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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 14 – May 21, 2014 191 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 141 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. China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

Technology 156 stories

  1. Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

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

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  1. Level3 is without peer, now what to do?

  2. FCC approves plan to consider paid priority on Internet

  3. Using the wrong dictionary

  4. New DuckDuckGo design

  5. OS X Command Line Utilities

Entertainment 10 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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