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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 17 – August 16, 2020 806 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 229 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.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    QEMU should move from C to Rust

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    DIY Satellite Ground Station to Receive NOAA Images

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    It’s easier to manage four people than one person

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 57 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. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

    apnews.com · 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. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

    blender.org · 1 outlets

  9. A new funding model for open source software

    vriad.com · 1 outlets

  10. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 22 stories

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

    youtube.com · 2 outlets

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

    cdn2.unrealengine.com · 1 outlets

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  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

  3. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

    reddit.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

    businessinsider.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 602 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

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  1. Apple just kicked Fortnite off the App Store

    theverge.com · 5 outlets

  2. Saliva-based Covid-19 test approved by FDA

    buzzfeednews.com · 3 outlets

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

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  4. Del.icio.us

    del.icio.us · 1 outlets

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

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  6. Mozilla Lifeboat

    mozillalifeboat.com · 1 outlets

  7. Thank You MDN

    ilovemdn.org · 1 outlets

  8. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

    msn.com · 1 outlets

  9. Nvidia is reportedly in ‘advanced talks’ to buy ARM for more than $32B

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Factorio 1.0

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

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

    storycreatorapp.com · 4 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

    3d-book-css.netlify.ap · 1 outlets

  3. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

    fastcompany.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

    qrpicture.com · 1 outlets

  6. Google removes all Danish music from YouTube

    reddit.com · 2 outlets

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