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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 28 – September 27, 2019 816 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 39 · Issue 270 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Back surgery saved him from paralysis. Then the bills arrived: over $650,000

Frank Esposito, a tool and die maker from Long Island, New York, drained $49,000 from his retirement account and still owes over $220,000

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with Edward Snowden

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    exFAT in the Linux kernel

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Spam in Your Calendar? Here’s What to Do

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Dolly Parton: Making the most of everything

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 51 stories

  1. WeWork’s Adam Neumann Steps Down as CEO

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google’s GDPR Workaround

    brave.com · 1 outlets

  3. 94k Bitcoin (1B USD) transferred from unknown wallet to unknown wallet

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Gitlab More Than Doubles Valuation to $2.75B Ahead of Planned 2020 IPO

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. California passes bill that classifies gig economy workers as employees

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Stripe’s new funding round values company at $35B

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple expands parts access to more independent repair businesses

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  4. 50 U.S. states and territories announce broad antitrust investigation of Google

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  5. If You Run a Small Business, Park in the Back of the Parking Lot

    skyclerk.com · 1 outlets

  6. Hackers Hit Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey in a ‘SIM Swap’

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. New federal rules limit police searches of family tree DNA databases

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  8. Why Index Funds Are Like Subprime CDOs

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Kickstarter’s Year of Turmoil

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  10. NY Fed rescues overnight lending market with $53B

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. Why I Write Games in C (yes, C)

    jonathanwhiting.com · 1 outlets

  2. Almost one in five men admits to having no close friends, a survey has found

    thetimes.co.uk · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Solar and Wind Power So Cheap They’re Outgrowing Subsidies

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  2. Match.com Used Fake Ads to Swindle Users, F.T.C. Says

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Fancy Zones, a tiling window manager

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Police Shut Down a 3k-Person Game of Hide-and-Seek at IKEA

    housebeautiful.com · 1 outlets

  5. WeWork parent pulls IPO following pushback: sources

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  6. Cosmoteer: A starship design, simulation, and battle game

    cosmoteer.net · 1 outlets

Technology 605 stories

  1. Richard M. Stallman resigns

    fsf.org · 6 outlets

  2. How Apple's Apps Topped Rivals in the App Store It Controls

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  3. China Seeks to Buy Control of Hong Kong Companies

    nytimes.com · 6 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Facebook scans system libraries on Android and uploads them to their server

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Interview with Edward Snowden

    justice.gov · 7 outlets

  3. The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)

    broadcast.listennotes. · 2 outlets

  4. California bans private prisons

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  5. Serverless: slower and more expensive

    einaregilsson.com · 1 outlets

  6. Sunsetting Python 2

    python.org · 1 outlets

  7. Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps for $60 After Years of Battling Comcast

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  8. How to do a code review

    google.github.io · 1 outlets

  9. Stellarium: A free open-source planetarium for your computer

    medium.com · 3 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Google contractors in Pittsburgh vote to unionize

    m.pghcitypaper.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: See a Satellite Tonight. No Telescope Required

    james.darpinian.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Best of Show HN

    augmented-ui.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Browse Reddit in 3D

    3dforreddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. Smart TVs sending sensitive user data to Netflix and Facebook

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  4. Too Many Video Streaming Choices May Drive Users Back To Piracy

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  5. MoviePass will shut down for good on Sept. 14

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I Built a “Google Alerts” for Hacker News

    pqina.nl · 2 outlets

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