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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 21 – October 21, 2018 802 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 294 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A Programming Language Underdog

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Deep learning experiments in OCaml

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Open Machine Learning Course

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 54 stories

  1. Study: Google is the biggest beneficiary of the GDPR

  2. An artwork by Banksy shredded itself after selling for $1.3M at Sotheby’s

  3. Apple has completed its acquisition of Shazam

  4. Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45

Show 10 more
  1. Instagram’s CEO

  2. Apple CEO Tim Cook Calling for Bloomberg to Retract Its Chinese Spy Chip Story

  3. Zoho.com CEO says domain with 40M users suspended for abuse complaint

  4. Startups I Want to Fund

  5. Brendan Eich Writes to the US Senate: We Need a GDPR for the United States

  6. Announcing flicker-free boot for Fedora 29

  7. Snapchat CEO’s leaked memo on survival

  8. Honda will use GM’s self-driving technology, invests in Cruise

  9. WhatsApp founder says Facebook used him to get its acquisition past EU regulator

  10. TinySeed – A Startup Accelerator Designed for Bootstrappers

Sports 31 stories

  1. Google Maps won't let you save home address without allowing all Google tracking

  2. Google Suppresses Memo Revealing Plans to Closely Track Search Users in China

Show 6 more
  1. Facebook lured advertisers by inflating video ad-watch times: lawsuit

  2. Growing Our SaaS to $1M+ ARR: 7 People, 3 Years, No VC Money

  3. Windows 10 October 2018 Update no longer deletes your data

  4. The CumEx-Files – How Europe's taxpayers have been swindled of €55B

  5. How to delete Facebook and not lose your friends and photos

  6. Amazon Warehouse Workers Lose Bonuses, Stock Awards for Raises

Technology 599 stories

  1. How China Systematically Pries Technology from U.S. Companies

  2. Facebook Network Breach Impacts Up to 50M Users

  3. Kubernetes for personal projects? No thanks

Show 9 more
  1. Linux developers threaten to pull “kill switch”

  2. Amazon raises minimum wage to $15 for all US employees

  3. Smart Home Surveillance: Governments Tell Google's Nest Hand Over Data

  4. What I loved about Paul Allen

  5. Disable Google Chrome Sign In and Sync

  6. Why I’m done with Chrome

  7. Paper Airplane Designs

  8. Shutting Down Google+ for Consumers

  9. Facebook Isn’t Sorry, It Just Wants Your Data

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Study shows massive insect loss

  2. Fake review factories that run on Facebook and post five-star Amazon reviews

Show 6 more
  1. 12 Factor CLI Apps

  2. Show HN: Alan – a low-code application platform

  3. Show HN: Polar – an offline web browser with annotations and tagging

  4. Show HN: Podflix – Like Netflix for Podcasts

  5. So You Want to Open a Small Press Bookstore/Artist-Run Space? A Cautionary Tale

  6. Show HN: Lipreading with Deep Learning

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