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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 28 – October 28, 2023 796 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 43 · Issue 301 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

    Open Source Firmware Conference

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

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

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 36 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. I face investigation for terrorism

    craigmurray.org.uk · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. The slow death of authenticity in an attention economy

    coryzue.com · 1 outlets

  2. Startup CTO's Handbook

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Google to invest up to $2B in Anthropic

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

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

    rechargenews.com · 1 outlets

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

    paulstamatiou.com · 1 outlets

  7. Meta sued by states over harmful youth marketing

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  8. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

    d3.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

  9. Krita fund has no corporate support

    fund.krita.org · 1 outlets

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

    economist.com · 1 outlets

Sports 38 stories

  1. HTTP/3 adoption is growing rapidly

    blog.apnic.net · 1 outlets

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

    rocicorp.dev · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    punkx.org · 1 outlets

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

    veracrypt.fr · 1 outlets

  3. The fun factor of the video game Uplink

    vertette.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Trucking startup Convoy closes operations with no buyer

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    ounapuu.ee · 1 outlets

  6. Dave Cutler on Windows [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

Technology 601 stories

  1. EU Chat Control Bill Postponed

    berthub.eu · 6 outlets

  2. California suspends Cruise's autonomous vehicle deployment

    reuters.com · 2 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. The Cloud Computer

    oxide.computer · 1 outlets

  4. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

    jamesbvaughan.com · 1 outlets

  5. Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]

    audio-video.gnu.org · 1 outlets

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

    prolost.com · 1 outlets

  7. Making Hard Things Easy

    jvns.ca · 1 outlets

  8. First word discovered in unopened Herculaneum scroll by CS student

    scrollprize.org · 1 outlets

  9. Draggable objects

    redblobgames.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. A Dutch graphic artist reconstructed Tenochtitlan in 3D

    tenochtitlan.thomaskol · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Shortbread – Create AI comics in minutes

    github.com · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    nobelprize.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Classic Video Poker

    lfgslots.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Riffusion with Lyrics

    eliot.blog · 4 outlets

  4. Ishkur's Guide to Electronic Music

    music.ishkur.com · 1 outlets

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

    store.app · 1 outlets

  6. "Hacker News" for retro computing and gaming

    blog.jgc.org · 1 outlets

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