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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close December 6 – December 13, 2024 194 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 348 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 8 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. Debanking (and Debunking?)

  4. Brian Krebs Investigates Internet's Most Vicious Hackers–From a Secret Location

Sports 6 stories

  1. Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history

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

  2. Reverse engineering the Sega Channel game image file format

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

Technology 162 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 16 stories

  1. Show HN: I designed an espresso machine and coffee grinder

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

  2. Show HN: Cut the crap – remove AI bullshit from websites

  3. Save Music, Save the Archive

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