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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 21 – April 20, 2024 799 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 16 · Issue 111 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Americans lose millions to wire transfer fraud. Could banks do more to stop it?

"Their job is to protect our investments," said one man whose bank account was drained of $15,000. "Otherwise, what's the point of putting it with a bank?"

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Interview with Yanis Varoufakis on Technofeudalism

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 32 stories

  1. The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

    sequoiacap.com · 2 outlets

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

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  3. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

    consumerfinance.gov · 1 outlets

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

    ec.europa.eu · 1 outlets

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  1. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

    stability.ai · 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. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

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

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    commondreams.org · 1 outlets

  10. US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage

    pv-magazine.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 stories

  1. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

    longform.asmartbear.co · 1 outlets

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

    ohmygit.org · 1 outlets

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

    rtwolf.github.io · 1 outlets

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

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  3. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

    images.wur.nl · 1 outlets

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

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

  5. The window for great-grandmothers is closing

    memoirsandrambles.subs · 1 outlets

  6. Identical twins both grew up with autism, but took different paths

    npr.org · 1 outlets

Technology 609 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 · 4 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. Meta Llama 3

    llama.meta.com · 1 outlets

  5. Mario meets Pareto

    mayerowitz.io · 1 outlets

  6. This is a teenager

    pudding.cool · 1 outlets

  7. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

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

    972mag.com · 1 outlets

  9. Obituary for a quiet life (2023)

    bittersoutherner.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 53 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 · 4 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

    axleos.com · 1 outlets

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

    pricelevel.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator

    icode4.coffee · 2 outlets

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

    sonauto.ai · 1 outlets

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