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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 21 – November 20, 2019 809 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 47 · Issue 324 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Women shocked by "hidden" cost of mammograms

Health insurance covers mammograms every one to two years, but many women often need secondary tests that aren't covered

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The problem isn’t data protection, it’s data collection

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

    cs.princeton.edu · 1 outlets

  3. Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  2. In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

    news.crunchbase.com · 1 outlets

  3. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

    wbur.org · 1 outlets

  4. Bank of America's CEO says it's saved $2B per year by building its own cloud

    businessinsider.com · 2 outlets

  5. Massachusetts Sues Exxon over Climate Change, Accusing the Oil Giant of Fraud

    insideclimatenews.org · 1 outlets

  6. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)

    tylertringas.com · 1 outlets

  7. Man Underpaid Property Tax by $8.41 County Seized Home, Sold It-Kept Profits

    reason.com · 1 outlets

  8. FedEx responds to The New York Times article from Nov. 17, 2019

    about.van.fedex.com · 1 outlets

  9. Scammers deepfake CEO’s voice to talk underling into $243k transfer?

    nakedsecurity.sophos.c · 1 outlets

  10. “Is your startup idea taken?” and why we love X for Y startups

    andrewchen.co · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. Microsoft Wins Pentagon’s $10B Contract

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. IRS Tried to Hide Emails That Show Tax Industry Influence over Free File Program

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam

    codecks.io · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

    secretgeek.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. How Untitled Goose Game became a real video game

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  4. Close Encounter with a Gigantic Jet

    spaceweatherarchive.co · 1 outlets

  5. Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

    rockpapershotgun.com · 1 outlets

  6. 'Zen curtain' saves birds from hitting glass windows

    winhistory.de · 2 outlets

Technology 631 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

    soranews24.com · 2 outlets

  2. Facebook iOS app has camera active during use

    thenextweb.com · 4 outlets

  3. Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]

    lightcommands.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  2. WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  3. Twitter to ban political advertising

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

  4. Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

    aclu.org · 1 outlets

  5. 16-inch MacBook Pro

    apple.com · 2 outlets

  6. We Stood Up to a Patent Troll and Won

    blog.cloudflare.com · 2 outlets

  7. Firefox 70

    hacks.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  8. John Carmack: I’m going to work on artificial general intelligence

    facebook.com · 1 outlets

  9. Build Your Own Thrust Vectored Rockets for Vertical Landings Like SpaceX

    pomb.us · 2 outlets

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

    dcurt.is · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix open-sources Polynote, an IDE-inspired polyglot notebook

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Power of Shower Thoughts

    alexanderell.is · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Turn any device with a browser into a security camera

    simplescraper.io · 2 outlets

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