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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 9 – February 16, 2015 185 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 47 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

The Bitcoin Piñata

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Business 14 stories

  1. The Bitcoin Piñata

  2. $500k of Azure credit for YC startups

  3. Apple CEO Tim Cook challenges Obama with impassioned stand on privacy

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  1. Life in a post-database world: Using crypto to avoid database writes

  2. Bank Hackers Steal Millions via Malware

  3. Banks Paid $32.6B in Bonuses Amid U.S. Bailout (2009)

  4. BitcoinEmissions – A project to calculate CO2 emissions of mining bitcoin

Sports 4 stories

  1. Bypassing Windows 10's Protections Using a Single Bit

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  1. 0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1

  2. An Exemption to the DMCA Would Let Game Fans Keep Abandoned Games Running

  3. A Few Global Cultural Treasures We Will Lose for 20 Years Under the TPP

Technology 152 stories

  1. Fuck It, I'm Going Back to Firefox

  2. Now, I can see wifi signals

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  1. I Am Releasing Ten Million Passwords

  2. The FDA buries evidence of fraud in medical trials. My students and I dug it up

  3. Stop Using LinkedIn

  4. Flipboard releases React Canvas

  5. Automating Tinder with Eigenfaces

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Deleting any Facebook album

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  1. Show HN: A Unixy approach to WebSockets

  2. Show HN: Let's Chat, a self-hosted chat app for small teams

  3. Samsung's smart TVs are inserting unwanted ads into users' own movies

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