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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 8 – August 7, 2013 835 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 219 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Feds, We Need Some Time Apart

defcon.org · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Elon Musk's mission to Mars

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Plug: the brain of your devices

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 61 stories

  1. Feds, We Need Some Time Apart

    defcon.org · 1 outlets

  2. U.S. directs agents to cover up program used to investigate Americans

    chicagotribune.com · 1 outlets

  3. Block NSA funding for collecting the call records of all Americans

    defundthensa.com · 1 outlets

  4. Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy

    edu.mkrecny.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds

    theatlanticwire.com · 1 outlets

  2. Feds put heat on Web firms for master encryption keys

    lauren.vortex.com · 2 outlets

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

    www4.gsb.columbia.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Amash’s Amendment To Defund NSA Program Fails 205-217

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. “NASDAQ is owned.” Five men charged in largest financial hack ever

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  6. Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over

    defundthensa.com · 1 outlets

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

    nakedsecurity.sophos.c · 1 outlets

  8. Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  9. Did Goldman Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer?

    vanityfair.com · 1 outlets

  10. NSA Phone Snooping Cannot Be Challenged in Court, Feds Say

    wired.com · 1 outlets

Sports 24 stories

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

    popularmechanics.com · 1 outlets

  2. A 97-Year-Old Man Who Draws Using Microsoft Paint from Windows ’95

    thisiscolossal.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.cnet.com · 1 outlets

  2. Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  3. Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

    winehq.org · 1 outlets

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

    rt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Game Programmer Quits Job To Sell Street Food, Doubles Salary

    kotaku.com · 1 outlets

  6. San Francisco to L.A. in 30 Mins. With Proposed New Transportation System

    news.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

Technology 627 stories

  1. Snowden video from Moscow airport

    wikileaks.org · 13 outlets

  2. Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested

    twitlonger.com · 3 outlets

  3. The Future of Programming

    worrydream.com · 2 outlets

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

    lists.randombit.net · 2 outlets

  2. From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition

    guardian.co.uk · 3 outlets

  3. Snowden Wikipedia page edited to label him a "traitor" from Senate computer

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

  4. Peers call for a pardon for Alan Turing [video]

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  5. Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos

    washingtonpost.com · 3 outlets

  6. How does Trello access the user's clipboard?

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  7. I'm learning to code by building 180 websites in 180 days. Today is day 115

    blog.jenniferdewalt.co · 1 outlets

  8. Do Things that Don't Scale

    paulgraham.com · 2 outlets

  9. Ubuntu Edge

    indiegogo.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 29 stories

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

    madebynathan.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: CoreOS, a Linux distro for containers

    coreos.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    floobits.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

    flavorwire.com · 1 outlets

  3. “What Is That Box?” – When The NSA Shows Up At Your Internet Company

    readability.com · 1 outlets

  4. Leaked report shows high civilian death toll from CIA drone strikes

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  5. Movie Subtitle Fansite Raided By Copyright Industry And Police

    falkvinge.net · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Sketch, connect and simulate gears and chains

    github.com · 1 outlets

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