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ReHacked vol. 371: European money pours into Palantir, A curated list of best cuda programming books and more

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Published: May 19, 2026 07:00

European money pours into Palantir: Over 100 asset managers and banks boost their investments in the controversial tech company | Economy and Business | EL PAÍS English #privacy #ai #digitalsouvereignty Over the past year, major European banks and asset…

ReHacked vol. 370: EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” and more

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Published: May 12, 2026 07:00

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other one thing." -- Abraham Lincoln EU calls VPNs “a loophole that needs closing” in age verification push #privacy #politics The European Parliamentary Research Service…

ReHacked vol. 369: Replaceable smartphone batteries in 2027 and more

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Published: May 5, 2026 07:00

"There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew." --Philosopher Marshall McLuhan Make a donation - support Ukraine. Щира подяка. Разом до перемоги! Like what you read? Subscribe now! Please share if you like what you read here, subscribe…

ReHacked vol. 368: EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs, USB Cheat Sheet and more

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Published: April 28, 2026 07:00

"Imagination means nothing without doing." --Charlie Chaplin EU Age Control: The trojan horse for digital IDs – Juraj Bednar #privacy A technical look at the EU age verification reference app — the gap between marketed and shipped cryptography, relay…

ReHacked vol. 367: How fatherhood rewires the male mind and more

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Published: April 21, 2026 07:00

"Others have seen what is and asked why. I have seen what could be and asked why not." -- Pablo Picasso Dad brains: How fatherhood rewires the male mind #psychology #longread The earliest research on how fathers are physically changed by babies came from…

ReHacked vol. 366: Why did childhood summers feel endless and more

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Published: April 14, 2026 07:00

"In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate." -- Isaac Asimov Why did childhood summers feel endless? | Popular Science #psychology Why does time go so much more quickly as an adult? One of the more commonly cited explanations for why…

ReHacked vol. 365: Why Swedish Schools Are Bringing Back Physical Books and more

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Published: April 7, 2026 07:00

Digital aids “should only be introduced in teaching at an age when they encourage, rather than hinder, pupils’ learning.” Why Swedish Schools Are Bringing Back Books #education #technology #longread According to a 2023 survey, 30 percent of educators said…

ReHacked vol. 364: The global fight against AI’s ecological footprint and more

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Published: March 31, 2026 07:30

Beyond Silicon Valley: The global fight against AI’s ecological footprint - Rest of World #ai #society Individuals and communities are resisting the demands and practices of Big Tech’s AI infrastructure — such as data centers and digital labor — due to…

ReHacked vol. 363: Billion-Parameter Theories, Chuck Norris Dead and more

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Published: March 24, 2026 08:00

"A good friend is like a four-leaf clover, hard to find and lucky to have." --Irish Proverb Billion-Parameter Theories – Sean Linehan #ai #ai generated TL;DR below. Abstract The article argues that many of humanity’s hardest problems are genuinely complex…

ReHacked vol. 362: AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just Made Bad Engineering Easier and more

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Published: March 17, 2026 08:00

"When a thoughtless or unkind word is spoken, best tune out. Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one's ability to persuade." -- Ruth Bader Ginsburg paraphrasing advice from her mother-in-law AI Didn't Simplify Software Engineering: It Just…

ReHacked vol. 361: Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns and more

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Published: March 10, 2026 08:00

Meta’s AI Smart Glasses and Data Privacy Concerns: Workers Say “We See Everything” #meta #privacy Bank details, sex and naked people who seem unaware they are being recorded. Behind Meta’s new smart glasses lies a hidden workforce, uneasy about peering…

ReHacked vol. 360: Is Age Verification a Trap?, US orders diplomats to fight data sovereignty initiatives and more

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Published: March 3, 2026 08:00

"All your life, you will be faced with a choice. You can choose love or hate… I choose love." --Johnny Cash Is Age Verification a Trap? - IEEE Spectrum #privacy <...> emerging age-restriction policy collides with existing privacy law. Modern…

ReHacked vol. 359: "Made in EU" is hard, Attention Media ≠ Social Networks and more

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Published: February 24, 2026 08:00

"I never looked at the consequences of missing a big shot. Why? Because when you think about the consequences you always think of a negative result." -- Michael Jordan "Made in EU" - it was harder than I thought. #copyrights #digitalsovereignty When I…

ReHacked vol. 358: New EU rules to stop destruction of unsold clothes and shoes and more

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Published: February 17, 2026 08:00

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It #ai #longread Summary.  One of the promises of AI is that it can reduce workloads so employees can focus more on higher-value and more engaging tasks. But according to new research, AI tools don’t reduce work, they…

ReHacked vol. 357: Technocracy 2.0, 4 times drinking coffee was illegal and more

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Published: February 10, 2026 08:00

