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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 7 – April 6, 2020 786 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 97 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    God be with you till we meet again (1918)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 49 stories

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

  2. How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

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

  4. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

Show 10 more
  1. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report

  2. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

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

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

  5. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

  6. Please Fund More Science

  7. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

  8. If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again

  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. Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

Show 6 more
  1. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

  2. Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data

  3. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

  4. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

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

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

Technology 563 stories

  1. Free software tools for staying in touch

  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. Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?

  3. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

  4. NPM Is Joining GitHub

  5. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

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

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

  8. How to manage HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript only?

  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: Visual SQL

  6. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

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