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Sep
10

ReHacked vol. 284: The Hindenburg’s Interior: Vintage Photos, OpenAI Pleads That It Can’t Make Money Without Using Copyrighted Materials for Free and more

When EV startups shut down, will their cars still work?
4 min read
Sep
03

ReHacked vol. 283: Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime, Iron as an inexpensive storage medium for hydrogen and more

Brain Scientists Finally Discover the Glue that Makes Memories Stick for a Lifetime | Scientific American #psychology #health #longread A new
5 min read
Aug
27

ReHacked vol. 282: Capt. Grace Hopper on Future Possibilities: Data, Hardware, Software, and People (1982), Uber loses landmark appeal - court rules drivers are employees, not contractors and more

Make a donation - support Ukraine. My favourite: Support the Armed Forces of Ukraine | via National Bank of Ukraine. More
5 min read
Aug
20

ReHacked vol. 281: Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious, Kim Dotcom's Extradition, Does astrology work and more

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious • The Register #internet In the past eight months, however, Google
4 min read
Aug
13

ReHacked vol. 280: Rest of World on influence in social networks, Computer security is a political struggle and more

Computer security is a political struggle #security #privacy #politics #longread Most of Western society now depends on digital technology. Yet
5 min read
Aug
06

ReHacked vol. 279: To preserve their work journalists take archiving into their own hands, How Great was the “Great Oxidation Event” and more

“What happens when that information is baked into large language models and the source of that information is not live on the web anymore?” --T.Cooper
8 min read
Jul
30

ReHacked vol. 278: An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut, Zurich, Bern Consider Billboard Advertising Bans, Physicists may now have a way to make element 120 – the heaviest ever and more

An Interview With Robert Caro and Kurt Vonnegut #literature #history #longread One fine summer day, Barbara Stone and I arrived
8 min read
Jul
23

ReHacked vol. 277: How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy, Meta trains its AI with public Instagram posts and more

How the Rise of the Camera Launched a Fight to Protect Gilded Age Americans' Privacy | Smithsonian #privacy #copyrights #history
7 min read
Jul
16

ReHacked vol. 276: Speed Limiters Now Mandatory in All New EU Cars, The Law Code of Hammurabi, Tokyo’s oldest train line in pictures and more

eHammurabi #history #law #longread The Law Code of Hammurabi is one of the oldest legal texts from ancient Mesopotamia. The
7 min read
Jul
09

ReHacked vol. 275: The Economics of Writing Technical Books, Supreme Court rules ex-presidents have immunity for official acts and more

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8 min read