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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 14 – January 13, 2021 824 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 02 · Issue 13 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. Technology

    How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Computer Science Curriculum in 1000 YouTube Videos

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 31 stories

  1. Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

  2. GNOME has no thumbnails in the file picker and my toilets are blocked

  3. Bitcoin is a disaster

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

Show 10 more
  1. Ticketmaster admits it hacked Songkick before it went out of business

  2. Visa and Plaid Abandon Merger After Antitrust Division’s Suit to Block

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

  4. Simple Bank Is Closing

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

  6. Cyberpunk 2077 Refunds

  7. The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine

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

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

  10. Jim Keller moves to AI chip startup

Sports 37 stories

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

  2. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

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

  2. I3: Improved Tiling Window Manager

  3. Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

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

  5. Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed

  6. Sealed U.S. Court Records Exposed in SolarWinds Breach

Technology 628 stories

  1. Apple Removes Parler from App Store

  2. Ron Paul locked out of his Facebook page

  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. Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

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

Entertainment 39 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Using flamegraphs to read big HN threads

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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