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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 19 – December 19, 2020 806 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 354 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    It took two days to develop Moderna’s vaccine

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple Silicon M1: Black Magic Fuckery

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    I've walked away from software development

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 37 stories

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    Yahoo · 1 outlets

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  2. Stripe Treasury

    stripe.com · 1 outlets

  3. States bring action against Google under federal and state antitrust laws [pdf]

    texasattorneygeneral.g · 1 outlets

  4. U.S. Treasury breached by hackers backed by foreign government – sources

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. SEC charges Robinhood $65M for misleading customers about revenue sources

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

  3. S&P Dow Jones Indices to launch cryptocurrency indexes in 2021

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  4. Would you be willing to fund a Linux port to Apple Silicon?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

    playstation.com · 1 outlets

  6. Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

    e360.yale.edu · 1 outlets

  7. Death of an open-source business model

    joemorrison.medium.com · 1 outlets

  8. You have the right to record police in public, federal court rules

    universalhub.com · 1 outlets

  9. Guitar Center files for bankruptcy

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Justice Department Sues to Block Visa's Proposed Acquisition of Plaid

    justice.gov · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

    fireeye.com · 1 outlets

  2. U.S. Treasury, Commerce Depts. Hacked Through SolarWinds Compromise

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The Game UI Database, a comprehensive reference of game interface design

    gameuidatabase.com · 1 outlets

  2. 72% of smart TVs and 46% of game consoles hardcode DNS settings

    labzilla.io · 1 outlets

  3. InstaHide Disappointingly Wins Bell Labs Prize, 2nd Place

    nicholas.carlini.com · 1 outlets

  4. ‘Tokenized’: Black Workers’ Struggles at Coinbase

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

    i3wm.org · 1 outlets

  6. Games people play with cash flow

    commoncog.com · 1 outlets

Technology 616 stories

  1. Google staff rally behind fired AI researcher

    platformer.news · 7 outlets

  2. Facebook's Hypocrisy on Apple's New iOS 14 Privacy Feature

    thebigtech.substack.co · 3 outlets

  3. Microsoft 365 has employee surveillance and analytics built in

    gizmodo.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. SpaceX Starship Users' Guide [pdf]

    youtube.com · 3 outlets

  2. Microsoft says it found malicious software in its systems

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

    blog.youtube · 2 outlets

  4. Diego Maradona has died

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  5. Walmart Exclusive Wi-Fi Router Contains Backdoor to Control Devices

    cybernews.com · 2 outlets

  6. No Cookie for You

    github.blog · 1 outlets

  7. Cameras and Lenses

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

  8. FTC Sues Facebook for Illegal Monopolization

    ftc.gov · 1 outlets

  9. The Death of Tony Hsieh: A Spiral of Alcohol, Drugs and Extreme Behavior

    yahoo.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. YouTube will now show ads on all videos even if creators don’t want them

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Agents raid home of fired Florida data scientist who built Covid-19 dashboard

    tallahassee.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I Rebuilt MySpace from 2007

    spacehey.com · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: This website is valid JSON

    webdatarender.com · 1 outlets

  3. Artist releases album called “Ok Google Play Music” on Spotify

    open.spotify.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Nintendo Switch uses my open source code

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Boltstream – Self-hosted full end-to-end live video streaming platform

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. AWS Cognito is having issues and health dashboards are still green

    status.aws.amazon.com · 1 outlets

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