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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 19 – April 18, 2018 813 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 108 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

threadreaderapp.com · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook’s Surveillance Machine

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    UN: Facebook has turned into a beast in Myanmar

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. I almost lost my hearing from the lid on the tank of a toilet

    threadreaderapp.com · 1 outlets

  2. Non-profit’s $300 hepatitis C cure as effective as $84k alternative

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  3. Publishers Haven't Realized How Big a Deal GDPR Is

    baekdal.com · 1 outlets

  4. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

    sapiens.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

    theregister.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Facebook CEO says no plans to extend all of GDPR globally

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  3. Rent out GPUs to AI researchers and make ~2x more than mining cryptocurrencies

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  4. Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Goldman Sachs questions whether curing patients is a sustainable business model

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  6. Facebook Sued by Investors Over Voter-Profile Harvesting

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  7. Birds can see Earth's magnetic fields because of cryptochromes in their eyes

    sciencealert.com · 1 outlets

  8. SpaceX's Valuation Climbs to $25B with New Funding Round

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Cryptographic Right Answers

    latacora.singles · 1 outlets

  10. Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

    donorschoose.org · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  2. The End of Windows

    stratechery.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Epic Games releases $12M worth of Paragon assets for free

    unrealengine.com · 1 outlets

  2. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

    blog.frizk.net · 1 outlets

  3. Will MySpace ever lose its monopoly? (2007)

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  4. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

    openbazaar.org · 1 outlets

  5. Hennessy and Patterson win Turing Award

    acm.org · 1 outlets

  6. We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

    ben-evans.com · 1 outlets

Technology 573 stories

  1. How Facebook handles account deletions

    nytimes.com · 21 outlets

  2. Before cancer kills, it cheats

    chicagotribune.com · 10 outlets

  3. Towards a world without Facebook

    arstechnica.com · 8 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Mark Zuckerberg testifies before Congress

    theguardian.com · 7 outlets

  2. Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

    nbcbayarea.com · 2 outlets

  3. 1.1.1.1: Fast, privacy-first consumer DNS service

    blog.cloudflare.com · 2 outlets

  4. Congrats Dropbox

    blog.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  5. It's time to head back to RSS?

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  6. Elon Musk Deletes Own, SpaceX and Tesla Facebook Pages After #deletefacebook

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  7. Sex Workers Say Porn on Google Drive Is Suddenly Disappearing

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  8. Apple Plans to Use Its Own Chips in Macs from 2020, Replacing Intel

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  9. Facebook Container for Firefox

    mozilla.org · 2 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Krita 4.0 – A painting app for cartoonists, illustrators, and concept artists

    krita.org · 1 outlets

  2. My Sony "smart" TV has updated itself and tried to force me to use a new app

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

    plus.google.com · 1 outlets

  2. Logs in High Sierra Show Plaintext Password for APFS Encrypted External Volumes

    mac4n6.com · 1 outlets

  3. Netflix FlameScope

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a Chrome extension to reveal zero-width characters

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: A site that makes Spotify playlists of bands coming to town

    nextweeksplaylist.com · 2 outlets

  6. Apple is making a show based on Isaac Asimov’s ‘Foundation’ books

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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