ReHacked vol. 331: The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025, Helsinki records zero traffic deaths for full year and more
"No one has ever become poor by giving." --Anne Frank The EU could be scanning your chats by October 2025 – here's everything we know | TechRadar #privacy...
ReHacked vol. 330: The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality, Tech Billionaires Accused of Quietly Working to Implement "Corporate Dictatorship" and more
The bewildering phenomenon of declining quality | Culture | EL PAÍS English #economy #longread #consumerism There’s a YouTube documentary about “planned...
ReHacked vol. 329: Designing for the Eye, Caveman Chemistry and more
Caveman Chemistry : Hands-on Projects in Chemical Technology #lifehack #rabbithole #history #nature Half a million years ago our ancestors learned to make...
ReHacked vol. 328: Orwell Diaries, NTSB Report on Alaska Airlines Flight 1282 and more
Orwell Diaries 1938-1942 #history #rabbithole George Orwell's domestic and political diary entries, posted 70 years to the day after they were written Make a...
ReHacked vol. 327: Iberian Peninsula Blackout revisited, Stop Killing Games, and more
Stop Killing Games #software #copyrights "Stop Killing Games" is a consumer movement started to challenge the legality of publishers destroying video games...
ReHacked vol. 326: AI is Dehumanization Technology, Education is free, learning is expensive and more
AI is Dehumanization Technology #ai #society AI systems are an attack on workers, climate goals, our information environment, and civil liberties. Rather...
ReHacked vol. 325: End of 10: Upgrade your old Windows 10 computer to Linux, British pubs rules and more
British pubs have their own set of rules. Here’s what you need to know | CNN #culture #history #longread In 1943, as American troops were dispersed around...
ReHacked vol. 324: Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety; ‘EchoLeak’, the First Zero-Click AI Vulnerability and more
Menstrual tracking app data is a ‘gold mine’ for advertisers that risks women’s safety – report | University of Cambridge #privacy #health #humanrights...
ReHacked vol. 323: After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More, Can I stop drone delivery companies flying over my property and more
After 25 Years, Linux Format Magazine is No More - OMG! Ubuntu #computing #history #longread In May 2000, the first issue of a brand new Linux magazine hit...
ReHacked vol. 322: The 3 Gurus of 90s Web Design, Owls in Towels and more
Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites #internet #search #bigcorp #longread Broken Google's promises and shift from "By people, for people"...
ReHacked vol. 321: Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – an Army’s Role, Worthless noise isn’t information and more
Failure Mechanisms in Democratic Regimes – an Army’s Role – The Angry Staff Officer #history #politics #longread The United States was born of a desire to...
ReHacked vol. 320: Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected, World’s First Mass-Produced Flying Car and more
Avoiding AI is hard – but our freedom to opt out must be protected #ai #privacy #society #longread To protect the right to live a life free from the constant...
ReHacked vol. 319: The vocal effects of Daft Punk, Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball and more
Sam Altman Wants Your Eyeball - Privacy Guides #privacy #futurism #dystopia Last week, OpenAI's CEO Sam Altman announced in San Francisco that the World...
ReHacked vol. 318: Reality Check on AI, What Is A Core Memory, And How Do You Create One and more
Reality Check on AI Perspectives #ai #economy #longread Anyway, that's not great at all! That's really bad! The Information reports that OpenAI will make...
ReHacked vol. 317: Exercise before bed is linked with disrupted sleep, 53 Shakespearean Insults That Still Burn Today and more
53 Shakespearean Insults That Still Burn Today #literature Shakespeare may have a lot to say about love, but he also had no lack of words when it comes to a...
ReHacked vol. 316: Encryption Is Not a Crime, Strongest evidence yet of life on an alien planet and more
Encryption Is Not a Crime - Privacy Guides #privacy #longread Contrary to what some policymakers seem to believe, whether naively or maliciously, encryption...
ReHacked vol. 315: Isaac Asimov on How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans, 100 Best Sci-Fi Movies Of All Time and more
Isaac Asimov Describes How Artificial Intelligence Will Liberate Humans & Their Creativity: Watch His Last Major Interview (1992) | Open Culture #futurism...
