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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 25 – February 1, 2022 180 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 32 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 7 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. GDPR penalty for passing on of IP address to Google by using Google Fonts

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  1. Sega quits arcade business after 50 years

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

  3. Treasury reconsiders IRS’s use of ID.me face recognition for web

  4. Chip shortages due to lack of investment in right fabs

Sports 9 stories

  1. Did I just lose half a million dollars?

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

  2. Sony to buy video game maker Bungie in $3.6B deal

  3. Toxic black mold is growing in my brain

Technology 152 stories

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

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

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  1. Moderna’s HIV vaccine has officially begun human trials

  2. Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online

  3. AirPods don't “just work”

  4. A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar

  5. The New York Times buys Wordle

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. The new hire who showed up is not the same person we interviewed

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

  2. The old internet shows signs of quietly coming back

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

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