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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close June 1 – June 8, 2024 180 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 23 · Issue 160 Get it by email ↓
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Five out of seven defendants in Feeding our Future fraud case found guilty of multiple counts

Five out of seven defendants accused of swindling more than $40 million in the Feeding our Future COVID relief fraud case have been found guilty on multiple counts. The trial hit a speed bump earlier this week when a juror reported receiving a $120,000 attempted bribe in the form of a bag of cash.

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Business 6 stories

  1. FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing

  2. Jury Finds Boeing Stole Tech from Electric Airplane Startup

  3. Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

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  1. Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

  2. The Moral Economy of the Shire

  3. Texas poised to get own stock exchange – with less red tape than NYSE or Nasdaq

Sports 13 stories

  1. I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it

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  1. AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

  2. Simple tasks showing reasoning breakdown in state-of-the-art LLMs

  3. Learn CSS Grid with a virtual garden game

Technology 140 stories

  1. How many photons are received per bit transmitted from Voyager 1?

  2. Microsoft AI spying scandal: time to rethink privacy standards

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  1. Vulkan1.3 on the M1 in one month

  2. I'm forking Ladybird and stepping down as SerenityOS BDFL

  3. Super Heavy has splashed down in The Gulf of Mexico

  4. You'll regret using natural keys

  5. Israel reportedly used fake social accounts to garner support from US lawmakers

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a tiny camera with super long battery life

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  1. Show HN: 10 Years to Build a Free SQL Editor

  2. Show HN: Foosbar – My autonomous foosball-playing robot

  3. Python notebooks for fundamentals of music processing

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