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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 17 – July 17, 2019 814 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 198 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Startup idea checklist

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How to Make Apple’s Mac Pro Holes

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Building an LTE Access Point with a Raspberry Pi

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Freeing My Phone from Google

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 52 stories

  1. Startup idea checklist

  2. Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

  3. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

  4. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

Show 10 more
  1. Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms

  2. Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses

  3. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

  4. GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

  5. Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

  6. I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

  7. Exploring alternative funding models for the web

  8. 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

  9. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

  10. Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May

Sports 40 stories

  1. YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

  2. Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?

Show 6 more
  1. I Can’t Stop Winning

  2. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

  3. A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy

  4. Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

  5. IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B

  6. No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

Technology 611 stories

  1. On Jony Ive Leaving Apple

  2. How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox

  3. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

Show 9 more
  1. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

  2. Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang

  3. Raspberry Pi 4

  4. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

  5. YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

  6. Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server

  7. Choose Boring Technology

  8. Google’s new reCAPTCHA has a dark side

  9. How to Make Apple’s Mac Pro Holes

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

  2. Show HN: A job board for companies fighting ageism in tech

Show 6 more
  1. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

  2. Show HN: Catj – A new way to display JSON files

  3. The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)

  4. Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL

  5. Public Domain Movies

  6. Show HN: Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

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