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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 12 – March 14, 2019 813 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 11 · Issue 73 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Best of Machine Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

  2. Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

  3. Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

  4. Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

Show 10 more
  1. A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

  2. Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry

  3. We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts

  4. My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

  5. The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO

  6. Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

  7. Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

  8. How to earn your macroeconomics and finance white belt as a software developer

  9. How hard is it to have a conversation on Twitter? So hard even the CEO can’t

  10. Accepting Bitcoin as a Small Business – 4 Years In, No Customers

Sports 34 stories

  1. Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls

  2. Winning the Blackbird Battle

Show 6 more
  1. Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

  2. Winding down my Debian involvement

  3. DTrace on Windows

  4. FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws

  5. Heat Your House with a Water Brake Windmill

  6. ICANN Calls for DNSSEC for All Domains Following Domain Hijacking Attempts

Technology 621 stories

  1. Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

  2. Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%

  3. OpenAI Trains Language Model, Mass Hysteria Ensues

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  1. 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

  2. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

  3. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

  4. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

  5. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

  6. Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

  7. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

  8. Don’t Get Clever with Login Forms

  9. Amazon Pulls Out of Planned New York City Campus

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video

  2. Sloth – Mac app that shows all open files and sockets in use

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown

  2. Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

  3. Show HN: DeskGap – Like Electron, but uses the system webview

  4. Fyre Festival Was a Huge Scam. Is Netflix’s Fyre Documentary a Scam, Too?

  5. 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

  6. Microsoft’s HoloLens 2: a $3,500 mixed-reality headset for the factory

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