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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 2 – August 1, 2023 807 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 213 Get it by email ↓
The month'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.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The Red Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Sports

    Windows: A software engineering odyssey (2000)

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 31 stories

  1. FedNow Is Live

    federalreserve.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

    noahpinion.blog · 1 outlets

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

    eidel.io · 1 outlets

  4. Linux has achieved a 3% desktop market share

    linuxiac.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Illegal Life Pro Tip: Want to ruin your competitor's business?

    oppositeinvictus.com · 1 outlets

  3. Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  5. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

    joinbookwyrm.com · 1 outlets

  6. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

    alicegg.tech · 1 outlets

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

    servethehome.com · 1 outlets

  8. Turning my hobby into a business made me hate it

    shant.nu · 1 outlets

  9. The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  10. StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  2. More than 75% of Steam games tested are playable or verified on the Steam Deck

    mastodon.cloud · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

    arxiv.org · 1 outlets

  2. New study reveals most classic video games are unavailable

    gamehistory.org · 1 outlets

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

    community.influxdata.c · 1 outlets

  4. Vale's first prototype for immutable region borrowing

    verdagon.dev · 1 outlets

  5. Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics

    blogs.loc.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 606 stories

  1. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

    neelc.org · 7 outlets

  2. Is the aircraft in this image real?

    arxiv.org · 4 outlets

  3. Threads, an Instagram app

    techcrunch.com · 8 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Kevin Mitnick has died

    dignitymemorial.com · 1 outlets

  2. Llama 2

    ai.meta.com · 1 outlets

  3. Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

    stanforddaily.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple says it'll remove iMessage and FaceTime in UK rather than break encryption

    9to5mac.com · 1 outlets

  5. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website

    wiby.me · 1 outlets

  7. Zenbleed

    lock.cmpxchg8b.com · 1 outlets

  8. Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer

    treeherder.mozilla.org · 1 outlets

  9. Superconductor news: What’s claimed, and how strong the evidence seems to be

    science.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

    workout.lol · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: Hacker News user blogroll

    dm.hn · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

    projectionlab.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

    sfcompute.org · 1 outlets

  3. Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  4. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

    my90stv.com · 1 outlets

  5. Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

    github.com · 2 outlets

  6. Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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