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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 15 – December 22, 2021 174 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 356 Get it by email ↓
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Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’

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Business 6 stories

  1. Pelosi defends stock trading by lawmakers. ‘We are a free-market economy’

  2. All Bitcoin private keys are on this website

  3. Internet Archive as a default host-of-record for startups

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  1. RCE in Visual Studio Code's Remote WSL for Fun and Negative Profit

  2. Cryptocurrency scams cost owners $7.7B in 2021, driven by DeFi-based “rug pulls”

  3. Crypto wallet security as seen by security engineers

Sports 7 stories

  1. Windows 11 Officially Shuts Down Firefox’s Default Browser Workaround

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  1. Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

  2. Bottles: GUI front end to run Windows software on Linux

  3. There oughta be a WiFi Game Boy cartridge

Technology 144 stories

  1. I was part of a human subject research study without my consent

  2. Judge rejects Purdue Pharma's $4.5B opioid settlement

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  1. Stealth bomber in flight on Google Maps

  2. Open letter from the BMJ to Mark Zuckerberg

  3. Don't start with microservices – monoliths are your friend

  4. A deep dive into an NSO zero-click iMessage exploit: Remote Code Execution

  5. Mess with DNS

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. TikTok streaming software is an illegal fork of OBS

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  1. Show HN: Lisp with GC in 436 Bytes

  2. Show HN: Mum's 80th birthday present- a rotary phone from the 1970's

  3. Netflix Executive Sentenced to 30 Months for 700K Bribes, Kickbacks from Vendors

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