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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 19 – May 19, 2021 810 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 139 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

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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

    Umami – An alternative to Google Analytics

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Cisco says computer chip shortage to last six months

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

  2. My Current HTML Boilerplate

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

  4. Nvidia cripples cryptocurrency mining on RTX 3080 and 3070 cards

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

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

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

  4. CEO behind Japan’s best-performing stock says his secret is raising salaries

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

  6. Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

  7. Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

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

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

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

Sports 30 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

  2. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

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

  2. Terms and Conditions Game

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

  4. How Tech Loses Out

  5. Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

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

Technology 609 stories

  1. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

  2. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

  3. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

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  1. Internal Combustion Engine

  2. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

  3. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

  4. Merge tag 'arm-Apple-M1-5.13' of Linux

  5. Why Lichess will always be free

  6. Dan Kaminsky has died

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

  8. Why People Feel Like Victims

  9. The Animal Is Tired

Entertainment 45 stories

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

  2. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

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

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

  3. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

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

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

  6. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

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