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2023-08-09
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 2 – August 9, 2023 202 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 221 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

"Glacial outburst" flooding destroys at least 2 buildings in Alaska

A home collapsed into a raging river swollen by waters from a glacial dam release north of the state capital of Juneau, the National Weather Service said.

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Business 5 stories

  1. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

  2. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

  3. Banks hit with millions in fines for using Signal and WhatsApp

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  1. CEOs’ pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft

  2. Kenya suspends Sam Altman’s eyeball-scanning crypto project

Sports 8 stories

  1. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

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  1. The $1M shot that changed sports contests

  2. Winter temperatures above 35C in South America leave climatologists in disbelief

  3. Edge detection doesn’t explain line drawing

Technology 165 stories

  1. Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

  2. Throw away your first draft of your code

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  1. IBM and NASA Open Source Largest Geospatial AI Foundation Model on Hugging Face

  2. Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot

  3. Successful room temperature ambient-pressure magnetic levitation of LK-99

  4. Downfall Attacks

  5. Water

Entertainment 8 stories

  1. Show HN: Learn a language quickly by practising speaking with AI

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  1. Show HN: Hydra 1.0 – open-source column-oriented Postgres

  2. Jeremy Vaught spent 16 years to build @music on Twitter, then X took it away

  3. Sync for Lemmy

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