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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close October 24 – November 23, 2024 826 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 47 · Issue 328 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Pentagon solves 1 UFO mystery but still probing case of "large orange orb"

Director of Pentagon office probing UFOs showed Congress three cases it's resolved, but also discussed three — out of nearly two dozen — still under active investigation.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
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What dominated November

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google banned me from Google Voice

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  2. Technology

    The Data Engineering Handbook

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Visual Basic 6 IDE recreated in C#

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. Texts reveal efforts to bribe juror in pandemic fraud case, prosecutors say

    CBS · 1 outlets

    A new court document details what federal prosecutors in Minnesota say was a frantic effort by two defendants to get a juror to vote for an acquittal in a pandemic fraud case.

  2. Ex-boyfriend and fiancée behind fatal stabbing, shooting of Texas mom

    CBS · 1 outlets

  3. Family of teen killed in hate crime attack stand up for their son

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 23 stories

  1. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Google CEO says more than a quarter of the company's new code is created by AI

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  3. Steve Ballmer was an underrated CEO

    danluu.com · 1 outlets

  4. Up to $41B in World Bank climate finance unaccounted for, Oxfam finds

    oxfam.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Mind-Bending Soviet Era Oil Rig City on the Caspian Sea

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  2. Gross Apple Marketing

    jonathanbuys.com · 1 outlets

  3. FBI Raids Home of Polymarket CEO Shayne Coplan

    axios.com · 1 outlets

  4. Apple threatened workers over their talk about pay and remote work, feds charge

    mercurynews.com · 1 outlets

  5. I tried every top email marketing tool

    sitebuilderreport.com · 1 outlets

  6. Teen behind hundreds of swatting attacks pleads guilty to federal charges

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  7. Ibis: Federated Wikipedia alternative

    ibis.wiki · 1 outlets

  8. The business of gutting failed Bay Area tech companies

    sfgate.com · 1 outlets

  9. Oxford accused of relying on young academics employed on gig-economy terms

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  10. Toronto crypto company CEO kidnapped, held for $1M ransom before being released

    cbc.ca · 1 outlets

Sports 39 stories

  1. Trump wins presidency for second time

    thehill.com · 1 outlets

  2. Passport Photos

    maxsiedentopf.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Steam games will need to disclose kernel-level anti-cheat on store pages

    gamingonlinux.com · 1 outlets

  2. The Impact of Jungle Music in 90s Video Game Development

    pikuma.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Lyceum – An MMO game built with Zig and Erlang

    5-million-devs.netlify · 2 outlets

  4. The Bluesky firehose viewed in the style of a Windows XP screensaver

    firehose3d.theo.io · 1 outlets

  5. NandGame – Build a computer from scratch

    nandgame.com · 1 outlets

  6. Classic 3D videogame shadow techniques

    30fps.net · 1 outlets

Technology 622 stories

  1. Jeff Bezos killed Washington Post endorsement of Kamala Harris

    cnbc.com · 2 outlets

  2. ATL: A layer to run Android apps on Linux

    flathub.org · 2 outlets

  3. Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess

    dynomight.substack.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Mozilla is eliminating its advocacy division

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  2. Does the Internet Route Around Damage? – Baltic Sea Cable Cuts

    labs.ripe.net · 2 outlets

  3. The cheapest Sonos sales and deals for February 2025

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  4. IMG_0416

    ben-mini.com · 1 outlets

  5. MomBoard: E-ink display for a parent with amnesia

    jan.miksovsky.com · 1 outlets

  6. The Onion buys Infowars

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  7. ChatGPT Search

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  8. How I ship projects at big tech companies

    seangoedecke.com · 1 outlets

  9. Touchscreens are out, and tactile controls are back

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Show HN: The App I Built to Help Manage My Diabetes

    lanparty.house · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: I made a tiny device for automatically recording digital pianos

    jamcorder.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Convert any website into a React component

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Hacker News frontpage as a print newspaper that you can personalize

    yourhackernews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Using an 8K TV as a Monitor

    daniel.lawrence.lu · 1 outlets

  4. Title drops in movies

    titledrops.net · 1 outlets

  5. Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson

    sportingnews.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: FastGraphRAG – Better RAG using good old PageRank

    github.com · 3 outlets

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