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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 2 – August 1, 2020 789 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 214 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

twitter.com · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Writing a file system from scratch in Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Buy on Google is now open and commission-free

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 49 stories

  1. Apple does not keep the 30% commission on a refund

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. When a customer refunds your paid app, Apple refunds its 30% cut [edited]

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Amazon met with startups about investing, then launched competing products

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  4. OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

    maraoz.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

    domainnamewire.com · 1 outlets

  2. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

    markosaric.com · 2 outlets

  3. Nubank acquires Cognitect

    cognitect.com · 1 outlets

  4. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  6. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

    thirtythreeforty.net · 1 outlets

  7. Google to Invest $10B in India

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  8. Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. Amazon Warehouse scam: 16TB HDD swapped for 8TB, returned for full refund

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  10. Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone

    store.pine64.org · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

    support.apple.com · 1 outlets

  2. De-escalating social media conflict

    nickpunt.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  3. WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world

    window-swap.com · 1 outlets

  4. I open sourced my game along with a tutorial on how to make it using Lua

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Townscaper – A building game inspired by the design of Scandinavian cities

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Monitoring your own infrastructure using Grafana, InfluxDB, and CollectD

    serhack.me · 1 outlets

Technology 601 stories

  1. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

    zdnet.com · 3 outlets

  2. Code only says what it does

    buzzfeednews.com · 4 outlets

  3. Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    coindesk.com · 8 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Grant Imahara, ‘Mythbusters’ Host, Dies at 49

    hollywoodreporter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

    news.ncsu.edu · 1 outlets

  3. Del.icio.us

    del.icio.us · 1 outlets

  4. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

    roguelazer.com · 1 outlets

  6. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

    theinternetbytes.com · 1 outlets

  7. Nvidia is now worth more than Intel

    bloomberg.com · 4 outlets

  8. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

    lwn.net · 2 outlets

  9. Universal Basic Income is Capitalism 2.0

    timjrobinson.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. I recorded vlogs to show how I built side projects

    mtlynch.io · 6 outlets

  2. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

    3d-book-css.netlify.ap · 4 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

    fastcompany.com · 1 outlets

  2. Cold Showers: For when people get too hyped up about things

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Neural text to speech with dozens of celebrity voices

    vocodes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

    bennettfeely.com · 1 outlets

  5. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

    asia.nikkei.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

    sheetui.com · 2 outlets

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