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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 18 – April 17, 2019 835 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 107 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Cohen says he has 14 million files of "significant value"

Cohen's lawyers said their client was able to access a hard drive with information that could have "significant value" to congressional investigators

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    A gentle introduction to symbolic execution

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

    downtowndougbrown.com · 1 outlets

  2. Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad

    steveblank.com · 1 outlets

  3. Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  4. Bezos Investigation Says the Saudis Obtained His Private Data

    thedailybeast.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Bitcoin ETF research finds that 95% of Bitcoin volume is fake

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google terminated our startup's developer account – what do we do?

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  4. Working for a startup makes less sense, unless you are into the mission

    jatins.gitlab.io · 1 outlets

  5. America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity

    seedfund.nsf.gov · 1 outlets

  6. An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  7. China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  9. As China Hacked, U.S. Businesses Turned a Blind Eye

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  10. Different ways to build a $100M business (2014)

    christophjanz.blogspot · 1 outlets

Sports 44 stories

  1. CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Yann LeCun, Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Bengio win Turing Award

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

    theregister.co.uk · 1 outlets

  3. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Aphex Twin Speaks to Tatsuya Takahashi (2017)

    medium.com · 2 outlets

  6. A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Technology 610 stories

  1. Congress Is About to Ban the US Government from Offering Free Online Tax Filing

    propublica.org · 2 outlets

  2. Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine

    purpleleafsoftware.com · 3 outlets

  3. A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Developer Survey Results 2019

    stackoverflow.blog · 2 outlets

  2. Apple announces Apple Card credit card

    foundation.mozilla.org · 4 outlets

  3. Julian Assange arrested in London

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  4. Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

    youtube.com · 3 outlets

  5. I tried creating a web browser, and Google blocked me

    blog.samuelmaddock.com · 1 outlets

  6. A guide to difficult conversations

    medium.dave-bailey.com · 1 outlets

  7. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

    public-sans.digital.go · 1 outlets

  8. Kroki – Convert plain text diagrams to images

    krebsonsecurity.com · 6 outlets

  9. Warp – Mobile VPN

    blog.cloudflare.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: A Color Picker I Made

    sourcedfact.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

    observablehq.com · 2 outlets

  3. 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail

    edition.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Everything I Know Wiki

    wiki.nikitavoloboev.xy · 1 outlets

  5. Intel VISA Exploit Gives Access to Computer’s Entire Data, Researchers Show

    gadgets.ndtv.com · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: Baxx – Unix-friendly backup service

    txt.black · 1 outlets

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