ReHacked vol. 314: Keeping Voyager Alive, How the ‘Guardian’ US Flourishes Without a Paywall and more
Keeping Voyager Alive: NASA’s Project Scientist Faces Painful Choices as the Iconic Mission Nears Its End #space #engineering #longread The Voyagers are...
ReHacked vol. 313: All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed, Win11 is closing a loophole that let you skip making a MS account and more
Watch All of the Commercials That David Lynch Has Directed: A Big 30-Minute Compilation | Open Culture #culture #history Some filmmakers start in...
ReHacked vol. 312: Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens, Italy demands Google poison DNS under strict Piracy Shield law and more
Let’s knock down social media’s walled gardens by Tim Berners-Lee #internet We should start with the things we need to fix. At the top of the list is the...
ReHacked vol. 311: Josephine Cochrane - The forgotten story of the woman who invented the dishwasher, The history of San Francisco's most unforgettable ad and more
The forgotten story of the woman who invented the dishwasher | Popular Science #history #engineering #longread Gilded Age socialite Josephine Cochrane...
ReHacked vol. 310: North Koreans laundering of more than $1 billion stolen from Bybit, GeoCities in 1995: Building a Home Page on the Internet and more
North Koreans finish initial laundering stage after more than $1 billion stolen from Bybit | The Record from Recorded Future News #blockchain #crime Last...
ReHacked vol. 309: R.I.P. Leon The Lobster, Framework’s first desktop and more
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ReHacked vol. 308: The Sony FX-300 Jackal: A Holy Grail technological marvel of the late 70s, It is no longer safe to move our governments and societies to US clouds and more
Why can’t we remember our lives as babies or toddlers? | Science | The Guardian #psychology #society “In the Asian context, identity and sense of self is...
ReHacked vol. 307: What Was Doggerland?, Schneier on Security: DOGE as a National Cyberattack and more
3 Maps Of Doggerland: Mapping The Lost World #history #nature What Was Doggerland? A Prehistoric Landscape: Doggerland was a rich, marshy landscape that...
ReHacked vol. 306: #ReHacked was under attack, A Brilliantly Detailed Map Of Medieval Trade Routes & Networks and more
Hello, my dear subscribers! Just wanted to let you know that last week my newsletter experienced a wave of spam subscriptions. I've since resolved the issue,...
ReHacked vol. 305: The Case for Kicking the Stone, EU Officially Bans AI Systems with ‘Unacceptable Risk’ and more
The Case for Kicking the Stone #society #internet #technology #longread We can’t change or constrain the tech, says Carr, but we can change ourselves. We can...
ReHacked vol. 304: 20 Albums Turning 50 in 2025, The global struggle over how to regulate AI and more
The global struggle over how to regulate AI - Rest of World #ai #law #longread The drafted bill was one of the most comprehensive to date outside the West....
ReHacked vol. 303: Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income, Why Do Some People Get Drunk Faster Than Others and more
Using Coding Skills to Make Passive Income | Cory Zue #career #longread #video A decade of firsthand advice on going from an employed software developer to...
ReHacked vol. 302: Ukraine says it captured two injured North Korean soldiers in Russia, The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité and more
Ukraine says it captured two injured North Korean soldiers in Russia #war Two wounded North Korean soldiers have been captured as prisoners of war by...
ReHacked vol. 301: How Did the Tradition of New Year's Resolutions Begin, Meta is killing off its own AI-powered Instagram and Facebook profiles and more
How Did the Tradition of New Year's Resolutions Begin? | The Old Farmer's Almanac #productivity #history 10 Tips for Making Resolutions Avoid wording your...
ReHacked vol. 300: 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond, 2024 in Photos and more
Happy 400th birthday to the world’s oldest bond #history #finances Four hundred years ago — on New Year’s Day in 1624 — drifting ice on the river Lek in the...
ReHacked vol. 299: Bogotá’s open streets program and How much academic success inherited?
