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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 1 – May 31, 2023 813 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 151 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Man unknowingly buys former plantation house where his ancestors were enslaved

An Air Force veteran wanted a new house for large family gatherings; he ended up getting an incredible link to his family's past.

CBS · 1 sources

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1Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Open-source disposable email service

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The HTTP QUERY Method specification

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. Scammers using text messages to drain bank accounts in new ploy

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 38 stories

  1. Vice files for Bankruptcy

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. Federal judge: Border searches of cell phones require a warrant

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  3. Bank Failures Visualized

    observablehq.com · 1 outlets

  4. I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    acm.org · 1 outlets

  3. Venture Predation

    papers.ssrn.com · 1 outlets

  4. Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  5. Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

    cbsnews.com · 1 outlets

  6. Investigating Linux phantom disk reads

    questdb.io · 1 outlets

  7. Majority of gig economy workers are earning below minimum wage: research

    bristol.ac.uk · 1 outlets

  8. Europeans drain billions from banks, fed up with shrinking savings

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  9. IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX

    unchainedcrypto.com · 1 outlets

  10. Google employees complain about CEO's pay raise as cost cuts hit company

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Sports 40 stories

  1. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. 100K Context Windows

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

    ag.ny.gov · 1 outlets

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

    kanboard.org · 1 outlets

  3. Film studios lose bid to unmask Reddit users who wrote comments on piracy

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Morris Tanenbaum, inventor of the silicon transistor, has died

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  5. Windmill: Open-source developer platform to turn scripts into workflows and UIs

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    youdontneedamodalwindo · 1 outlets

Technology 625 stories

  1. GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

    simonwillison.net · 6 outlets

  3. Geoffrey Hinton leaves Google and warns of danger ahead

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    cnn.com · 2 outlets

  2. How to Stare at Your Phone Without Losing Your Soul

    arxiv.org · 4 outlets

  3. Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

    semianalysis.com · 1 outlets

  4. Memory Allocation

    samwho.dev · 1 outlets

  5. See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

    subtls.pages.dev · 2 outlets

  6. PyPI Was Subpoenaed

    blog.pypi.org · 1 outlets

  7. Open-source disposable email service

    jmap.io · 5 outlets

  8. It's A(door)able

    ncase.me · 1 outlets

  9. MSFT is forcing Outlook and Teams to open links in Edge and IT admins are angry

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

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

    boringreport.org · 2 outlets

  2. India ruling party's IT cell used AI to show smile on arrested protesters' faces

    altnews.in · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Tarkovsky's films online for free

    kottke.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

    beepberry.sqfmi.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. HBO Max new Captcha system

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Willow – Open-source privacy-focused voice assistant hardware

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

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