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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 20 – September 19, 2020 822 stories · Vol. 20 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 263 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

qoto.org · 1 sources

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Interview with Paul Graham

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Russia opposition leader poisoned with Novichok

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Your Phone Is Your Castle

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Google is apparently taking down all/most Fediverse apps from the Play Store

    qoto.org · 1 outlets

  2. The Long-Term Stock Exchange Opens for Business

    blog.ltse.com · 1 outlets

  3. Does Facebook pay Apple 30% of revenue derived from ads made within its iOS app?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. How Big Oil Misled the Public into Believing Plastic Would Be Recycled

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. SoftBank unmasked as ‘Nasdaq whale’ that stoked tech rally

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  2. FTC Is Investigating Intuit over TurboTax Practices

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  3. Zoom still don't understand GDPR

    threatspike.com · 1 outlets

  4. Thirty years ago today I made the final gold masters for Monkey Island

    grumpygamer.com · 1 outlets

  5. Oil Companies Touted Recycling to Sell More Plastic

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  6. Governments should adopt and invest in FOSS

    jamesmcm.github.io · 1 outlets

  7. Citibank's $900M Blunder

    finshots.in · 1 outlets

  8. Google says it doesn't monopolize digital ad market – senators don't buy it

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  9. SoftBank set to sell UK’s Arm Holdings to Nvidia for $40B

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  10. GDPR Violation: Scribd acquires PII on 500M users in a deal with LinkedIn

    thehftguy.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. When you browse Instagram and find Tony Abbott's passport number

    mango.pdf.zone · 1 outlets

  2. Apple Terminates Epic Games' Developer Account

    macrumors.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Efficiency is dangerous and slowing down makes life better

    psyche.co · 1 outlets

  2. Winamp Skin Museum

    skins.webamp.org · 1 outlets

  3. Tech firms face growing resentment of parent employees during Covid-19

    cnet.com · 1 outlets

  4. Oracle Wins Bid for TikTok in U.S.

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  5. rg3d: Rust 3D game engine with an FPS demo game and scene editor

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. A tale of webpage speed, or throwing away React

    solovyov.net · 1 outlets

Technology 632 stories

  1. Signs of Life discovered on Venus and atmosphere

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Wildfires in Big Basin Redwoods State Park

    nbcnews.com · 2 outlets

  3. TikTok Inc. vs. U.S. Department of Commerce

    apnews.com · 4 outlets

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  1. Apple ordered to pay retail workers for security screening time [pdf]

    macrumors.com · 2 outlets

  2. Pinterest pays $89.5M to terminate San Francisco office lease

    sfchronicle.com · 2 outlets

  3. Woman dies during a ransomware attack on a German hospital

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  4. Nvidia to Acquire Arm for $40B

    nvidianews.nvidia.com · 1 outlets

  5. Ruth Bader Ginsburg has died

    npr.org · 1 outlets

  6. Ninth Circuit rules NSA's bulk collection of Americans' call records was illegal

    politico.com · 1 outlets

  7. This electrical transmission tower has a problem

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. American Academy of Sleep Medicine calls for elimination of daylight saving time

    aasm.org · 1 outlets

  9. ReMarkable 2.0 – A digital notebook that feels like paper

    remarkable.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Nuclear Reactor Development History

    popularmechanics.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Compare Analysis Tools For Python, Ruby, C, PHP, Go

    webrtcforthecurious.co · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Visualize Data Structures in VS Code

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tower Defense with a twist: all towers must be positioned with CSS Flexbox

    flexboxdefense.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Healthcare Is Dumb

    healthcareisdumb.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Mimestream, a native macOS email client for Gmail

    mimestream.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Vimac – Productive macOS keyboard-driven navigation

    vimacapp.com · 1 outlets

  6. Netflix is now doing per-shot encoding for UHD content

    netflixtechblog.com · 1 outlets

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