ReHacked vol. 363: Billion-Parameter Theories, Chuck Norris Dead and more
"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have." --Irish Proverb Billion-Parameter Theories – Sean Linehan #ai #ai generated TL;DR...
ReHacked vol. 362: AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier and more
"When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade." -- Ruth Bader...
ReHacked vol. 361: Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns and more
Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything” #meta #privacy Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they...
ReHacked vol. 360: Is Age Verification a Trap?, US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives and more
"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love." --Johnny Cash Is Age Verification a Trap? - IEEE Spectrum...
ReHacked vol. 359: "Made in EU" is hard, Attention Media ≠ Social Networks and more
"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. Why? Because when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result." --...
ReHacked vol. 358: New EU rules to stop destruction of unsold clothes and shoes and more
AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It #ai #longread Summary. One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on...
ReHacked vol. 357: Technocracy 2.0, 4 times drinking coffee was illegal and more
Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. --Niklaus Wirth Technocracy 2.0 - The Brooklyn Rail #society #futurism #longread The...
ReHacked vol. 356: FOSDEM 2026 – Open Source, Digital Sovereignty, and Europes Future and more
"It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly." -- Kobe Bryant FOSDEM 2026 – Open...
ReHacked vol. 355: NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books and more
"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will...
ReHacked vol. 354: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting and more
The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon #internet #hardware #history #longread The heart of the Internet...
ReHacked vol. 353: 10 Frugal Living Tips From the 1950s and more
"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist … Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist."...
ReHacked vol. 352: The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice and more
2025 -> 2026 'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice #nature Dozens of mysterious structures across the...
ReHacked vol. 351: Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content and more
We might not need more time, we simply need to decide. --Seth Godin Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content – Krebs on Security #internet #security...
ReHacked vol. 350: Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers and more
"I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am." -- Gustave Eiffel Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers #privacy...
ReHacked vol. 349: Paged Out!, Why Fighter Jets Ban 90% of C++ Features and more
"We are more fulfilled when we are involved in something bigger than ourselves." -- John Glenn Paged Out! #magazine #programming #rabbithole Paged Out! is a...
ReHacked vol. 348: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy and more
"It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." --Muhammad Ali The Nerd...
ReHacked vol. 347: Europe is scaling back its privacy and AI laws, The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable and more
"Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." --Arnold Schwarzenegger Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy...
ReHacked vol. 346: ChatControl 2.0, OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws and more
"The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." --Kurt Vonnegut CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns:...
ReHacked vol. 345: Japanese IP holders demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI, Reviving Classic Unix Games and more
"Talent is never enough. With few exceptions, the best players are the hardest workers." --Earvin "Magic" Johnson Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix...
ReHacked vol. 344: What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading, ISS in Real Time and more
"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." -- Theodore Roosevelt What We Talk About When We...