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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 8 – January 7, 2021 815 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 7 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Sanjay Gupta's prescription for fighting off dementia

The neurosurgeon, CNN commentator and author of "Keep Sharp: Build a Better Brain at Any Age" has long studied the brain and the onset of Alzheimer's. He talks with CBS News chief medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPook about the recommended steps to a healthier brain, from diet and exercise to the value of sleep and soc…

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Instantly search 2M recipes

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    New coronavirus variant: What do we know?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    We can have democracy or we can have Facebook

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 34 stories

  1. Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

  2. Bitcoin is a disaster

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Facebook being investigated in Germany for tying Oculus use to Facebook accounts

  2. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

  3. SEC Approves NYSE’s Plan for New IPO Alternative

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

  5. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

  6. Wall Street Begins Trading Water Futures as a Commodity

  7. Israeli startup claims Covid-19 likely originated in a lab, willing to bet on it

  8. Death of an open-source business model

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

  10. Burnt $72k testing Firebase and Cloud Run and almost went bankrupt

Sports 36 stories

  1. Ten year study: No link between violent video games and aggressive behavior

  2. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

Show 6 more
  1. Highly Evasive Attacker Leverages SolarWinds Supply Chain

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

  3. I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

  4. Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

  5. Windows 10 20H2: ChkDsk damages filesystem on SSDs with KB4592438 installed

  6. Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed

Technology 624 stories

  1. Apple reverses stance on Amphetamine App

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

  3. Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

Show 9 more
  1. MIT 6.172: Performance Engineering of Software Systems

  2. A new release for GNU Octave

  3. YouTube to remove content that alleges widespread election fraud

  4. Slack is down

  5. No Cookie for You

  6. How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products

  7. Cameras and Lenses

  8. U.S. Capitol Locked Down Amid Escalating Protests

  9. Who Americans spend their time with, by age

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Show HN: I made an alternative platform for professional profiles

  2. Show HN: I shot high-res stitched panoramas in Iceland using a thermal camera

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: PSX Party – Online Multiplayer Playstation 1 Emulator Using WebRTC

  2. Show HN: This website is valid JSON

  3. YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices

  4. Congress Crams Language to Criminalize Streaming, Meme-Sharing into Omnibus Bill

  5. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

  6. Tillis Releases Text of Bipartisan Legislation to Fight Illegal Streaming

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