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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 5 – April 4, 2024 811 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 95 Get it by email ↓
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CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Monks Know about Focus

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    DBeaver – open-source database client

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 28 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  2. Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

  3. Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

    ec.europa.eu · 1 outlets

  4. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

    stability.ai · 1 outlets

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  1. Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup

    yitay.net · 1 outlets

  2. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

    apnews.com · 1 outlets

  4. OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  5. Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

    frankzliu.com · 1 outlets

  7. Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment

    momentummag.com · 1 outlets

  8. Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big

    bughunters.google.com · 2 outlets

  9. Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays

    science.org · 1 outlets

  10. Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?

    commondreams.org · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport

    rxdb.info · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

    longform.asmartbear.co · 1 outlets

  2. Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years

    v21.io · 1 outlets

  3. Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)

    rtwolf.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows

    learn.microsoft.com · 2 outlets

  5. Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

    news.northeastern.edu · 1 outlets

  6. Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

    netcraft.com · 1 outlets

Technology 616 stories

  1. Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

    bbc.com · 6 outlets

  2. Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

    techcrunch.com · 4 outlets

  3. Apple restores Epic's account in the EU

    9to5mac.com · 3 outlets

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  1. Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states

    irs.gov · 2 outlets

  2. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

    openwall.com · 1 outlets

  3. U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  4. DBeaver – open-source database client

    usebruno.com · 4 outlets

  5. Spreadsheets are all you need

    spreadsheets-are-all-y · 1 outlets

  6. Journalist casualties in the Israel-Gaza war

    972mag.com · 2 outlets

  7. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

    justine.lol · 1 outlets

  8. XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."

    bsky.app · 1 outlets

  9. Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

    difftastic.wilfred.me. · 2 outlets

Entertainment 52 stories

  1. Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

    memories.gallery · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

    trangram.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Maps that show time instead of space

    github.com · 3 outlets

  2. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Async tasks in 350 lines of C

    github.com · 2 outlets

  5. Show HN: dockerc – Docker image to static executable "compiler"

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Flyde – an open-source visual programming language

    glossarie.app · 2 outlets

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