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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 259 2023-09-16
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 17 – September 16, 2023 810 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 37 · Issue 259 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?

A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower and two pilots testified before Congress about the strange, seemingly inexplicable objects.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Birb: Programming with bird emojis

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

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

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 2 stories

  1. Pentagon launches website for declassified UFO information

    CBS · 1 outlets

  2. Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 32 stories

  1. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

    csvbase.com · 1 outlets

  2. The boiling frog of digital freedom

    gazoche.xyz · 1 outlets

  3. Building an economy simulator from scratch

    thomassimon.dev · 1 outlets

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

    juxt.pro · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

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

    undark.org · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

    anfr.fr · 1 outlets

  9. The New Godot Development Fund

    fund.godotengine.org · 2 outlets

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

    tokio.rs · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

    ctrl.blog · 2 outlets

  2. Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    blogs.windows.com · 1 outlets

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

    macstories.net · 1 outlets

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

    windy.com · 1 outlets

  5. Bitty Engine: An itty bitty game engine

    github.com · 2 outlets

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

    ad8e.pages.dev · 1 outlets

Technology 635 stories

  1. How large is that number in the Law of Large Numbers?

    ai.meta.com · 3 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 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. Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

    isro.gov.in · 1 outlets

  4. OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

    opentf.org · 1 outlets

  5. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

    nothinghuman.substack. · 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. NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild

    citizenlab.ca · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 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: I automated half of my typing

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

    smolsite.zip · 1 outlets

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

    blog.owulveryck.info · 1 outlets

  4. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

    ryujinx.org · 1 outlets

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

    news.gallup.com · 1 outlets

  6. Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics

    servethehome.com · 1 outlets

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