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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 17 – December 17, 2024 856 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 352 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

School shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, police say

At least two people were killed and six more injured at a school shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, on Monday.

FOX · 3 sources

Also covering this CBSSchool shooting in Madison, Wisconsin, police say ABC3 people are dead and 7 wounded after a shooting at a Wisconsin school, police chief says
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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    OpenAI Reinforcement Fine-Tuning Research Program

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Starlark Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Making a watch from scratch

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 18 stories

  1. Trump says Biden admin "knows what is happening" on drones

    CBS · 3 outlets

    President-elect Donald Trump was asked Monday about the mysterious drone sightings that have been reported in several states recently. Trump said, "The government knows what is happening."

  2. Trump Names Richard Grenell for "Special Missions" Role

    FOX · 2 outlets

  3. June 10, 2024 Israel-Hamas war

    FOX · 3 outlets

  4. Trump Covers Autism, the Border Wall and Drones in First Post-Election News Conference

    FOX · 2 outlets

Show 8 more

  1. Smoke From N.J. Fires Affects New York City Air Quality

    · 0 outlets

  2. Hunter Biden found guilty on all counts in gun case

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. TikTok Asks Supreme Court to Block Law Banning Its U.S. Operations

    NYT · 1 outlets

  4. Lawmakers react to mysterious drone sightings

    CBS · 1 outlets

  5. Syrians celebrate end of Assad rule, look toward the future

    CBS · 1 outlets

  6. Syria under Assad: Torment and torture

    CBS · 1 outlets

  7. Naval Academy Can Use Race in Admissions, Judge Rules

    WSJ · 1 outlets

  8. American Students’ Math Skills Slide Down World Rankings

    WSJ · 1 outlets

Business 32 stories

  1. Tesla’s stock surge means even the biggest bulls are showing some restraint

    · 0 outlets

    The firm thinks Tesla is better positioned relative to its peers given the prospect of favorable regulation under the Trump administration.

  2. A Third TD Bank Employee Is Charged in Money Laundering Case

    · 0 outlets

  3. Broadcom is having its own ‘Nvidia moment’ as stock swells further

    · 0 outlets

  4. Markets: World Indexes, Futures, Bonds, Currencies, Stocks & ETFs - Yahoo Finance - Yahoo! Finance Canada

    Yahoo · 1 outlets

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  1. What we know about CEO shooting suspect

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  2. Amazon to invest another $4B in Anthropic

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  3. Engineers do not get to make startup mistakes when they build ledgers

    news.alvaroduran.com · 1 outlets

  4. Bankruptcy judge rejects sale of Infowars to The Onion

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Elon Musk wanted an OpenAI for-profit

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  6. Why America's economy is soaring ahead of its rivals

    ft.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  8. TikTok divestment law upheld by federal appeals court

    cnbc.com · 2 outlets

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

    crackoverflow.com · 1 outlets

  10. Gitlab names Bill Staples as new CEO

    businesswire.com · 1 outlets

Sports 49 stories

  1. 2024 NFL Draft redo: Bears take a QB at No. 1 ... but not Caleb Williams

    FOX · 1 outlets

  2. Bill Belichick officially named the next head coach at UNC

    FOX · 2 outlets

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  1. Cowboys hope Trevon Diggs is ready for the start of the 2025 season

    PFT · 1 outlets

  2. My son (9 yrs old) used plain JavaScript to make a game, and wants your feedback

    armaansahni.com · 1 outlets

  3. Gukesh becomes the youngest chess world champion in history

    lichess.org · 1 outlets

  4. Frosted glass from games to the web

    tyleo.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: A Marble Madness-inspired WebGL game we built for Netlify

    5-million-devs.netlify · 1 outlets

  6. Every board game rulebook is awful [pdf]

    drive.google.com · 1 outlets

Technology 599 stories

  1. Marshall Brain died hours after alleging retaliation at NC State

    wral.com · 2 outlets

  2. OpenAI whistleblower found dead in apartment

    mercurynews.com · 2 outlets

  3. QEMU with VirtIO GPU Vulkan Support

    phoronix.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    labs.ripe.net · 2 outlets

  2. The cheapest Sonos sales and deals for February 2025

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

  3. IMG_0001

    walzr.com · 1 outlets

  4. Every V4 UUID

    everyuuid.com · 1 outlets

  5. Send someone you appreciate an official 'Continue and Persist' Letter

    continueandpersist.org · 1 outlets

  6. Willow, Our Quantum Chip

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  7. Advent of Code 2024

    adventofcode.com · 1 outlets

  8. Timemap.org – Interactive Map of History

    oldmapsonline.org · 1 outlets

  9. DOJ will push Google to sell off Chrome

    bloomberg.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 54 stories

  1. Show HN: Don't let your billion-dollar ideas die

    play.google.com · 3 outlets

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

    velofuso.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Book and change flights with one email

    github.com · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Ternary Computer System

    github.com · 2 outlets

  3. The capacitor that Apple soldered incorrectly at the factory

    downtowndougbrown.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 2 outlets

  5. Y Combinator often backs startups that duplicate other YC companies, data shows

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Dumb TVs deserve a comeback

    makeuseof.com · 1 outlets

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