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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 20 – August 19, 2019 811 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 231 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

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1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Computer Science Illustrated (2014)

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    OpenDrop: An Open Source AirDrop Implementation

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  2. I've reproduced 130 research papers about “predicting the stock market”

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. Employee happiness and business success are linked

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  4. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

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

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.ubisoft.com · 1 outlets

  5. Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

    esquire.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. U.S. Farmers Stung by Tariffs Now Face a $3.5B Corn Loss

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Toilets of the World

    toilet-guru.com · 1 outlets

  10. Japan surpasses China as largest foreign holder of US Treasurys

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

    universetoday.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.stephenwolfram.co · 1 outlets

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  1. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

    heise.de · 1 outlets

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

    theconversation.com · 1 outlets

  3. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    amonitoring.ru · 2 outlets

  4. Game Source Code Collection

    archive.org · 1 outlets

  5. Wine on Windows 10

    reddragdiva.dreamwidth · 1 outlets

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

    privacycompany.eu · 1 outlets

Technology 624 stories

  1. Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over

    nytimes.com · 5 outlets

  2. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    crummy.com · 2 outlets

  3. GitHub is down

    githubstatus.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Quiet Hacker News (2017)

    newyorker.com · 3 outlets

  2. Ebola Is Now Curable

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 2 outlets

  4. Alan Kay's answer to ‘what are some forgotten books programmers should read?’

    quora.com · 1 outlets

  5. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    new.blog.cloudflare.co · 2 outlets

  6. How to Build Good Software

    csc.gov.sg · 1 outlets

  7. NULL license plate not such a bright idea

    knrs.iheart.com · 2 outlets

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

    anuschkarees.com · 1 outlets

  9. What Stress Does to the Brain

    nsaphra.github.io · 2 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

    divjoy.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Chart.xkcd – Xkcd-styled chart library

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    zecoda.com · 1 outlets

  4. MoviePass Worked Out Great

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

    github.com · 2 outlets

  6. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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