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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 5 – August 4, 2015 824 stories · Vol. 15 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 216 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

blog.mozilla.org · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Hacking Team and a case of BGP hijacking

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Why Deep Learning Works II: the Renormalization Group

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Business

    China's stock market crash: A red flag

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Open Letter to Microsoft’s CEO: Don’t Roll Back the Clock on Choice and Control

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  2. 1.5 TB of Dark Net Market scrapes

    gwern.net · 1 outlets

  3. Is Kickstarter covering up a scam? An open letter to CEO Yancey Strickler

    joanielemercier.com · 1 outlets

  4. DigitalOcean Raises $83M in Series B Funding

    digitalocean.com · 2 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Wealthfront: Silicon Valley Tech at Wall Street Prices

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  2. Landlords are trying not to rent to startups in San Francisco

    42floors.com · 1 outlets

  3. Banks Forgot Who Was Supposed to Own Dell Shares

    bloombergview.com · 1 outlets

  4. Microsoft Now OpenBSD Foundation Gold Contributor

    undeadly.org · 1 outlets

  5. Amazon Web Services revenue rises 81% year over year

    blogs.wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. A LinkedIn Hack That Led to a $120k Investment

    thehustle.co · 1 outlets

  7. ‘Sea Slaves’: The human misery that feeds pets and livestock

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. ‘Flash Boys’ Programmer in Goldman Case Prevails Second Time

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. China stocks drop over 8%

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. How putting $10M into UBeam illustrates what is wrong with tech investing (2014)

    lookatmeimdanny.tumblr · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. I noticed some disturbing privacy defaults in Windows 10

    jonathan.porta.codes · 1 outlets

  2. Newegg vs. Patent Trolls: When We Win, You Win

    blog.newegg.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Twitter Contest Winning as a Service

    hscott.net · 1 outlets

  2. How Instagram closed my account and gave it to a football celebrity

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  3. Windows 10 Free Upgrade Available in 190 Countries Today

    blogs.windows.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Apple Influenced The Labels To Shut Down My Music Streaming Startup

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. How to create NBA shot charts in Python

    savvastjortjoglou.com · 1 outlets

  6. More Dirty Coding Tricks from Game Developers (2010)

    gamasutra.com · 1 outlets

Technology 637 stories

  1. Google+ Photos Is Shutting Down

    chillingeffects.org · 3 outlets

  2. YC Fellowship

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  3. Web Design: The First 100 Years (2014)

    idlewords.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Firefox makes click-to-activate Flash the default

    support.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  2. Grooveshark co-founder, 28, found dead in home

    gainesville.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ellen Pao Is Stepping Down as Reddit’s Chief

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  4. NASA’s Kepler Mission Discovers Bigger, Older Cousin to Earth

    nasa.gov · 1 outlets

  5. The Web We Have to Save

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  6. 7 Rejections

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  7. Google Hires Tech Team from Homejoy, Readies Leap into Home Services

    plus.google.com · 2 outlets

  8. Ex-Googler says she exposed company-wide pay inequality with spreadsheet

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. Hackers Remotely Attack a Jeep on the Highway

    wired.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Spot the Drowning Child

    spotthedrowningchild.c · 1 outlets

  2. Nintendo CEO Satoru Iwata has died [pdf]

    nintendo.co.jp · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Bocker – Docker implemented in 100 lines of bash

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Revised and much faster, run your own high-end cloud gaming service on EC2

    lg.io · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: “Who is hiring?” Map

    whoishiring.it · 1 outlets

  4. How I became an artist

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  5. New York Times' Reddit Piece Shows Dangers of Internet Journalism

    techraptor.net · 1 outlets

  6. Soloshot: Automatically film outdoor activities without a camera operator

    shop.soloshot.com · 1 outlets

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