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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 17 – September 16, 2021 820 stories · Vol. 21 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 259 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

    TSMC hikes chip prices up to 20% amid supply shortage

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Nelua Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store

    3 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

Show 10 more
  1. Apple banned a pay equity Slack channel

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

  3. BookWyrm is a federated Goodreads replacement

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

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

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

  7. Trademark Actions Against the PostgreSQL Community

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

  9. EU Funding for Developer Tools for the Decentralized Web

  10. The Feds Want to Know What the McFuck Is Going on with the McFlurry Machines

Sports 41 stories

  1. Windy.com

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

Show 6 more
  1. Mozilla has defeated Microsoft’s default browser protections in Windows

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

  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. Steam Top 50 Games: Over 70% now work on Linux

Technology 619 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. Princeton Researchers Who Built a CSAM Scanning System Urge Apple to Not Use It

  2. Apple will let developers accept payment outside App Store

  3. Tell Apple: Don’t Scan Our Phones

  4. O.mg Cable

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

  6. Apple Delays Rollout of Child Safety Features

  7. Tech-savvy audiences block Google Analytics

  8. I refuse to let Amazon define Rust

  9. Today Sci-Hub is 10 years old. I'll publish 2M new articles to celebrate

Entertainment 36 stories

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

  2. Facebook knows Instagram is toxic for teen girls, company documents show

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Time travel debugger for web development

  2. Show HN: 59a34eabe31910abfb06f308 – NeuralHash Collision Demo

  3. Dutch cities want to ban property investors in all neighborhoods

  4. Samsung remotely disables TVs looted from South African warehouse

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

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

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