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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 26 – July 26, 2019 832 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 207 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

openai.com · 1 sources

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1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    You're Worthwhile, Even When You Make Mistakes

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Owl – OCaml Scientific Computing

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  2. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

    blog.trailofbits.com · 1 outlets

  3. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

    m.dw.com · 1 outlets

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

    abcactionnews.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  2. Too Many Companies Drain Value from the Economy

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    forbes.com · 2 outlets

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

    news.ubisoft.com · 1 outlets

  5. Exploring alternative funding models for the web

    itsfoss.com · 2 outlets

  6. 150k Small Business Website Teardown 2019

    freshchalk.com · 1 outlets

  7. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

    pixelfed.org · 1 outlets

  8. Toilets of the World

    toilet-guru.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

    narratively.com · 1 outlets

  10. Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

    tpr.org · 1 outlets

Sports 44 stories

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. I Can’t Stop Winning

    blog.pinboard.in · 1 outlets

  2. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

    blender.org · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    samcurry.net · 1 outlets

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

    blog.stephenwolfram.co · 2 outlets

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

    redhat.com · 1 outlets

Technology 617 stories

  1. On Jony Ive Leaving Apple

    daringfireball.net · 5 outlets

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

    ispa.org.uk · 2 outlets

  3. User Inyerface – A worst-practice UI experiment

    userinyerface.com · 1 outlets

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  1. 7.1 magnitude earthquake strikes Southern California

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    vice.com · 2 outlets

  3. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    mishravikas.com · 5 outlets

  4. GitHub is down

    githubstatus.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    boingboing.net · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  8. Choose Boring Technology

    boringtechnology.club · 1 outlets

  9. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

    bugzilla.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

    www-math.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  2. Spotify shuts down direct music uploading for independent artists

    altpress.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    ananasanalytics.com · 2 outlets

  3. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

    zdnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Public Domain Movies

    publicdomainflix.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Sauron-native – A native cross-platform GUI for Rust

    github.com · 1 outlets

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