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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 2 – October 2, 2020 814 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 276 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with Paul Graham

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    US sanctions International Criminal Court officials

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Your Phone Is Your Castle

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 43 stories

  1. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

  2. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

  3. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

  4. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

Show 10 more
  1. Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

  2. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

  3. Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

  4. Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it

  5. China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

  6. SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

  7. GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

  8. Dickhead of the Week: Instagram CEO Adam Mosseri

  9. Apple to delay privacy change threatening Facebook, mobile ad market

  10. Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup

Sports 21 stories

  1. Windows XP source code has leaked

  2. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

Show 6 more
  1. Winamp Skin Museum

  2. Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

  3. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

  4. MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

  5. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

  6. Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention

Technology 637 stories

  1. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

  2. U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons

  3. Apple’s T2 security chip jailbreak

Show 9 more
  1. Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

  2. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

  3. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

  4. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

  5. This electrical transmission tower has a problem

  6. Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

  7. Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

  8. I no longer build software

  9. On the Use of a Life

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

  2. First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved

Show 6 more
  1. Say goodbye to hold music

  2. Compact nuclear fusion reactor is 'very likely to work,' studies suggest

  3. FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

  4. Show HN: A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations

  5. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

  6. Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven

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