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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 18 – October 18, 2022 789 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 42 · Issue 291 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown

adguard.com · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Never trust a system that seems to be working

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    I’ve been building a database of successful companies

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Volvo is using Rust for its in-vehicle software

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 29 stories

  1. Apple’s ad business set to boom on the back of its own anti-tracking crackdown

    adguard.com · 1 outlets

  2. LAPD Officer Killed During Training Exercise Was Investigating Cops About Rape

    reason.com · 1 outlets

  3. Managers with a business degree reduce employees' wages, do not increase profit

    nber.org · 1 outlets

  4. Penpot, Open Source Figma alternative, raises $8M in funding

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Fundamentals of Control Theory

    engineeringmedia.com · 1 outlets

  3. Celsius Execs Cashed Out $40M in Crypto Before Halting Withdrawals for Customers

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple is top funder of lobby group that says it represents small developers

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. Our domain and 700 non-profit sites got blocked by Meta

    simonbackx.com · 1 outlets

  6. From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate

    jasonshen.com · 1 outlets

  7. An ‘everything app’ would be bad for liberal democracies and free markets

    nitinpai.in · 1 outlets

  8. Chess Investigation Finds U.S. Grandmaster ‘Likely Cheated’ More Than 100 Times

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  9. The 'attention economy' corrupts science

    bigthink.com · 1 outlets

  10. The anatomy of an ML-powered stock picking engine

    principiamundi.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been retracted

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Gmail 2FA causes the homeless to permanently lose access 3 times a year

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. How Wine works 101

    werat.dev · 1 outlets

  2. Google loses EU appeal and is fined a record $4B

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  3. Lose weight the slow and incredibly difficult way

    nautil.us · 1 outlets

  4. Authors’ names have ‘astonishing’ influence on peer reviewers: study

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  5. Tether ordered to produce documents showing backing of USDT [pdf]

    storage.courtlistener. · 1 outlets

  6. Reality is just a game now

    thenewatlantis.com · 1 outlets

Technology 626 stories

  1. Dear Chess World

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Someone is pretending to be me

    connortumbleson.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google is shutting down Stadia

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

    githubcopilotinvestiga · 1 outlets

  2. Whisper – open source speech recognition by OpenAI

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  3. Someday aliens will land and all will be fine until we explain our calendar

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Chaostron: An Important Advance in Learning Machines (1961)

    dl.acm.org · 1 outlets

  5. Nightdrive

    incoherency.co.uk · 1 outlets

  6. Mcmaster.com is the best e-commerce site I've ever used

    bedelstein.com · 1 outlets

  7. Obsidian 1.0 – Personal knowledge base app

    obsidian.md · 1 outlets

  8. How fateful?

    chan.co.za · 1 outlets

  9. Never trust a system that seems to be working

    makeavideo.studio · 5 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: Get conversational practice in over 20 languages by talking to an AI

    talk.quazel.com · 1 outlets

  2. Why “go nuts, show nuts” doesn’t work in 2022

    photomatt.tumblr.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

    4m3ric4.com · 1 outlets

  2. RootMyTV is a user-friendly exploit for rooting/jailbreaking LG webOS smart TVs

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Companies are paying huge sums to show their ads to bots

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  4. The deception of “buying” digital movies

    worldofmatthew.com · 1 outlets

  5. Dutch employee fired by U.S. firm for shutting off webcam awarded €75K in court

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

  6. How Brian Eno Created Ambient 1: Music for Airports (2019)

    reverbmachine.com · 1 outlets

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