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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

    George Orwell is out of copyright. What happens now?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 30 stories

  1. Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  2. GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

    jayfax.neocities.org · 1 outlets

  3. Bitcoin is a disaster

    metzdowd.com · 1 outlets

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

    texasattorneygeneral.g · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. Simple Bank Is Closing

    oregonlive.com · 1 outlets

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

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

    playstation.com · 1 outlets

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

    rootclaim.com · 1 outlets

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

    universalhub.com · 1 outlets

  9. Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Bitcoin breaks above $20k

    nasdaq.com · 1 outlets

Sports 37 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

Show 6 more

  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 625 stories

  1. Apple Removes Parler from App Store

    github.com · 13 outlets

  2. Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page

    thebigtech.substack.co · 6 outlets

  3. Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

    asahilinux.org · 6 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  2. A new release for GNU Octave

    lwn.net · 1 outlets

  3. DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

    justice.gov · 2 outlets

  4. Slack is down

    status.slack.com · 1 outlets

  5. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

    buzzfeednews.com · 2 outlets

  6. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. No Cookie for You

    github.blog · 1 outlets

  8. Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

    arstechnica.com · 4 outlets

  9. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

    read.cv · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads

    petapixel.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    psxparty.kosmi.io · 1 outlets

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

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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

    commondreams.org · 1 outlets

  4. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

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

    tillis.senate.gov · 1 outlets

  6. 1937 film explains how a car differential works

    roadandtrack.com · 1 outlets

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