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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 13 – May 20, 2014 186 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 140 Get it by email ↓
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When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick

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Business 11 stories

  1. When AES(☢) = ☠ – a crypto-binary trick

  2. The Trade of the Century: When George Soros Broke the British Pound

  3. Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [pdf]

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  1. New algorithm shakes up cryptography

  2. Noise: Box and pipe cryptographic core

  3. How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads

  4. How do hedge funds get away with it? Eight theories

Sports 9 stories

  1. YouTube to Acquire Videogame-Streaming Service Twitch for $1 Billion?

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  1. Can This Web Be Saved? Mozilla Accepts DRM, and We All Lose

  2. “A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”

  3. New York City photographed with the Game Boy Camera in 2000

Technology 152 stories

  1. The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations (2013)

  2. FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

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  1. Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome

  2. OS X Command Line Utilities

  3. Google is Breaking the Internet

  4. AdBlock Plus’s effect on Firefox’s memory usage

  5. Introducing the WebKit FTL JIT

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. How I bypassed 2-Factor-Authentication on Google, Facebook, Yahoo, LinkedIn

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  1. AT&T to Buy DirecTV for $48.5 Billion

  2. Show HN: Where Adblock+ injects 20K CSS rules, HTTPSB injects one

  3. Show HN: The static, static site generator

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