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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 30 – August 29, 2019 820 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 241 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

    8 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Technology

    Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    What Happens When You ACH a Dead Person?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 47 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. Anthony Levandowski Charged with Theft of Trade Secrets

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

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

    shafyy.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. WeWork Gets Tax Rebate Meant for Its Small-Business Tenants

    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. Monsanto Effort to Defund Cancer Researchers

    theintercept.com · 1 outlets

Sports 28 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. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    amonitoring.ru · 1 outlets

  4. Wine on Windows 10

    reddragdiva.dreamwidth · 1 outlets

  5. Apple Reports Declining Profits and Slowing Growth Again

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  6. I Am the Cheapest Bastard in Indie Games

    jeff-vogel.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

Technology 617 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. Intel and Rust: The Future of Systems Programming [video]

    m.youtube.com · 2 outlets

  2. The Lonely Work of Moderating Hacker News

    newyorker.com · 1 outlets

  3. Introducing nushell

    jonathanturner.org · 1 outlets

  4. Kept alive with tubes for nearly 17 years

    medium.com · 8 outlets

  5. Ebola Is Now Curable

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 2 outlets

  7. I Miss Microsoft Encarta

    hanselman.com · 1 outlets

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

    quora.com · 1 outlets

  9. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    new.blog.cloudflare.co · 2 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Personal Management System

    github.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  2. WTF – A personal information dashboard for your terminal

    wtfutil.com · 1 outlets

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

    divjoy.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    zecoda.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Wave-based non-line-of-sight computational imaging in Julia

    analytech-solutions.co · 1 outlets

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