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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close January 9 – February 8, 2018 842 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 06 · Issue 39 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

    Meltdown Update Kernel doesnt boot

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Teenagers Are Learning from Online Porn

    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

Show 10 more
  1. U.S. Regulators to Subpoena Crypto Exchange Bitfinex, Tether

  2. Dropbox Files Confidentially for U.S. IPO

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  10. 219 days of postmarketOS

Sports 36 stories

  1. Wine 3.0 Released

  2. Designing Windows 95’s User Interface

Show 6 more
  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. Growing from 0 to 4M users on our fashion app with vertical machine learning

Technology 613 stories

  1. Falcon Heavy core booster lost at sea

  2. What’s So Dangerous About Jordan Peterson?

  3. MIT 6.S094: Deep Learning

Show 9 more
  1. It is possible to detect and block Chrome headless

  2. California has the highest poverty rate in the USA

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

  4. John Perry Barlow has died

  5. Google Memory Loss

  6. Mozilla Files Suit Against FCC to Protect Net Neutrality

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

  8. Ursula Le Guin has died

  9. Amazon, Berkshire, JPMorgan to Create Healthcare Company

Entertainment 32 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. Yuzu – Nintendo Switch Emulator

  3. The Follower Factory

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

  5. Perspective: Streaming pivot visualization via WebAssembly

  6. Netflix is now worth more than $100B

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