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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 22 – September 21, 2017 828 stories · Vol. 17 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 264 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's So Bad About Posix I/O?

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Cruise's 3rd generation self-driving car

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Google signs agreement with HTC

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 64 stories

  1. Google Critic Ousted from Think Tank Funded by the Tech Giant

  2. HSBC is killing my business, piece by piece 

  3. Equifax Stock Sales Are the Focus of U.S. Criminal Probe

  4. Watsi launches universal health coverage, funded by YC Research

Show 10 more
  1. How the Bitcoins Were Stolen from Mt. Gox [video]

  2. Right to Privacy a Fundamental Right, Says Indian Supreme Court

  3. How the GDPR Will Disrupt Google and Facebook

  4. Alphabet considers Lyft investment of about $1B

  5. Wall Street Banks Warn Downturn Is Coming

  6. China's Central Bank Bans ICOs

  7. The Marketing Behind MongoDB

  8. ThoughtWorks has been sold to private equity

  9. Billionaire Porn King Reinvents Himself as Japan's Startup Guru

  10. How Taser inserts itself into investigations involving its own weapons

Sports 40 stories

  1. Buffett wins $1M decade-old bet that the S&P500 would outperform hedgefunds

  2. We've failed: open access is winning and we must change our approach

Show 6 more
  1. WinBtrfs – A Windows driver for the next-generation Linux filesystem Btrfs

  2. Windy.com

  3. Equifax Suffered a Hack Almost Five Months Earlier Than the Date It Disclosed

  4. Building a working game of Tetris in Conway's Game of Life

  5. Wind Energy Is One of the Cheapest, and It's Getting Cheaper

  6. ESPN Football Analyst Walks Away, Disturbed by Brain Trauma on Field

Technology 606 stories

  1. Mathematics of Machine Learning (2016)

  2. EFF, ACLU Sue Over Warrantless Phone, Laptop Searches at U.S. Border

  3. W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns

Show 9 more
  1. Sublime Text 3.0

  2. A camera that snaps a GIF and ejects a cartridge that displays it

  3. The Equifax Hack Didn't Have to Be This Bad

  4. DuckDuckGo vs Google

  5. Facebook, You Needy Sonofabitch

  6. Delta Goes Big, Then Goes Home

  7. Facebook recruiting and Unix systems

  8. Three Years in Identity Theft Hell

  9. Cybersecurity Incident Involving Consumer Information

Entertainment 27 stories

  1. 24/192 Music Downloads Are Very Silly Indeed (2012)

  2. A Thorium-Salt Reactor Has Fired Up for the First Time in Four Decades

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Idea Generator That Uses YC as Data

  2. Show HN: Build A Personal Power Plant for $200

  3. Massive genetic study shows how humans are evolving

  4. U.S. Navy to use Xbox 360 controllers to operate periscopes aboard submarines

  5. KSQL: Open Source Streaming SQL for Apache Kafka

  6. Show HN: Moon – fast 7k Vue alternative

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