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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 25 – August 24, 2021 820 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 236 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 46 stories

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

  2. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

  3. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

  4. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

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  1. EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

  2. Sci-Hub is fundraising

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

  4. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

  5. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

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

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

  8. Space Station incident demands independent investigation

  9. Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023

  10. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

Sports 46 stories

  1. Windows 96

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

Show 6 more
  1. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

  2. Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store

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

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

  5. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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

Technology 607 stories

  1. The Apple Psi System [pdf]

  2. Expanded Protections for Children

  3. Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

Show 9 more
  1. Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

  2. Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

  3. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

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

  5. Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

  6. One Bad Apple

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

  8. Apple’s Mistake

  9. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

Entertainment 34 stories

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

  2. Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash

Show 6 more
  1. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

  2. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

  3. SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring

  4. Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool

  5. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

  6. Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

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