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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 14 – August 13, 2013 835 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 225 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

chicagotribune.com · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Go for System Administrators

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News in the Terminal

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 63 stories

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

    chicagotribune.com · 1 outlets

  2. How to Convince Investors

    paulgraham.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

Show 10 more

  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. Steps To $5,000 In Monthly Recurring Revenue

    blog.statuspage.io · 1 outlets

  4. Every important person in BitCoin just got subpoenaed by NY financial regulators

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

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

    www4.gsb.columbia.edu · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  8. Defund the NSA - This Isn't Over

    defundthensa.com · 1 outlets

  9. Sergey Brin invests in synthetic beef

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    vanityfair.com · 1 outlets

Sports 20 stories

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

    thisiscolossal.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.cnet.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

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

    kotaku.com · 1 outlets

  5. Stop Allowing App Reviews From Beta iOS Versions

    stuartkhall.com · 1 outlets

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

    tikkun.org · 1 outlets

Technology 621 stories

  1. Freedom Hosting sites compromised, founder arrested

    twitlonger.com · 3 outlets

  2. The Future of Programming

    worrydream.com · 2 outlets

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

    guardian.co.uk · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Attention, Shoppers: Store Is Tracking Your Cell

    qz.com · 3 outlets

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

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

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

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Lavabit abruptly shuts down

    theguardian.com · 7 outlets

  5. In Defense Of Leakers: Snowden and Manning

    salon.com · 5 outlets

  6. Go for System Administrators

    techweekeurope.co.uk · 5 outlets

  7. Washington Post to be sold to Jeff Bezos

    washingtonpost.com · 3 outlets

  8. Hyperloop

    spacex.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 27 stories

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

    coreos.com · 1 outlets

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

    floobits.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Why Is Netflix Secretly Cropping Movies?

    flavorwire.com · 1 outlets

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

    readability.com · 1 outlets

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

    textblob.readthedocs.o · 1 outlets

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

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Run iOS apps in the browser

    app.io · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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