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The month's top story

Kidnapped and threatened with dynamite, bank manager forced to commit $360,000 robbery to save her daughter's life

A look into the evidence from the 2000 hostage situation and bank robbery that changed a mother and daughter's lives.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The paper that made ChatGPT possible

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Replacing Mapbox with open source solutions

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Reclaiming History: Inside the 60 Minutes story as it unfolded in real time

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 46 stories

  1. AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline

    wccftech.com · 1 outlets

  2. Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace

    frame.work · 1 outlets

  3. Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s

    colinpurrington.com · 1 outlets

  3. AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  4. Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge

    businessinsider.com · 2 outlets

  5. Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend

    semianalysis.com · 1 outlets

  6. Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  7. Does Google need a new CEO?

    om.co · 1 outlets

  8. W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

    w3.org · 1 outlets

  9. I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business

    mostlymetrics.com · 1 outlets

  10. North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year

    economist.com · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. The window trick of Las Vegas hotels

    schedium.net · 1 outlets

  2. GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress

    bay12forums.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

    videovillage.co · 2 outlets

  3. Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

    techspot.com · 1 outlets

  4. I want to lose every debate

    sive.rs · 1 outlets

  5. De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  6. What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record

    kareem.substack.com · 1 outlets

Technology 596 stories

  1. AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

    twitch.tv · 2 outlets

  2. Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

    npr.org · 4 outlets

  3. Chinese surveillance balloon spotted over U.S., Pentagon says

    cnbc.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off

    seattletimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. New Hulu movies: the biggest films to stream in February 2025

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  3. Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit

    theregister.com · 2 outlets

  4. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

    simonwillison.net · 2 outlets

  5. Visual design rules you can safely follow

    anthonyhobday.com · 1 outlets

  6. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

    jaykmody.com · 1 outlets

  7. Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

    flightradar24.com · 1 outlets

  8. Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

    mullvad.net · 2 outlets

  9. Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

    play-cs.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. MusicLM: Generating music from text

    arxiv.org · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

    maroofy.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

    trigger.dev · 6 outlets

  2. Show HN: Turn your Pandas dataframe into a Tableau-style UI for visual analysis

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I made Hacker News but for research papers

    lungy.app · 2 outlets

  4. Show HN: AskHN

    patterns.app · 1 outlets

  5. Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More

    gamespot.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I made a tool that turns screenshots into dramatically angled photos

    screenstab.com · 1 outlets

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