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...
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
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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...