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The month's top story

Company pauses plan to send 9,000 back to office after pushback

Epic Systems, a medical records software company, "is going to have to adhere by the same rules as everyone else," a local official said.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    DIY Satellite Ground Station to Receive NOAA Images

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    QEMU should move from C to Rust

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 54 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

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

    domainnamewire.com · 1 outlets

  2. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

    federalreserve.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  4. Nubank acquires Cognitect

    cognitect.com · 1 outlets

  5. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

    thirtythreeforty.net · 1 outlets

  6. Uber CEO says its service will probably shut down temporarily in California

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    store.pine64.org · 1 outlets

  9. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

    blender.org · 1 outlets

  10. A new funding model for open source software

    vriad.com · 1 outlets

Sports 23 stories

  1. Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust

    bevyengine.org · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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  1. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    serhack.me · 1 outlets

  5. Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business

    adamwathan.me · 1 outlets

  6. Poland puts computer game “This War of Mine” on school reading list

    notesfrompoland.com · 1 outlets

Technology 615 stories

  1. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  2. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  3. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

    zdnet.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes

    buzzfeednews.com · 3 outlets

  2. Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

    coindesk.com · 9 outlets

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

    news.ncsu.edu · 1 outlets

  5. Del.icio.us

    del.icio.us · 1 outlets

  6. Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  7. Mozilla Lifeboat

    mozillalifeboat.com · 1 outlets

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

    roguelazer.com · 1 outlets

  9. Thank You MDN

    ilovemdn.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

    storycreatorapp.com · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

    3d-book-css.netlify.ap · 2 outlets

  2. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

    fastcompany.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    vocodes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

    hndex.org · 1 outlets

  6. Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]

    docs.house.gov · 1 outlets

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