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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 20 – April 19, 2020 795 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 110 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 · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Jitsi Meet features update

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Quill – Messaging for teams that focus

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 47 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. After killing investigation, Bloomberg News sought to silence reporter's wife

Show 10 more
  1. Senate Stock Watcher

  2. Bose QC 35 Firmware 4.5.2 Noise Cancellation Investigation Report

  3. Former CEO of RadioShack now an ER doctor on frontlines of Covid-19 fight

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

  5. SoftBank expects $24B in losses from Vision Fund, WeWork and OneWeb

  6. Turning my obsession in the stock market into a side project

  7. Please Fund More Science

  8. Y Combinator cuts its pro rata stake and makes later investments case-by-case

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

  10. Passenger airlines start shifting idled planes into freight business

Sports 33 stories

  1. Show HN: A basketball hoop to maximize shots that go in [video]

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

Show 6 more
  1. Startups are pummeled in the ‘great unwinding’

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

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

  4. Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 Moving into General Availability

  5. Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages

  6. X410 – X Server for Windows 10

Technology 566 stories

  1. Stop the Apple and Google contact tracing platform

  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. Does Zoom use end-to-end encryption?

  3. Amazon raises overtime pay for warehouse workers

  4. GitHub is now free for teams

  5. IBM will offer free COBOL training

  6. Honda bucks industry trend by removing touchscreen controls

  7. It’s Time to Build

  8. Zoom needs to clean up its privacy act

  9. New iPhone SE

Entertainment 41 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Tom Nook's Laptop

  2. Show HN: Search your Twitter history with Algolia

  3. Show HN: Skynet Simulator

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

  5. Show HN: From Markdown to Video

  6. Phoenix LiveDashboard

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