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. Why is that? What made NT better than Unix, if anything? And is that still the case?

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How to Succeed in MrBeast production (leaked PDF) #internet

Whether or not you enjoy MrBeast’s format of YouTube videos (here’s a 2022 Rolling Stone profile if you’re unfamiliar), this leaked onboarding document for new members of his production company is a compelling read.

It’s a snapshot of what it takes to run a massive scale viral YouTube operation in the 2020s, as well as a detailed description of a very specific company culture evolved to fulfill that mission.

How Lazarus Group laundered $200M from 25+ crypto hacks to fiat … — Investigations By ZachXBT #security #blockchain

North Korea's hacker squad, Lazarus Group, has been robbing banks and crypto exchanges blind since 2009. They started with big hits like Sony and Bangladesh Bank, but now they're all about that sweet crypto cash.

Analysts reckon they've swiped $3-4 billion in crypto since 2017. This article stalks 25 of their heists from 2020 to 2023, following the money trail to see where they cash out their ill-gotten gains.

Turns out, even state-sponsored hackers need to use sketchy P2P markets to turn their stolen Dogecoin into real money.

Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links #internet

The change, first spotted by Search Engine Land, was just confirmed by Google’s Search Liaison Danny Sulivan, the company’s go-between for SEO (Search Engine Optimization) professionals.

“Yes, it’s been removed. I know, it’s sad. I’m sad too,” Sullivan tweeted Friday. “It’s one of our oldest features. But it was meant for helping people access pages when way back, you often couldn’t depend on a page loading. These days, things have greatly improved. So, it was decided to retire it.”

Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option - ABC News #privacy #copyrights

In short: Facebook is scraping the public data of all Australian adults on the platform, it has acknowledged in an inquiry.

The company does not offer Australians an opt out option like it does in the EU, because it has not been required to do so under privacy law.

What's next? Facebook representatives could not say whether an opt-out option would be offered to Australians in the future.

China is raising its retirement age | AP News #society #economy

The Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress, the country’s legislature, passed the new policy Friday after a sudden announcement earlier in the week that it was reviewing the measure, state broadcaster CCTV announced.

The policy change will be carried out over 15 years, with the retirement age for men raised to 63 years, and for women to 55 or 58 years depending on their jobs. The current retirement age is 60 for men and 50 for women in blue-collar jobs and 55 for women doing white-collar work.

Personal carbon footprint of the rich is vastly underestimated by rich and poor alike, study finds | University of Cambridge #society #nature

The personal carbon footprint of the richest people in society is grossly underestimated, both by the rich themselves and by those on middle and lower incomes, no matter which country they come from. At the same time, both the rich and the poor drastically overestimate the carbon footprint of the poorest people.

1913: When Hitler, Trotsky, Tito, Freud and Stalin all lived in the same place - BBC News #history

A century ago, one section of Vienna played host to Adolf Hitler, Leon Trotsky, Joseph Tito, Sigmund Freud and Joseph Stalin.

NASA Pulls Off Delicate Thruster Swap, Keeping Voyager 1 Mission Alive #space #engineering

The Voyager 1 spacecraft has been cruising through the cosmos for 47 years, collecting precious data beyond the solar system. All that interstellar travel, however, is taking its toll on the probe. Recently, NASA engineers had to resolve a thruster issue affecting Voyager 1, overcoming a series of obstacles posed by the probe’s aging hardware.

Android apps are blocking sideloading and forcing Google Play versions instead | Ars Technica #software #copyrights

You might sideload an Android app, or manually install its APK package, if you're using a custom version of Android that doesn't include Google's Play Store. Alternately, the app might be experimental, under development, or perhaps no longer maintained and offered by its developer. Until now, the existence of sideload-ready APKs on the web was something that seemed to be tolerated, if warned against, by Google.

This quiet standstill is being shaken up by a new feature in Google's Play Integrity API. As reported by Android Authority, developer tools to push "remediation" dialogs during sideloading debuted at Google's I/O conference in May, have begun showing up on users' phones.

Ford seeks patent for tech that listens to driver conversations to serve ads #privacy

Ford Motor Company is seeking a patent for technology that would allow it to tailor in-car advertising by listening to conversations among vehicle occupants, as well as by analyzing a car’s historical location and other data, according to a patent application published late last month.

James Earl Jones Dead: Darth Vader Voice, Lion King Star Was 93 #promemoria

James Earl Jones, the prolific film, TV and theater actor whose resonant, unmistakable baritone was most widely known as the voice of “Star Wars” villain Darth Vader, died Monday morning at his home in Dutchess County, N.Y., his rep confirmed to Variety. He was 93.

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