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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 14 – August 13, 2021 826 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 225 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

sciencemag.org · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Problem with Ethereum

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    Using WebAssembly threads from C, C++ and Rust

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    How the Python import system works

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 46 stories

  1. Major U.K. science funder to require grantees to make papers immediately free

    sciencemag.org · 1 outlets

  2. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

    josephg.com · 1 outlets

  3. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

    bou.ke · 1 outlets

  4. Sci-Hub is fundraising

    sci-hub.do · 1 outlets

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  1. I am often asked if I will “return to cryptocurrency”

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Employers bow to tech workers in hottest job market since the dot-com era

    latimes.com · 1 outlets

  3. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

    dailydot.com · 1 outlets

  4. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  5. Tether executives said to face criminal probe into bank fraud

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Space Station incident demands independent investigation

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  7. Cryptographers unearth vulnerabilities in Telegram's encryption protocol

    cyberscoop.com · 1 outlets

  8. Edward Snowden calls for spyware trade ban amid Pegasus revelations

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  9. Duolingo reaches $6.5B valuation on day of IPO

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Square Banking

    squareup.com · 1 outlets

Sports 44 stories

  1. The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday

    typesense.org · 1 outlets

  2. Looking Glass: Run a Windows VM on Linux in a window with native performance

    looking-glass.io · 2 outlets

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  1. Windows 96

    windows96.net · 1 outlets

  2. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

    nzz.ch · 1 outlets

  3. Anna Kiesenhofer: Mathematician, amateur cyclist, Olympic champion

    cyclingnews.com · 1 outlets

  4. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

    fishdraw.glitch.me · 1 outlets

  5. How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer

    quantamagazine.org · 1 outlets

  6. Video game developers at Activision Blizzard say they'll walk out Wednesday

    axios.com · 1 outlets

Technology 625 stories

  1. Scanning “private” content

    appleprivacyletter.com · 6 outlets

  2. The Apple Psi System [pdf]

    areoform.wordpress.com · 10 outlets

  3. Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

    npr.org · 2 outlets

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  1. Steven Weinberg has died

    math.columbia.edu · 2 outlets

  2. Valve Steam Deck

    steamdeck.com · 1 outlets

  3. Apple Has Opened the Backdoor to Increased Surveillance and Censorship

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  4. Apple's child protection features spark concern within its own ranks: sources

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Framework Laptop is now shipping

    frame.work · 1 outlets

  6. One Bad Apple

    hackerfactor.com · 1 outlets

  7. Climate change: IPCC report is 'code red for humanity'

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  8. Google Drive bans distribution of “misleading content”

    support.google.com · 1 outlets

  9. Apple’s Mistake

    stratechery.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

  1. Show HN: Static.wiki – read-only Wikipedia using a 43GB SQLite file

    static.wiki · 1 outlets

  2. Culdesac Tempe: The first car-free neighborhood built from scratch in the US

    culdesac.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

    governing.com · 1 outlets

  2. Soldiers speak out about being blocked from repairing equipment by contractors

    mattstoller.substack.c · 1 outlets

  3. Nvidia Shield TV Owners Are Pissed About the Banner Ads in Android TV

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  4. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

    phoronix.com · 2 outlets

  5. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  6. Lucasfilm hires YouTuber who specializes in deepfaking big-budget movies

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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