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Clean room romantic of an electrical engineer overseeing EUV lasers, pieu pieu, ie, #chip manufacturing: That overseer needs to wear a clean-room suit, and they have to work an eight-hour shift without a bathroom, food or water break (because getting out of the suit means going through an airlock means shutting down the system means long delays and wastage). pluralistic.net/2025/09/0…
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Toxic #PFAS have slowly come under control. But petrochemical companies find new industries to attach to, now #semiconductors. 🫣www.theverge.com/the-stepb… 🗞️archive.is/NA7t1
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Beyond the widely discussed celebration in #China, #Vietnam featured one of the largest parades in decades, featuring fighter jets, warships, tanks and stirring moments of pride. As in, odd military pride worth noting. e.vnexpress.net/news/news…
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The nightmare of the #Google case, As punishment for being convinced of obtaining and maintaining a monopoly, Google will be forced to share sensitive data with lots of other search engines. This will not secure competition for search, but it will certainly democratize human rights violations at scale. pluralistic.net/2025/09/0…
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Die Rechtsextremen können nur zerstören, die Aufgabe der Linken ist es, Dinge zu erfinden. Endlich erscheint in der #Zeit ein Text gegen die rechtskonservative Mythen. www.zeit.de/politik/d…
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A few things have progressed since my studies, but #ewaste recycling im #India calls for the dexterity of informal businesses. The formal efforts keep on adding harm. Rest of The World reports on gov pressure and producer protest restofworld.org/2025/indi…
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The NVidia black market documentary keeps on giving: #Repair shops in #China pimp GPUs to double the VRAM. With new PCBs. Repurposing silicon, that’s sustainable hacking. rumble.com/v6xro9o–…
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A long, sensitive documentary about #GPU blackmarkets in #China by #GamersNexus. Including unreal de-/soldering skills. Here’s the re-upload after YouTube blocked the OG content: rumble.com/v6xro9o–…