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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 27 – January 26, 2018 847 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 26 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ending Bitcoin Support

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Update on Meltdown and Spectre

    10 of 30 days · 12 articles

  2. Technology

    MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

    8 of 30 days · 10 articles

  3. Technology

    An Update on AMD Processor Security

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 stories

  1. Ending Bitcoin Support

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

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

  4. Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

Show 10 more
  1. Spotify files for its IPO

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

  3. Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

  4. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Comes to Life

  5. Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

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

  7. 219 days of postmarketOS

  8. Trends to Avoid When Founding a Startup

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

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

Sports 36 stories

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

  2. Wine 3.0 Released

Show 6 more
  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 623 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 27 stories

  1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

  2. Show HN: RetroClip – Instant Replay for Your Mac

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. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

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

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

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

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