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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 15 – September 14, 2021 819 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 257 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. BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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

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

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

  9. Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community

  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. Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

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

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

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

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

  6. Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI

Technology 609 stories

  1. Your Phone Is Your Private Space

  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. O.mg Cable

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

  7. Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

  8. Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

  9. I refuse to let Amazon define Rust

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. YouTube takes down the Ig Nobel show because of a 1914 recording

  5. SEC charges Netflix insider trading ring

  6. Show HN: Relativity: A Modern Primer

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