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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 22 – December 22, 2023 813 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 356 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

Each year, about a million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency miscalculated their benefits and paid them too much.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Moving from relational data to events

    7 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    Extracting training data from ChatGPT

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Let it snow in your terminal

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 23 stories

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

    figma.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 2 outlets

  3. Database Fundamentals

    tontinton.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Bond villain compliance strategy

    bitsaboutmoney.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    fee.org · 1 outlets

  2. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

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

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  6. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

    smart.tohands.in · 1 outlets

  7. Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  8. Fedora Asahi Remix

    asahilinux.org · 1 outlets

  9. Learnings from fine-tuning LLM on my Telegram messages

    asmirnov.xyz · 1 outlets

  10. Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Sports 55 stories

  1. HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  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. W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine

    w4games.com · 1 outlets

  6. Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)

    ezali.substack.com · 1 outlets

Technology 602 stories

  1. Large Language Model Course

    arxiv.org · 5 outlets

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

    slack.com · 1 outlets

  3. Demystifying Web Push Notifications

    reuters.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    pluralistic.net · 1 outlets

  2. Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

    ln.hixie.ch · 1 outlets

  3. Gemini AI

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  4. LLM Visualization

    bbycroft.net · 1 outlets

  5. Tiny volumetric display

    mitxela.com · 1 outlets

  6. Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disastrous

    berkshirehathaway.com · 2 outlets

  7. Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  8. My toddler loves planes, so I built her a radar

    jacobbartlett.substack · 1 outlets

  9. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

    cnn.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: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

    plant.max-richter.dev · 1 outlets

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