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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 15 – August 14, 2020 813 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 227 Get it by email ↓
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.

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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 59 stories

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

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

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

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

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

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

  3. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

  4. Nubank acquires Cognitect

  5. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

  6. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

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

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

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

  10. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

Sports 23 stories

  1. Epic Games releases "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" ad

  2. Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple [pdf]

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

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

  3. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

  4. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

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

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

Technology 605 stories

  1. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

  2. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

  3. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

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  1. Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

  2. Saliva based Covid test: results in 45 minutes

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

  4. Live BTC transactions in Twitter hack

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

  6. Del.icio.us

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

  8. Mozilla Lifeboat

  9. Thank You MDN

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Factorio 1.0

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

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

  2. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

  3. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

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

  5. Google removes all Danish music from YouTube

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

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