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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 16 – December 16, 2023 824 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 350 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Custer County triple homicide suspect in custody

Three people are dead and another has been critically injured after a shooting Monday afternoon in Custer County, Colorado, over a property dispute.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Lessons from 5 years of running a tech meetup

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Understanding Deep Learning

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Extracting training data from ChatGPT

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 23 stories

  1. Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

    theverge.com · 7 outlets

  2. Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  3. 280M e-bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars

    theconversation.com · 1 outlets

  4. Database Fundamentals

    tontinton.com · 1 outlets

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  1. New York may ban noncompete employment agreements and Wall Street is not happy

    fortune.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Bond villain compliance strategy

    bitsaboutmoney.com · 1 outlets

  3. The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy

    fee.org · 1 outlets

  4. Cryptographers solve decades-old privacy problem

    nautil.us · 1 outlets

  5. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  6. Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  7. Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  8. Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  9. OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  10. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

    smart.tohands.in · 1 outlets

Sports 54 stories

  1. HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation

    live-whistleblower-aid · 1 outlets

  2. I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate

    mayer.cool · 1 outlets

  3. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

  4. Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat

    naev.org · 1 outlets

  5. Death by AI – a free Jackbox style party game. AI judges your plans to survive

    deathbyai.gg · 1 outlets

  6. The real realtime preemption end game

    lwn.net · 1 outlets

Technology 591 stories

  1. OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

    openai.com · 9 outlets

  2. A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees

    techcrunch.com · 2 outlets

  3. Large Language Model Course

    arxiv.org · 4 outlets

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  1. The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

    slack.com · 1 outlets

  2. Demystifying Web Push Notifications

    reuters.com · 3 outlets

  3. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

    pluralistic.net · 1 outlets

  4. Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

    ln.hixie.ch · 1 outlets

  5. Gemini AI

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  6. YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

    old.reddit.com · 3 outlets

  7. Greg Brockman quits OpenAI

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  8. LLM Visualization

    bbycroft.net · 1 outlets

  9. Tiny volumetric display

    mitxela.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

    beeper.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?

    how-did-i-get-here.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

    dalle.party · 3 outlets

  3. Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

    trains.fyi · 1 outlets

  4. Stripe live dashboard

    bfcm.stripe.dev · 1 outlets

  5. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

    dalton-nrs.manchester. · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Open-source tool for creating courses like Duolingo

    uneebee.com · 1 outlets

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