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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 18 – March 20, 2019 825 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 12 · Issue 79 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    SpaceX Crew Demo-1 Mission [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Open Source Needs Open Source Companies

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Hacker News BigQuery Dataset

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 44 stories

  1. Facebook’s Data Deals Are Under Criminal Investigation

  2. Experts cracked laptop of crypto CEO who died with $137M, but the money was gone

  3. Boeing 737 Max pilots complained to feds for months about suspected safety flaw

  4. Google Moves to Address Wage Equity, and Finds It’s Underpaying Many Men

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  1. A faster, more efficient cryptocurrency

  2. Major bank accidentally published a private package to the public NPM Registry

  3. What you need to know before you join a startup

  4. We're Entering a Golden Age of Podcasts

  5. CowToilet, a Toilet for Cows

  6. My Notes on How to Start a Startup by YC

  7. The MBA Myth and the Cult of the CEO

  8. Sam Altman: Bay Area is no longer the obvious place for startups

  9. China's e-buses dent oil demand more than electric cars do

  10. Warren Buffett sells his Oracle shares, retains $44B investment in Apple

Sports 37 stories

  1. Apple to Close Stores in Eastern District of Texas to Fight Patent Trolls

  2. Show HN: A retro video game console I've been working on in my free time

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  1. EU government websites have undisclosed adtech trackers from Google and others

  2. Facebook Loses Top Executives, Including Chris Cox

  3. Linus Torvalds on Why ARM Won't Win the Server Space

  4. Winding down my Debian involvement

  5. DTrace on Windows

  6. FastMail loses customers, faces calls to move over anti-encryption laws

Technology 628 stories

  1. Facebook Doubles Down on Misusing Your Phone Number

  2. Facebook admits 18% of Research spyware users were teens, not 5%

  3. 2.7M medical calls breached in Sweden

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  1. Firefox Send: Free encrypted file transfer service

  2. Spotify to Apple: Time to Play Fair

  3. UC terminates subscriptions with Elsevier in push for open access

  4. U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize Private Property

  5. Some Details of My Personal Infrastructure

  6. Ghidra, NSA's reverse-engineering tool

  7. Nginx to Be Acquired by F5 Networks

  8. Leukemia Has Won

  9. We Need Chrome No More

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Generative.fm – Endlessly unique ambient music

  2. Show HN: Automatically synchronize subtitles with video

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  1. Google unveils Stadia cloud gaming service

  2. Show HN: Zero – A fast, zero-configuration server for React, Node.js, Markdown

  3. Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

  4. Leaked Documents Show the U.S. Tracking Journalists Through a Secret Database

  5. Myspace lost all the music its users uploaded between 2003 and 2015

  6. 24/192 Music Downloads and why they make no sense (2012)

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