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2019-08-05
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 29 – August 5, 2019 192 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 217 Get it by email ↓
The week'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

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Business 9 stories

  1. Employee happiness and business success are linked

  2. Norweigan oil fund

  3. We shouldn’t take peer review as the ‘gold standard’

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  1. Activision Blizzard has moved billions of dollars of profit into tax havens

  2. Goldman Sachs is spending $100M to shave milliseconds off stock trades

  3. Bad Times in Tech? Not If You’re a Startup Serving Other Startups

  4. StockX was hacked, exposing millions of customers’ data

Sports 6 stories

  1. Report on Microsoft Office and Windows software: still privacy risks remaining

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  1. Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

  2. Devilution – A web port of the original Diablo game

  3. U.S. to set up plan aimed at allowing prescription drugs from Canada

Technology 169 stories

  1. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

  2. Terminating Service for 8Chan

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  1. How I Became a Machine Learning Practitioner

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  3. Sites using Facebook ‘Like’ button liable for data, EU court rules

  4. Ugly Gerry – Font created from congressional districts

  5. Build Your Own Text Editor

Entertainment 4 stories

  1. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

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  1. Show HN: Bild – A collection of parallel image processing algorithms in Go

  2. Music Recommendations in Hyperbolic Space

  3. IBM Fired as Many as 100k in Recent Years, Lawsuit Shows

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