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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 3 – April 2, 2020 800 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 93 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

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1Articles

What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: From Markdown to Video

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 50 stories

  1. Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

  2. GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

  3. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

  4. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

Show 10 more
  1. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

  2. Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

  3. S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt

  4. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

  5. Please Fund More Science

  6. Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

  7. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

  8. Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat

  9. Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

  10. Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

Sports 30 stories

  1. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

  2. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

Show 6 more
  1. Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data

  2. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

  3. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

  4. Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

  5. How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript

  6. The northern-hemisphere winter of 2019-20 was the warmest ever on land

Technology 585 stories

  1. Our list of free software for remote work

  2. National Emergency Library

  3. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

Show 9 more
  1. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

  2. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

  3. NPM Is Joining GitHub

  4. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

  5. Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

  6. Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

  7. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

  8. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

  9. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19

  2. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

Show 6 more
  1. Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

  2. Show HN: Fraidycat

  3. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

  4. Show HN: A “living” Linux process with no memory

  5. Show HN: InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design

  6. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

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