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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 10 – May 10, 2019 828 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 130 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

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

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Tech Companies Are Deleting Evidence of War Crimes

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Amazon S3 will no longer support path-style API requests

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 57 stories

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

  2. We got banned from PayPal after 12 years of business

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Housing Can’t Be Both Affordable and a Good Investment (2018)

  2. Guardian records first operating profit since 1998

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

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

  5. Golden: Mapping human knowledge

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

  7. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

  8. Amazon Quits China Market

  9. Ford CEO says the company 'overestimated' self-driving cars

  10. Facebook's Email-Harvesting Practice Is Under Investigation in N.Y.

Sports 31 stories

  1. Shipping a Linux Kernel with Windows

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

Show 6 more
  1. Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease

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

  3. Windows gets a new terminal

  4. Tenants win right to physical keys over smart locks from landlords

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

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

Technology 622 stories

  1. Phone and laptop searches at US border 'quadruple'

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

  3. Apple: Rotate tracking IDs on iPhone each month

Show 9 more
  1. I Sell Onions on the Internet

  2. Julian Assange arrested in London

  3. A Conspiracy to Kill IE6

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

  5. Google Is Eating Our Mail

  6. Joe Armstrong has died

  7. I made a smart watch from scratch

  8. All extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert

  9. We Don't Have a Talent Shortage. We Have a Sucker Shortage

Entertainment 36 stories

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

  2. Show HN: EdgeDB – Next generation database

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: CSSFX – Click-to-copy CSS effects

  2. Show HN: Tree of Reddit Sex Life

  3. Python at Netflix

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

  5. Show HN: ZFS Implementation in Python

  6. Show HN: Nextjournal – seamless data science for teams

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