Newsletter

Nov
11

ReHacked #98: Blind People Won the Right to Break Ebook DRM, Ads coming to Telegram, One more way recruitment is terminally ill and more

Portugal makes it illegal for your boss to text you after work in 'game changer' remote work law
6 min read
Nov
08

ReHacked #97: Parents Built a School App. Then the City Called the Cops, Milestones in evolution and history, GitLab servers are being exploited in DDoS attacks and more

In everyday settings, it can keep people from listening to one another. At its worst, it might fuel violence. Scott Barry Kaufman
7 min read
Nov
04

ReHacked #96: What a scam academic and scientific publishing is, Oracle's JDK 17 - Free Again for Commercial Use, COVID-19 Mortality Risk Correlates Inversely with Vitamin D3 Status and more

If the paper is selected for publication, the researcher signs over their copyright in it – life plus 70 years – to the journal, for free.
10 min read
Nov
01

ReHacked #95: Giant, free index to world’s research papers released online, Find Your True Love of Coding Fonts, Obscure Rector Predicted Black Holes a Century Before Einstein and more

Phi Beta Phi - fraternity record for most vodka shots in one night.
9 min read
Oct
28

ReHacked #94: Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws, Postpandemic career reshaping, FBI orders Google to track anyone searching certain names and more

<...> the top 10,000 individual owners controlled about 8.5 million Bitcoins <...>
8 min read
Oct
25

ReHacked #93: Willingness to look stupid, Yamaha DX7 Technical Analysis, Banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer and more

It is fine to do things at the last second, but you need to know when the last second is. --internet wisdom
9 min read
Oct
21

ReHacked #92: Nokia 6310 is back, YouTube: Filmmakers Presumed Guilty Until Proven Innocent, Wealthiest 10% of Americans own 89% of all U.S. stocks and more

The top 1% gained over $6.5 trillion in corporate equities and mutual fund wealth during the pandemic, according to the latest data from the Federal Reserve.
7 min read
Oct
18

ReHacked #91: Most Canadians believe Facebook harms their mental health, Valve bans blockchain games and NFTs on Steam, Twitter is being sued for letting Saudi spies inside the company and more

...by today evening (17th Oct) we will most probably for the 1st time see the majority of Estonians preffering e-voting to traditional paper ballots. --Kersti Kaljulaid, former President of Estonia
7 min read
Oct
14

ReHacked #90: RIP Jörg Schilling, Open Source Tractor, Solar-powered aircraft flown for nearly three weeks without landing and more

Because most social media platforms are free, they rely on revenue from advertisers to make a profit. Trevor Haynes
5 min read
Oct
11

ReHacked #89: Diet soda may prompt food cravings, especially in women and people with obesity, faster Python with Guido van Rossum, How to get Facebook ban for life and more

You must be curious to learn. Otherwise, you won’t even consider learning.
7 min read