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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 4 – January 3, 2021 802 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 53 · Issue 3 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    FireEye Shares Details of Recent Cyber Attack

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 34 stories

  1. Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

  2. Bitcoin is a disaster

  3. States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

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

Show 10 more
  1. Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

  2. SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative

  3. SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources

  4. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

  5. Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

  6. Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

  7. Death of an open-source business model

  8. You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules

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

  10. MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial

Sports 37 stories

  1. Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

  2. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

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  1. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

  2. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

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

  4. 72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

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

  6. I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

Technology 620 stories

  1. Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App

  2. Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

  3. SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]

Show 9 more
  1. Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher

  2. Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

  3. A new release for GNU Octave

  4. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

  5. No Cookie for You

  6. Cameras and Lenses

  7. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

  8. My Experience at Apple

  9. A half-hour to learn Rust

Entertainment 45 stories

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

  2. Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC

  2. Show HN: This website is valid JSON

  3. YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices

  4. Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill

  5. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

  6. Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

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