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...
ReHacked vol. 238: Commercially Available Chairs in Star Trek, A search for life on Earth from the Galileo spacecraft, Encrypting all your private data and communications is an ethical duty and more
Encrypting all your private data and private communications is no longer an ethical option, but an ethical duty. #privacy Imagine a new law was being...