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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 24 – January 31, 2022 185 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 31 Get it by email ↓
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I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

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Business 10 stories

  1. I got an FBI record at age 11 from dabbling in cryptography (2015)

  2. I read the federal government’s Zero-Trust Memo so you don’t have to

  3. Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US Nuclear Stockpile

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  1. GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

  2. An ad plugin was stealing revenue for a year and I didn't even notice

  3. Sega quits arcade business after 50 years

  4. Suicide hotline shares data with for-profit spinoff, raising ethical questions

Sports 8 stories

  1. Did I just lose half a million dollars?

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  1. Nintendo Switch game cartridges taste offensively bad (2017)

  2. A “Sideways” supply response in California winegrapes

  3. Toxic black mold is growing in my brain

Technology 155 stories

  1. To my surprise and elation, the Webb Space Telescope is going to work

  2. Pwnkit: Local Privilege Escalation in polkit's pkexec

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  1. Bolt founder on Stripe/YC

  2. Wordle-solving state of the art: all optimality results so far

  3. Google Drive flags file only containing “1” for copyright infringement

  4. Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online

  5. AirPods don't “just work”

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Show HN: Web page that parses and explains the label on a bike tire

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  1. The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

  2. Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan

  3. Show HN: Let's Block It – Custom uBlock Origin Filters Made Easy

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