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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 6 – January 5, 2023 769 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 01 · Issue 5 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?

What dominated January

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Reverse Engineering TikTok's VM Obfuscation

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Breaking RSA with a quantum computer?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Sports

    Winter & Cold Weather EV Range Loss in 7,000 Cars

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?

  2. My Youtube earnings

  3. Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

  4. French startup unveils new residential thermo-acoustic heat pump

Show 10 more
  1. TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab

  2. Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B

  3. FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

  4. ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business

  5. Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam [video]

  6. AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off

  7. “My PGP key is compromised, and at least many of my bitcoins stolen”

  8. Neuralink faces federal inquiry after killing 1,500 animals in testing

  9. Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)

  10. Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery

Sports 30 stories

  1. Recursive Game of Life

  2. Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

Show 6 more
  1. How many layers of UI inconsistencies are in Windows 11?

  2. There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge

  3. Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

  4. Croatia to switch to euro, enter passport-free Schengen zone

  5. Argentina Wins the World Cup

  6. Ten influential programming languages (2020)

Technology 574 stories

  1. ElonJet Is Now Suspended

  2. Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

  3. Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable

Show 9 more
  1. OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out

  2. John Carmack Leaves Meta

  3. Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups

  4. Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays

  5. SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

  6. Draw SVG rope using JavaScript

  7. I still use Flash

  8. Twitter is suspending journalists who cover Elon

  9. Microsoft is preparing to add ChatGPT to Bing

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley: A love story

  2. Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

  2. Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager

  3. Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer

  4. Show HN: I made an Ethernet transceiver from logic gates

  5. Experian Vulnerability Shows Any Report with just SSN, DOB, ADR

  6. Show HN: Pole Clock, a single 24h clock with multiple timezones

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