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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 265 2023-09-22
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 23 – September 22, 2023 802 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 38 · Issue 265 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Landmark homeless lawsuit, The People vs. City of Sacramento, could impact policies statewide

The Sacramento County District Attorney's office is suing the City of Sacramento alleging the city failed to enforce the law and allowed the homeless crisis to become a public nuisance.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

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

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

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

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Unity's Self-Combustion Engine

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

  2. Pentagon launches website for declassified UFO information

    CBS · 1 outlets

  3. Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 35 stories

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

    csvbase.com · 1 outlets

  2. I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

    adayinthelifeof.nl · 1 outlets

  3. The boiling frog of digital freedom

    gazoche.xyz · 1 outlets

  4. Building an economy simulator from scratch

    thomassimon.dev · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    juxt.pro · 1 outlets

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

    msrc.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  7. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

    maxread.substack.com · 1 outlets

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

    undark.org · 1 outlets

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

    anfr.fr · 1 outlets

  10. The New Godot Development Fund

    fund.godotengine.org · 2 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

    ctrl.blog · 2 outlets

  2. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

    openra.net · 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. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

    nature.com · 1 outlets

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

    macstories.net · 1 outlets

  6. Bitty Engine: An itty bitty game engine

    github.com · 2 outlets

Technology 626 stories

  1. Large Language Models for Compiler Optimization

    ai.meta.com · 3 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  3. The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated

    stackdiary.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    404media.co · 2 outlets

  2. Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

    isro.gov.in · 1 outlets

  3. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

    blog.kagi.com · 1 outlets

  4. OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

    opentf.org · 1 outlets

  5. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

    cs.cmu.edu · 1 outlets

  6. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

    nothinghuman.substack. · 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: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

    github.com · 5 outlets

  3. Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps

    electric-sql.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

    smolsite.zip · 1 outlets

  5. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

    ryujinx.org · 1 outlets

  6. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

    japantimes.co.jp · 1 outlets

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