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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 2 – June 9, 2021 190 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 160 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Why we should end the data economy

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Business 12 stories

  1. Why we should end the data economy

  2. El Salvador to adopt Bitcoin as legal tender

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

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  1. DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

  2. Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

  3. Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’

  4. All controversial trades by Senators in the 2020 Congressional insider trading

Sports 4 stories

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

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

  2. Malloc broke Serenity's JPGLoader, or: how to win the lottery

  3. If Not Overturned, Bad Copyright Decision Will Lead Many to Lose Internet Access

Technology 160 stories

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

  2. An Unbelievable Demo

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  1. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

  2. There are no results for tank man

  3. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

  4. The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

  5. What the Fastly outage can teach us about writing error messages

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

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  1. Show HN: Open-source alternative to Retool, Internal.io, etc.

  2. Study shows how taking short breaks may help our brains learn new skills

  3. Language learning with Netflix

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