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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 23 – August 22, 2019 825 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 234 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

    How to Start with Machine Learning

    8 of 30 days · 10 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 46 stories

  1. Startups from Y Combinator’s S19 Demo Day 1

    techcrunch.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. Most startup theory is ex-post, therefore bs

    shafyy.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. IRS budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

    accountingtoday.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. Why Did China Just Devalue the Yuan? How Trade Works with Free-Floating Currency

    cassandracapital.net · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  10. Toilets of the World

    toilet-guru.com · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. Why All of Our Games Look Like Crap

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

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

    universetoday.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    blog.stephenwolfram.co · 1 outlets

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

    heise.de · 1 outlets

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

    theconversation.com · 1 outlets

  4. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    amonitoring.ru · 2 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 633 stories

  1. Information operations directed at Hong Kong

    nytimes.com · 5 outlets

  2. WeWork Isn’t a Tech Company

    theverge.com · 3 outlets

  3. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    crummy.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

    newyorker.com · 1 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. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

    hanselman.com · 1 outlets

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

    quora.com · 1 outlets

  6. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    new.blog.cloudflare.co · 2 outlets

  7. How to Build Good Software

    csc.gov.sg · 1 outlets

  8. NULL license plate not such a bright idea

    knrs.iheart.com · 2 outlets

  9. What Stress Does to the Brain

    nsaphra.github.io · 2 outlets

Entertainment 35 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 · 1 outlets

  6. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

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