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Oct
07

ReHacked #88: Farmer Born in 1842 Talks About Life and Change (1929), Facebook outage, Android12 and more

"...it is easier to educate a Do-er than to motivate the educated." John Carmack
5 min read
Oct
04

ReHacked #87: Supply chain disruptions, implantable bioartificial kidney, Opel to shut German plant until 2022 due to chip shortage and more

“There is a rumor in America that there are two intelligent races on Earth: Humans and Hungarians” — Isaac Asimov
7 min read
Sep
30

ReHacked #86: the rights of the machines, Something Weird Is Happening on Facebook, Imgur acquired by Medialab and more

"Only a person can have rights. A machine cannot," wrote Lady Justice Elisabeth Laing in her judgement. "A patent is a statutory right and it can only be granted to a person."
7 min read
Sep
27

ReHacked #85: Text entered into Windows’ Run dialogue doesn't gets sent to Microsoft, Mozilla Says Chrome’s Latest Feature Enables Surveillance, The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers and more

“To be completely cured of newspapers, spend a year reading the previous week’s newspapers.” — Nassim Taleb
6 min read
Sep
23

ReHacked #84: The Truth, by Stanisław Lem, How Indian lawyers, scientists gave Sci-Hub its first legal defence team, Text entered into Windows’ Run dialogue gets sent to Microsoft’s telemetry and more

~ 1650 BCE (~ 3600 years ago), a cosmic airburst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, a Middle-Bronze-Age city in the southern Jordan Valley northeast of the Dead Sea.
6 min read
Sep
20

ReHacked #83: Sir Clive Sinclair dies aged 81, Saudi Arabia's Camel Site Predates Stonehenge, SpaceX's first civilian mission Inspiration4 and more

Any observed statistical regularity will tend to collapse once pressure is placed upon it for control purposes. Ch. Goodhart
6 min read
Sep
16

ReHacked #82: Fortran Web Framework, Mozilla has made it easier to switch to Firefox on Windows, Uber must employ its drivers, Dutch court rules and more

North Korea fired what appeared to be two ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan on Wednesday — an act Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga slammed as “outrageous”.
5 min read
Sep
13

ReHacked #81: Hong Kong: Police raid Tiananmen Square museum, Paid influencers must label posts as ads in Germany, Antarctic Snow Cruiser and more

Let's commemorate all who perished during 9/11 atacs in 2001.
8 min read
Sep
09

ReHacked #80: Germany wants smartphone makers to offer 7 years of software updates, open source alternative to discord, Protonmail clarifications regarding arrest of climate activist and more

Toyota set a goal this spring to sell 8 million units of electric-powered vehicles a year in 2030, out of a projected total of 10 million vehicle unit sales worldwide.
8 min read
Sep
06

ReHacked #79: Libre Cloud Services, Old photos of Bedouin nomads, WhatsApp Ireland hit with record fine and more

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