ReHacked #109: Reddit jumps on IPO bandwagon, Toronto considers banning sidewalk robots, The 5 Most Common Jobs in a Medieval City and more Shadows aren’t black. --Ian Storm Taylor
ReHacked #108: Facebook exec blames society for COVID misinformation, Toyota owners have to pay $8/mo to keep using their key fob for remote start, AI Training Is Outpacing Moore’s Law and more “The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.” -- R. Feynman
ReHacked #107: Key Component to China’s Belt & Road, MS Teams is the reason some Android users can't dial 911, Masayuki Uemura Has Passed Away and more Don’t forget to share if you like what you read here, subscribe (if not yet) and leave a comment any form of your feedback is very important to me. Thanks! Subscribe RSS feed available if you don’t want to clutter your inbox. A Key Component to China’s
ReHacked #106: Cartel of Influential Datasets Is Dominating Machine Learning Research, Family Safety App Life360 Is Selling Precise Location Data, exploiting ad blockers with CSS and more A group would rather keep living in the mythology of “we were repressed” than ever admit failure. --nav.al
ReHacked #105: Google Removes Pirate Bay Domains from Search Results, Microsoft’s new Windows prompts try to stop people downloading Chrome, Public Domain Works in 2022 and more “The greatest change growing across our world these days is probably the momentum of the living toward reification, and at the same time a reciprocal entry into animation by the mechanical.”
ReHacked #104: German gov. calls for European ban on biometric mass surveillance, Disney+ censor Simpsons episode referring Tiananmen Massacre, Free public domain audiobooks and more Disney+ appears to have censored an episode of The Simpsons in Hong Kong which references the 1989 Tiananmen Massacre.
ReHacked #103: Special occasion on newsletter 1st birthday: no news today! [FREE!!!] What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. --Herbert Simon
ReHacked #102: Terraforming of Mars, Fingerprint Can Be Hacked For $5, Octopuses, crabs and lobsters to be recognised as sentient beings under UK law and more Making the same OS convergent across mobile, laptop, and desktop computers has taken lot of investment and work with the community. --Kyle Rankin
ReHacked #101: Twitter rolls back AMP support, German state planning to switch 25k PCs to LibreOffice, How to get wealthy without working too hard and more “Expertise is great, but it has a bad side effect. It tends to create an inability to accept new ideas.” Dean Williams
ReHacked #100: Mighty Shorebirds Keep Breaking Flight Records, Space debris forces astronauts on space station to take shelter, Air cargo suddenly affordable relative to ocean shipping and more When you are depressed, the past and future are absorbed entirely by the present moment, as in the world of a three-year-old. Andrew Solomon