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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 20 – June 19, 2021 815 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 24 · Issue 170 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

bbc.com · 2 sources

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    New York Senate passes Right to Repair bill

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Blog about what you've struggled with

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    The work-from-home future is destroying bosses' brains

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 39 stories

  1. El Salvador makes Bitcoin legal tender

    bbc.com · 2 outlets

  2. Amazon refused to refund $7k after shipping an empty box instead of a Sony A1

    petapixel.com · 1 outlets

  3. It's time for us in the tech world to speak out about cryptocurrency

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. If you sell a house these days, the buyer might be a pension fund

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Working at a startup is overrated, both financially and emotionally

    every.to · 1 outlets

  2. The code on the laptop in the stock photo at developer.bbc.com is user-editable

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Why we should end the data economy

    thereboot.com · 1 outlets

  4. What happens in an IPO? – Part 1

    bayesianinvestor.com · 2 outlets

  5. Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

    abc.net.au · 1 outlets

  6. Pesticides are killing the world's soils

    scientificamerican.com · 1 outlets

  7. DOJ seizes $2.3M in cryptocurrency paid to the ransomware extortionists Darkside

    justice.gov · 1 outlets

  8. Microsoft Irish subsidiary paid zero corporate tax on £220bn profit last year

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  9. Medium sees employee exits after CEO publishes ‘culture memo’

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  10. Data portability, the forgotten right of GDPR

    alias.dev · 1 outlets

Sports 36 stories

  1. Amazon Prime inflates prices, using the false promise of ‘free shipping’

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

  2. Before the iPhone, I worked on a few games for what were called "feature phones"

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

    wayfinder.nfb.ca · 1 outlets

  2. FaceTime is coming to Android and Windows via the web

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ohio Republicans close to imposing near-total ban on municipal broadband

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Pokegb: A gameboy emulator that only plays Pokémon Blue, in 68 lines of C++

    binji.github.io · 1 outlets

  5. State of the Windows: How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 10?

    ntdotdev.wordpress.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I open sourced a game I just released on Steam, written in Lua

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 646 stories

  1. Zero downtime Postgres migration, done right

    engineering.thebluegro · 2 outlets

  2. Belarus diverts Ryanair flight to arrest journalist

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  3. The Google Nest Hub is first commercial Fuchsia device

    9to5google.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Replit used legal threats to kill my open-source project

    intuitiveexplanations. · 1 outlets

  2. An Unbelievable Demo

    brendangregg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Stack Overflow sold to Prosus for $1.8B

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. There are no results for tank man

    bing.com · 1 outlets

  5. I wrote a children's book / illustrated guide to Apache Kafka

    gentlydownthe.stream · 1 outlets

  6. The top-ranking HTML editor on Google is an SEO scam

    casparwre.de · 1 outlets

  7. I quit my job to focus on SerenityOS full time

    awesomekling.github.io · 1 outlets

  8. Sublime Text 4

    sublimetext.com · 1 outlets

  9. The lab-leak theory: inside the fight to uncover Covid-19’s origins

    vanityfair.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

    insidermag.net · 1 outlets

  2. Farmers Deserve the Right to Repair Their Tractors

    farms.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. HBO Max accidentally sent an integration email test to users

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: NocoDB – Open-Source Airtable Alternative

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. TDD from the Factorio Team

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

  4. Amazon devices will soon automatically share your Internet with neighbors

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Find Subreddits for Your Niche

    findareddit.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I made a community sourced fitness routine database

    routinedb.com · 1 outlets

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