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Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers.

As technology marches on, some people get trapped using decades-old software and devices. Here's a look inside the strange, stubborn world of obsolete Windows machines.

"Organisations put all their attention on adding new features instead of investing those resources into making improvements on [the basics of] what already exists,"

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250516-the-people-stuck-using-ancient-windows-computers

@Chiwo_Design yes we're arriving at a point where our knowledge shows that everything around us has an impact on us.... There is no separation between us and our environment. Simply because we are part of nature...

Chemicals released by climbing shoe abrasion could lead to lung issues for climbers in indoor environments

https://phys.org/news/2025-04-chemicals-climbing-abrasion-lung-issues.html

We are finally beginning to understand how LLMs work: No, they don't simply predict word after word
Circuit tracing is a relatively new technique that lets researchers track how an AI model builds its answers step by step – like following the wiring in...

https://www.techspot.com/news/107347-finally-beginning-understand-how-llms-work-no-they.html

Undergraduate Disproves 40-Year-Old Conjecture, Invents New Kind of Hash Table.

A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.

https://www.wired.com/story/undergraduate-upends-a-40-year-old-data-science-conjecture/

Ai Weiwei: ‘In the art world, everyone talks about money. It’s poisonous; you’re only worth as much as your work’
China’s most famous artist lives quietly in Portugal. But exile is hard, even if it’s golden. On the occasion of his latest exhibition at the MUSAC, a contemporary art museum in the city of León, Spain, he shows EL PAÍS the first house he’s ever bought, at the age of 67

https://english.elpais.com/culture/2025-02-15/ai-weiwei-in-the-art-world-everyone-talks-about-money-its-poisonous-youre-only-worth-as-much-as-your-work.html

Biodegradable plastics.

« Similar to conventional plastics, biodegradable plastics can break down into small particles under natural conditions, resulting in large quantities of microplastics. »

« Despite their biodegradability, these particles can have a very long life [...]. BDPs mainly showed high degradability in soil and compost environments. However, this is not always the case of the aquatic environment. »

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405844023103367

#greenwashing #microplastic #pollution