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The month's top story

How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

washingtonpost.com · 1 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Why we need a book about naming

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The Odin Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Fastai: A Layered API for Deep Learning

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 32 stories

  1. How the CIA used Crypto AG encryption devices to spy on countries for decades

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  2. Rules to run a software startup with minimum hassle

    psl.com · 2 outlets

  3. Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Germany is able to run the world’s second largest export economy

    conradbastable.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Apps I pay for as a bootstrapped business

    daily.patwalls.co · 1 outlets

  2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  3. ActivityPub, the secret weapon of the Fediverse

    homehack.nl · 1 outlets

  4. China to inject $174B of liquidity on Monday as markets reopen

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Wuhan seafood market may not be source of novel virus spreading globally

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  6. Jeffrey Epstein's mystery bank came alive after his death

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. Bitcoin Gold hit by 51% attacks, $72K in cryptocurrency double-spent

    thenextweb.com · 1 outlets

  8. The vast but little-known fund of the Mormon Church

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  9. Oil-and-gas wells produce radioactive waste

    rollingstone.com · 1 outlets

  10. New coronavirus can spread between humans, but started in a wildlife market

    nationalgeographic.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Wine 5.0

    source.winehq.org · 2 outlets

  2. Microsoft begins showing an anti-Firefox ad in the Windows 10 start menu

    news.softpedia.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. WordPad Is Gettings Ads in Windows 10

    winaero.com · 1 outlets

  2. Game AI Pro

    gameaipro.com · 1 outlets

  3. Airbus ran ‘massive’ bribery scheme to win orders

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  4. Stage is a minimalistic 2D, cross-platform HTML5 game engine

    piqnt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Defacto: Factorio-like game in the browser for the PICO-8

    lexaloffle.com · 1 outlets

  6. Every classic Half-Life game is now free on Steam

    store.steampowered.com · 1 outlets

Technology 582 stories

  1. Google Cloud’s Secrets Manager

    techcrunch.com · 9 outlets

  2. U.S. Officials Say Huawei Can Covertly Access Telecom Networks

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  3. Every Google result now looks like an ad

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Gears

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  2. Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Tricks to start working despite not feeling like it

    deprocrastination.co · 1 outlets

  5. Wacom tablets track every app you open

    robertheaton.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

    blog.discordapp.com · 1 outlets

  7. I Add 3-25 Seconds of Latency to Every Site I Visit

    howonlee.github.io · 1 outlets

  8. A bestiary of single-file implementations of programming languages

    jeffhuang.com · 2 outlets

  9. What happens to Google Maps when tectonic plates move?

    simonweckert.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 45 stories

  1. Signs you’re working in a feature factory (2016)

    cutle.fish · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I published my first website – ShellMagic.xyz

    usb-hubs.org · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. In 2019, Americans went more to the library than to the movies on average

    news.gallup.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Regex Cheatsheet

    ihateregex.io · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Open-source, configurable HDMI output for FPGAs

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. TV Backlight Compensation

    lofibucket.com · 1 outlets

  5. Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Hacking my arm prosthesis to plug into a synth: thought-controlled music [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

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