ReHacked vol. 302: Ukraine says it captured two injured North Korean soldiers in Russia, The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité and more

Ukraine says it captured two injured North Korean soldiers in Russia #war

Two wounded North Korean soldiers have been captured as prisoners of war by Ukrainian troops in Russia's Kursk Oblast, President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Saturday.

The two men are receiving "necessary medical assistance" and are in the custody of the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) in Kyiv, according to Zelensky.

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The Chaos - Gerard Nolst Trenité (poem, 1922) #grammar #english #fun

This is a classic English poem containing about 800 of the worst irregularities in English spelling and pronunciation. Will Snellen wrote a PDF version using the phonetic alphabet. You can hear some of it pronounced mostly correctly in videos here:

• The Chaos Of English Pronunciation by Gerard Nolst Trenité on YouTube.
• English Pronunciation - "The Chaos" by Dr. Gerard Nolst Trenité on YouTube.

Online Behavioral Ads Fuel the Surveillance Industry—Here’s How | Electronic Frontier Foundation #privacy

A key vulnerability of real-time bidding is that while only one advertiser wins the auction, all participants receive the data. Indeed, anyone posing as an ad buyer can access a stream of sensitive data about the billions of individuals using websites or apps with targeted ads. That’s a big way that RTB puts personal data into the hands of data brokers, who sell it to basically anyone willing to pay. Although some ad auction companies have policies against selling bidstream data, the practice remains widespread.

Spain proposes 100% tax on homes bought by non-EU residents | Spain | The Guardian #economy

Spain has announced plans to impose a tax of up to 100% on real estate bought by non-residents from countries outside the EU, such as the UK, in an aim to tackle the country’s housing crisis.

The measure was one of a dozen unveiled on Monday by the country’s prime minister, Pedro Sánchez, as the government seeks to quell mounting anger over housing costs that have soared far beyond the reach of many in Spain.

Sánchez sought to underline the global nature of the challenge, citing housing prices that had swelled 48% in the past decade across Europe, far outpacing household incomes.

Orichalcum, The Ancient Metal That Seemingly Vanished From Earth #history

Orichalcum is a metal shrouded in mystery. First mentioned by ancient Greek writers around the seventh century B.C.E., orichalcum was described as golden and almost otherworldly. The term itself derives from the Greek word oreikhalkos, meaning “mountain copper,” and it appears in numerous ancient texts.

For centuries, historians weren’t sure if orichalcum was real. Although it was mentioned by famous figures like Plato and Cicero, it seemingly vanished from the Earth in ancient times. Even if it did exist, nobody knew exactly what sort of metal it was.

Then, in 2015, dozens of ingots of orichalcum were found in the 2,600-year-old wreckage of a ship off the coast of Sicily. Analysis revealed that the metal was an alloy of copper and zinc that was very similar to brass. While there are still questions as to whether the orichalcum mentioned by the Greeks and Romans was the same metal, much of the mystery surrounding the substance was cleared up with the discovery.

NYFRB-2006.--Doomsday-Book--Searchable.pdf #book #longread #rabbithole #link

The "Doomsday Book" is a collection of emergency documentation and memoranda compiled by the Legal Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.
It has two purposes in mind. First, it is a ready reference source, containing
template documents that must be prepared quickly, and background material that
is likely to be particularly relevant to an emergency situation. Second, because all
of its documents are on CD-ROMs, it is an operational mitigant against the risk of
lost power or connectivity. The Doomsday Book, however, assumes working
computers and printers.

Physicists magnetize a material with light | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology #engineering #technology #science

In a study appearing today in Nature, the researchers report using a terahertz laser — a light source that oscillates more than a trillion times per second — to directly stimulate atoms in an antiferromagnetic material. The laser’s oscillations are tuned to the natural vibrations among the material’s atoms, in a way that shifts the balance of atomic spins toward a new magnetic state.

The results provide a new way to control and switch antiferromagnetic materials, which are of interest for their potential to advance information processing and memory chip technology.

Roman Empire’s use of lead lowered IQ levels across Europe, study finds | Science | The Guardian #history

Researchers have said the massive expansion of mining and the processing of metal ores in particular caused airborne lead pollution to soar during the peak of the empire, leading to an estimated 2- to 3-point drop in IQ across the land.

“It’s amazing that we were able to quantify atmospheric air pollution over Europe nearly 2,000 years ago and assess potential health impacts on the ancient Roman civilisation,” said Dr Joseph McConnell at the Desert Research Institute in Nevada.

Microsoft disguises Bing as Google to fool inattentive searchers | PCWorld #internet

Microsoft would really, really, really like you to use Bing, its self-branded search engine that competes against Google’s monopoly. Not only is it hardwired into much of Windows and other Microsoft products like the Edge browser, it also employs a lot of sneaky visual tricks to steer you away from Google itself. But the company’s latest trick is more, well, tricky — in fact, it’s just straight-up Google camouflage.

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