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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 4 – October 4, 2020 798 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 278 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

blog.ltse.com · 2 sources

Also covering this bloomberg.comTokyo Stock Exchange Blackout: One Piece of Hardware Took Down a Market
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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Your Phone Is Your Castle

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Interview with Paul Graham

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 40 stories

  1. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

    blog.ltse.com · 2 outlets

  2. Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  4. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

    ft.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  2. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  3. Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

    jamesmcm.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  5. China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

    wikimediafoundation.or · 1 outlets

  6. SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  7. GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

    thehftguy.com · 1 outlets

  8. Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

    daringfireball.net · 1 outlets

  9. Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup

    contrast.app · 1 outlets

  10. Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs

    wraltechwire.com · 1 outlets

Sports 21 stories

  1. Windows XP source code has leaked

    gizmodo.com.au · 2 outlets

  2. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

    mango.pdf.zone · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Winamp Skin Museum

    skins.webamp.org · 1 outlets

  2. Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

    theblockcrypto.com · 1 outlets

  3. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

    cnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  5. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention

    cisa.gov · 1 outlets

Technology 630 stories

  1. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons

    apnews.com · 5 outlets

  3. Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

    nvidianews.nvidia.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  3. This electrical transmission tower has a problem

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

    calpaterson.com · 1 outlets

  5. Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  6. I no longer build software

    github.com · 1 outlets

  7. On the Use of a Life

    daemonology.net · 1 outlets

  8. BitTorrent v2

    blog.libtorrent.org · 1 outlets

  9. Microsoft to acquire ZeniMax Media and Bethesda Softworks for $7.5B

    bethesda.net · 1 outlets

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

    flatpanelshd.com · 1 outlets

  2. Say goodbye to hold music

    blog.google · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. What is the best dumb TV?

    pointerclicker.com · 1 outlets

  2. First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  3. FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

    icij.org · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Eiten – open-source tool for portfolio optimization

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

    mimestream.com · 1 outlets

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