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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 24 – January 23, 2018 831 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 23 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

    What I learned in 2017 writing Go

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

  5. 219 days of postmarketOS

  6. Trends to Avoid When Founding a Startup

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

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

  9. Not raising funds to stay small and happy

  10. Telegram plans multi-billion dollar ICO for chat cryptocurrency

Sports 33 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. Show HN: A game my 12-year-old daughter wrote

  6. Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

Technology 617 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. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

Entertainment 25 stories

  1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

  2. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

Show 6 more
  1. Call of Duty gaming community points to ‘swatting’ in Wichita police shooting

  2. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

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

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

  5. Show HN: PAST, a secure alternative to JWT

  6. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

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