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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 9 – March 11, 2023 804 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 10 · Issue 70 Get it by email ↓
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 March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Another UFO shot down over Canada by US

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What does "Copy clean link" mean?

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 41 stories

  1. Bank run on Silicon Valley Bank

    fdic.gov · 6 outlets

  2. Maybe treating housing as an investment was a mistake

    goodreason.substack.co · 1 outlets

  3. Most data work seems fundamentally worthless

    ludic.mataroa.blog · 1 outlets

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

    wccftech.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    frame.work · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  4. Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  7. Canada's tax revenue agency tries to ToS itself out of hacking liability

    riskybiznews.substack. · 1 outlets

  8. Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  9. Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  10. Governments should compete for residents, not businesses

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit

    vice.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Lander, a lunar lander style web game

    ehmorris.com · 2 outlets

  2. Battery-free Game Boy (2020)

    freethegameboy.info · 1 outlets

  3. ChatGPT generated a puzzle game

    puzzledpenguin.substac · 1 outlets

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

    kareem.substack.com · 1 outlets

  5. I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle

    thefp.com · 1 outlets

  6. How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb

    chriskiehl.com · 1 outlets

Technology 602 stories

  1. Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

    npr.org · 4 outlets

  2. The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption

    theregister.com · 4 outlets

  3. Palm-E: An Embodied Multimodal Language Model

    ai.facebook.com · 4 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. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

    simonwillison.net · 2 outlets

  4. Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  5. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

    jaykmody.com · 1 outlets

  6. Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  7. My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

    jeffgeerling.com · 1 outlets

  8. Reliability: It’s not great

    community.fly.io · 1 outlets

  9. Smartphones and social media are destroying children’s mental health

    jonathanhaidt.substack · 2 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Show HN: I built a better UI for ChatGPT

    github.com · 5 outlets

  2. Show HN: BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT

    genmon.github.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. The Quest for Netflix on Asahi Linux

    da.vidbuchanan.co.uk · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: AskHN

    patterns.app · 1 outlets

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

    screenstab.com · 5 outlets

  4. Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Coltrane: A music theory library with a command-line interface

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

    github.com · 1 outlets

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