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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 7 – February 6, 2018 827 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 37 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Ending Bitcoin Support

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What does code readability mean?

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Xi: an editor for the next 20 years [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Reverse-engineering FPGAs [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 62 stories

  1. Ending Bitcoin Support

  2. Researchers find that one person likely drove Bitcoin from $150 to $1,000

  3. Facebook is banning all ads promoting cryptocurrencies

  4. AMD Returns to Full-Year Profitability, Forecasts Strong 2018

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  1. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

  2. Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

  3. Intel CEO’s Stock Sales May Warrant SEC Examination

  4. Fed Up with Drug Companies, Hospitals Decide to Start Their Own

  5. Senator asks FBI director to name the cryptographers who support backdoors

  6. Commission fines Qualcomm €997 million for abuse of dominant market position

  7. Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange hacked, losing $530M: NHK

  8. US startups don’t want to go public anymore

  9. How a Startup from Krakow Got Mentioned in “The Art of Computer Programming”

  10. Stellar Protocol: A Federated Model for Internet-Level Consensus (2016) [pdf]

Sports 34 stories

  1. The growing body of evidence that digital distraction is damaging our minds

  2. Wine 3.0 Released

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  1. Plunging costs make solar, wind and battery storage cheaper than coal

  2. Learn to Code Ethereum DApps by Building Your Own Game

  3. BitConnect Closes Exchange as States Warn of Unregulated Sales

  4. Once seniors are too old to drive, our transportation system fails them

  5. Godot 3.0 game engine released

  6. Website Glitch Let Me Overstock My Coinbase

Technology 611 stories

  1. What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

  2. MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

  3. It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

Show 9 more
  1. California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

  2. Linus Torvalds: “Somebody is pushing complete garbage for unclear reasons.”

  3. Google Memory Loss

  4. Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

  5. Montana becomes first state to implement net neutrality after FCC repeal

  6. Ursula Le Guin has died

  7. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

  8. Aaron, 5 years later

  9. Red Hat to Acquire CoreOS

Entertainment 29 stories

  1. Firefox’s new streaming and tiering compiler

  2. Show HN: Observable Notebooks

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Find a co-hacker for your project

  2. Finding a CPU Design Bug in the Xbox 360

  3. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

  4. The Follower Factory

  5. Harvard Study Shows Why Big Telecom Is Terrified of Community-Run Broadband

  6. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

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