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The week in reviewVol. 24 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 150 2024-05-29
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 22 – May 29, 2024 191 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 150 Get it by email ↓
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Pothole damage claims on California freeways triple while Caltrans payouts drop by half. Why?

A CBS News California investigation finds Caltrans only approved 1 out of every 25 damage claims from potholes and debris in the first half of 2023.

CBS · 1 sources

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Business 5 stories

  1. The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City

    americanaffairsjournal · 1 outlets

  2. Researchers cracked an 11-year-old password to a $3M crypto wallet

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  3. Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography

    blog.chromium.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Golden Gate Claude

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

  2. xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

    x.ai · 1 outlets

Sports 5 stories

  1. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    windirstat.net · 1 outlets

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  1. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

    techradar.com · 1 outlets

  2. S3 is showing its age

    materializedview.io · 1 outlets

  3. Emacs Easydraw – drawing tool inside Emacs

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 155 stories

  1. Former OpenAI board member explains why they fired Sam Altman

    businessinsider.com · 2 outlets

  2. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

    searchengineland.com · 6 outlets

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  1. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

  2. Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

    daylightcomputer.com · 1 outlets

  3. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

    chrisbuilds.github.io · 1 outlets

  4. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  5. ICQ will stop working from June 26

    icq.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    grooved.okat.best · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

    papertalk.xyz · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Openkoda – Open–source, private, Salesforce alternative

    github.com · 1 outlets

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