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ReHacked vol. 231: Tolkien, 50 years on, Harry Browne’s 17 Golden Rules of Financial Safety, Google Preemptively Banned Hundreds of Millions of 'Pirate' URLs and more
September 5, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 230: The Hunt for the King of the Dark Web, How to sabotage your salary negotiation efforts, Someone needs to save the Internet Archives from the lawyers and more
August 29, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 229: Nakano Sun Plaza, The Truth Behind Poland's 'Anti-Vampire' Graves, Write about what you learn and more
August 22, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 228: How to Think Better, MIT Press's Direct to Open opens access to 82 new books in 2023, Record Labels Hit Internet Archive With New $400m+ Copyright Lawsuit and more
August 15, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 227: Will Browsers Be Required By Law To Stop You From Visiting Infringing Sites?, NASA Mission Update: Voyager 2 Communications Restored and more
August 8, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 226: Google’s nightmare “Web Integrity API”, Scientists Say Recycling Has Backfired Spectacularly, Sinéad O’Connor has died at the age of 56 and more
August 1, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 225: Bright and Dark Sides of the Japanese Porn Industry, Amsterdam bans cruise ships to limit visitors and curb pollution and more
July 25, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 224: short vacation, because News is bad for you
July 18, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 223: Japanese Women of the Arts: Nodoka Odawara, How to Learn Better, WordCamp Dhaka 2023 Cancelled Due to Concerns of Corporate Influence and more
July 11, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 222: Twitter now requires an account to view tweets, Monster gravitational waves spotted for first time, Collection of Van Gogh Works and more
July 4, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 221: How To Raise a Roman Army: The Dilectus, The Titanic Sub trip, French govt. says users of uBlock Origin, Signal etc. are potential terrorists and more
June 27, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 220: Reddit vs the Internet: saga continues, EU suggests breaking up Google’s ad business, Edge sends images you view online to Microsoft and more
June 20, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 219: Backup Ukraine, Reddit vs the Internet, Japan’s Ever-Popular Capsule Toys and more
June 13, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 218: Do we need copyright?, High Prices Make Textbook 'Piracy' Acceptable to Most Students, Entering the Psychedelic World of Yayoi Kusama and more
June 6, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 217: War Is A Racket : Major General Smedley Butler (1935), Just Calm Down About GPT-4 Already, Churchill’s Bengal Famine and more
May 30, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 216: History of Karaoke in Japan, Retro Computer Museum, Food Innovations That Came from War, and more
May 23, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 215: Fake scientific papers are alarmingly common, Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94, Hobson's choice and more
May 16, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 214: ‘Godfather of AI’ quits Google with fears about his life’s work, How Academic Bullying Led Data Scientist to Open Science, EU ready to back open access w/o author fees, and more
May 9, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 213: Why Are Lithium Prices Collapsing, 40 Years of KOYAANISQATSI, Why Don’t More People Support Whistleblowers, and more
May 2, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 212: Methane may not warm the Earth quite as much as previously thought, Micro-and Nanoplastics Breach the Blood-Brain Barrier, First images captured by balloon-borne telescope, and more
April 25, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 211: Artist Refuses Prize After His AI Image Wins at Top Photo Contest, Spanish climber emerges after 500 days in cave, and more
April 18, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 210: UK airport scraps 100ml liquid rule with scanners, Twitter won’t allow retweeting tweets linking to Substack and more
April 11, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 209: Smachnogo Brings Together the People and Cuisines of Ukraine and Japan, ISRO successfully conducts landing experiment of the Reusable Launch Vehicle and more
April 4, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 208: Some Interesting BOINC projects, A Cyberpunk Bathroom in the Middle of Nowhere, In Memoriam: Gordon Moore and more
March 28, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 207: Isaac Asimov's 3 laws of Robotics, People Had To Be Convinced of the Usefulness of Electricity, SETI@home is in hibernation and more
March 21, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 206: How To Start A Rocket Engine, List of 7: Controversial Japanese Films, Which Apps Do Americans Delete the Most and more
March 14, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 205: The Paratethys Sea Was the Largest Lake in Earth’s History, The dogs of Chernobyl, Iran discovers world’s second largest lithium reserve and more
March 7, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 204: MS Edge will set Yandex as the default search engine for Moldova, The FBI recommends using an ad blocker when searching the web, 5th person confirmed to be cured of HIV and more
February 28, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 203: A brief history of random numbers, Switzerland will vote on keeping banknotes and coins forever, How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century and more
February 21, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 202: Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control?, The 8th edition of the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, Japan Adopts Plan to Make Maximum Use of Nuclear Power and more
February 14, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 201: GATTACA is still pertinent 25 years later, One line browser notepad, Tomorrow’s world: A guide to the next 150 years and more
February 7, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 200: Why You Should Stop Reading News
January 31, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 199: The Early Issues of Byte Magazine, New Sony Walkman, Bitwarden extends passwordless leadership with acquisition and more
January 24, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 198: Amazon is no longer allowing downloading Kindle Unlimited titles via USB, The MTA's Special Armored Money Train, Why You Should Always Look *Down* In London and more
January 17, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 197: The science of having great ideas in the shower, Swiss Drone-Busting Eagle Squadron Permanently Grounded, How to draw an a$$ and more
January 10, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 196: TSMC starts volume production of 3nm chips, Year of Linux on the desktop, Women like working with people, men like working with things and a little more
January 3, 2023
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ReHacked vol. 195: News Is What Somebody Does Not Want You To Print, Why winter saps your electric car's driving range, Maxi Jazz dies, aged 65 and more
December 27, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 194: One-Kilometer Residential Complex in Rome, Windows Update on Windows XP, Vista, Server 2008, 2003, and 2000, The Longest Ever Flight and more
December 20, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 193: Boeing's last 747, Asymmetry Detected in the Distribution of Galaxies, Internet Archive Scholar and more
December 13, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 192: Exoskeletons qualify for direct disability compensation in Germany, Samsung’s Android app-signing key has leaked, UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content and more
December 6, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 191: two years together. Thank you for being together!
November 29, 2022
So there is one more year with this newsletter. The idea of the newsletter was slow, filtered, curated news for you. You can name them the “old” news. I...
ReHacked vol. 190: Red meat is not a health risk, The Map of the Universe, AI’s true carbon footprint and more
November 22, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 189: The world has reached 8 billion people, French Court rules that refusing to disclose a mobile passcode to law enforcement is a criminal offence and more
November 15, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 188: The Death Flights of Argentina’s Dirty War, Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants us to 'ignore' Web3, Twitter’s mass layoffs and more
November 8, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 187: RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language, First-ever study shows bumble bees 'play', The only way of being anonymous in Sweden is illegal? and more
November 1, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 186: Electroshock Therapy More Successful for Depression than Ketamine, The worst sales promotion in history, How to use the watch as a Compass and more
October 25, 2022
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ReHacked vol. 185: Piracy as a form of music appreciation, Jessica Wade Makes Wikipedia bios For Unknown Women Scientists, Google Engineers Joked About How Incognito Mode Isn't Very Incognito and more
October 18, 2022
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ReHacked #184: Brave browser to start blocking cookie consent banners, Sabotage cause of massive train disruption in northern Germany, Boston Dynamics pledges not to weaponize its robots and more
October 11, 2022
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ReHacked #183: Japan WWII poison gas agents still scarring people today, Norvig's Law, Browsers with built-in VPNs and more
October 4, 2022
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ReHacked #182: Kazakhstan’s president: We’re moving full speed ahead toward reform, Iran’s Internet Shutdown, New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune’s Rings in Decades and more
September 27, 2022
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