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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 29 – August 28, 2020 823 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 35 · Issue 241 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

    New facts about the leadup to the Beirut explosion

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Google's differential privacy library

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Degoogle: Cutting Google out of your life

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 53 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. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

    federalreserve.gov · 1 outlets

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

    software.rajivprab.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white applicants

    apnews.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Case of the Top Secret iPod

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  4. Zoom still don't understand GDPR

    threatspike.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  7. Microsoft Joins the Blender Development Fund

    blender.org · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  9. Citibank's $900M Blunder

    finshots.in · 1 outlets

  10. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 23 stories

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

    youtube.com · 2 outlets

  2. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

    psyche.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    cdn2.unrealengine.com · 1 outlets

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

    bevyengine.org · 1 outlets

  3. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  4. A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

    solovyov.net · 1 outlets

  5. Wind and solar are cheaper than thought, admits UK government

    carbonbrief.org · 1 outlets

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

    driesdepoorter.be · 1 outlets

Technology 600 stories

  1. Microsoft in talks to buy out TikTok – sources

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  2. Apple, Epic, and the App Store

    theverge.com · 6 outlets

  3. Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

    nbcnews.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. IBM Fully Homomorphic Encryption Toolkit for Linux

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

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

    buzzfeednews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Facebook account now required to login to Oculus devices

    oculus.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  5. Mozilla Lifeboat

    mozillalifeboat.com · 1 outlets

  6. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

    remarkable.com · 1 outlets

  7. Africa declared free of wild polio

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Arwes – Futuristic Sci-Fi / Cyberpunk Graphical User Interface Framework

    arwes.dev · 1 outlets

  9. Thank You MDN

    ilovemdn.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. Factorio 1.0

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

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

    storycreatorapp.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Photo Realistic QR-Codes

    qrpicture.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google removes all Danish music from YouTube

    reddit.com · 2 outlets

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

    hndex.org · 1 outlets

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

    docs.house.gov · 1 outlets

  5. Factorio and Software Engineering

    blog.nindalf.com · 1 outlets

  6. Spotify CEO: musicians can no longer release music only “once every 3-4 years”

    thefader.com · 1 outlets

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