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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 19 – August 26, 2021 195 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 238 Get it by email ↓
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Business 10 stories

  1. EFF Joins Global Coalition Asking Apple CEO Tim Cook to Stop Phone-Scanning

  2. The Sweden experiment: how no lockdowns led to mental health, healthier economy

  3. Hydrogen lobbyist quits, slams oil companies’ “false claims” about blue hydrogen

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  1. Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit

  2. Noam Chomsky – Startup Culture (2015) [video]

  3. Sweden must repay $1.6M in Bitcoin to convicted drug dealer

  4. A third of Stitch Fix employees quit after new CEO ends flexible work hours

Sports 9 stories

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

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  1. Joe Rogan, confined to Spotify, is losing influence

  2. Razer bug lets you become a Windows 10 admin by plugging in a mouse

  3. Roblox faces criticism for 'exploiting' young game developers

Technology 159 stories

  1. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

  2. ImageNet contains naturally occurring Apple NeuralHash collisions

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  1. Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

  2. My mouse driver is asking for a firewall exemption (2019)

  3. How I Experience Web Today

  4. Prettymaps: Small Python library to draw customized maps from OpenStreetMap data

  5. Facebook hacker beat my 2FA, bricked my Oculus, and hit the company credit card

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

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  1. The Clickbaitification of Netflix

  2. Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

  3. Sonic Pi – Code based live music creation tool

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