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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 21 – January 20, 2018 835 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 03 · Issue 20 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Update on Meltdown and Spectre

    11 of 30 days · 13 articles

  2. Technology

    MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Rust in 2017: what we achieved

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

  2. Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination

  3. I amplified my home's Wi-Fi with aluminum foil

  4. Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

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  1. Spotify files for its IPO

  2. Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own

  3. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life

  4. Goldman Sachs Report Explores Use of Bitcoin as Currency

  5. Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]

  6. Blackbird: Bitcoin arbitrage

  7. Trends to Avoid When Founding a Startup

  8. Pineapple Fund Offers $4M Matching Grant to MAPS for MDMA Research

  9. Bitcoin Fall Extends to 25% as Fears of Crackdown Linger

  10. Bitcoin and almost every other cryptocurrency crashed hard today

Sports 31 stories

  1. The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

  2. Wine 3.0 Released

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  1. Germany vs. Elsevier: universities win temporary free journal access

  2. CPU Usage Differences After Applying Meltdown Patch at Epic Games

  3. Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game

  4. BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales

  5. Gamers Want DMCA Exemption for ‘Abandoned’ Online Games

  6. Show HN: A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote

Technology 620 stories

  1. Linux page table isolation is not needed on AMD processors

  2. What We Get Wrong About Dying

  3. 2018 Is the Last Year of America's Public Domain Drought

Show 9 more
  1. Dude, you broke the future

  2. MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

  3. Update on Meltdown and Spectre

  4. Intel Analysis of Speculative Execution Side Channels [pdf]

  5. It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

  6. California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

  7. Full-Text Search in Django with PostgreSQL

  8. Reading privileged memory with a side-channel

  9. Google Memory Loss

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

  2. Kids in ‘Netflix Only’ Homes Saved from 230 Hours of Commercials a Year

Show 6 more
  1. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

  2. Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

  3. Netflix: What Happens When You Press Play?

  4. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

  5. Show HN: Sapper.js – towards a better web app framework

  6. Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband

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