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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 12 – September 11, 2021 810 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 254 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Nelua Programming Language

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Native Rust Support on Cloudflare Workers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 34 stories

  1. The real OnlyFans scandal is the unaccountable power of platforms and banks

  2. Apple is suing smartphone emulation software startup Corellium

  3. Missing businesswoman urges ex-husband not to publish book critical of China

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

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

  2. Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel

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

  4. Mastodon now a non-profit organisation

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

  6. BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

  7. Big oil coined ‘carbon footprints’ to blame us for their greed

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

  9. The Australian federal government is planning to de-anonymize the internet

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

Sports 42 stories

  1. Windy.com

  2. China has forbidden under-18s from playing games for more than three hours/week

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  1. Paid influencers must label some posts as ads, German court rules

  2. Widelands is a free, open-source real-time strategy game

  3. US Cybercom says mass exploitation of Atlassian Confluence vulnerability ongoing

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

  5. Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

  6. Fishdraw: Procedurally Generated Fish Drawings

Technology 600 stories

  1. Zoom RCE from Pwn2Own 2021

  2. OnlyFans to block sexually explicit videos starting in October

  3. Hash collision in Apple NeuralHash model

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  1. Discontinuing FlickType Keyboard for iPhone

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

  3. Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store

  4. Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones

  5. Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

  6. O.mg Cable

  7. Court issues permanent injunction in Epic vs. Apple case

  8. Delays aren’t good enough – Apple must abandon its surveillance plans

  9. Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

Entertainment 33 stories

  1. Show HN: Web browser to help programmers think clearly

  2. Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

Show 6 more
  1. Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods

  2. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

  3. Lenovo tablet forced update shows un-dismissable, un-mutable, ad notifications

  4. SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring

  5. Show HN: Relativity: A Modern Primer

  6. Helio Project: libre music composition software

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