Newsletter

Oct
08

ReHacked vol. 288: Divers in Mexico's Underwater Caves Get a Glimpse of Rarely Seen Artifacts, The Greatest Sports Cars of All Time and more

"They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." -- From Edgar Allan Poe's "Eleonora"
4 min read
Oct
01

ReHacked vol. 287: Neil Postman on Technology and Society (1998), Postcards are the email of their day, Smart TVs take snapshots of what you watch multiple times per second and more

"One lives not just for oneself but for one’s community." --Ruth Bader Ginsburg
5 min read
Sep
24

ReHacked vol. 286: LinkedIn does not use European users’ data for training its AI, LHC experiments at CERN observe quantum entanglement at the highest energy yet and more

"Being young isn't about age; it's about being a free spirit." --Lesley "Twiggy" Lawson
3 min read
Sep
17

ReHacked vol. 285: Windows NT vs. Unix, Google Has Officially Killed Cache Links and more

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic - Arthur C. Clarke
5 min read
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