The Daily Index — Monday, September 25, 2023 · TLDR Index

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UNITY APOLOGIZES TO DEVS, REVEALS UPDATED RUNTIME FEE POLICY

Unity's runtime fee will no longer apply to games built on Unity Personal. It will only apply to developers on the Pro and Enterprise plans using the next LTS version of Unity arriving in 2024. The fee will not apply to games made with previous versions of Unity unless they are upgraded to the next version of Unity. Games with less than $1 million in trailing 12-month revenue will be exempt from the fee.

gamedeveloper.com · 5 min

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A STRANGE SIGN OF THE TIMES

The FBI seized stolen credentials for 80 million accounts from a darknet marketplace in April. It decided to work with the owner of data breach notification service 'Have I Been Pwned' to notify people whether their data was part of the seized data. Have I Been Pwned is run by a couple in Australia. This article tells the story of how the service started and why the FBI decided to work with it.

abc.net.au · 14 min

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GOING

Many organizations and even a few government institutions have reached out to Shopify to request a Meeting Cost Calculator of their own after the company's success with the tool.

fastcompany.com · 8 min

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EXPERT CSS: THE CPU HACK

This article discusses how to continually crunch data and reevaluate state using CSS without ever touching JavaScript.

dev.to · 12 min

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BRITAIN SET TO APPROVE AMENDED MICROSOFT-ACTIVISION DEAL

The amended Microsoft-Activision deal involves the sale of Activision's cloud gaming rights to Ubisoft.

cnn.com · 3 min

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CHOOSE POSTGRES QUEUE TECHNOLOGY

Postgres queue technology is a relatively obscure tech that announces and listens for new jobs and enables row locks.

adriano.fyi · 13 min

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TO TAME TECH

The Federal Trade Commission has been preparing a complaint against Amazon since at least the start of this year and it will file an antitrust case against the online retailer as soon as Tuesday.

politico.com · 3 min

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MY SOLOPRENEUR STORY: ZERO TO $45K/MO IN 2 YEARS

The story of how one solopreneur created four successful products and built an audience of 97,000 followers on Twitter to bring in a total revenue of around $45,000 a month in just two years.

news.tonydinh.com · 19 min