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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 25 – July 25, 2019 836 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 206 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How to Make Apple’s Mac Pro Holes

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Owl – OCaml Scientific Computing

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

  2. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

  3. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

  4. Florida DMV sells personal info to private companies, marketing firms

Show 10 more
  1. Grubhub is using fake websites to drive up commission fees from real businesses

  2. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

  3. GitLab – A $1B business where all employees work remotely

  4. GDPR Enforcement Tracker: List of GDPR fines

  5. I bootstrapped my private-journaling project into a lifestyle business

  6. Ubisoft joins Blender Development Fund to support open-source animation

  7. Exploring alternative funding models for the web

  8. 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

  9. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

  10. Toilets of the World

Sports 45 stories

  1. YouTube bans content “showing users how to bypass secure computer systems”

  2. Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly?

Show 6 more
  1. I Can’t Stop Winning

  2. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

  3. A video game community filled my nephew's final days with joy

  4. Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

  5. Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944–2019), 4.66920160910299067185320382…

  6. IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B

Technology 618 stories

  1. On Jony Ive Leaving Apple

  2. How to Enable DNS-over-HTTPS in Firefox

  3. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

Show 9 more
  1. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

  2. Chinese authorities install app on phones of people entering Xinjiang

  3. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

  4. GitHub is down

  5. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

  6. YouTube's ban on “hacking techniques” threatens to shut down infosec YouTube

  7. Apple has pushed a silent Mac update to remove hidden Zoom web server

  8. Choose Boring Technology

  9. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

  2. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Web pages stored entirely in the URL

  2. Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners

  3. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

  4. Public Domain Movies

  5. Show HN: Listmonk – Fast self-hosted newsletter and mailing list manager

  6. Show HN: Vector – A High-Performance Log and Metric Router Written in Rust

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