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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 14 – June 21, 2019 182 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 172 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

Business 13 stories

  1. Facebook reveals its cryptocurrency Libra

  2. Google Maps is filled with false business addresses pretending to be nearby

  3. Why Monzo's bank transfers weren't working on the 30th of May

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  1. Google refunded $200 because I missed 5 lines of Code

  2. Gryphon: An open-source framework for algorithmic trading in cryptocurrency

  3. Canada becomes first G20 country to ban trade in shark fins

  4. Researchers use Rowhammer bit flips to steal 2048-bit crypto key

Sports 7 stories

  1. Firefox zero-day was used in attack against Coinbase employees, not its users

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  1. Soviet Arcade Games from the 70s and 80s

  2. Record Number of Honeybee Colonies Died Last Winter

  3. The Future of Docker Desktop for Windows

Technology 142 stories

  1. Mazda is purging touchscreens from its vehicles

  2. Facebook moderators break NDAs to expose working conditions

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  1. Relearn CSS layout

  2. Things I learnt the hard way in thirty years of software development

  3. Apollo 11 in Real Time

  4. Comparing the Same Project in Rust, Haskell, C++, Python, Scala and OCaml

  5. A janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos (2017)

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Show HN: Enviro+ for Raspberry Pi – Environmental sensors

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  1. Show HN: Slim – Build and run tiny VMs from Dockerfiles

  2. The CIA Spied on People Through Their Smart TVs, Leaked Documents Reveal (2017)

  3. Show HN: Openring, a free and decentralized network of blogs

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