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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 9 – June 8, 2021 821 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 159 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

petapixel.com · 1 sources

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Apple M1 compiles Linux 30% faster than my Intel i9

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook faces ‘devastating’ EU-to-US data transfer ban

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Second-guessing the modern web (2020)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

    petapixel.com · 1 outlets

  2. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    krebsonsecurity.com · 2 outlets

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

    bleepingcomputer.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

    every.to · 1 outlets

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

    businessinsider.com.au · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Why we should end the data economy

    thereboot.com · 1 outlets

  5. Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit

    tinyprojects.dev · 1 outlets

  6. Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

    cnbc.com · 3 outlets

  7. El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

    abc.net.au · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Pesticides are killing the world's soils

    scientificamerican.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

  2. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

    lynalden.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  3. Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

    binji.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Terms and Conditions Game

    termsandconditions.gam · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Wuhan lab staff sought hospital care before Covid-19 outbreak disclosed

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

Technology 641 stories

  1. China lands rover on Mars

    bbc.com · 2 outlets

  2. Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  3. The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device

    9to5google.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

    intuitiveexplanations. · 1 outlets

  2. An Unbelievable Demo

    brendangregg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. There are no results for tank man

    bing.com · 1 outlets

  5. HTML Notepad – HTML WYSIWYG editor

    casparwre.de · 2 outlets

  6. Ethereum will use around 99.95% less energy post merge

    blog.ethereum.org · 1 outlets

  7. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

    awesomekling.github.io · 1 outlets

  8. A teenager's guide to avoiding actual work

    madned.substack.com · 1 outlets

  9. Sublime Text 4

    sublimetext.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 30 stories

  1. Apple Music Announces Spatial Audio and Lossless Audio

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  2. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

    farms.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Mmm.page – Drag and drop personal website creator

    build.mmm.page · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. TSMC looks to double down on U.S. chip factories as talks in Europe falter

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I wrote a book about UI [pdf]

    fifty.user-interface.i · 3 outlets

  5. Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

    findareddit.com · 2 outlets

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