Newsletter

Sep
02

ReHacked #78: How to fight microplastic pollution with magnets, A Compass for the Politics of Collapse, Australian police can now hack your device and more

Australian police can now hack your device, collect or delete your data, take over your social media accounts - all without a judge's warrant.
6 min read
Aug
30

ReHacked #77: TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20%, Silent changes to Western Digital’s budget SSD, An Illustrated Guide to Post-Orwellian Censorship and more

Censorship is the power to make 2 + 2 equal 5. Or 3. Or whatever people in power say it is.
6 min read
Aug
26

ReHacked #76: How We Live With the Coronavirus Forever, Escaping Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox, Fighting Like Taliban and more

“My role is as a mirror and I want to expose you to the raw truth, and make you a witness to it.” Danish Siddiqui in 2020
8 min read
Aug
23

ReHacked #75: 286 vs 386SX, Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy, Facebook may be forced to sell Giphy and more

Moreover, you must walk like a camel, which is said to be the only beast which ruminates when walking. Henry David Thoreau
7 min read
Aug
20

ReHacked #74: Many Americans aren't aware they're being tracked while shopping, Nokia 9000 Communicator presented 25 yrs ago, 1800s Astronomical Drawings vs. NASA Images and more

Scaling theory has established that, as cities grow larger, they tend to produce more of pretty much everything from pollution and crime to patents and wealth
5 min read
Aug
16

ReHacked #73: Internet of snitches, Git password authentication is shutting down, the first two hours of MTV and more

Tap water is thousands of times better for the environment than bottled water, according to scientists.
3 min read
Aug
12

ReHacked #72: Automatic Watches And Their Winding Weights, Why some of the smartest people can be so very stupid, Why does it take so long to get to Mercury and more

Earth is on average ten times closer to Mercury than Jupiter, but missions to both planets can take a similar amount of time to reach their science orbits. ESA
5 min read
Aug
09

ReHacked #71: Scientists spot warning signs of Gulf Stream collapse, A growing number of Americans are renouncing citizenship, The human ear detects half a millisecond delay in sound and more

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8 min read
Aug
05

ReHacked #70: Why printers add secret tracking dots, SpaceX installed 29 Raptor engines on a Super Heavy, Why Extraterrestrial Life May Not Seem Entirely Alien and more

The bottom line — why animals do the things that they do, why they are the things that they are — is because of evolution. A.Kershenbaum
5 min read
Aug
02

ReHacked #69: Hacker downloads close to 300,000 personal ID photos in Estonia, ISS lost altitude control after Nauka docking, New exotic matter particle, a tetraquark, discovered and more

After raising $235 million in funding, AnyVision CEO Avi Golan tried to rally fellow executives to #stopthemadness of rising salaries for workers.
4 min read