ReHacked vol. 343: LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot", Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes and more
"In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it." --Paul Allen LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"! #ai In...
ReHacked vol. 342: Attention is a luxury good, Are we living in a golden age of stupidity and more
"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." --Dwight D. Eisenhower Attention is a luxury good | Seth's Blog #information...
ReHacked vol. 341: Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable malware, 100 year old Halloween postcards and more
"Education is one of the blessings of life—and one of its necessities." --Malala Yousafzai Supermicro server motherboards can be infected with unremovable...
ReHacked vol. 340: F-Droid and Google's Developer Registration Decree, Personal data storage is an idea whose time has come and more
"The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you." --BB King Open Source Android Repository F-Droid Says Google's New Rules Will Shut...
ReHacked vol. 339: Tell the EU: Don’t Break Encryption with “Chat Control”, Huawei pushes AI and cloud into emerging markets after U.S. ban and more
Sharing your information in a smart way can also liberate it. --Tim Berners-Lee Tell the EU: Don’t Break Encryption with “Chat Control” - Mozilla Foundation...
ReHacked vol. 338: William Gibson Reads Neuromancer, Famous Cognitive Psychology Experiments that Failed to Replicate and more
"The man who views the world at 50 the same as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life." --Muhammad Ali Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial...
ReHacked vol. 337: ChatControl update, Modern Museums Experience and more
"It has always been easy to hate and destroy. To build and to cherish is much more difficult." --Queen Elizabeth II I didn't bring my son to a museum to look...
ReHacked vol. 336: AI crawlers destroying websites, The day Return became Enter and more
If you want to support artists, buy their work. If you don't, don't pretend Spotify streams are "support." --Some wise guy on internet. AI crawlers...
ReHacked vol. 335: Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer Verification and some more
“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.” --Paulo Coelho Uncomfortable Questions About Android Developer...
ReHacked vol. 334: The Pleasure of Patterns in Art, Reddit will block the Internet Archive and more
Without goals, training has no direction. --Natalie Coughlin Reddit will block the Internet Archive | The Verge #ai #internet #copyrights The company says...
ReHacked vol. 333: Empire of the absurd
<...> the Soviet system seems so hard for foreigners to understand they would prefer to ignore the fact of its existence rather than try to learn about it....
ReHacked vol. 332: Screen-Free Activities for Kids, Francis Bacon’s Essays and more
"When you're good at something, you'll tell everyone. When you're great at something, they'll tell you." --Walter Payton Offline Kids – Screen-Free...
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...