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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 27 – September 26, 2020 798 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 39 · Issue 270 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

qoto.org · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with Paul Graham

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    US sanctions International Criminal Court officials

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Your Phone Is Your Castle

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

    qoto.org · 1 outlets

  2. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

    blog.ltse.com · 1 outlets

  3. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  2. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  3. Zoom still don't understand GDPR

    threatspike.com · 1 outlets

  4. Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

    grumpygamer.com · 1 outlets

  5. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  6. Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

    jamesmcm.github.io · 1 outlets

  7. Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  8. China blocks Wikimedia Foundation’s accreditation to WIPO

    wikimediafoundation.or · 1 outlets

  9. SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  10. GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

    thehftguy.com · 1 outlets

Sports 25 stories

  1. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

    mango.pdf.zone · 1 outlets

  2. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

    macrumors.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Winamp Skin Museum

    skins.webamp.org · 1 outlets

  2. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

    cnet.com · 1 outlets

  3. MS treatment a step closer after drug shown to repair nerve coating

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  4. Windows XP source code has leaked

    gizmodo.com.au · 1 outlets

  5. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows Server vulnerability requires immediate attention

    cisa.gov · 1 outlets

Technology 625 stories

  1. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. U.S. bans WeChat, TikTok, citing national security reasons

    apnews.com · 3 outlets

  3. Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time [pdf]

    macrumors.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

    sfchronicle.com · 2 outlets

  2. Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  3. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

    nvidianews.nvidia.com · 1 outlets

  4. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  5. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

    politico.com · 1 outlets

  6. This electrical transmission tower has a problem

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. Firefox usage is down despite Mozilla's top exec pay going up

    calpaterson.com · 1 outlets

  8. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

    aasm.org · 1 outlets

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

    remarkable.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 32 stories

  1. First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved

    popularmechanics.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: ugit – Learn Git Internals by Building Git in Python

    webrtcforthecurious.co · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. FinCEN Files show trillions in tainted dollars flow freely through major banks

    icij.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

    flexboxdefense.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

    healthcareisdumb.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

    mimestream.com · 1 outlets

  6. Blizzard cofounder launches new gaming endeavor Dreamhaven

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

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