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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 20 – April 19, 2021 790 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 109 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Medal of Honor recipient, and the battle that stays forever

Combat Outpost Keating was a remote U.S. Army position in Afghanistan that attracted a Taliban attack nearly seven years ago. The medal that one of its defenders received for his actions that day still weighs heavily on Sgt. Clint Romesha, as David Martin now tells us.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Suez canal blocked by a massive ship

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Rust in the Android Platform

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Man billed $1.7 million by government for life-saving burn treatment

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 44 stories

  1. Signal Adds Cryptocurrency Support

    wired.com · 2 outlets

  2. The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

    anthonynsimon.com · 2 outlets

  3. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

    unusualwhales.com · 1 outlets

  4. LG is getting out of the mobile phone business

    axios.com · 1 outlets

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  1. In Stockholm there's currently an IT battle underway

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. EU experts to say nuclear power qualifies for green investment label: document

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. Fed up with the Mac, I spent six months with a Linux laptop

    cfenollosa.com · 1 outlets

  4. My startup failed, then I found out I was unemployable

    davesullivan.is · 1 outlets

  5. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

    digesttime.com · 1 outlets

  6. SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme

    sfgate.com · 1 outlets

  7. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

    nysfocus.com · 1 outlets

  8. Bitcoin is a ‘boon for surveillance’, says former CIA director

    decrypt.co · 1 outlets

  9. Evaluating Modest SaaS Business Ideas

    greaterdanorequalto.co · 1 outlets

  10. PayPal launches crypto checkout service

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 28 stories

  1. Coinbase from YC to DPO

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Windows 95 – How Does It Look Today?

    dmitryelj.medium.com · 1 outlets

  2. 0 A.D A free, open-source game of ancient warfare

    play0ad.com · 1 outlets

  3. Inflammation, but Not Telomere Length, Predicts Ageing at Extreme Old Age

    pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.go · 1 outlets

  4. Matrix multiplication inches closer to mythic goal

    quantamagazine.org · 1 outlets

  5. The Story of the SolarWinds Hack

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  6. An ancient method that keeps Afghanistan's grapes fresh all winter

    atlasobscura.com · 1 outlets

Technology 591 stories

  1. Clubhouse data leak: 1.3M user records leaked online for free

    businessinsider.com · 6 outlets

  2. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

  3. OpenBSD Adds Support for Coordinated Mars Time (MTC)

    marc.info · 1 outlets

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  1. Google’s copying of the Java SE API was fair use [pdf]

    supremecourt.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Whistleblower: Ubiquiti Breach “Catastrophic”

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  3. Just Be Rich

    keenen.xyz · 1 outlets

  4. uBlock Origin works best on Firefox

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Microsoft Coffee

    microsoftcoffee.org · 1 outlets

  6. Is that ship still stuck?

    istheshipstillstuck.co · 2 outlets

  7. All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk

    brianschrader.com · 1 outlets

  8. Moderna mRNA sequence released to GitHub [pdf]

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. Thanks for the Bonus, I Quit

    madned.substack.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

    lofi.cafe · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I wrote a book about Go

    practical-go-lessons.c · 2 outlets

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  1. Latest EmDrive tests at Dresden University shows it does not develop any thrust

    grenzwissenschaft-aktu · 1 outlets

  2. 'Do Not Split': A Hong Kong protest film [video]

    fieldofvision.org · 1 outlets

  3. Turing Award goes to Aho and Ullman

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

    mvanga.com · 1 outlets

  5. Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: My personal website is a shell

    aava.sh · 3 outlets

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