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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 23 – October 23, 2023 791 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 296 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Why Sacramento police are solving more car theft cases than other agencies nationwide

If your car is stolen, the odds are your car will be found but the person who stole it will almost never be arrested. But Sacramento PD has a higher arrest rate than most thanks to new technology and a dedicated team.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    "No, it's less effort than that"

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Open Source Firmware Conference

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Omnivore – free, open source, read-it-later App

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 33 stories

  1. John Riccitiello steps down as CEO of Unity

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  2. The FTC sues to break up Amazon over an economy-wide “hidden tax”

    thebignewsletter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Small business owners say they're pressured to hire off-duty cops for security

    minnesotareformer.com · 1 outlets

  4. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Startup CTO's Handbook

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Tech CEO sentenced to 5 years in IP address scheme

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  3. Oil sector is lobbying for inefficient hydrogen cars to delay electrification

    rechargenews.com · 1 outlets

  4. Stocketa – An app I designed, built and never launched

    paulstamatiou.com · 1 outlets

  5. Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  6. Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“

    power-technology.com · 1 outlets

  7. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

    d3.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

  8. Krita fund has no corporate support

    fund.krita.org · 1 outlets

  9. EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access

    neowin.net · 1 outlets

  10. Who profits most from America's baffling health-care system?

    economist.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM

    raverie-us.github.io · 1 outlets

  2. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

    blog.apnic.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Reflect – Multiplayer web app framework with game-style synchronization

    rocicorp.dev · 2 outlets

  2. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

    punkx.org · 1 outlets

  4. VeraCrypt: Free open-source disk encryption for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

    veracrypt.fr · 1 outlets

  5. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  6. Zimaboard: The closest thing to my dream home server setup

    ounapuu.ee · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Mistral 7B

    mistral.ai · 2 outlets

  2. EU Chat Control Bill Postponed

    berthub.eu · 6 outlets

  3. How LSP could have been better

    theverge.com · 5 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. LinkedIn is laying off nearly 700 employees

    npr.org · 2 outlets

  2. The novel HTTP/2 'Rapid Reset' DDoS attack

    cloud.google.com · 3 outlets

  3. "No, it's less effort than that"

    news.mit.edu · 5 outlets

  4. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

    jamesbvaughan.com · 1 outlets

  5. Raspberry Pi 5

    raspberrypi.com · 1 outlets

  6. A hacker's guide to language models [video]

    audio-video.gnu.org · 2 outlets

  7. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

    jenson.org · 1 outlets

  8. Log is the "Pro" in iPhone 15 Pro

    prolost.com · 1 outlets

  9. Bing ChatGPT image jailbreak

    openai.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

    tenochtitlan.thomaskol · 1 outlets

  2. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

    nobelprize.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

    lfgslots.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

    eliot.blog · 3 outlets

  3. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

    music.ishkur.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: An app store just for installable web apps

    store.app · 1 outlets

  5. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

    blog.jgc.org · 1 outlets

  6. Video streaming at scale with Kubernetes and RabbitMQ

    github.com · 2 outlets

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