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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 11 – February 18, 2020 186 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 08 · Issue 49 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

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

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Business 12 stories

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

  2. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

  3. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

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  1. The new business of AI and how it’s different from traditional software

  2. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

  3. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

  4. GitHub Enterprise is now free through Microsoft for Startups

Sports 10 stories

  1. Docker for Windows won't run if Razer Synapse driver management tool is running

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

  2. Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

  3. The outsize influence of middle-school friends

Technology 139 stories

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

  2. Gears

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  1. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

  2. 1-on-1 meeting questions

  3. Why are we so bad at software engineering?

  4. Facebook quitters report more life satisfaction, less depression and anxiety

  5. Pay up or we’ll make Google ban your ads

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

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  1. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

  2. Sherbet: An Ergonomic Gaming Keypad

  3. Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]

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