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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 26 – January 25, 2021 803 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 04 · Issue 25 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

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    The Great Software Stagnation

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 33 stories

  1. Google Safe Browsing can kill a startup

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

  3. Bitcoin is a disaster

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

Show 10 more
  1. New Intel CEO rehiring retired CPU architects

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

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

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

  5. Simple Bank Is Closing

  6. SoftBank’s plan to sell Arm to Nvidia is hitting antitrust wall around the world

  7. The neural network of the Stockfish chess engine

  8. FedEx shipping damage creates fractured artworks

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

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

Sports 38 stories

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

  2. Rust for Windows

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  1. WhatsApp loses millions of users after terms update

  2. SolarWinds hackers were able to access Microsoft source code

  3. Wine 6.0

  4. WhatsApp delays privacy changes following backlash

  5. Patient Regains Sight Following Artificial Cornea Implantation

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

Technology 594 stories

  1. Linux Running on Apple M1

  2. Apple Silicon M1 Die-Shots

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

Show 9 more
  1. DOJ fines Boeing over $2.5B, charges it with fraud conspiracy

  2. Slack is down

  3. Amazon Is Booting Parler Off AWS

  4. Infosec implications of the US Capitol physical breach

  5. Signal Fork with WhatsApp Migration

  6. Select a muscle and it provides the exercises to workout the selected muscle

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

  8. Permanent suspension of @realDonaldTrump

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

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: Beeper – All Your Chats in One App

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

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

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

  3. Show HN: I built an online interactive course that helps you learn Vim faster

  4. Show HN: Rysolv – Fix open source issues, get paid

  5. Testosterone levels show steady decrease among young US men

  6. Apple's privacy labels show WhatsApp and Facebook Messenger hunger for user data

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