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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 4 – August 11, 2020 189 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 224 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Company pauses plan to send 9,000 back to office after pushback

Epic Systems, a medical records software company, "is going to have to adhere by the same rules as everyone else," a local official said.

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Business 15 stories

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

  2. Y Combinator Startup Library 2.0

  3. CEO of Uber: Gig Workers Deserve Better

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

  2. Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

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

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

Sports 3 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

Technology 151 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 10 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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