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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 12 – July 12, 2013 836 stories · Vol. 13 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 193 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

reuters.com · 2 sources

Also covering this thehill.comEcuador cancels US trade deal & donates $23MM to US for "human rights education"
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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What It's Like to Get a National-Security Letter

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Reader Apocalypse Extremely Fucking Nigh

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Dear Mozilla, stop watching me

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Ecuador offers U.S. rights aid, waives trade benefits

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  2. Malibu homeowners foiled by $30K Kickstarter campaign

    sub.garrytan.com · 1 outlets

  3. Feds, We Need Some Time Apart

    defcon.org · 1 outlets

  4. Before Prosecuting, Investigate the Government

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. DecryptoCat

    tobtu.com · 1 outlets

  2. Bank robbery suspect wants NSA phone records for his defense

    sun-sentinel.com · 1 outlets

  3. My Startup has 30 Days to Live

    mystartuphas30daystoli · 1 outlets

  4. Startup Investing Trends

    paulgraham.com · 1 outlets

  5. Bitcoin Foundation's Response to California Cease & Desist

    forbes.com · 2 outlets

  6. In the 1970s, Congress investigated intelligence abuses. Time to do it again?

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  7. Anatomy of a pseudorandom number generator – visualising Cryptocat's buggy PRNG

    nakedsecurity.sophos.c · 1 outlets

  8. Cryptography is a science, not engineering

    daemonology.net · 1 outlets

  9. Armchair air crash investigator

    momav.me · 1 outlets

  10. Anonymous Person Posts $500,000 Bond To Free Texas Teen

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Sports 21 stories

  1. “A Dark Room” game open-sourced

    adarkroom.doublespeakg · 2 outlets

  2. Human-Powered Helicopter Wins the $250,000 Sikorsky Prize

    popularmechanics.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Newly disclosed papers give rules for NSA surveillance without a warrant

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tesla wins in North Carolina, paves the way for direct-to-consumer sales

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  3. Dirty Game Development Tricks

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

  4. Automating Card Games Using OpenCV and Python

    arnab.org · 1 outlets

  5. San Francisco to L.A. in 30 Mins. With Proposed New Transportation System

    news.yahoo.com · 1 outlets

  6. Texas teen makes violent joke during video game, is jailed

    dailycaller.com · 1 outlets

Technology 600 stories

  1. Venezuela offers asylum to Snowden

    reuters.com · 38 outlets

  2. DuckDuckGo launches Search & Stories app

    venturebeat.com · 4 outlets

  3. Secret to Prism program: Even bigger data seizure

    washingtonpost.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. NSA admits listening to U.S. phone calls without warrants

    news.cnet.com · 2 outlets

  2. NSA surveillance may be legal – but it’s unconstitutional

    restorethefourth.net · 4 outlets

  3. This is a web page

    justinjackson.ca · 1 outlets

  4. “Why did you shoot me? I was reading a book”

    salon.com · 1 outlets

  5. A few words on Doug Engelbart

    ietf.org · 2 outlets

  6. Introducing Project Loon: Balloon-powered Internet access

    google.com · 2 outlets

  7. Hospital creates bidding war by posting pricing online

    kfor.com · 1 outlets

  8. Ultimate Tic Tac Toe

    mathwithbaddrawings.co · 1 outlets

  9. Bruce Schneier joins EFF Board of Directors

    eff.org · 2 outlets

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. Retro Gaming with Raspberry Pi

    madebynathan.com · 2 outlets

  2. Thorium nuclear reactor trial begins in Norway

    extremetech.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. New leak shows NSA harvests To, From, and Bcc lines of e-mail data

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. "Microsoft engineer" on Xbox1

    pastebin.com · 1 outlets

  3. Music to Let you Concentrate

    focusatwill.com · 1 outlets

  4. Refactoring GitHub's Design

    ianstormtaylor.com · 1 outlets

  5. EFF: Show Support for the Fourth Amendment

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  6. PlayStation 4 runs modified FreeBSD 9.0

    vgleaks.com · 1 outlets

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