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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close January 26 – February 2, 2022 176 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 05 · Issue 33 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 8 stories

  1. Did I just lose half a million dollars?

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

  2. Toxic black mold is growing in my brain

  3. The window to deploy surveillance-resistant systems is running out

Technology 152 stories

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

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

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  1. Royal Society cautions against censorship of scientific misinformation online

  2. AirPods don't “just work”

  3. A UX designer walks into a Tesla Bar

  4. The New York Times buys Wordle

  5. Don't you lecture me with your thirty dollar website

Entertainment 7 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. Spotify is removing Neil Young’s music after falling out over Joe Rogan

  3. Show HN: Magistrate – Plaintext legal contracts for developers

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