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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 27 – April 26, 2017 819 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 116 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

"Easy fix" to curb dangers of containers holding flammable fuel?

A proposed bill in Congress aims to cut the number of Americans burned in so-called “flame jetting” incidents

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Shutting down public FTP services

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Analysis of the United Airlines passenger removal incident

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Interesting data structures: the BK-tree

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. What Happens When You Send a Zero-Day to a Bank?

    privacylog.blogspot.co · 1 outlets

  2. Twitter Sues Federal Government

    usafacts.org · 2 outlets

  3. Tesla Passes Ford by Market Value

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Bank of America Gave Away My Money

    soraven.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Uber CEO Plays with Fire

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Westinghouse Files for Bankruptcy, in Blow to Nuclear Power

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. ZeroNet – Uncensorable websites using Bitcoin crypto and BitTorrent network

    zeronet.io · 1 outlets

  4. Banks scramble to fix old systems as IT 'cowboys' ride into sunset

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Nginx reaches 33.3% web server market share while Apache falls below 50%

    w3techs.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why I will not exercise my GitLab stock options

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  7. Open Source License Business Perception Report

    writing.kemitchell.com · 1 outlets

  8. Jeff Bezos Is Selling $1B a Year in Amazon Stock to Finance Race to Space

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  9. Uber must turn over information about its acquisition of Otto to Waymo

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. Dropbox Secures $600M Credit Line Ahead of Expected IPO

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Sports 36 stories

  1. Tim Berners-Lee wins Turing Award

    news.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Twitter refuses US order to disclose owner of anti-Trump account

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

    insights.ubuntu.com · 1 outlets

  2. Autodraw – Fast Drawing for Everyone

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  3. Stanford Professor Loses Political Battle To Simplify Tax Filing Process

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  4. Testing the Windows Subsystem for Linux

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  5. The U.S. wind industry now employs more than 100K people

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  6. Vanguard Is Growing Faster Than Everybody Else Combined

    mobile.nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 607 stories

  1. Alphabet's Self-Driving Cars to Get Their First Real Riders

    bloomberg.com · 3 outlets

  2. A response to “An experienced JavaScript dev’s account of learning React”

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  3. SpaceX set to launch ‘used rocket’

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

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  1. VPNs are not the solution to a policy problem

    journal.standardnotes. · 2 outlets

  2. Electron is flash for the desktop (2016)

    josephg.com · 1 outlets

  3. We’re dropping Google Ads

    groundup.org.za · 1 outlets

  4. Lyrebird – An API to copy the voice of anyone

    lyrebird.ai · 1 outlets

  5. Build Your Own Text Editor

    viewsourcecode.org · 2 outlets

  6. How We Built r/Place

    redditblog.com · 1 outlets

  7. Steve Ballmer serves up a data trove about government spending in the US

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  8. A Competitive Programmer's Handbook

    cses.fi · 1 outlets

  9. SES-10 Mission

    spacex.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Show HN: Kite, copilot for programmers, available for Python

    kite.com · 2 outlets

  2. Netflix expected to spend over $6B on original and acquired programming in 2017

    business-standard.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Farmers look for ways to circumvent tractor software locks

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: React-data sheet, Excel-like spreadsheet component

    nadbm.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Zuck.js, a JavaScript library that lets you add Stories everywhere

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. CEO of ThinkPenguin, Inc arrested for filming police

    trisquel.info · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Is It Snappy? – Measure latency with your iPhone's 240 Hz camera

    isitsnappy.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Audioshop – Audio image editing

    github.com · 1 outlets

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