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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 170 2023-06-19
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 20 – June 19, 2023 784 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 170 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

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback

    4 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Lua: The Little Language That Could

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Plane: Open-Source Alternative to Jira

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 35 stories

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

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  2. Pricing Money: A beginner's guide to money, bonds, futures and swaps

    jdawiseman.com · 1 outlets

  3. Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults, Whines

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  4. Thousands of subreddits pledge to go dark after the Reddit CEO’s recent remarks

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. SEC Sues Binance and CEO Zhao for Breaking US Securities Rules

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  2. Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  3. The Rot Economy

    wheresyoured.at · 1 outlets

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

    acm.org · 1 outlets

  5. EU suggests breaking up Google's ad business in preliminary antitrust ruling

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  6. Reddit CEO Says Mods Too Powerful, Plans to Weaken After Blackout

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  7. Instant Brands, maker of Instant Pot and Pyrex cookware, files for bankruptcy

    cbc.ca · 1 outlets

  8. Startup Incorporation for Founders: A new handbook

    handbooks.clerky.com · 1 outlets

  9. Probability and Markets [pdf]

    janestreet.com · 1 outlets

  10. Reddit’s CEO edited comments that criticized him (2016)

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. Apollo will close down on June 30th

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  2. McDonald's just dropped a brand new Game Boy game

    retrododo.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Windows 11 calls a zip file a 'postcode file' in UK English

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet

    lecromee.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. Messages that can only be understood under the influence of psychedelics

    qri.org · 1 outlets

  4. US SEC sues Coinbase, one day after suing Binance

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    kanboard.org · 1 outlets

  6. The Secret Sauce behind 100K context window in LLMs: all tricks in one place

    blog.gopenai.com · 1 outlets

Technology 574 stories

  1. Don't let Reddit kill 3rd party apps

    arstechnica.com · 5 outlets

  2. Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

  3. Proposed SEC order to freeze, repatriate Binance.US assets

    kitco.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

    simonwillison.net · 5 outlets

  2. Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

    daringfireball.net · 4 outlets

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

    cnn.com · 2 outlets

  4. Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback

    apple.com · 7 outlets

  5. Reddit Strike Has Started

    reddark.untone.uk · 1 outlets

  6. The Reddit blackout will continue

    old.reddit.com · 2 outlets

  7. Memory Allocation

    samwho.dev · 1 outlets

  8. Rarbg Is No More

    web.archive.org · 1 outlets

  9. Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat

    eff.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 37 stories

  1. Show HN: 77 Year old launches SaaS platform today. Seeks feedback

    non.io · 3 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: I open sourced the QR designer from my failed startup

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. HBO Max new Captcha system

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

    ipfs.io · 1 outlets

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I made an open-source Notion-style WYSYWIG editor

    csspro.com · 2 outlets

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