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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 28 – August 27, 2019 814 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 239 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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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How to Start with Machine Learning

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google OAuth Is Failing with 500 Error Code

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 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 budget cuts cost $34.3B in lost revenue from big business

    accountingtoday.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    esquire.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    cassandracapital.net · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers

    theintercept.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Sports 29 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. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

    heise.de · 1 outlets

  2. Useless Windows 10 Features

    howtogeek.com · 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 · 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 634 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. Introducing nushell

    jonathanturner.org · 1 outlets

  3. Ebola Is Now Curable

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 2 outlets

  5. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

    hanselman.com · 1 outlets

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

    quora.com · 1 outlets

  7. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    new.blog.cloudflare.co · 2 outlets

  8. Google Chrome Incognito Mode Can Still Be Detected

    twitter.com · 4 outlets

  9. How to Build Good Software

    csc.gov.sg · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: CLI tool for saving web pages as a single file

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

    npr.org · 1 outlets

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

    divjoy.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    zecoda.com · 1 outlets

  5. MoviePass Worked Out Great

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

    github.com · 1 outlets

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