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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 5 – February 4, 2018 821 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 35 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ending Bitcoin Support

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Reverse-engineering FPGAs [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    How to Run Your Own Mail Server (2017)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 60 stories

  1. Ending Bitcoin Support

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

  3. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

  4. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018

Show 10 more
  1. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

  2. Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

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

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

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

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

  7. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

  8. US startups don’t want to go public anymore

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

  10. 219 days of postmarketOS

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. Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

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

  5. BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales

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

Technology 605 stories

  1. What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

  2. MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

  3. What does code readability mean?

Show 9 more
  1. It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

  2. California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

  3. Docker for Mac with Kubernetes

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

  5. Google Memory Loss

  6. Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

  7. Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

  8. Ursula Le Guin has died

  9. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

Entertainment 28 stories

  1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

  2. Show HN: Observable Notebooks

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

  2. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

  3. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

  4. The Follower Factory

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

  6. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

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