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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ReHacked vol. 281: Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious, Kim Dotcom's Extradition, Does astrology work and more
Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious • The Register #internet In the past eight months, however, Google has lost two major US competition lawsuits:...
ReHacked vol. 280: Rest of World on influence in social networks, Computer security is a political struggle and more
Computer security is a political struggle #security #privacy #politics #longread Most of Western society now depends on digital technology. Yet we have a...
ReHacked vol. 279: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands, How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event” and more
To preserve their work — and drafts of history — journalists take archiving into their own hands | Nieman Journalism Lab #copyrights #internet #longread AI...
ReHacked vol. 278: An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut, Zurich, Bern Consider Billboard Advertising Bans, Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever and more
An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut #literature #history #longread One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived at the home of Kurt Vonnegut...
ReHacked vol. 277: How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy, Meta trains its AI with public Instagram posts and more
How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy | Smithsonian #privacy #copyrights #history Early photographers sold...
ReHacked vol. 276: Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars, The Law Code of Hammurabi, Tokyo’s oldest train line in pictures and more
eHammurabi #history #law #longread The Law Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest legal texts from ancient Mesopotamia. The artifact, a basalt stele, is...
ReHacked vol. 275: The Economics of Writing Technical Books, Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts and more
Short survey I would like you to fill the one question survey, which will shape the future of the newsletter. You can find the survey form here (no any...
ReHacked vol. 274: S. Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware, Remembering Larry Finger, who made Linux wireless work and more
South Korean telecom company attacks torrent users with malware — over 600,000 torrent users report missing files, strange folders, and disabled PCs | Tom's...
ReHacked vol. 273: Greece introduces the six-day work week, Donald Sutherland dies aged 88, Notes on Tajikistan and more
Donald Sutherland dies aged 88 #promemoria The Canadian actor Donald Sutherland, star of films including The Hunger Games and Don't Look Now, has died at 88...
ReHacked vol. 272: Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack, Mouth-based touchpad enables people living with paralysis to interact with computers and more
Microsoft Refused to Fix Flaw Years Before SolarWinds Hack — ProPublica #security #longread Former employee says software giant dismissed his warnings about...
ReHacked vol. 271: Tokyo Street Photography, How influencer cartels manipulate social media, Martha Gellhorn Was The Only Woman to Report on the D-Day Landings and more
Martha Gellhorn Was The Only Woman to Report on the D-Day Landings From the Ground | Smithsonian #history #longread “Gellhorn was willing to put herself in...
ReHacked vol. 270: 12 books from global tech leaders, Tracking private jets just got much harder, Possible association between tattoos and lymphoma revealed and more
Huge #privacy threat arises in #Europe and highly prorussian move. Original message:Beware: The #ChatControl proposal which has been stalling could be...
ReHacked vol. 269: When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid, Carmakers Will Give Your Location to Police Without a Warrant, Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data and more
Steve Blank Secret History – When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid #photography #history #economy #longread In April 1969 Kodak tore up a 20-year...
ReHacked vol. 268: Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check, Microsoft's Emissions Spike 29% as AI Gobbles Up Resources and more
Cyber Security: A Pre-War Reality Check - Bert Hubert's writings #politics #history #world #longread First, some important words from Donald T: “I know it...
ReHacked vol. 267: Roger Corman Dead, Atari’s Mike Jang, The people who won't give up floppy disks and more
Atari’s Mike Jang – The Arcade Blogger #computer #games #history #atari #longread I started the concepts for the Star Wars cabinet and later another designer...
ReHacked vol. 266: Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail, Britain's Secret Ice "Bergship" Aircraft Carrier Project and more
ESA - Webb captures iconic Horsehead Nebula in unprecedented detail #space #science The NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope has captured the sharpest...
ReHacked vol. 265: The Battlegrounds from World War 1 Are Still Dangerous in France, Manipulation, indoctrination and addiction, TikTok ‘ban’ bill and more
💡<...> the goal of a book isn’t to get to the last page, it’s to expand your thinking. --Dave Rupert The Battlegrounds from World War 1 Are Still Dangerous...
ReHacked vol. 264: We Need To Rewild The Internet, Gigs Economy Around the World, Virtual Tour around Museo Nacional del Prado and more
💡“The word for world is forest” — Ursula K. Le Guin We Need To Rewild The Internet #internet #society #longread The story of German scientific forestry...
ReHacked vol. 263: Lore Harp, CEO and founder of Vector Graphic, Working from home isn’t going away and more
💡You can do anything you want. She Built a Microcomputer Empire From Her Suburban Home #women #computers #hardware #history #longread London. 1981. A young,...
ReHacked vol. 262: Timeline of the xz open source attack, Dark Star at 50: How a micro-budget student film changed sci-fi forever, Keeping your data from Apple is harder than expected and more
Timeline of the xz open source attack #software #security #longread Over a period of over two years, an attacker using the name “Jia Tan” worked as a...
ReHacked vol. 261: Proteins let cells remember how well their last division went, Mazda’s Rotary Engine in the Age of the Electric Car and more
Make a donation - support Ukraine. My favourite: Support the Armed Forces of Ukraine | via National Bank of Ukraine. More options if you want alternatives....
ReHacked vol. 260: Boom Announces Successful Flight of XB-1 Demonstrator Aircraft, Rediscovering Ikigai, EU cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments and more
EU cash cap and ban on anonymous crypto payments results in financial paternalism – Patrick Breyer #economy #money #privacy The majority of the EU...
