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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 5 – August 4, 2019 811 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 216 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Capital One data breach hits more than 100 million people

The hacker got information including credit scores and balances plus the Social Security numbers of about 140,000 customers

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Photos is making photos semi-public

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Interpretable Machine Learning

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Amazon workers launch protests on Prime Day

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

  2. RSA is a fragile cryptosystem

  3. Employee happiness and business success are linked

  4. African leaders launch landmark 55-nation trade zone

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

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

  3. IRS sends warning letters to more than 10k cryptocurrency holders

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

  5. Open-Source Slack Alternative Mattermost Gets $50M Funding

  6. A Black Hole Engulfing the World's Bond Markets

  7. Pixelfed – Federated Image Sharing

  8. Toilets of the World

  9. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

  10. Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

Sports 40 stories

  1. I Can’t Stop Winning

  2. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

Show 6 more
  1. Cracking My Windshield and Earning $10k on the Tesla Bug Bounty Program

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

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

  4. No limit: AI poker bot is first to beat professionals at multiplayer game

  5. Notre-Dame came closer to collapsing than people knew

  6. The human body is already close to thermal limits in many regions

Technology 619 stories

  1. Apple kills the non-Touch Bar MacBook Pro

  2. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

  3. GitHub is down

Show 9 more
  1. Vulnerability in the Mac Zoom client allows malicious websites to enable camera

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

  3. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

  4. How to assess the quality of garments (2014)

  5. QuickJS JavaScript Engine

  6. Developers don't understand CORS

  7. Adblocking: How about Nah?

  8. Interpretable Machine Learning

  9. Google Photos is making photos semi-public

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

  2. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Ananas – a hackable data tool for beginners

  2. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

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

  4. Understanding Kafka with Factorio

  5. Show HN: OctoSQL – Query and join multiple databases and files, written in Go

  6. Show HN: Stein – Use Google Sheets as a No-Setup Database

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