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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 28 – April 4, 2024 189 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 95 Get it by email ↓
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Business 7 stories

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

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

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

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  1. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

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

  3. Equinix: Major Accounting Manipulation, Core Business Decay

  4. GE Vernova Inc. (GEV) Stock Price, News, Quote & History - Yahoo Finance

Sports 4 stories

  1. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

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  1. Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit

  2. Veloren, an open source game, release 0.16

  3. Show HN: Truncate, a word-based strategy game

Technology 153 stories

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

  2. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

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  1. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

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

  3. The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

  4. Timeline of the xz open source attack

  5. Tips for linking shell companies to their secret owners

Entertainment 14 stories

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

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

  2. Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

  3. Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

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