ReHacked #92: Nokia 6310 is back, YouTube: Filmmakers Presumed Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Wealthiest 10% of Americans own 89% of all U.S. stocks and more

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Nokia 6310 resurrected on 20th anniversary

The new Nokia 6310 takes the iconic silhouette of the original and brings it up to date with some great new additions such as a large curved screen, improved readability and accessibility, plus a host of classic features you know and love: a wireless FM radio, an impressive battery that can go weeks between charges, and let’s not forget the classic Snake. It's all built in a tough shell, so it can take life’s bumps. The Nokia 6310 is the familiar phone, for the modern world.

YouTube: Filmmakers Presumed Guilty Until (Maybe) Proven Innocent | Larry Jordan #copyrights #internet

I have always purchased all the music in all my videos from legitimate sources. eg: Smartsound, Shockwave-sound, Magnatune, and Pond5. My videos are now being attacked by a blizzard of copyright claims from people who are claiming copyright on pretty well every piece of music on pretty well every video posted on You Tube. Things really came to a head in the last couple days over one particular video which runs for 1 hour and 2 minutes. This video was made and posted in 2009.

The wealthiest 10% of Americans own a record 89% of all U.S. stocks #economy #society

• The wealthiest 10% of American households now own 89% of all U.S. stocks, a record high that highlights the stock market’s role in increasing wealth inequality.
• The top 1% gained over $6.5 trillion in corporate equities and mutual fund wealth during the pandemic, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.
• The bottom 90% of Americans held about 11% of stocks, and added $1.2 trillion in wealth during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Turing Complete #fun #learning

Turing Complete is a game about computer science. If you enjoy the thrill of figuring things out and those moments where a deeper perspective is revealed about something you thought you understood, this game is for you.

Remember BBSes? Here’s How You Can Visit One Today #software #internet #history

A Bulletin Board System, or BBS, is a computer-based electronic community on which its members can read and write messages, play text-based games, and download files. They originated in 1978 in Chicago, and their popularity peaked around 1995, just as the internet began to go mainstream.

In the pre-Internet era, most BBSes were run by hobbyists on personal computers with modems connected to dial-up telephone lines. Usually, only one person could call and use the BBS at a time (although some multiline BBSes existed).

Study: Recycled Lithium Batteries as Good as Newly Mined - IEEE Spectrum #technology

Lithium-ion batteries, with their use of riskily mined metals, tarnish the green image of EVs. Recycling to recover those valuable metals would minimize the social and environmental impact of mining, keep millions of tons of batteries from landfills, and cut the energy use and emissions created from making batteries.

But while the EV battery recycling industry is starting to take off, getting carmakers to use recycled materials remains a hard sell. "In general, people's impression is that recycled material is not as good as virgin material," says Yan Wang, a professor of mechanical engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. "Battery companies still hesitate to use recycled material in their batteries."

Hacker steals government ID database for Argentina's entire population - The Record by Recorded Future #privacy #security

A hacker has breached the Argentinian government’s IT network and stolen ID card details for the country’s entire population, data that is now being sold in private circles.

The hack, which took place last month, targeted RENAPER, which stands for Registro Nacional de las Personas, translated as National Registry of Persons.

The agency is a crucial cog inside the Argentinian Interior Ministry, where it is tasked with issuing national ID cards to all citizens, data that it also stores in digital format as a database accessible to other government agencies, acting as a backbone for most government queries for citizen’s personal information.

Destroying Comedy - David Zucker, Commentary Magazine #culture #longread

The 9–Percenter rule

by David Zucker

Last year marked the 40th anniversary of the release of Airplane!, the comedy I wrote and directed with my brother Jerry and our friend Jim Abrahams. Just before the world shut down, Paramount held a screening at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, followed by a Q&A in which an audience member asked a question we never used to receive: “Could you make Airplane! today?” My response: “Of course, we could. Just without the jokes.”

Defense in depth -- the Microsoft way (part 78): completely outdated, vulnerable open source component(s) shipped with Windows 10&11 #software #security

Google deletes 3,000+ articles over bogus DMCA notice #copyrigts

The rampant abuse of DMCA law is well known. In the latest, Google deletes over 3,000 articles of WheelsJoint from its search results, including the Tesla market research article featured on Forbes, Teslarati, InsideEVs and many other media websites.

