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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 12 – September 11, 2023 795 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 254 Get it by email ↓
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.

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What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    New Map APIs from Google

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    What do I think about Community Notes?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

Business 27 stories

  1. The boiling frog of digital freedom

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

  7. The Federal Helium reserve is for sale

  8. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

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

  10. The U.S. housing market vs. the Canadian housing market

Sports 39 stories

  1. Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

  2. A video game where you are an operating system

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  1. Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

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

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

  4. I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17

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

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

Technology 618 stories

  1. Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

  2. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

  3. FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers

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

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

  3. SUSE to go private

  4. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

  5. Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

  6. OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

  7. The first conformant M1 GPU driver

  8. The worst programmer I know

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

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Factorio: Space Age

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

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

  2. Show HN: I automated half of my typing

  3. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

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

  5. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

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

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