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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 238 2023-08-26
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 27 – August 26, 2023 792 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 238 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Why an eye exam should be on your child's back-to-school checklist

Back-to-school season is a great time for kids to get an eye exam, doctors say, specially since school screenings can miss kids with vision problems.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Selling open-source software

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    Throw away your first draft of your code

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 26 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

    cnbc.com · 3 outlets

  2. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

    hashicorp.com · 1 outlets

  3. Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

    fedoramagazine.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  2. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  4. How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  5. Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. My frugal indie dev startup stack (2022)

    getwaitlist.com · 1 outlets

  7. Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems

    tokio.rs · 1 outlets

  8. Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  10. Adding water to Martian soil samples might have been a bad idea

    daily.jstor.org · 1 outlets

Sports 36 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

    plbrault.com · 1 outlets

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

    eff.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

    arxiv.org · 1 outlets

  2. How a startup loses its spark

    blog.johnqian.com · 1 outlets

  3. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

    darkreading.com · 1 outlets

  5. Windy.com: global weather website with live filters

    windy.com · 1 outlets

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

    blogs.loc.gov · 1 outlets

Technology 594 stories

  1. A place where no humans will tread for 100k years

    explore.zoom.us · 6 outlets

  2. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

    science.org · 4 outlets

  3. Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Throw away your first draft of your code

    techpowerup.com · 4 outlets

  2. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

    blog.archive.org · 2 outlets

  3. eSignature Beta for Google Docs and Google Drive

    rants.org · 7 outlets

  4. Hugging Face, GitHub and more unite to defend open source in EU AI legislation

    newsroom.ibm.com · 2 outlets

  5. Shamir Secret Sharing

    max.levch.in · 1 outlets

  6. SUSE to go private

    suse.com · 2 outlets

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

    groups.google.com · 3 outlets

  8. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  9. Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

    isro.gov.in · 1 outlets

Entertainment 36 stories

  1. Factorio: Space Age

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

    github.com · 2 outlets

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

    sfcompute.org · 1 outlets

  2. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

    my90stv.com · 1 outlets

  3. The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency

    blog.owulveryck.info · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Use Code Llama as Drop-In Replacement for Copilot Chat

    github.com · 3 outlets

  5. Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing

    news.gallup.com · 1 outlets

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