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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 15 – December 15, 2022 791 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 50 · Issue 349 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

justice.gov · 4 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Show HN: LearnGPT – Browse and share ChatGPT examples

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    The Rune Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried tries to explain himself

    justice.gov · 4 outlets

  2. Investigating why Steam started picking a random font

    blog.pkh.me · 1 outlets

  3. Mom handcuffed, jailed for 8-year-old son walking half a mile

    reason.com · 1 outlets

  4. BlockFi files for bankruptcy as FTX fallout spreads

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Spotify CEO renews attack on Apple after Musk's salvo

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

    medium.com · 1 outlets

  3. TSMC ups Arizona investment from $12B to $40B with second semi fab

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. Wikipedians are rebelling against “unethical” Wikipedia fundraising banners

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B

    markets.businessinside · 1 outlets

  6. Why do we call it “boilerplate code?”

    buttondown.email · 1 outlets

  7. Smartphones wiped out 97% of the compact camera market

    asia.nikkei.com · 1 outlets

  8. FTC seeks to block Microsoft's acquisition of Activision Blizzard

    ftc.gov · 1 outlets

  9. Neuralink faces federal probe, employee backlash over animal tests

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  10. Legoland bond crisis threatens South Korea's economy

    foreignpolicy.com · 1 outlets

Sports 35 stories

  1. Intentionally making close friends

    neelnanda.io · 1 outlets

  2. Recursive Game of Life

    oimo.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Twitter to employees: all office buildings closed, badge access suspended

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. CVE-2022-41924 – tailscaled can be used to remotely execute code on Windows

    emily.id.au · 1 outlets

  4. Dwarf Fortress’ graphical upgrade provides a new way into a wildly wonky game

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: I made a pretty relaxing puzzle game

    rotaboxes.com · 1 outlets

  6. Adding a hinge to a Game Boy that God never intended

    posts.decontextualize. · 1 outlets

Technology 580 stories

  1. ElonJet Is Now Suspended

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

    ft.com · 3 outlets

  3. Platform certificates used to sign malware

    bugs.chromium.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

    engraved.blog · 3 outlets

  2. Apple introduces end-to-end encryption for backups

    support.apple.com · 1 outlets

  3. Fred Brooks has died

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. maps.google.com now redirects to google.com/maps

    garrit.xyz · 2 outlets

  5. I am frustrated with Stable Diffusion

    stability.ai · 6 outlets

  6. People tricking ChatGPT “like watching an Asimov novel come to life”

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  7. SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. Open Source and Saying “No”

    kite.com · 2 outlets

  9. FTX’s collapse was a crime, not an accident

    coindesk.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 57 stories

  1. Bong Joon Ho's 'Mickey 17' gets trailer and release date

    CNN · 1 outlets

  2. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley: A love story

    CNN · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Christine McVie's music: 5 songs to listen to in her honor

    CNN · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Whole Git repo was made with ChatGPT

    wyldcard.io · 3 outlets

  3. Show HN: I wrote a free eBook about many lesser-known/secret database tricks

    sqlfordevs.com · 1 outlets

  4. An interactive guide to Flexbox

    joshwcomeau.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: A color picker for named web colors

    arantius.github.io · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Haxophone

    github.com · 1 outlets

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