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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 14 – April 13, 2020 787 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 104 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Covid-19 Interactive Model

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Technology

    Jitsi Meet features update

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 48 stories

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

  2. How we recovered $300k of Bitcoin

  3. Signal threatens to dump US market if EARN IT act passes

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

Show 10 more
  1. Senate Stock Watcher

  2. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report

  3. Japan to fund firms to shift production out of China

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

  5. Funding for Covid-19 Projects

  6. Please Fund More Science

  7. Jack Dorsey gives $1B to fund global Covid-19 relief

  8. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

  9. If you imagine a business making surgical facemasks is working 24/7, guess again

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

Sports 30 stories

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

  2. Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

Show 6 more
  1. Windows code-execution zeroday is under active exploit, Microsoft warns

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

  3. Ed Catmull and Pat Hanrahan Win Turing Award

  4. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

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

  6. A music discovery site used in over 1M videos and games

Technology 564 stories

  1. Covid-19 Open Research Dataset

  2. Free software tools for staying in touch

  3. National Emergency Library

Show 9 more
  1. Amazon fires worker who led strike over virus

  2. Manufacturer Threatens To Sue Volunteers who printed a valve

  3. Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?

  4. IBM will offer free COBOL training

  5. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

  6. NPM Is Joining GitHub

  7. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

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

  9. New Google SRE book: Building Secure and Reliable Systems

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. OBS Studio: Open-source software for video recording and live streaming

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown

  2. Vienna Opera opened its archive for free streaming

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

  4. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

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

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

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