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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 14 – May 14, 2021 824 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 19 · Issue 134 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Medal of Honor recipient, and the battle that stays forever

Combat Outpost Keating was a remote U.S. Army position in Afghanistan that attracted a Taliban attack nearly seven years ago. The medal that one of its defenders received for his actions that day still weighs heavily on Sgt. Clint Romesha, as David Martin now tells us.

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Privacy Update: Third-party Tracking

    6 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Nobody is joining Google's FLoC

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Live feed of Starship SN15 flight test [video]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 51 stories

  1. Exploiting vulnerabilities in Cellebrite UFED and Physical Analyzer

  2. My Current HTML Boilerplate

  3. Unusual Stock Trading by Whales in US Congress

  4. Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model

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  1. Uber used 50 Dutch shell companies to dodge taxes on $6B in revenue

  2. Chrome extension recommends local businesses while shopping on Amazon or eBay

  3. Who won the Amstel Gold Race? Human error in photo-finishes

  4. Tesla has suspended vehicle purchases using Bitcoin

  5. Nassim Taleb: Bitcoin failed as a currency and became a speculative ponzi scheme

  6. How Big Tech got so big: hundreds of acquisitions

  7. Bitcoin miners are buying power plants

  8. Tech giants join call for funding U.S. chip production

  9. Proposed acquisition of ARM Limited by NVIDIA: public interest intervention

  10. Investigating why McDonald's ice cream machines are often broken [video]

Sports 36 stories

  1. Bob Cassette Rewinder: Hacking Detergent DRM

  2. Coinbase from YC to DPO

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  1. The Ultimate Guide to Inflation

  2. Initial preview of GUI app support for the Windows Subsystem for Linux

  3. SpaceX wins contract to develop spacecraft to land astronauts on the moon

  4. Roku says it may lose YouTube TV app after Google made anti-competitive demands

  5. How Tech Loses Out

  6. Game developers sharing their salaries on Twitter

Technology 603 stories

  1. Convicted Post Office workers have names cleared

  2. Twitter is blocking tweets that criticize the Indian government

  3. Huawei was able to eavesdrop on Dutch mobile network KPN: Report

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  1. “They introduce kernel bugs on purpose”

  2. Internal Combustion Engine

  3. UMN CS&E Statement on Linux Kernel Research

  4. GitHub blocks FLoC across all of GitHub Pages

  5. Why Lichess will always be free

  6. Dan Kaminsky has died

  7. “About one-third of Basecamp employees accepted buyouts today”

  8. The Animal Is Tired

  9. Yayagram

Entertainment 48 stories

  1. YouTube CEO receives freedom of expression award sponsored by YouTube itself

  2. Instagram ads Facebook won't show you

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  1. Show HN: Lofi.cafe

  2. The Endless Acid Banger: algorithmic self-composing acid techno music

  3. Apple is sued for telling you that you're “buying” movies

  4. Show HN: I built Grafar, a visualization library

  5. Show HN: I made a simulator for personal finance

  6. Show HN: Second-Chance Pool

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