Newsletter

Dec
29

ReHacked vol 248: Strange underground city found in man's basement, Open Source Liability is Coming, Europol warns 443 online shops infected with credit card stealers and more

Derinkuyu: Strange underground city found in man's basement - Big Think #history In 1963, a man knocked down
6 min read
Dec
26

ReHacked vol. 247: 15% of Reddit Content is Corporate Trolls Trying to Manipulate Public Opinion, A Concorde Engine Complete With Afterburner For Sale On eBay, Top 22 Artifacts from Stone Age and more

Ministry of Justice plan to destroy historical wills is ‘insane’, say experts | Society | The Guardian #history #culture “Sheer vandalism” and
4 min read
Dec
19

ReHacked vol. 246: Suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police, Mary Ratcliffe - code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's innermost secrets dies aged 98 and more

Mary Ratcliffe - code breaker who helped Alan Turing reveal the Nazi war machine's innermost secrets dies aged
8 min read
Dec
12

ReHacked vol. 245: “If buying isn’t owning, piracy isn’t stealing”, Nuclear Reactor Simulator, The Life and Legacy of Feminist Activist Noe Ito and more

The Life and Legacy of Feminist Activist Noe Ito | Tokyo Weekender #history #feminism #orientalism Born in 1895, Noe Ito was
3 min read
Dec
05

ReHacked vol. 244: The Secret Language of Ships, The hidden beauty of Berlin's indoor pools, Max Headroom signal hijacking and more

If you’re very very stupid, how can you possibly realize that you’re very very stupid? --J.Cleese
10 min read
Nov
28

ReHacked vol. 243: 3 wonderful years!

The currency of the New Economy won't be money, but attention --A radical theory of value, 1997
3 min read
Nov
21

ReHacked vol. 242: She lived in a New York hotel for more than 40 years, Hayao Miyazaki's optimism dims in ‘The Boy and the Heron’, Nepal bans TikTok and more

This time in the main topic I would like to share information about Unseen STL event. On November 25th, Spine
8 min read
Nov
14

ReHacked vol. 241: A History of Japanese Train Evolution, When Linux Spooked Microsoft, Spain lives in flats and more

A History of Japanese Train Evolution | Tokyo Weekender #history #technology #engineering They have been called the greatest privatization success story
4 min read
Nov
07

ReHacked vol. 240: Intel 80386, Maersk cutting at least 10,000 jobs, German court bans LinkedIn from ignoring "Do Not Track" signals and more

What is Wasabi and Why Is It so Spicy? | Tokyo Weekender #history #culinary #longread Wasabi was first cultivated in Japan
4 min read
Oct
30

ReHacked vol. 239: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking, The Japanese Art of Luggage Forwarding, 2,100-year-old gold coin bears name of obscure ruler from pre-Roman and more

The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking – The Marginalian #longread In a chapter titled
7 min read