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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 2 – August 1, 2019 840 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 213 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Capital One data breach hits more than 100 million people

The hacker got information including credit scores and balances plus the Social Security numbers of about 140,000 customers

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interpretable Machine Learning

    3 of 30 days · 4 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

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  2. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

    blog.trailofbits.com · 1 outlets

  3. Employee happiness and business success are linked

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  4. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

    m.dw.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    abcactionnews.com · 1 outlets

  2. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    forbes.com · 2 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.ubisoft.com · 1 outlets

  6. Exploring alternative funding models for the web

    itsfoss.com · 2 outlets

  7. A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

    pixelfed.org · 1 outlets

  9. Toilets of the World

    toilet-guru.com · 1 outlets

  10. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

    narratively.com · 1 outlets

Sports 47 stories

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. I Can’t Stop Winning

    blog.pinboard.in · 1 outlets

  2. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

    blender.org · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    samcurry.net · 1 outlets

  5. Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

    blog.stephenwolfram.co · 2 outlets

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

    redhat.com · 1 outlets

Technology 630 stories

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

    ispa.org.uk · 2 outlets

  2. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

    userinyerface.com · 1 outlets

  3. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    vice.com · 2 outlets

  2. Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

    engadget.com · 3 outlets

  3. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    mishravikas.com · 3 outlets

  4. GitHub is down

    githubstatus.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    boingboing.net · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  8. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

    bugzilla.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  9. How to assess the quality of garments (2014)

    anuschkarees.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

    www-math.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

    altpress.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    ananasanalytics.com · 2 outlets

  3. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

    zdnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Public Domain Movies

    publicdomainflix.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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