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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 2 – April 1, 2020 806 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 92 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

theintercept.com · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Has the bidet's time in North America finally arrived?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Ten-Minute Coronavirus Test for $1

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: From Markdown to Video

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 54 stories

  1. Zoom meetings aren’t end-to-end encrypted, despite marketing

    theintercept.com · 1 outlets

  2. GM’s CEO Offers to Make Ventilators in WWII-Style Mobilization

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Trading halted as U.S. stocks plummet

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  4. Reddit has become a guide to personal finance

    qz.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. GitHub shuts off access to Aurelia repository, citing trade sanctions

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Quarantine will normalize WFH and recession will denormalize full-time jobs

    abe-winter.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. S&P 500 Plunges 7%, Triggering Market-Wide Stock Trading Halt

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  4. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

  5. Please Fund More Science

    blog.samaltman.com · 1 outlets

  6. Fed cuts half point in emergency move amid spreading virus

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  7. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  8. Mastercard investing in technology to identify commuters by gait, heartbeat

    marketwatch.com · 1 outlets

  9. Formal GDPR complaint against Google’s internal data free-for-all

    brave.com · 1 outlets

  10. Why Is Facebook Not in the Cloud Business?

    interconnected.blog · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Windows93

    windows93.net · 1 outlets

  2. Pro drivers are competing with gamers after F1 and Nascar canceled races

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Stock Jump – a ski-jumping game with real stock data

    stockjump.sos.gd · 1 outlets

  3. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

    hillelwayne.com · 1 outlets

  5. Social distancing slowing not only Covid-19, but other diseases too

    qz.com · 1 outlets

  6. How I made a 3D game in 2 KB of JavaScript

    frankforce.com · 1 outlets

Technology 587 stories

  1. National Emergency Library

    blog.archive.org · 2 outlets

  2. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

    npr.org · 9 outlets

  3. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

    techdirt.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

    autocar.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. NPM Is Joining GitHub

    github.blog · 1 outlets

  3. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

    blogs.harvard.edu · 2 outlets

  4. Zoom’s Use of Facebook’s SDK in iOS Client

    vice.com · 3 outlets

  5. Covid-19 is now officially a pandemic, WHO says

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  6. Atrium shuts down, laying off 100

    bleepingcomputer.com · 3 outlets

  7. DuckDuckGo is good enough for regular use

    bitlog.com · 1 outlets

  8. Open letter from Italy to the international scientific community

    left.it · 1 outlets

  9. MIT moves all classes online for the rest of the semester

    web.mit.edu · 2 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19

    jstage.jst.go.jp · 2 outlets

  2. Netflix to cut streaming quality in Europe for 30 days

    bbc.co.uk · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Fraidycat

    fraidyc.at · 1 outlets

  2. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

    staatsoperlive.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: A “living” Linux process with no memory

    bingetogether.com · 3 outlets

  4. Show HN: InventHub – Visual version control for electronics design

    chartio.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

    skynetsimulator.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: RxResume – A free and open-source resume builder

    github.com · 2 outlets

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