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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 250 2023-09-07
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The month's top story

Pentagon launches website for declassified UFO information

The site aims to serve as a "one-stop shop" for publicly available information related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, according to the Pentagon.

CBS · 1 sources

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1Articles

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    What do I think about Community Notes?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Ubicloud – open, free and portable cloud

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

  1. Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 30 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

    cnbc.com · 3 outlets

  2. The boiling frog of digital freedom

    gazoche.xyz · 1 outlets

  3. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

    hashicorp.com · 1 outlets

  4. Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

    juxt.pro · 1 outlets

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  1. Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition

    msrc.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  7. Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

    undark.org · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    tokio.rs · 1 outlets

  10. The Federal Helium reserve is for sale

    gsa.gov · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

    plbrault.com · 1 outlets

  2. How a startup loses its spark

    blog.johnqian.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  3. Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe

    blogs.windows.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. Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music

    ad8e.pages.dev · 1 outlets

Technology 621 stories

  1. Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

    ai.meta.com · 3 outlets

  2. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

    blog.archive.org · 2 outlets

  3. GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

    stackdiary.com · 3 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

    404media.co · 2 outlets

  2. SUSE to go private

    suse.com · 2 outlets

  3. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  4. Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

    isro.gov.in · 1 outlets

  5. OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

    opentf.org · 1 outlets

  6. The first conformant M1 GPU driver

    rosenzweig.io · 1 outlets

  7. The worst programmer I know

    dannorth.net · 1 outlets

  8. ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  9. Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?

    puzzling.stackexchange · 1 outlets

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Factorio: Space Age

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

  2. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

    ericdraken.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I automated half of my typing

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

    smolsite.zip · 1 outlets

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

    blog.owulveryck.info · 1 outlets

  5. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

    ryujinx.org · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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