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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 24 – April 23, 2018 804 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 113 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Book: Mathematics for Machine Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook Container for Firefox

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Is Facebook Really Scarier Than Google?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 54 stories

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

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

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

  4. What Did Ancient Romans Do Without Toilet Paper?

Show 10 more
  1. Whois public database is in breach of GDPR, according to European authorities

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

  3. Wall Street rethinks blockchain projects as euphoria meets reality

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

  5. ‘I Fundamentally Believe That My Time at Reddit Made the World a Worse Place’

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

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

  8. Cryptographic Right Answers

  9. Ripple fully funded every live DonorsChoose classroom project yesterday

  10. A.I. Researchers Are Making More Than $1M, Even at a Nonprofit

Sports 29 stories

  1. Google loses ‘right to be forgotten’ case

  2. The End of Windows

Show 6 more
  1. Windows 7 patch for Meltdown enabled arbitrary reads and writes in kernel memory

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

  3. OpenBazaar 2.0, powered by IPFS

  4. Renting is Throwing Money Away, Right? (2015)

  5. We might be swinging away from the newsfeed

  6. Kim Dotcom wins battle in ongoing fight against U.S. extradition

Technology 580 stories

  1. Yes, You Should Delete Facebook

  2. After Facebook scrutiny, is Google next?

  3. Arizona Government Suspends Uber's Self Driving Cars from Roads

Show 9 more
  1. Suspect in YouTube Shooting Posted Rants About the Company Online

  2. Apple open-sources FoundationDB

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

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

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

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

  7. Facebook Container for Firefox

  8. Productivity

  9. Fred's ImageMagick Scripts

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Towards Battery-Free HD Video Streaming [video]

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

Show 6 more
  1. Nintendo Switch is not USB-C compliant

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

  3. Netflix FlameScope

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

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

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

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