Ciclovía, Bogotá’s open streets program, is the oldest and most successful in the world. I went to find out how it lasted. #society #environment #longread...
ReHacked vol. 298: Colour in the Middle Ages, Troy Hunt: "Pwned", The Book, Is Now Available for Free and more
Colour in the Middle Ages - Medievalists.net #art #history #longread The color code was recurrent and meaningful. A black knight was almost a character of...
ReHacked vol. 296: That time of a year again
My dear subscribers, thank you for being together! #ReHacked is already four years old. How crazy is that! The idea of the newsletter is slow, hand-picked,...
ReHacked vol. 297: Northvolt goes from Europe battery promise to crisis, The correct amount of ads, Deepfakes weaponised to target Pakistan's women leaders and more
Spies hack Wi-Fi networks in far-off land to launch attack on target next door - Ars Technica #security One of 2024's coolest hacking tales occurred two...
ReHacked vol. 295: Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions, Researchers Trick Bots Into Dangerous Tasks and more
Half of Russia's A320/A321neo Fleet Grounded Amid Engine Issues and Sanctions #aviation Half of the Airbus A320/A321neo aircraft operated in Russia are out...
ReHacked vol. 294: JWST Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity, EU slaps Meta with a nearly 800 million euro fine and more
James Webb Space Telescope Finds Stunning Evidence for Alternate Theory of Gravity - The Debrief #science #nature According to McGaugh and colleagues, JWST’s...
ReHacked vol. 293: The 200 Best Inventions of 2024, Pirating "The Pirate Bay" TV Series is Ironically Difficult and more
The 200 Best Inventions of 2024 | TIME #longread #science #technology #futurism Make a donation - support Ukraine. My favourite: Support the Armed Forces of...
ReHacked vol. 292: Can the Singularity be Avoided?, Temu faces EU investigation and more
Vernor Vinge on the Singularity #ai #futurism #superintellingence #longread Can the Singularity be Avoided? Well, maybe it won't happen at all: Sometimes I...
ReHacked vol. 291: Phil Lesh, Grateful Dead bassist and founding member, dies at 84, 1st photo of Earth from space, 78 years ago and more
Meet the Italian 'Fruit Detective' Who Investigates Centuries-Old Paintings for Clues About Produce That Has Disappeared From the Kitchen Table | Smithsonian...
ReHacked vol. 290: Unified Geologic Map of the Moon, Kurt Vonnegut’s lost board game finally published and more
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ReHacked vol. 289: Discarded electronics in Ghana, Your Brain Changes Based on What You Did Two Weeks Ago and more
Here's photos of e-waste and discarded electronics in Ghana : Goats and Soda : NPR #world #longread The most valuable minerals extracted from Ghana’s e-waste...
ReHacked vol. 288: Divers in Mexico's Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, The Greatest Sports Cars of All Time and more
Divers in Mexico's Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, Fossils and Human Remains | Smithsonian #history #nature #civilization #longread...
ReHacked vol. 287: Neil Postman on Technology and Society (1998), Postcards are the email of their day, Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second and more
'Postcards are the email of their day': How cat memes went viral 100 years ago #history #memes #cats #fun Like memes, postcards carried not just a picture...
ReHacked vol. 286: LinkedIn does not use European users’ data for training its AI, LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet and more
The LinkedIn AI saga shows us the need for EU-like privacy regulations | TechRadar #privacy #software #ai After Austria's digital rights advocacy group Noyb...
ReHacked vol. 285: Windows NT vs. Unix, Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links and more
Windows NT vs. Unix: A design comparison - by Julio Merino #software #history #longread #technotes NT is often touted as a "very advanced" operating system....
ReHacked vol. 284: The Hindenburg’s Interior: Vintage Photos, OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free and more
The Hindenburg’s Interior: Vintage Photos Reveal What Luxury Air Travel Was Like in the 1930s - Rare Historical Photos #history #photos #longread Before...
ReHacked vol. 283: Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime, Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen and more
Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime | Scientific American #psychology #health #longread A new study published...
ReHacked vol. 282: Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982), Uber loses landmark appeal - court rules drivers are employees, not contractors and more
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