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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 8 – August 7, 2019 827 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 219 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

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Photos is making photos semi-public

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Interpretable Machine Learning

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Infinite work is less work

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

  2. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

  3. Employee happiness and business success are linked

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

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

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

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

  4. Open-Source Slack Alternative Mattermost Gets $50M Funding

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

  6. Toilets of the World

  7. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

  8. Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

  9. Norweigan oil fund

  10. Yield curve is blaring loudest recession warning since 2007

Sports 38 stories

  1. I Can’t Stop Winning

  2. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

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

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

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

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

  5. Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew

  6. The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions

Technology 636 stories

  1. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

  2. Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

  3. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

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  1. GitHub is down

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

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

  4. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

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

  6. Terminating Service for 8Chan

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

  8. Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

  9. QuickJS JavaScript Engine

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

  2. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

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  1. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

  2. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

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

  4. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

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

  6. Show HN: OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go

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