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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 23 – July 23, 2020 813 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 30 · Issue 205 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The End of the Redis Adventure

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    TikTok to pull out of Hong Kong

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    KDE Slimbook: Linux Laptop with Ryzen 4000

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Text-Only Social Network

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 42 stories

  1. The End of the Redis Adventure

  2. OpenAI's GPT-3 may be the biggest thing since Bitcoin

  3. Former ICANN CEO is now co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org

  4. Blackballed by PayPal, Sci-Hub switches to Bitcoin

Show 10 more
  1. Olympus quits camera business after 84 years

  2. Dark patterns in GDPR consent boxes

  3. App suddenly crashing on startup due to FBSDKRestrictiveDataFilterManager.m

  4. Ex-Googler's startup comes out of stealth with simple, clever robot design

  5. Reverse engineering a camera protocol for fun and profit

  6. Google to Invest $10B in India

  7. Barclays Bank Using Internet Archive as CDN for JavaScript Files?

  8. Pinephone – “Community Edition: PostmarketOS” Linux smartphone

  9. Police surveilled protests with help from Twitter-affiliated startup Dataminr

  10. Two young scientists built a $250M business using yeast to clean up wastewater

Sports 35 stories

  1. Why the US military usually punishes misconduct but police often close ranks

  2. Don't close your MacBook with a cover over the camera

Show 6 more
  1. De-escalating social media conflict

  2. The NBA bans customers from putting ‘freehongkong’ on customized league jerseys

  3. Ad Boycott of Facebook Keeps Growing

  4. OpenAI should now change their name to ClosedAI

  5. Microsoft to permanently close its retail stores

  6. WindowSwap: View someone's window somewhere in the world

Technology 621 stories

  1. GitHub was down

  2. Twitter is at its best when verified accounts can’t tweet

  3. Oppose the Earn IT Act

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  1. Grant Imahara, ‘Mythbusters’ Host, Dies at 49

  2. LinkedIn is copying the contents of my clipboard on every keystroke

  3. Tech sector job interviews assess anxiety, not software skills: study

  4. U.S. Supreme Court deems half of Oklahoma a Native American reservation

  5. India bans TikTok, WeChat, and dozens of other Chinese apps

  6. I Just Hit $100k/year On GitHub Sponsors

  7. Etcd, or, why modern software makes me sad

  8. Where Am I? NYTimes or Google?

  9. Linux Mint drops Ubuntu Snap packages

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Lemmy, an open-source federated Reddit alternative, gets funding for development

  2. Show HN: 3D Book Image CSS Generator

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Hacker News front page in the style of a print newspaper

  2. YouTube TV sharply increases monthly subscription to $64.99

  3. Show HN: USA.css – units set in inches, 1776 bytes

  4. Playstation's secret weapon: a nearly all-automated factory

  5. Show HN: SheetUI – Turn Google Sheets into Web Pages

  6. Show HN: Trail Router – generate running routes that prefer greenery and nature

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