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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 3 – August 10, 2020 191 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 223 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

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1Articles

Business 14 stories

  1. Fed announces details of new interbank service to support instant payments

  2. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

  3. Government’s PACER Fees Are Too High, Federal Circuit Says

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  1. Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

  2. One-third of New York’s small businesses may be gone forever

  3. Feds move to block California’s net neutrality law

  4. Greg Joswiak replaces Phil Schiller as head of Apple marketing

Sports 4 stories

  1. Apple says game streaming services violate App Store policies

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  1. Windows 10: HOSTS file blocking telemetry is now flagged as a risk

  2. Drivers who keep their windows down are exposed to 80 percent more air pollution

  3. OpenJDK Comes to Windows 10 on ARM

Technology 155 stories

  1. Facebook Fired Employee Who Collected Evidence of Potential Political Bias

  2. Germany plans to dim lights at night to save insects

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  1. 20GB leak of Intel data: whole Git repositories, dev tools, backdoor mentions

  2. Moved a server from one building to another with zero downtime

  3. Frances Allen has died

  4. I want to have an AWS region where everything breaks with high frequency

  5. Latest Firefox rolls out Enhanced Tracking Protection 2.0

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: I built an After Effects for dummies

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  1. Show HN: Hndex.org – a full-text search engine of articles submitted to HN

  2. Statement on Google’s conduct by founder of CelebrityNetWorth.com (2019) [pdf]

  3. Journalists’ Twitter use shows them talking within smaller bubbles

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