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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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
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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...