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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close October 21 – October 28, 2021 196 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 301 Get it by email ↓
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Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

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Business 12 stories

  1. Feds order Google to track people searching certain names or details

  2. Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks

  3. Bitcoin is largely controlled by a small group of investors and miners

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  1. A Prototype Original iPod

  2. EBCDIC is incompatible with GDPR

  3. Flexport CEO on how to fix the US supply chain crisis

  4. Apple's M1 Pro, M1 Max SoCs Investigated

Sports 5 stories

  1. How Microsoft reduced Windows 11 update size by 40%

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  1. Show HN: Coding Font – A game to find your favorite coding font

  2. Proton wins appeal in Swiss court over surveillance laws

  3. Windows 11 Pro: about 11% slower than Linux on Intel Core i9 11900K

Technology 159 stories

  1. Rust 1.56.0 and Rust 2021

  2. Online abuse: banning anonymous social media accounts is not the answer

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  1. Google has a secret deal with FB called “Jedi Blue” that they knew was illegal

  2. Despite having just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from Linux

  3. NYT journalist hacked with Pegasus after reporting on previous hacking attempts

  4. The FBI's internal guide for getting data from AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon

  5. John Carmack pushes out unlocked OS for defunct Oculus Go headset

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: I built a website builder on top of Notion

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  1. Show HN: Low-latency jamming over the internet

  2. Show HN: CookLang – Recipe Markup Language

  3. Show HN: “HTTP 419 Never Gonna Give You Up” for bots

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