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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 9 – August 16, 2021 189 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 228 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach

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Business 10 stories

  1. T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach

  2. Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead

  3. BioNTech alone could lift German economy by 0.5% this year

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  1. Reddit raises $410M in new funding

  2. Noyb.eu files 422 formal GDPR complaints on nerve-wrecking “Cookie Banners”

  3. Nvidia Reveals Its CEO Was Computer Generated in Keynote Speech

  4. Fundamentals of Incident Management

Sports 8 stories

  1. Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game

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  1. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

  2. Use Pixar's story formula to win over investors

  3. Google employees who work from home could lose money

Technology 157 stories

  1. Security Threat Model Review of the Apple Child Safety Features [pdf]

  2. Apple’s Mistake

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  1. TikTok overtakes Facebook as most downloaded app

  2. A future for SQL on the web

  3. GitHub’s engineering team has moved to Codespaces

  4. FOSS app removed from the Play Store for linking to the project's website

  5. Apple dropped plan for encrypting backups after FBI complained (2020)

Entertainment 7 stories

  1. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

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  1. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses

  2. Show HN: Nomad Visa – Working remotely? Explore your visa options

  3. Crows have been shown to understand the concept of zero

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