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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 6 – January 5, 2021 807 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 5 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Sanjay Gupta's prescription for fighting off dementia

The neurosurgeon, CNN commentator and author of "Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age" has long studied the brain and the onset of Alzheimer's. He talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about the recommended steps to a healthier brain, from diet and exercise to the value of sleep and soc…

CBS · 1 sources

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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 33 stories

  1. Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  2. Bitcoin is a disaster

    metzdowd.com · 1 outlets

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

    texasattorneygeneral.g · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

  4. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

    playstation.com · 1 outlets

  5. Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

    e360.yale.edu · 1 outlets

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

    rootclaim.com · 1 outlets

  7. Death of an open-source business model

    joemorrison.medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    universalhub.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.tomilkieway.com · 1 outlets

  10. MDMA-assisted couples therapy investigated in pilot trial

    newatlas.com · 1 outlets

Sports 36 stories

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

    gamesage.net · 1 outlets

  2. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

    msrc-blog.microsoft.co · 2 outlets

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  1. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

    fireeye.com · 1 outlets

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

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  3. I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

    i3wm.org · 1 outlets

  4. Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

    hanselman.com · 1 outlets

  5. Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed

    borncity.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed

    bugs.chromium.org · 1 outlets

Technology 617 stories

  1. Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App

    github.com · 4 outlets

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

    thebigtech.substack.co · 4 outlets

  3. SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]

    youtube.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  2. A new release for GNU Octave

    lwn.net · 1 outlets

  3. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

    blog.youtube · 2 outlets

  4. Slack is down

    status.slack.com · 1 outlets

  5. No Cookie for You

    github.blog · 1 outlets

  6. Cameras and Lenses

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  7. Who Americans spend their time with, by age

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  8. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

    ftc.gov · 1 outlets

  9. We can have democracy or we can have Facebook

    theverge.com · 4 outlets

Entertainment 45 stories

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

    tallahassee.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes

    read.cv · 7 outlets

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

    petapixel.com · 1 outlets

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

    psxparty.kosmi.io · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: This website is valid JSON

    webdatarender.com · 1 outlets

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

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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

    commondreams.org · 1 outlets

  6. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

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