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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 19 – May 26, 2023 188 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 146 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Surgeon General: Social media may pose risk to teen mental health

Dr. Vivek Murthy urged policymakers and tech companies to take "immediate action" to protect young people.

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Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Disney to close its "Star Wars" hotel that opened last year

Business 10 stories

  1. UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”

  2. Venture Predation

  3. Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say

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  1. €1.2B GDPR fine for Meta

  2. AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity

  3. UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

  4. iPhone maker Wistron quits, saying Apple didn't let it make a profit

Sports 9 stories

  1. Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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  1. Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page

  2. I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)

  3. Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M

Technology 150 stories

  1. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

  2. Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

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  1. Memory Allocation

  2. PyPI Was Subpoenaed

  3. Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]

  4. Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple

  5. Orb Farm

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption

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  1. Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline

  2. Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd

  3. Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

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