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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 23 – August 22, 2020 809 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 235 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

    Response to Google open letter

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    QEMU should move from C to Rust

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    On Liberating My Smartwatch from Cloud Services

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 57 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. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

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  1. If founders treated their investors the same way they treated their employees

  2. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

  3. Nubank acquires Cognitect

  4. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

  5. The Case of the Top Secret iPod

  6. Apple expands independent repair program to Mac after US antitrust investigation

  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. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

  10. Apple becomes first U.S. company to reach a $2T market cap

Sports 19 stories

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

  2. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

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

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

  3. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

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

  5. Showing a sunrise/sunset realtime 24/7 with the use of unsecured CCTV cameras

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

Technology 593 stories

  1. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

  2. Apple, Epic, and the App Store

  3. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

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  1. Garmin obtains decryption key after ransomware attack

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

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

  4. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

  5. Del.icio.us

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

  7. Mozilla Lifeboat

  8. Thank You MDN

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

Entertainment 44 stories

  1. Factorio 1.0

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

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: TinyPilot – Build a KVM over IP using a Raspberry Pi

  2. Put tiny businesses back into residential neighborhoods

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

  4. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

  5. Google removes all Danish music from YouTube

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

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