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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 22 – June 21, 2023 791 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 172 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.

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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

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

Business 34 stories

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

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

  3. Reddit CEO Triples Down, Insults, Whines

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

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

  2. Private Equity Is Now Dominating the US Hospice System

  3. Former US SEC attorney: 'Get out of crypto platforms now'

  4. The Rot Economy

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

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

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

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

  9. Startup Incorporation for Founders: A new handbook

  10. Probability and Markets [pdf]

Sports 31 stories

  1. Apollo will close down on June 30th

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

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

  2. Swing VPN app is a DDoS botnet

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

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

  5. Submarine missing near Titanic used a $30 Logitech gamepad for steering

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

Technology 584 stories

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

  2. Alphabet selling Google Domains assets to Squarespace

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

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  1. A man sued Avianca Airline – his lawyer used ChatGPT

  2. Had a call with Reddit to discuss pricing

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

  4. Apple Vision predictive bio-feedback

  5. Reddit Strike Has Started

  6. The Reddit blackout will continue

  7. Rarbg Is No More

  8. Our right to challenge junk patents is under threat

  9. Did Reddit just destroy mobile browser access?

Entertainment 38 stories

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

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

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  1. Tarkovsky's films online for free

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

  3. HBO Max new Captcha system

  4. Show HN: Rarbg on IPFS

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

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

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