ReHacked vol. 259: Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law, Libraries struggle to afford the demand for e-books and more
Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law | News | European Parliament #privacy #ai Key points: Safeguards on general purpose artificial...
ReHacked vol. 258: Superconductivity scandal, Dragon Ball Creator Akira Toriyama Has Died, France enshrines 'freedom' to abortion in Constitution, in world first and more
Superconductivity scandal: the inside story of deception in a rising star's physics lab #science #fakescience #longread Three previous investigations into...
ReHacked vol. 257: “AI will cure cancer” misunderstands both AI and medicine, The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias, Antarctic English and more
The Real-World Locations of 14 Sci-Fi Dystopias - Atlas Obscura #art #culture #history #longread In some science fiction cinema, the future looks pretty...
ReHacked vol. 256: Inside North Korea’s Forced-Labor Program in China, 'Scam Manual' Written to Help Immigrants Not Become Victims, Pleasures by Aldous Huxley and more
A Peek Inside a 'Scam Manual' Written to Help Immigrants Not Become Victims - Atlas Obscura #history #books #security #longread Written by inventor-turned-...
ReHacked vol. 255: Inside the Proton, European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption and more
An extract of 1 USGS topographic map, accessed via the Living Atlas Historical Topo Map Explorer. 1885 Tooele Valley 1:250,000 European Court of Human Rights...
ReHacked vol. 254: Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to hundreds of popular food brands, Nana Wedding Dress Collection and more
Original image by ©Yazawa Manga Productions/Shueisha, with background edits by Tokyo Weekender Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to...
ReHacked vol. 253: FAA Aviation Maps, The End of Physical Money, Vietnamese Typography and more
A detail of the Chicago O'Hare International Airport on the Chicago section VFR map. Source: FAA. Physical cash is dying—and you don’t need to be a...
ReHacked vol. 252: BJP’s Saral app gathers unusual levels of data about Indian voters, Ingenuity Helicopter Mission Ends, Faircamp is a Free Bandcamp Alternative and more
Doshisha University shows an image taken by a Lunar Excursion Vehicle 2 (LEV-2) of a robotic moon rover called Smart Lander for Investigating Moon, or SLIM,...
ReHacked vol. 251: Each Facebook User Is Monitored by Thousands of Companies, DOOM released under GPLv2, Kaprekar's routine and more
Miscellaneous Fire Grenades. Courtesy London Fire Brigade Museum Haier Threatens Legal Action Against Home Assistant Plugin Developer | Hackaday #software...
ReHacked vol. 249: JAL A359 Accident, 2023’s best global tech stories we wish we’d written, Bitwarden Heist and more
💡You got this newsletter, because you were subscribed to ReHacked on substack, but I decided to move to the new home. For you will be no changes: same...
ReHacked vol. 250: Boeing 737 MAX 9, South Pole Adventure, Austerity Is an Antidemocratic Strategy to Boost Capital and more
The elevated station, from afar. (C) brr Alaska Airlines Boeing 737 MAX 9 United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections - The Air...
ReHacked vol 248: Strange underground city found in man's basement, Open Source Liability is Coming, Europol warns 443 online shops infected with credit card stealers and more
Derinkuyu: Strange underground city found in man's basement - Big Think #history In 1963, a man knocked down a wall in his basement and discovered a...
ReHacked vol. 247: 15% of Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion, A Concorde Engine Complete With Afterburner For Sale On eBay, Top 22 Artifacts from Stone Age and more
Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts | Society | The Guardian #history #culture “Sheer vandalism” and “insane”. This...
ReHacked vol. 246: Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, Mary Ratcliffe - code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's innermost secrets dies aged 98 and more
Mary Ratcliffe - code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's innermost secrets dies aged 98 | Daily Mail Online #history Tributes have...
ReHacked vol. 245: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”, Nuclear Reactor Simulator, The Life and Legacy of Feminist Activist Noe Ito and more
The Life and Legacy of Feminist Activist Noe Ito | Tokyo Weekender #history #feminism #orientalism Born in 1895, Noe Ito was raised in a small fishing...
ReHacked vol. 244: The Secret Language of Ships, The hidden beauty of Berlin's indoor pools, Max Headroom signal hijacking and more
New Wave Sci-Fi: 75 Best Novels of 1964–1983 – HILOBROW #literarture #history #longread Science fiction’s so-called New Wave era began in approximately 1964....
ReHacked vol. 243: 3 wonderful years!
#ReHacked is now three years old. The idea of the newsletter is slow, filtered, curated news for you. You can name them the “old” news. I monitor and select...
ReHacked vol. 242: She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years, Hayao Miyazaki's optimism dims in ‘The Boy and the Heron’, Nepal bans TikTok and more
This time in the main topic I would like to share information about Unseen STL event. On November 25th, Spine Indie Bookstore and Cafe (1976-82 Arsenal St.)...
ReHacked vol. 241: A History of Japanese Train Evolution, When Linux Spooked Microsoft, Spain lives in flats and more
A History of Japanese Train Evolution | Tokyo Weekender #history #technology #engineering They have been called the greatest privatization success story in...
ReHacked vol. 240: Intel 80386, Maersk cutting at least 10,000 jobs, German court bans LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals and more
What is Wasabi and Why Is It so Spicy? | Tokyo Weekender #history #culinary #longread Wasabi was first cultivated in Japan in the 10th century after it was...
ReHacked vol. 239: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking, The Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding, 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman and more
The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking – The Marginalian #longread In a chapter titled “The Fine Art of...