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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 18 – September 17, 2021 825 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 260 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Nelua Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 35 stories

  1. The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

  2. Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China

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

  4. Mailchimp insiders react to employees getting no equity from Intuit sale

Show 10 more
  1. Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel

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

  3. BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

  4. Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed

  5. The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

  6. The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet

  7. Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community

  8. DOJ Seeks To Block Purdue Pharma Bankruptcy Deal

  9. Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen

  10. EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web

Sports 41 stories

  1. Windy.com

  2. China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

Show 6 more
  1. Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

  2. Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules

  3. US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing

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

  5. Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

  6. Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

Technology 624 stories

  1. Your Phone Is Your Private Space

  2. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

  3. ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions

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  1. Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

  2. Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store

  3. Apple urged to drop plans to scan iMessages, images for sex abuse

  4. How to build a search engine with Ruby on Rails

  5. Sir Clive Sinclair has died

  6. O.mg Cable

  7. Atlassian fired me while I was taking care of my wife who is fighting cancer

  8. Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case

  9. Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

Entertainment 38 stories

  1. Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

  2. Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development

  2. Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

  3. Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods

  4. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

  5. Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

  6. YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording

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