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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 31 – November 30, 2019 806 stories · Vol. 19 · Catalogue 48 · Issue 334 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Women shocked by "hidden" cost of mammograms

Health insurance covers mammograms every one to two years, but many women often need secondary tests that aren't covered

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    “What Alan Kay Got Wrong About Objects”

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    The problem isn’t data protection, it’s data collection

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Naïve Bayes for Machine Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Hacker Publishes 2TB of Data from Cayman National Bank

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. How to recognize AI snake oil [pdf]

    cs.princeton.edu · 1 outlets

  3. Sweden Drops Julian Assange Rape Investigation

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. Collection of Jupyter notebooks for quantitative finance

    github.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Amazon’s quest for more, cheaper products has resulted in a flea market of fakes

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Robinhood Traders Discovered a Glitch That Gave Them ‘Infinite Leverage’

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Twitter CEO Endorses DuckDuckGo

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Hard Problems in Cryptocurrency: Five Years Later

    vitalik.ca · 1 outlets

  5. In Its First Funding in 14 Years, 1Password Raises $200M Series A

    news.crunchbase.com · 1 outlets

  6. Amtrak Could Turn a Profit for the First Time

    wbur.org · 1 outlets

  7. PIA: Our Merger with Kape Technologies – Addressing Your Concerns

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  8. RISC-V Foundation moving to Switzerland over trade curb fears

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  9. Cryptoqueen: A woman scammed the world, then vanished

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

  10. An Overview of Cryptography

    garykessler.net · 1 outlets

Sports 29 stories

  1. Uber Loses London License over Concerns for Rider Safety

    bbc.com · 2 outlets

  2. Go master Lee Se-dol says he quits, unable to win over AI Go players

    en.yna.co.kr · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Tools we used to create a hit HTML5 game on Steam

    codecks.io · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: DevShop, the Game of Kanban

    secretgeek.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. Valve confirm Half-Life: Alyx, a VR game being revealed on Thursday

    rockpapershotgun.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Windows Update Marathon in a VM: From Windows 1.01 to XP

    winhistory.de · 1 outlets

  5. German solar and wind are triple the cost of French nuclear, last half as long

    nextbigfuture.com · 1 outlets

  6. Vinod Khosla Wins Ruling Threatening Public Beach Access

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Technology 609 stories

  1. Microsoft 4-day week boosts productivity and sales

    soranews24.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google Kills Cloud Print

    thurrott.com · 3 outlets

  3. Facebook iOS app has camera active during use

    thenextweb.com · 4 outlets

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  1. Laser-Based Audio Injection Attacks on Voice-Controllable Systems [pdf]

    lightcommands.com · 1 outlets

  2. Former Twitter Employees Charged with Spying for Saudi Arabia

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  3. WhatsApp hacked to spy on top government officials at U.S. allies

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  4. Sacha Baron Cohen Uses ADL Speech to Tear Apart Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook

    msn.com · 3 outlets

  5. Slack’s new WYSIWYG input box is terrible

    quuxplusone.github.io · 2 outlets

  6. Save .org

    savedotorg.org · 1 outlets

  7. Court: Suspicionless Searches of Travelers’ Phones and Laptops Unconstitutional

    aclu.org · 1 outlets

  8. 16-inch MacBook Pro

    apple.com · 2 outlets

  9. Tesla Cybertruck

    tesla.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Spleeter: Extract voice, piano, drums, etc. from any music track

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tesla’s European gigafactory will be built in Berlin

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Apple TV, Apple TV, Apple TV, and Apple TV+

    dcurt.is · 1 outlets

  2. Smart TVs like Samsung, LG and Roku are tracking everything

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: A remote browser product, open-sourced

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Excel Sensitivity Analysis Tool

    coscreen.co · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: I made a no-bullshit image host

    anonaddy.com · 2 outlets

  6. U.S. opens a national security review of TikTok’s acquisition of Musical.ly

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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