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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 19 – August 26, 2024 199 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 239 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Today's news in 10 minutes

August 23, 2024

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Business 5 stories

  1. Arrest of Pavel Durov, Telegram CEO, charges of terrorism, fraud, child porn

  2. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

  3. Cautionary tale on using Chase bank for indie business

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  1. The Cryptographic Doom Principle (2011)

  2. ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database

Sports 7 stories

  1. Did you lose your AirPods?

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  1. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

  2. Microsoft formally deprecates the Windows Control Panel

  3. Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

Technology 166 stories

  1. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

  2. Telegram founder Pavel Durov arrested at French airport

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  1. Zen, a Arc-like open-source browser based on the Firefox engine

  2. DOJ sues realpage for algorithmic pricing scheme that harms renters

  3. You are not dumb, you just lack the prerequisites

  4. Toasts are bad UX

  5. Calling All Hackers

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

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  1. ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

  2. Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files

  3. Show HN: Srcbook – A TypeScript notebook for rapid prototyping

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