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster. --Niklaus Wirth Technocracy 2.0 - The Brooklyn Rail #society #futurism #longread The Origins of Technocracy At the turn of the twentieth century, the United States was going through the…

ReHacked vol. 356: FOSDEM 2026 – Open Source, Digital Sovereignty, and Europes Future and more

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Published: February 3, 2026 12:47

"It’s the one thing you can control. You are responsible for how people remember you—or don’t. So don’t take it lightly." -- Kobe Bryant FOSDEM 2026 – Open Source, Digital Sovereignty, and Europes Future - gyptazy #news FOSDEM, the Free and Open Source…

ReHacked vol. 355: NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure Access to Millions of Pirated Books and more

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Published: January 27, 2026 08:00

"Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them." --Salvador Dalí NVIDIA Contacted Anna’s Archive to Secure…

ReHacked vol. 354: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting and more

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Published: January 20, 2026 08:00

The Long Now of the Web: Inside the Internet Archive’s Fight Against Forgetting | HackerNoon #internet #hardware #history #longread The heart of the Internet Archive is the PetaBox, a storage server custom-designed by the Archive’s staff to solve a…

ReHacked vol. 353: 10 Frugal Living Tips From the 1950s and more

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Published: January 13, 2026 08:00

"One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn’t exist … Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist." -- Stephen Hawking 10 Frugal Living Tips From the 1950s Era Live Simply Cook at Home Plant a…

ReHacked vol. 352: The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice and more

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Published: December 30, 2025 08:00

2025 -> 2026 'It's a moment of death and rebirth': The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice #nature Dozens of mysterious structures across the Northern Hemisphere – some nearly 5,000 years old – align precisely to frame the rising and setting…

ReHacked vol. 351: Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content and more

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Published: December 23, 2025 08:00

We might not need more time, we simply need to decide. --Seth Godin Most Parked Domains Now Serving Malicious Content – Krebs on Security #internet #security When Internet users try to visit expired domain names or accidentally navigate to a lookalike…

ReHacked vol. 350: Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers and more

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Published: December 16, 2025 08:00

"I ought to be jealous of the tower. She is more famous than I am." -- Gustave Eiffel Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers #privacy Berlin’s regional parliament has passed a far-reaching overhaul of its “security” law, giving police…

ReHacked vol. 349: Paged Out!, Why Fighter Jets Ban 90% of C++ Features and more

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Published: December 9, 2025 08:00

"We are more fulfilled when we are involved in something bigger than ourselves." -- John Glenn Paged Out! #magazine #programming #rabbithole Paged Out! is a free experimental (one article == one page) technical magazine about programming (especially…

ReHacked vol. 348: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy and more

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Published: December 2, 2025 08:00

"It’s the repetition of affirmations that leads to belief. And once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen." --Muhammad Ali The Nerd Reich | Book by Gil Durán | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster #book #society A fearless…

ReHacked vol. 347: Europe is scaling back its privacy and AI laws, The Patent Office Is About To Make Bad Patents Untouchable and more

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Published: November 25, 2025 08:00

"Just remember, you can't climb the ladder of success with your hands in your pockets." --Arnold Schwarzenegger Europe is scaling back its landmark privacy and AI laws | The Verge #privacy After years of staring down the world’s biggest tech companies and…

ReHacked vol. 346: ChatControl 2.0, OpenAI used song lyrics in violation of copyright laws and more

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Published: November 18, 2025 08:00

"The best jokes are dangerous, and dangerous because they are in some way truthful." --Kurt Vonnegut CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: “The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!” – Patrick…

ReHacked vol. 345: Japanese IP holders demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI, Reviving Classic Unix Games and more

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Published: November 11, 2025 08:00

"Talent is never enough. With few exceptions, the best players are the hardest workers." --Earvin "Magic" Johnson Studio Ghibli, Bandai Namco, Square Enix demand OpenAI stop using their content to train AI | The Verge #ai #copyrights The Content Overseas…

ReHacked vol. 344: What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading, ISS in Real Time and more

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Published: November 4, 2025 08:00

"The most important single ingredient in the formula of success is knowing how to get along with people." -- Theodore Roosevelt What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading | F-Droid #opensource #bigcorp #software #copyrights Developer verification…

ReHacked vol. 343: LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot", Smartphones manipulate our emotions and trigger our reflexes and more

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Published: October 28, 2025 08:00

"In my experience, each failure contains the seeds of your next success—if you are willing to learn from it." --Paul Allen LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"! #ai In this work, we introduced and empirically validated the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis, demonstrating…

ReHacked vol. 342: Attention is a luxury good, Are we living in a golden age of stupidity and more

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Published: October 22, 2025 05:57

"A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both." --Dwight D. Eisenhower Attention is a luxury good | Seth's Blog #information Luxury goods are special: they are scarce and expensive, and they earn us status with some folks…