Google removed over 3,000 pages (almost all articles published on this website) from its search engine after receiving 4 DMCA notices by “info-bloom.site”, a website that does not exist.

A Graduate Course in Applied Cryptography Download a free book #programming #security

Five Things We Still Don’t Know About Water—Richard Saykally Takes Us Inside Waters’ Mysteries #nature

At latest count, there are 17 different crystalline forms of solid water. However, only one form—Ice Ih—exists commonly on Earth outside of the laboratory. A second crystalline form called Ice Ic is present in very minor amounts in the upper atmosphere, and another 15 forms occur only at very high pressures. (There is also a lot of water in interstellar space, but it is usually an amorphous, non-crystalline, glassy ice frozen onto dust grains.)

The remarkable variety of crystalline ice forms results from the tetrahedral network of strong hydrogen bonds formed among neighboring water molecules. In the condensed phases of water, each molecule optimizes its hydrogen bonding capacity by forming four hydrogen bonds at near-tetrahedral angles. The hydrogen bonds inside Ice Ih form an open, three-dimensional structure with a low density.

Pope calls for universal basic income, shorter working day | ICN #society #futurism

In a video message to the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements on Saturday, Pope Francis called for a universal basic income, education, and healthcare, a shorter working day, and praised the protest movement that followed the murder of George Floyd. He urged participants to dream and work together through solidarity and subsidiarity in order to build a better society and emerge better from the Covid-19 pandemic.

Watch a video from the Fourth World Meeting of Popular Movements with the Pope's address: www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh-kzOtuGzs

vscode.dev Visual Studio Code for the Web #software

Bringing VS Code to the browser

Fast forward to today. Now when you go to https://vscode.dev, you'll be presented with a lightweight version of VS Code running fully in the browser. Open a folder on your local machine and start coding.

No install required.

Evidence for European presence in the Americas in ad 1021 | Nature #history #science #longread

Transatlantic exploration took place centuries before the crossing of Columbus. Physical evidence for early European presence in the Americas can be found in Newfoundland, Canada. However, it has thus far not been possible to determine when this activity took place. Here we provide evidence that the Vikings were present in Newfoundland in ad 1021. We overcome the imprecision of previous age estimates by making use of the cosmic-ray-induced upsurge in atmospheric radiocarbon concentrations in ad 993. Our new date lays down a marker for European cognisance of the Americas, and represents the first known point at which humans encircled the globe. It also provides a definitive tie point for future research into the initial consequences of transatlantic activity, such as the transference of knowledge, and the potential exchange of genetic information, biota and pathologies.

Facebook plans to change its name as part of company rebrand – report | Facebook | The Guardian #internet #socialnetworks #economy

The Verge reported that the new name for the holding company could be linked to Horizon, a word used in at least two virtual reality products that the company is developing. Zuckerberg launched his company as TheFacebook 17 years ago.

In a statement, Facebook said it “doesn’t comment on rumour or speculation”.

Facebook is reportedly pondering the rebrand against the backdrop of its worst PR crisis since the Cambridge Analytica scandal three years ago. A former employee, Frances Haugen, has leaked tens of thousands of documents and gave damning testimony to US senators this month in which she said Facebook put “astronomical profits before people”.

Death on Amazon. "They treated it like typical waste, like garbage." Did a 49-year-old Amazon employee have to die? | The Voice of Greater Poland #economy #society

On September 6, the death of a 49-year-old Amazon warehouse employee in Sady near Poznań was announced . The incident took place during the morning shift. The 49-year-old man collapsed shortly after starting work. According to the first police reports, the employee died despite the help given. The attending prosecutor initially ruled out the involvement of third parties in the incident.

Privacy-preserving Brave Search Replaces Google as the Default Search Engine in the Brave Browser | Brave Browser #internet #software #privacy

New Brave users will have the search functionality in the Brave browser powered by Brave Search, giving them the privacy and independence of a search/browser alternative to Big Tech. Brave Search is built on top of an independent index, and doesn’t track users, their searches, or their clicks. Privacy-preserving Brave Search now replaces Google as the default search engine used in the address bar for new Brave users in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom; Brave Search as default also replaces Qwant in France, and DuckDuckGo in Germany, with more geographies to be added in the next several months. Existing Brave users will keep their chosen search engine default, and can set Brave Search as the default search engine in Brave or most other major browsers.

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