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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 6 – February 13, 2020 192 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 44 Get it by email ↓
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How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

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Business 5 stories

  1. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

  2. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

  3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

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  1. The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church

  2. The Myth of the Barter Economy (2016)

Sports 10 stories

  1. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

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  1. Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

  2. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

  3. Airbus unveils 'blended wing body' plane design after secret flight tests

Technology 154 stories

  1. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

  2. Gears

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  1. A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

  2. Reasons not to become famous

  3. “We already store data. In a database. It works well”

  4. Shit – An implementation of Git using POSIX shell

  5. Python dicts are now ordered

Entertainment 16 stories

  1. TV Backlight Compensation

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  1. Webcam, Lights, and Audio for Remote Work, Podcasting, Videos, and Streaming

  2. The Rise of “Movie-Set Urbanism”

  3. Run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2 (2015)

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