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Dec
16

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
5 min read
Dec
13

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

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6 min read
Dec
09

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
7 min read
Dec
06

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.”
6 min read
Dec
02

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.
5 min read
Nov
29

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
1 min read
Nov
25

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
9 min read
Nov
22

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
8 min read
Nov
18

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
6 min read
Nov
15

ReHacked #99: American spy hacked Booking, they stayed silent; Moon's top layer has enough oxygen to sustain 8 billion people for 100,000 years; How to build a second brain as a software dev and more

Building a Second Brain is an integrated set of behaviors for turning incoming information into completed creative projects. Tiago Forte
8 min read