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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 19 – July 19, 2013 846 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 200 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

reuters.com · 2 sources

Also covering this thehill.comEcuador cancels US trade deal & donates $23MM to US for "human rights education"
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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Mass protests planned over web NSA spying revelations

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  2. Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign

    sub.garrytan.com · 1 outlets

  3. Feds, We Need Some Time Apart

    defcon.org · 1 outlets

  4. DecryptoCat

    tobtu.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. My Startup has 30 Days to Live

    mystartuphas30daystoli · 1 outlets

  2. Startup Investing Trends

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  3. When male CEOs have daughters, relative pay for women at their firms goes up

    www4.gsb.columbia.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist

    forbes.com · 2 outlets

  5. In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again?

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  6. Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator – visualising Cryptocat's buggy PRNG

    nakedsecurity.sophos.c · 1 outlets

  7. Armchair air crash investigator

    momav.me · 1 outlets

  8. Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bond To Free Texas Teen

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  9. The Rise Of The Million Dollar, One-Person Business

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  10. Bitcoins Seized by DEA

    letstalkbitcoin.com · 1 outlets

Sports 23 stories

  1. “A Dark Room” game open-sourced

    adarkroom.doublespeakg · 2 outlets

  2. Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize

    popularmechanics.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Yahoo wins motion to declassify court documents in PRISM case

    news.cnet.com · 1 outlets

  2. Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

  3. Obama wins back the right to indefinitely detain under NDAA

    rt.com · 1 outlets

  4. Newly disclosed papers give rules for NSA surveillance without a warrant

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  5. Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  6. Dirty Game Development Tricks

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

Technology 633 stories

  1. Double Secret Surveillance

    reuters.com · 30 outlets

  2. 19 Groups Sue NSA Over Data Collection

    washingtonpost.com · 3 outlets

  3. How secure is Linux's random number generator?

    lists.randombit.net · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The NSA's Surveillance Is Unconstitutional

    restorethefourth.net · 5 outlets

  2. This is a web page

    justinjackson.ca · 1 outlets

  3. “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  4. Do Things that Don't Scale

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  5. A few words on Doug Engelbart

    ietf.org · 2 outlets

  6. Quine Relay

    github.com · 1 outlets

  7. Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online

    kfor.com · 1 outlets

  8. Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  9. The Drone that Killed my Grandson

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 26 stories

  1. Show HN: I hacked my microwave with a Raspberry Pi

    madebynathan.com · 1 outlets

  2. Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Floobits – Remote pair programming done right

    floobits.com · 2 outlets

  3. Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

    flavorwire.com · 1 outlets

  4. Refactoring GitHub's Design

    ianstormtaylor.com · 1 outlets

  5. EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  6. PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0

    vgleaks.com · 1 outlets

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