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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 17 – August 16, 2019 832 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 228 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)

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    What Swimming Taught Me About Happiness

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Quiet Hacker News (2017)

    3 of 30 days · 3 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. AI startup claims to automate app making but actually just uses humans

    theverge.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. Norweigan oil fund

    nbim.no · 1 outlets

  10. CEO compensation has grown 940% since 1978

    epi.org · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Flared, Growing 75 Times as Bright for a Few Hours

    universetoday.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.stephenwolfram.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Kaspersky AV injected unique ID allowing sites to track users in incognito mode

    heise.de · 1 outlets

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

    theconversation.com · 1 outlets

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

    trennd.co · 1 outlets

  4. Steam Windows Client Local Privilege Escalation 0day

    amonitoring.ru · 2 outlets

  5. Game Source Code Collection

    archive.org · 1 outlets

  6. Patrick Winston has died

    news.mit.edu · 1 outlets

Technology 639 stories

  1. Hong Kong Airport shuts down as protesters take over

    nytimes.com · 4 outlets

  2. Millions of Books Are Secretly in the Public Domain

    crummy.com · 2 outlets

  3. Google Chrome is ditching its XSS detection tool

    mishravikas.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. GitHub is down

    githubstatus.com · 1 outlets

  2. Quiet Hacker News (2017)

    newyorker.com · 3 outlets

  3. MITM on HTTPS traffic in Kazakhstan

    bugzilla.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  4. Ebola Is Now Curable

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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

    medium.com · 2 outlets

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

    quora.com · 2 outlets

  7. Terminating Service for 8Chan

    new.blog.cloudflare.co · 2 outlets

  8. NULL license plate not such a bright idea

    knrs.iheart.com · 2 outlets

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

    anuschkarees.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. The IT Guy vs. the Con Artist

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Divjoy – React Codebase and UI Generator

    divjoy.com · 1 outlets

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

    zecoda.com · 1 outlets

  3. MoviePass Worked Out Great

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript

    github.com · 2 outlets

  5. India tiger census shows rapid population growth

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. Hackers breach FSB contractor, expose Tor deanonymization project

    zdnet.com · 1 outlets

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