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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 3 – May 3, 2019 844 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 123 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Cohen says he has 14 million files of "significant value"

Cohen's lawyers said their client was able to access a hard drive with information that could have "significant value" to congressional investigators

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    A gentle introduction to symbolic execution

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Moving from Heroku to Google Kubernetes Engine

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 58 stories

  1. Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product

    smartcar.com · 1 outlets

  2. Adventures of putting 16 GB of RAM in a motherboard that doesn’t support it

    downtowndougbrown.com · 1 outlets

  3. Belgian programmer solves MIT’s 20-year-old time capsule cryptographic puzzle

    csail.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  4. Startup Stock Options – Why a Good Deal Has Gone Bad

    steveblank.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Protections Against Fingerprinting and Crypto Mining in Firefox Nightly and Beta

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  2. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

    citylab.com · 1 outlets

  3. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  4. Crypto Market Roiled by New Allegations Against Tether, Bitfinex

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. Refused U.S. visa eight times, Zoom CEO is now a billionaire

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Facebook are 'morally bankrupt liars' says New Zealand's privacy commissioner

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

    golden.com · 1 outlets

  8. America's Seed Fund: Up to $1.5M for Zero Equity

    seedfund.nsf.gov · 1 outlets

  9. An Iraqi who saved Norway from oil (2009)

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  10. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 36 stories

  1. CityBound – An open source city simulation game in Rust

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Source code for Zork, Hitchhiker’s Guide, and other Infocom games

    github.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

    harvardmagazine.com · 1 outlets

  2. Making Video Games Is Not a Dream Job

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. LeBron James school that was considered an experiment is showing promise

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. A tale of how Google tried to win against Mozilla

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. When Microsoft's eBook store closes, your books disappear too

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  6. Utah Bans Police from Searching Digital Data Without a Warrant, Closes Loophole

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

Technology 623 stories

  1. TurboTax and H&R Block Saw Free Tax Filing as a Threat

    propublica.org · 2 outlets

  2. A private spacecraft from Israel will attempt a moon landing Thursday

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  3. Developer Survey Results 2019

    stackoverflow.blog · 2 outlets

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  1. Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

    foundation.mozilla.org · 2 outlets

  2. I Sell Onions on the Internet

    deepsouthventures.com · 2 outlets

  3. Julian Assange arrested in London

    bbc.co.uk · 3 outlets

  4. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

    blog.chriszacharias.co · 1 outlets

  5. Why was it so hard to take a picture of a black hole?

    youtube.com · 3 outlets

  6. Google Is Eating Our Mail

    tablix.org · 1 outlets

  7. Joe Armstrong has died

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. I made a smart watch from scratch

    m.imgur.com · 2 outlets

  9. Public Sans – A strong, neutral typeface for text or display

    public-sans.digital.go · 1 outlets

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: Lorem Picsum – Lorem Ipsum but for photos

    picsum.photos · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: EdgeDB – Next generation database

    1mb.site · 2 outlets

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  1. Show HN: I made a platform for journalists to “open source” their fact checking

    sourcedfact.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Water.css – A just-add-css collection of styles to make websites nicer

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

    observablehq.com · 1 outlets

  4. 2.7M Americans Still Get Netflix DVDs in the Mail

    edition.cnn.com · 1 outlets

  5. Python at Netflix

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  6. Facebook showed me my data is everywhere and I have absolute no control over it

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

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