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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 22 – October 29, 2018 196 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 44 · Issue 302 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal

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Business 13 stories

  1. In Groundbreaking Decision, Feds Say Hacking DRM to Fix Electronics Is Legal

  2. AWS CEO Jassy follows Apple in calling for retraction of Chinese spy chip story

  3. Citus Data Donates 1% of Equity to PostgreSQL Organizations

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  1. Some private equity firms are furious over a paper in a dermatology journal

  2. Microsoft completes GitHub acquisition

  3. What is the revenue generation model for DuckDuckGo?

  4. The Secretive Business of Facial-Recognition Software in Retail Stores

Sports 6 stories

  1. Coinbase is launching support for the USDC stablecoin

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  1. One Windows Kernel

  2. Winners Take All: The Elite Charade of Changing the World [video]

  3. Apple and Samsung fined for deliberately slowing down phones

Technology 164 stories

  1. IBM acquires Red Hat

  2. Carbon Removal Technologies

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  1. Copyright Office Ruling Imposes Sweeping Right to Repair Reforms

  2. iPhones are hard to use

  3. Google paid Andy Rubin $90M while keeping silent about a misconduct claim

  4. Hubble is back

  5. Nobody knows how to cite 4chan mathematicians who solved an interesting problem

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: Websites in 2018

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  1. Show HN: Ultimate Plumber – a tool for writing Linux pipes with live preview

  2. First analysis of ‘pre-registered’ studies shows sharp rise in null findings

  3. Show HN: Algojammer – an experimental Python code editor inspired by Bret Victor

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