter https://stg.uni-mainz.de/25s_maschine-moral/#26-mai-2025brprof-dr-martina-marabrstrongspricht-hier-ein-mensch-risiken-und-nebenwirkungen-von-anthropomorphismus-in-der-interaktion-mit-chatgpt-amp-co-strong

#Studiumgenerale #Bürgeruni #Wisskomm #Psychologie #KI #Robotik #KIKompetenz #Robopsychology #Chatbot

Coming back from an exciting and inspiring #BilateralAI #FWF Cluster of Excellence Kickoff at #JKULinz.... with WU (Vienna University of Economics and Business) colleagues Marta Sabou, Sabrina Kirrane, Fajar J. Ekaputra, Daniel Dobriy, Alexander Prock, Debayan Banerjee (who will join the #BILAI team soon :)) and the head of WU's research services, Manuela Wade ... plus some 300 more people at an inspiring kickoff event (incl. over 50 #BILAI researchers from 6 universities) !!!

https://www.derstandard.at/story/3000000259016/ki-modell-aus-oesterreich-soll-chatgpt-und-co-deutlich-uebertrumpfen

Zusammen mit meiner Kollegin Marianne Lechner sowie Kolleg*innen des ICAE der JKU Linz diskutieren wir am Montag Abend im Keplersalon zum Thema: "Ökonomie und Design - Partnerschaft der Apokalypse?"

Falls in #Linz, kommt vorbei!

https://buff.ly/4g8ZgCJ

#Suffizienz #designresearch #postgrowth #speculativedesign #designtheory #jkulinz #kunstunilinz

#JKULinz has a new job posting for a Full University Professor for System Software: https://www.jku.at/die-jku/arbeiten-an-der-jku/stellenausschreibungen/professuren/system-software/

Please apply and work with our computing department on programming language/compiler/runtime/VM research and exciting related challenges, including of course my personal favorites security and sustainability - I am very much looking forward to a new colleague 😉

(Please boost/reshare in your academic network.)

I have a brief story to tell: Earlier this week, a large DDoS attack against 2 out of our larger set of #Tor (@torproject) relays - which also act as stable HSDir nodes - has managed to partially interrupt Internet traffic for the whole #JKULinz. While the attack was not huge compared to others (peak traffic around 3-4 Gbit/s, well above 1M PPS), we suspect either a nation state actor or fairly well-funded organization for 3 reasons:
* The attack was more advanced than simply saturating the upstream with bandwidth/packets, but had proper handshakes with the Tor relays, trying to cause resource exhaustion on the application level (we have seen this pattern multiple times in the last 6+ months, but this one was much more massive in terms of incoming packets).
* The attack was very targeted, affecting only 2 IPs out of 25, consistently over some time. This indicates that either the position in the HSDir or specific connections or hidden services that were relayed over those nodes were the target - but note that these are only guesses, we don't have hard data on the motivation of this targeting.
* The only motivations that come to mind are either de-anonymization attacks or take-downs of particular hidden services. These do not seem to be relevant for usual ransom DDoS botnet attackers, but more for political reasons.

We have some flow data and would be interested in doing more analysis. Any ideas or correlation with other data on Tor relay attacks welcome :)
CC @GossiTheDog

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Transformation Studies.
Art x Science
Die neuen Transform! Studien - eine Kooperation der Universität für angewandte Kunst Wien und der Johannes Kepler Universität Linz.

https://www.jku.at/art-science-transformation/

#JKULinz

Neue Uni in Linz: „Sonderkonstruktion“ stößt auf Kritik
https://orf.at/stories/3344539/

Es ist komplett unfassbar und wird immer nur schlimmer und schlimmer.

#uni #universitat #universitaten #univie #tuwien #wuwien #unilinz #unigraz #uniinnsbruck #tugraz #tuaustria #politisierung #entmachtung #linz #JKULinz #uniko #osterreich #polaschek #DigitalUni #tulinz #ITU

I am happy to announce that #JKULinz is one of the two academic institution founding members of the OpenWallet Foundation: https://openwallet.foundation/sponsors/,
https://youtu.be/e1cdZ_Nzo_U

We have been working on decentralized digital identities for years, and this is an effort to form an open source basis for future, interoperable credential wallets. In parallel to international standards, components for open, transparent implementations are important parts.