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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 2 – May 2, 2024 807 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 18 · Issue 123 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 May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What's Going on with ‘Nonplussed’? (2017)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Answering Legal Questions with LLMs

    4 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 30 stories

  1. The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

    sequoiacap.com · 2 outlets

  2. Latest News - Yahoo Finance

    Yahoo · 1 outlets

  3. New startup sells coffee through SSH

    terminal.shop · 1 outlets

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

    consumerfinance.gov · 1 outlets

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  1. Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights

    abcnews.go.com · 1 outlets

  2. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  3. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

    ft.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

    restofworld.org · 1 outlets

  6. Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media

    github.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. Financial market applications of LLMs

    thegradient.pub · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Sports 26 stories

  1. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

    loglog.games · 1 outlets

  2. I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

    tonoko.notion.site · 1 outlets

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

    ohmygit.org · 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. Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty

    balanc3dgame.com · 1 outlets

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

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

  6. Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 628 stories

  1. Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff

    electrek.co · 4 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 2 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. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

    docs.fcc.gov · 4 outlets

  3. Meta Llama 3

    llama.meta.com · 1 outlets

  4. The man who killed Google Search?

    wheresyoured.at · 1 outlets

  5. Equinox.space

    equinox.space · 1 outlets

  6. Mario meets Pareto

    mayerowitz.io · 1 outlets

  7. This is a teenager

    pudding.cool · 1 outlets

  8. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

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

    972mag.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 48 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

    cruncher.ch · 2 outlets

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

    paulbupejr.com · 4 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

    axleos.com · 2 outlets

  4. Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

    fabiensanglard.net · 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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