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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 25 – October 25, 2022 772 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 298 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

    SingleFile version compatible with Manifest V3

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: I made a new AI colorizer

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 32 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. Hyundai investigating child labor in its U.S. supply chain

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    simonbackx.com · 1 outlets

  6. As Covid hit, Washington officials traded stocks with exquisite timing

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  7. From Burned Out Tech CEO to Amazon Warehouse Associate

    jasonshen.com · 1 outlets

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

    nitinpai.in · 1 outlets

  9. San Francisco is spending $1.7M on one public toilet

    news.yahoo.com · 2 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

Sports 23 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 macOS scanning and following downloaded QR codes has been retracted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. What’s wrong with medieval pigs in videogames

    leidenmedievalistsblog · 1 outlets

  2. A chill driving game with procedurally generate scenic landscapes

    slowroads.io · 1 outlets

  3. How Wine works 101

    werat.dev · 1 outlets

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

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  5. Why are there so few dead bugs on windshields these days?

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  6. Available Today: Windows Dev Kit 2023 a.k.a. Project Volterra

    blogs.windows.com · 1 outlets

Technology 611 stories

  1. New Jersey legislators aim to ban most in-car subscriptions

    thedrive.com · 2 outlets

  2. Dear Chess World

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Sound

    ciechanow.ski · 1 outlets

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  1. Someone is pretending to be me

    connortumbleson.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google is shutting down Stadia

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  3. GitHub Copi­lot inves­ti­ga­tion

    githubcopilotinvestiga · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    dl.acm.org · 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. I help seniors with technology issues

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. How fateful?

    chan.co.za · 1 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. Show HN: Linen – Open-source Slack for communities

    restfox.dev · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    photomatt.tumblr.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: America – Road Trip Simulator

    4m3ric4.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  5. The deception of “buying” digital movies

    worldofmatthew.com · 1 outlets

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

    nltimes.nl · 1 outlets

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