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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 25 – December 25, 2018 814 stories · Vol. 18 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 359 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Second Canadian 'missing' in China

    9 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Machine Learning for .NET

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 52 stories

  1. Firefox desktop market share now below 9%

  2. Questions to Ask Before Joining a Startup

  3. AI Mistakes Bus-Side Ad for Famous CEO, Charges Her With Jaywalking

  4. Scammers are changing the contact details for banks on Google Maps

Show 10 more
  1. Lyft Files for IPO

  2. Changes to U.S. federal authorities relating to production and marketing of hemp

  3. Companies use smartphone locations to help advertisers and even hedge funds

  4. Internal Tensions at Facebook Are Boiling Over

  5. The Internet of Unprofitable Things

  6. China’s Economy Slows Sharply

  7. How the 0.001% invest

  8. Richard Stallman: We Can Do Better Than Bitcoin

  9. Malaysia seeks $7.5B in reparations from Goldman Sachs

  10. Man sues feds after being detained for refusing to unlock his phone at airport

Sports 35 stories

  1. We are Google employees – Google must drop Dragonfly

  2. Sandspiel – A falling sand game built in Rust and WebGL

Show 6 more
  1. Microsoft is building a Chromium browser to replace Edge on Windows 10

  2. Slack closes account of an Iranian user living in Canada

  3. Announcing Open Source of WPF, Windows Forms, and WinUI

  4. Windows Sandbox

  5. Magnus Carlsen Beats Fabiano Caruana to Win World Chess Championship

  6. Windows Server 2019 Includes OpenSSH

Technology 613 stories

  1. Neural Ordinary Differential Equations

  2. Johnson & Johnson knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder

  3. AWS Transfer for SFTP – Fully Managed SFTP Service for Amazon S3

Show 9 more
  1. The Friendship That Made Google Huge

  2. Second Canadian 'missing' in China

  3. Bye Bye Mongo, Hello Postgres

  4. Quora User Data Compromised

  5. Goodbye, EdgeHTML

  6. Congress votes to make open government data the default in the United States

  7. Canada has arrested Huawei’s global chief financial officer in Vancouver

  8. Google transferred ownership of Duck.com to DuckDuckGo

  9. Backdoor in event-stream library dependency

Entertainment 24 stories

  1. Show HN: Fully-automatic image background removal tool

  2. Show HN: Visalist – Find visa requirements for countries around the world

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: An open-source collaborative whiteboard

  2. Netflix Pulls the Plug on Feature Designed to Get Kids Addicted to Netflix

  3. Tracking leaks on NDA beta Xbox 360s by embedding serial number on-screen

  4. Show HN: A new spline

  5. Show HN: Analysis of 2018 Hacker News “Who Is Hiring” Job Posts

  6. Facebook gave Spotify and Netflix access to users’ private messages

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