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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 19 – August 18, 2021 830 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 230 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    MinIO: A Bare Metal Drop-In for AWS S3

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Amazon Shuts Down NSO Group Infrastructure

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 48 stories

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

  2. Faster CRDTs: An Adventure in Optimization

  3. Spreadsheet formulas for personal finance

  4. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

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  1. Sci-Hub is fundraising

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

  3. Facebook bans researchers who were investigating Facebook ads

  4. Infrastructure bill cryptocurrency surveillance provision is a privacy disaster

  5. T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach

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

  7. Space Station incident demands independent investigation

  8. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

  9. Nerds don't respond to marketing; try technical documentation instead

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

Sports 43 stories

  1. Windows 96

  2. In defense of hard counters in real time strategy games

Show 6 more
  1. Swiss Ph.D student’s dismissal spotlights China’s influence

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

  3. WireGuardNT, a high-performance WireGuard implementation for the Windows kernel

  4. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

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

  6. DaisyUI – Tailwind CSS Components

Technology 627 stories

  1. The Apple Psi System [pdf]

  2. Expanded Protections for Children

  3. Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

Show 9 more
  1. Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

  2. Steven Weinberg has died

  3. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

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

  5. Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

  6. The Framework Laptop is now shipping

  7. One Bad Apple

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

  9. Apple’s Mistake

Entertainment 34 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

  2. Alda – Text-Based Programming Language for Music Composition

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

  4. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

  5. Netflix intensifies VPN ban and targets residential IP addresses

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

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