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Software and routines for independent workers and small product teams.

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Work

A computer cut off their income. A regulator has now put a price on that.

The Dutch data protection authority fined Uber almost 825 million euros for deactivating driver accounts automatically, with no human looking at the decision. The rule it enforced applies well beyond ride-hailing.

7 min read · Updated August 28, 2026 · Method: The Dutch data protection authority's own decision announcement, with independent reporting from Quartz and MediaNama

Disclosure: No paid placement. Top Apps HQ has no commercial relationship with Uber or the publishers cited.

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Work

mddb wants your AI agents to remember across every machine

The publisher-connected project is shifting from config sync toward portable agent memory. Here is the useful idea, the security boundary and the beta reality.

13 min read · Updated August 2, 2026 · Method: Publisher-disclosed feature based on the public mddb product pages and a direct inspection of the publisher-connected project source tree and status documentation on August 2, 2026. This is not independent product testing.

Disclosure: Top Apps HQ and mddb share the same publisher. This is a disclosed publisher feature, not independent coverage and not a paid placement.

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Work

Gig workers have a global labor standard. Now countries have to use it.

ILO Convention 193 covers delivery riders, drivers and online platform workers across borders. Adoption is the beginning of domestic law, not an instant change inside an app.

6 min read · Updated July 22, 2026 · Method: The adopted convention text and independent Reuters-based reporting

Disclosure: No paid placement. Top Apps HQ has no commercial relationship with the ILO, unions, platforms or cited publishers.

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Work

AI coding agents keep forgetting how you work. mddb is building one shared memory.

Claude Code, Codex and other coding agents each keep their own rules, skills and server settings. mddb is trying to preserve the meaning once, then render the files each tool expects.

11 min read · Updated July 22, 2026 · Method: Public product pages and a disclosed publisher-conducted repository review; no independent product test

Publisher disclosure: mddb is a project connected to the publisher of Top Apps HQ. This article explains the problem it is designed to address and is not an independent review. The product is currently in prelaunch; claims about sync speed, recovery, security and compatibility are based on its public product pages and have not yet been independently tested by Top Apps HQ.