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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 15 – December 15, 2020 811 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 350 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Stripe Treasury

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery

    8 of 30 days · 11 articles

  2. Technology

    FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

    8 of 30 days · 8 articles

  3. Technology

    ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 30 stories

  1. Stripe Treasury

  2. Apple Announces App Store Small Business Program

  3. U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources

  4. Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

Show 10 more
  1. S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021

  2. Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

  3. Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

  4. Death of an open-source business model

  5. Guitar Center files for bankruptcy

  6. Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid

  7. Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

  8. MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial

  9. The AMA is a tax-exempt hedge fund and licensing corporation

  10. DoorDash from Application to IPO

Sports 27 stories

  1. TailwindCSS v2.0

  2. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

Show 6 more
  1. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

  2. The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design

  3. 72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

  4. InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place

  5. ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

  6. Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)

Technology 613 stories

  1. Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher

  2. Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in

  3. SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]

Show 9 more
  1. Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery

  2. ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook: A SIMD Benchmark

  3. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

  4. Apple apps on Big Sur bypass some firewalls and VPNs

  5. Diego Maradona has died

  6. Walmart Exclusive Wi-Fi Router Contains Backdoor to Control Devices

  7. YouTube-dl's repository has been restored

  8. Cameras and Lenses

  9. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Moderna's Covid vaccine shows nearly 95% protection

  2. DisneyMustPay Alan Dean Foster

Show 6 more
  1. YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

  2. Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard

  3. Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

  4. Show HN: This website is valid JSON

  5. Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

  6. The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

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