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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 16 – May 16, 2021 811 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 136 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.

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking

    7 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

    signal.org · 1 outlets

  2. My Current HTML Boilerplate

    matuzo.at · 1 outlets

  3. DarkSide ransomware gang quits after servers, Bitcoin stash seized

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue

    businessinsider.com.au · 1 outlets

  2. Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

    chrome.google.com · 1 outlets

  3. Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

    tglyn.ch · 1 outlets

  4. Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

    cnbc.com · 3 outlets

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

    digesttime.com · 1 outlets

  6. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  7. Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  8. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

    gov.uk · 1 outlets

  9. Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  10. Starting a crypto project

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

    lynalden.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    devblogs.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

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

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  3. Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Tech Loses Out

    berthub.eu · 1 outlets

  5. Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I made a sandbox game to help with financial planning

    simulator.money · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  2. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

    thewire.in · 2 outlets

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

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

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  1. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

  2. Internal Combustion Engine

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  3. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

    neowin.net · 3 outlets

  4. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

    phiresky.github.io · 2 outlets

  5. Why Lichess will always be free

    lichess.org · 1 outlets

  6. Dan Kaminsky has died

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. The Animal Is Tired

    robinhobb.com · 1 outlets

  9. Yayagram

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 48 stories

  1. YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

    newsweek.com · 2 outlets

  2. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

    signal.org · 1 outlets

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  1. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

    vitling.xyz · 1 outlets

  2. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

    nofilmschool.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I built Grafar, a visualization library

    portfolio.zxh.io · 3 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

    build.mmm.page · 3 outlets

  5. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  6. Basic Music Theory in ~200 Lines of Python

    mvanga.com · 1 outlets

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