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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 18 – August 17, 2021 831 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 229 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

sciencemag.org · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 47 stories

  1. Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  2. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

    josephg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

    bou.ke · 1 outlets

  4. Sci-Hub is fundraising

    sci-hub.do · 1 outlets

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  1. Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

    dailydot.com · 1 outlets

  3. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

    eff.org · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Space Station incident demands independent investigation

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  7. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

    blog.joinmastodon.org · 1 outlets

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

    hackernoon.com · 1 outlets

  9. Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  10. Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 41 stories

  1. Windows 96

    windows96.net · 1 outlets

  2. In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games

    widelands.org · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

    nzz.ch · 1 outlets

  2. Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion

    cyclingnews.com · 1 outlets

  3. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

    lists.zx2c4.com · 1 outlets

  4. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

    fishdraw.glitch.me · 1 outlets

  5. Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  6. DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

    daisyui.com · 1 outlets

Technology 631 stories

  1. Scanning “private” content

    appleprivacyletter.com · 6 outlets

  2. The Apple Psi System [pdf]

    areoform.wordpress.com · 10 outlets

  3. Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

    npr.org · 2 outlets

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  1. Steven Weinberg has died

    math.columbia.edu · 2 outlets

  2. Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  3. Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  4. The Framework Laptop is now shipping

    frame.work · 1 outlets

  5. One Bad Apple

    hackerfactor.com · 1 outlets

  6. Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  7. Apple’s Mistake

    stratechery.com · 1 outlets

  8. Psst: Fast Spotify client with native GUI, without Electron, built in Rust

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. How Dwarf Fortress is built

    stackoverflow.blog · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

    static.wiki · 1 outlets

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

    culdesac.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

    governing.com · 1 outlets

  2. Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition

    alda.io · 1 outlets

  3. Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  4. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

  5. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  6. Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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