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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 6 – October 6, 2020 814 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 41 · Issue 280 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Array Programming with NumPy

    5 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Tim Sweeney on Apple and Google

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Your Phone Is Your Castle

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

  2. Honda quits F1, invests in carbon-free tech instead

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

  4. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

Show 10 more
  1. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

  2. How we built a $1M ARR SaaS startup

  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. Bleeding-edge tech will kill your startup

  10. Feds: IBM did discriminate against older workers in making layoffs

Sports 18 stories

  1. Windows XP source code has leaked

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

Show 6 more
  1. Coinbase offers exit package for employees not comfortable with its mission

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

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

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

  5. Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention

  6. rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor

Technology 645 stories

  1. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

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

  3. Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

Show 9 more
  1. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

  2. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

  3. This electrical transmission tower has a problem

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

  5. Chuck Feeney Is Now Officially Broke

  6. I no longer build software

  7. On the Use of a Life

  8. Stop the Earn IT Bill Before It Breaks Encryption

  9. BitTorrent v2

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. Samsung TV owners complain about increasingly obtrusive ads

  2. Say goodbye to hold music

Show 6 more
  1. What is the best dumb TV?

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

  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: Eiten – open-source tool for portfolio optimization

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

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