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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 5 – December 12, 2024 198 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 347 Get it by email ↓
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Naval Academy Can Use Race in Admissions, Judge Rules

The ruling rejected a bid to extend the reach of a Supreme Court decision that banned race-conscious college admissions.

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Business 10 stories

  1. What we know about CEO shooting suspect

  2. Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

  3. GM exits robotaxi market, will bring Cruise operations in house

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  1. TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

  2. Install postmarketOS on Android phone and use Docker as a home server

  3. Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO

  4. Debanking (and Debunking?)

Sports 5 stories

  1. Maps.me co-founder tries to close down Organic Maps open-source fork

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  1. Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format

  2. Scrabble star wins Spanish world title despite not speaking Spanish

  3. Astronomy Photographer of the Year 2024 winners

Technology 163 stories

  1. Every V4 UUID

  2. Willow, Our Quantum Chip

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  1. Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

  2. Itch.io Taken Down by Funko

  3. From where I left

  4. Sora is here

  5. Gemini 2.0: our new AI model for the agentic era

Entertainment 13 stories

  1. Show HN: Countless.dev – A website to compare every AI model: LLMs, TTSs, STTs

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  1. Show HN: Ternary Computer System

  2. Save Music, Save the Archive

  3. Being overweight overtakes tobacco smoking as the leading disease risk factor

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