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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 24 – November 23, 2019 806 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 47 · Issue 327 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

    Chaos, and what to do about it (2018)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Cooling off your Raspberry Pi 4

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 48 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. Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.crunchbase.com · 1 outlets

  4. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

    wbur.org · 1 outlets

  5. PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

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

    insideclimatenews.org · 1 outlets

  7. Selling My Bootstrapped SaaS Business (2017)

    tylertringas.com · 1 outlets

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

    reason.com · 1 outlets

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

    about.van.fedex.com · 1 outlets

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

    nakedsecurity.sophos.c · 1 outlets

Sports 28 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 622 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

    soranews24.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google Kills Cloud Print

    thurrott.com · 3 outlets

  3. Facebook iOS app has camera active during use

    thenextweb.com · 5 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    lightcommands.com · 1 outlets

  2. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  4. Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

    msn.com · 3 outlets

  5. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

    quuxplusone.github.io · 2 outlets

  6. Twitter to ban political advertising

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

  7. Save .org

    savedotorg.org · 1 outlets

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

    aclu.org · 1 outlets

  9. 16-inch MacBook Pro

    apple.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 35 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. Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Power of Shower Thoughts

    alexanderell.is · 1 outlets

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

    simplescraper.io · 2 outlets

  6. Show HN: pg_flame – flamegraph visualizations of PostgreSQL query plans

    github.com · 1 outlets

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