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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 11 – January 10, 2021 794 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 10 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: Devbook – Search Engine for Developers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Why mmap is faster than system calls (2019)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine approved for use in UK

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 29 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. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

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

  3. Simple Bank Is Closing

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

  5. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

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

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

  8. Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup

  9. Bitcoin breaks above $20k

  10. In 1980s Los Angeles, a bank was robbed every hour (2019)

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 613 stories

  1. Apple Removes Parler from App Store

  2. WhatsApp Beaten by Apple’s New iMessage Privacy Update

  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. DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

  4. Slack is down

  5. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

  6. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

  7. No Cookie for You

  8. How WhatsApp works with other Facebook products

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

Entertainment 43 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. YouTube Class Action: Same IP Address Upload Pirate Movies and File DMCA Notices

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

  4. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

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

  6. 1937 film explains how a car differential works

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