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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 12 – August 11, 2019 806 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 223 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

CBS · 1 sources

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1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Computer Science Illustrated (2014)

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Photos is making photos semi-public

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 stories

  1. Microsoft is investing $1B in OpenAI

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  2. Employee happiness and business success are linked

    economist.com · 1 outlets

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

    abcactionnews.com · 1 outlets

  4. Black Hat: GDPR privacy law exploited to reveal personal data

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.ubisoft.com · 1 outlets

  4. Companies Use Borrowed Billions to Buy Back Stock, Not to Invest

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  5. NY State alleges ExxonMobil knew risks of climate change and defrauded investors

    esquire.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  7. Toilets of the World

    toilet-guru.com · 1 outlets

  8. The Man with the Golden Airline Ticket

    narratively.com · 1 outlets

  9. Cobol Still Powers the Global Economy

    tpr.org · 1 outlets

  10. Norweigan oil fund

    nbim.no · 1 outlets

Sports 37 stories

  1. Epic Games Supports Blender Foundation with $1.2M

    blender.org · 1 outlets

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

    samcurry.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    blog.stephenwolfram.co · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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

    theconversation.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I built a service to discover rapidly growing Google search topics

    trennd.co · 1 outlets

  5. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    amonitoring.ru · 2 outlets

  6. Game Source Code Collection

    archive.org · 1 outlets

Technology 617 stories

  1. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    crummy.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    mishravikas.com · 3 outlets

  3. GitHub is down

    githubstatus.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Quiet Hacker News (2017)

    newyorker.com · 3 outlets

  2. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

    bugzilla.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  3. All the best engineering advice I stole from non-technical people

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  4. At what time of day do famous programmers work?

    quora.com · 2 outlets

  5. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    new.blog.cloudflare.co · 2 outlets

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

    anuschkarees.com · 1 outlets

  7. What Stress Does to the Brain

    nsaphra.github.io · 3 outlets

  8. Yelp Is Replacing Restaurants’ Phone Numbers So Grubhub Can Take a Cut

    vice.com · 2 outlets

  9. Adblocking: How about Nah?

    eff.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Calculus for Beginners and Artists (2003)

    www-math.mit.edu · 1 outlets

  2. New York City Neighbors Build Cheaper Way to Connect to Web

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I trained a deep learning model to build sites for me

    zecoda.com · 1 outlets

  2. MoviePass Worked Out Great

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

    github.com · 2 outlets

  4. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

    zdnet.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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