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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 21 – July 28, 2020 189 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 210 Get it by email ↓
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Business 10 stories

  1. Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

  2. Nubank acquires Cognitect

  3. Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

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  1. Banks are slow to increase rates on savings accounts, but quick to reduce them

  2. How to effectively evade the GDPR and the reach of the DPA

  3. Intel grew revenues in Q2 2020, but key manufacturing upgrade delayed

  4. What if carbon removal becomes the new Big Oil?

Sports 7 stories

  1. Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

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  1. Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD

  2. Emulating Nintendo Switch Games on Linux

  3. 72% of Americans say social media companies have too much political influence

Technology 153 stories

  1. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

  2. Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes

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  1. New ‘Meow’ attack has deleted almost 4k unsecured databases

  2. Breach exposed more than one million DNA profiles on a major genealogy database

  3. First Ever Image of a Multi-Planet System Around a Sun-Like Star Captured by ESO

  4. Editorial board of Index and more than 70 staff members resign

  5. Experimental blood test detects cancer up to four years before symptoms appear

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

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  1. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

  2. Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things

  3. Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

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