Hans-Christian Dirscherl - Windows 11 still runs on code from the 1990s, Microsoft admits:

https://www.pcworld.com/articl....e/3133963/windows-11

#microsoft #windows95 #win32 #application #api #legacy #dependency #operatingsystem #software #programming #history #softwareengineering #computerscience

Rachel Branning - Virginia Tech student identifies new meat-eating dinosaur species 205+ million years-old:

https://wjla.com/news/local/vi....rginia-tech-students

#ptychotheratesbucculentus #ptychotherates #dinosaur #cretaceous #fossil #skull #virginiatech #vt #setinstone #letsgohokies #history #paleontology

Richard Connor - When seeds 'hear' rain, they 'decide' to sprout — study:

https://www.dw.com/en/when-see....ds-hear-rain-they-de

#acousticresponse #vibration #raindrops #germination #cognition #statolith #mit #plantbiology #biology

Malek Fouda - Man arrested for the mass hit-and-run in Leipzig:

https://www.euronews.com/2026/....05/05/two-people-kil

#augustusplatz #leipzig #assaultcar #ramming #tragedy #notonemore #thinkofthechildren #bancarsnow #stopcrashing #stopcars #carextremism #endcarviolence #carviolence #pedestriansafety #trafficsafety #terrorism

Joining my purple iris in the garden this year are an overwintered Pink Bleeding Heart showing its first blooms of Spring, a sunflower, and a purple petunia with white spots that reminds me of a Hubble Deep Field view of galaxies against the background glow of the cosmos. #irisversicolor #iris #bleedingheart #dicentraspectabilis #sunflower #helianthus #petuniahybrida #petunia #starrynight #flowers #galaxies #astronomy #gardening #plantbiology #biology