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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close July 5 – July 12, 2023 187 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 28 · Issue 193 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Man awaits sentencing in crossbow plot to kill Queen Elizabeth

Jaswant Singh Chail was detained on the Windsor Castle grounds on Christmas Day 2021 with a loaded crossbow.

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Business 7 stories

  1. Don't Take VC Funding – It Will Destroy Your Company

  2. Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

  3. Intel exiting the PC business as it stops investment in the Intel NUC

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  1. Wash trading gone wrong – how a $100M/day crypto exchange bankrupted itself

  2. The underground economy of Glassdoor reviews

  3. 'Forever chemicals' could be in nearly half of US tap water, federal study finds

  4. Blocking Threads won't be enough to protect privacy once they join the Fediverse

Sports 13 stories

  1. New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

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  1. InfluxDB Cloud shuts down in Belgium; some weren't notified before data deletion

  2. Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

  3. Windows 9x and Word 9x at 800x600 resolution. Spacious. Comfy

Technology 147 stories

  1. Backend of Meta Threads is built with Python 3.10

  2. Every person on the planet should have their own website

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  1. Implementing Wordle in the Firefox address bar

  2. Kelly Rowland couldn't have used the =HYPERLINK() function to message Nelly

  3. Displayport: A Better Video Interface

  4. Excellence is a habit, but so is failure

  5. GPT-4 API General Availability

Entertainment 9 stories

  1. Show HN: Workout.lol – a web app to easily create a workout routine

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  1. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

  2. A Japanese factory that designs clothes on a 40-year-old computer [video]

  3. Apple VisionOS Simulator streaming wirelessly to Meta Quest headset

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