The Mez Ledger
Menu
The month in reviewVol. 21 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 232 2021-08-20
Monthly Close

Monthly Close

The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 21 – August 20, 2021 815 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 232 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

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Facebook shut down German research on Instagram algorithm

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Automating a Software Company with GitHub Actions

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 45 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. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

    technologyreview.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Sci-Hub is fundraising

    sci-hub.do · 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. T-Mobile investigating claims of 100M customer data breach

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  7. Space Station incident demands independent investigation

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  8. Canada calls screen scraping ‘unsecure,’ sets Open Banking target for 2023

    finledger.com · 1 outlets

  9. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

    blog.joinmastodon.org · 1 outlets

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

    hackernoon.com · 1 outlets

Sports 42 stories

  1. Windows 96

    windows96.net · 1 outlets

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

    widelands.org · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    nzz.ch · 1 outlets

  2. Google’s ‘Project Hug’ paid out huge sums to keep game devs in the Play Store

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    cyclingnews.com · 1 outlets

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

    lists.zx2c4.com · 1 outlets

  5. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

    fishdraw.glitch.me · 1 outlets

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

    axios.com · 1 outlets

Technology 606 stories

  1. The Apple Psi System [pdf]

    appleprivacyletter.com · 17 outlets

  2. Expanded Protections for Children

    areoform.wordpress.com · 11 outlets

  3. Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Apple plans to scan US iPhones for child abuse imagery

    reuters.com · 5 outlets

  2. Google Offices to Mandate Vaccines

    npr.org · 2 outlets

  3. Steven Weinberg has died

    math.columbia.edu · 2 outlets

  4. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

    github.com · 2 outlets

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

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  6. Bringing supply chain security features to the Go community

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  7. The Framework Laptop is now shipping

    frame.work · 1 outlets

  8. One Bad Apple

    hackerfactor.com · 1 outlets

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

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 33 stories

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

    static.wiki · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Neural-hash-collider – Find target hash collisions for NeuralHash

    github.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    culdesac.com · 1 outlets

  2. Surveys show Americans want more walkable cities

    governing.com · 1 outlets

  3. SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring

    sec.gov · 1 outlets

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

    alda.io · 1 outlets

  5. Steam survey shows Linux marketshare hitting 1.0%

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I built an AI art installation at home generating new pieces on the fly

    github.com · 1 outlets

the Monthly Close

You just read a month of news in four minutes.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.

Browse every monthly close →