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The week in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 147 2023-05-27
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 20 – May 27, 2023 186 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 147 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Scammers using text messages to drain bank accounts in new ploy

The growing trend led to a staggering $8.8 billion in losses last year, according to government data.

CBS · 1 sources

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Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 9 stories

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

    acm.org · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  3. €1.2B GDPR fine for Meta

    noyb.eu · 1 outlets

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  1. AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    theregister.com · 1 outlets

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

    9to5mac.com · 1 outlets

  4. WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

Sports 9 stories

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

    kanboard.org · 1 outlets

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

    youdontneedamodalwindo · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard

    fretboardfly.com · 1 outlets

Technology 149 stories

  1. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

    cs.stanford.edu · 2 outlets

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

    cnn.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Memory Allocation

    samwho.dev · 1 outlets

  2. PyPI Was Subpoenaed

    blog.pypi.org · 1 outlets

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

    math.cmu.edu · 1 outlets

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

    engineersneedart.com · 1 outlets

  5. Meta AI announces Massive Multilingual Speech code, models for 1000+ languages

    github.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 9 stories

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

    pixian.ai · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Potentially millions of Android TVs and phones come with malware preinstalled

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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