The Mez Ledger
Menu
2014-05-22
Weekly Close

Weekly Close

The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 15 – May 22, 2014 196 stories · Vol. 14 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 142 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

1Outlets
1Articles

Business 10 stories

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

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

  3. How I Feel as Young Father Involved in Early-stage Startup

Show 4 more
  1. Zerocash: Decentralized Anonymous Payments from Bitcoin [pdf]

  2. New algorithm shakes up cryptography

  3. How Wall Street recruits so many Ivy League grads

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

Sports 8 stories

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

Show 3 more
  1. “A Windows 7 deployment image was accidently sent to all Windows machines”

  2. China bans use of Windows 8 on government computers

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

Technology 163 stories

  1. Why I was forced to shut down Lavabit

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

Show 5 more
  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. Google is Breaking the Internet

Entertainment 11 stories

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

Show 3 more
  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

the Weekly Close

You just read a week of news in ninety seconds.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.