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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 20 – January 19, 2021 801 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 03 · Issue 19 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…

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How Silicon Valley destroyed Parler

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Great Software Stagnation

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 32 stories

  1. Cryptocurrency company Ripple says SEC lawsuit is imminent

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

    gomox.medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    jayfax.neocities.org · 1 outlets

  4. Bitcoin is a disaster

    metzdowd.com · 1 outlets

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  1. I wasted $40k on a fantastic startup idea

    tjcx.me · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    justice.gov · 1 outlets

  4. Intel CEO Bob Swan to step down, VMware CEO Pat Gelsinger to replace him

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. Simple Bank Is Closing

    oregonlive.com · 1 outlets

  7. The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine

    cp4space.hatsya.com · 1 outlets

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

    rootclaim.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Bit Short: Inside Crypto’s Doomsday Machine

    crypto-anonymous-2021. · 1 outlets

  10. GitHub Stale Bots – A False Economy

    blog.benwinding.com · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

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

    gamesage.net · 1 outlets

  2. SolarWinds: What Hit Us Could Hit Others

    msrc-blog.microsoft.co · 3 outlets

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  1. Developer and Power Users Tool List for Windows

    hanselman.com · 1 outlets

  2. Wine 6.0

    source.winehq.org · 1 outlets

  3. WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash

    p.dw.com · 1 outlets

  4. Windows 0day privilege escalation still not fixed

    bugs.chromium.org · 1 outlets

  5. Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation

    prnewswire.com · 1 outlets

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

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

Technology 608 stories

  1. Apple Removes Parler from App Store

    github.com · 12 outlets

  2. Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

    asahilinux.org · 5 outlets

  3. We don't need data scientists, we need data engineers

    tampabay.com · 3 outlets

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

    justice.gov · 2 outlets

  2. Slack is down

    status.slack.com · 1 outlets

  3. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

    buzzfeednews.com · 2 outlets

  4. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

    arstechnica.com · 5 outlets

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

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  7. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

    blog.twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. Uber discovered they’d been defrauded out of 2/3 of their ad spend

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. GitHub is fully available in Iran

    github.blog · 2 outlets

Entertainment 41 stories

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

    read.cv · 2 outlets

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

    petapixel.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    psxparty.kosmi.io · 1 outlets

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

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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

    commondreams.org · 1 outlets

  4. New Linux port for the Nintendo 64

    lore.kernel.org · 1 outlets

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

    tillis.senate.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

    urologytimes.com · 1 outlets

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