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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 13 – August 12, 2013 816 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 224 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Things Most Americans Don’t Know About America

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Go for System Administrators

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 60 stories

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

  2. How to Convince Investors

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

  4. Passive Income Hacker vs Startup Guy

Show 10 more
  1. Google Pressure Cookers and Backpacks, Get a Visit from the Feds

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

  3. Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue

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

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

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

  7. Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over

  8. Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef

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

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

Sports 20 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Now That It’s in the Broadband Game, Google Flip-Flops on Network Neutrality

  2. Wine 1.6 Released With 10,000 Changes

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

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

  5. Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions

  6. Google Engineer Wins NSA Award, Then Says NSA Should Be “Abolished”

Technology 603 stories

  1. Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested

  2. The Future of Programming

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

Show 9 more
  1. From PhD to Data Scientist: Tips for Making the Transition

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

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

  4. Lavabit abruptly shuts down

  5. In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning

  6. Go for System Administrators

  7. Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos

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

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

Entertainment 28 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

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

  3. Show HN: TextBlob, Natural language processing made simple in Python

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

  5. Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser

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

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