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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 29 – July 29, 2019 804 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 210 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

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1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Steve Wozniak's floating point routines for the 6502

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google Photos is making photos semi-public

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

  2. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

  3. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

  4. Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms

Show 10 more
  1. Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses

  2. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

  3. GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely

  4. IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders

  5. Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation

  6. Exploring alternative funding models for the web

  7. LIGO detects probable black hole merger event

  8. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

  9. Toilets of the World

  10. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

Sports 44 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?

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  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. Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

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

Technology 600 stories

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

  2. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

  3. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

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

  2. Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

  3. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

  4. GitHub is down

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

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

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

  8. Choose Boring Technology

  9. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

  2. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL

  2. Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners

  3. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

  4. Public Domain Movies

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

  6. Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust

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