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The month's top story

Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

medium.com · 2 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Sports

    Make Linux look like Windows 95

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. Amazon sent the FBI to take my family’s bank accounts

    medium.com · 2 outlets

  2. Feds arrest couple, seize $3.6B in hacked Bitcoin funds

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  3. Soybean oil affects hypothalamus, causes genetic changes in mice: study (2020)

    universityofcalifornia · 1 outlets

  4. Meta shares drop 20% on Q4 earnings miss, weak outlook

    nasdaq.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Building an iPod for 2022

    ellie.wtf · 1 outlets

  2. GDPR enforcer rules that IAB Europe’s consent popups are unlawful

    iccl.ie · 1 outlets

  3. SoftBank's Sale of Arm to Nvidia Collapses, Arm to IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. '50% of transactions were fraudulent' when Steam accepted Bitcoin for payments

    pcgamer.com · 1 outlets

  5. I have never read a business plan or balance sheet

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. J&J tried to get federal judge to block publication of Reuters story

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  7. What to know about the stock market (2007)

    betterexplained.com · 1 outlets

  8. GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

    rewis.io · 1 outlets

  9. Delta CEO wants U.S. to put unruly passengers on 'no-fly' list

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Can a $310M startup avoid due diligence?

    svgossip.substack.com · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. Facebook loses users for the first time

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Did I just lose half a million dollars?

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. New atomic clock loses only one second every 300B years

    blockworks.co · 2 outlets

  2. The cats sitting on a fence in early builds of Windows 8

    devblogs.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

  3. Growing a mango tree from seed – one year time lapse [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  4. Coinbase CEO tweets how they came up with Super Bowl ad, lied about it

    web3isgoinggreat.com · 1 outlets

  5. Make Linux look like Windows 95

    lunduke.substack.com · 3 outlets

  6. Ukraine Conflict Live Map

    liveuamap.com · 1 outlets

Technology 586 stories

  1. Google critiqued the practice of displaying ads above search results

    dkb.io · 2 outlets

  2. Chernobyl power plant captured by Russian forces

    reuters.com · 4 outlets

  3. How IKEA tricks you into buying more stuff

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Happy 15th birthday Hacker News

    news.ycombinator.com · 3 outlets

  2. Google Tag Manager, the new anti-adblock weapon (2020)

    chromium.woolyss.com · 1 outlets

  3. The EARN IT act is back, and it’s more dangerous than ever

    cyberlaw.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Lorinda Cherry, author of dc, bc, eqn has died

    ncwit.org · 1 outlets

  5. Things you notice when you quit the news (2016)

    raptitude.com · 1 outlets

  6. City Generator

    watabou.github.io · 1 outlets

  7. Use of Google Analytics declared illegal by French data protection authority

    cnil.fr · 1 outlets

  8. Major breakthrough on nuclear fusion energy

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  9. Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials

    them.us · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: SHA-256 explained step-by-step visually

    sha256algorithm.com · 1 outlets

  2. The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

    askamanager.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: EdgeDB 1.0

    edgedb.com · 1 outlets

  2. Normalized crash data shows Autopilot is much less safe than Tesla claims

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. France to Build Six New Nuclear Reactors

    politico.eu · 2 outlets

  4. Show HN: Shortwave: Enjoy Your Inbox

    0xf00ff00f.github.io · 5 outlets

  5. Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire

    fahrrad-tools.de · 1 outlets

  6. White hat hacker awarded $2M for fixing ETH-creation bug

    cryptoadventure.com · 1 outlets

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