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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 17 – April 16, 2024 803 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 107 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Fentanyl test strips are sweeping college campuses. Our testing found they may not detect laced fake prescription pills.

Fentanyl test strips used to be illegal in California. Now, state law requires them on community and state college campuses. We put fentanyl test strips to the test, and what we found could save someone you know.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Technology

    Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    VCard and RSS as an alternative to social media

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 34 stories

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

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

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

    ec.europa.eu · 1 outlets

  3. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

    stability.ai · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

    sequoiacap.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

    frankzliu.com · 1 outlets

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

    momentummag.com · 1 outlets

  7. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

  8. Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

  9. Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    commondreams.org · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

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

    rxdb.info · 1 outlets

  2. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

    longform.asmartbear.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

    ohmygit.org · 1 outlets

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

    rtwolf.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  4. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

    images.wur.nl · 1 outlets

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

    news.northeastern.edu · 1 outlets

  6. Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

Technology 599 stories

  1. AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Going in circles without a real-time clock

    techcrunch.com · 5 outlets

  3. Browse Self-Hosted Software

    stalw.art · 3 outlets

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  1. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

    blog.documentfoundatio · 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. Mario meets Pareto

    mayerowitz.io · 1 outlets

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

    972mag.com · 1 outlets

  6. Obituary for a quiet life (2023)

    bittersoutherner.com · 1 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. Anatomy of a credit card rewards program

    bitsaboutmoney.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 57 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card

    paulbupejr.com · 3 outlets

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

    memories.gallery · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

    axleos.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS

    pricelevel.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

    sonauto.ai · 1 outlets

  5. Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I made a tool to clean and convert any webpage to Markdown

    markdowndown.vercel.ap · 1 outlets

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