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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close December 1 – December 31, 2022 784 stories · Vol. 22 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 365 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?

serioustrouble.show · 6 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Stable Diffusion macOS native app

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    The simplest app that makes money

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

Business 36 stories

  1. How Did Sam Bankman-Fried Get Bail?

    serioustrouble.show · 6 outlets

  2. Japan to invest on nuclear energy in major policy shift

    eandt.theiet.org · 1 outlets

  3. $7M lost on Amazon inventory, then bankrupt

    medium.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    markets.businessinside · 1 outlets

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

    asia.nikkei.com · 1 outlets

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

    ftc.gov · 1 outlets

  4. ChatGPT is a ‘code red’ for Google’s search business

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Investigating Logan Paul's biggest scam [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

  6. AI: Markets for Lemons, and the Great Logging Off

    fortressofdoors.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  8. Emulating an iPod Touch 1G and iPhoneOS 1.0 using QEMU (Part I)

    devos50.github.io · 1 outlets

  9. Federal court requires Amazon to stop firing employees for protected activities

    nlrb.gov · 1 outlets

  10. Binance is trying to calm investors, but its finances remain a mystery

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Recursive Game of Life

    oimo.io · 1 outlets

  2. Apple blocks Coinbase Wallet

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. There oughta be a Game Boy capture cartridge

    there.oughta.be · 1 outlets

  3. Not-so-great features coming soon to Windows 11

    neowin.net · 1 outlets

  4. Argentina Wins the World Cup

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  5. Ten influential programming languages (2020)

    hillelwayne.com · 1 outlets

  6. Games people play with cash flow

    commoncog.com · 1 outlets

Technology 565 stories

  1. ElonJet Is Now Suspended

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab

    ft.com · 4 outlets

  3. Platform certificates used to sign malware

    bugs.chromium.org · 2 outlets

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  1. Valve is paying open source developers to keep Steam Deck playable

    old.reddit.com · 3 outlets

  2. OCaml 5.0 Multicore is out

    discuss.ocaml.org · 2 outlets

  3. Building a Virtual Machine Inside ChatGPT

    engraved.blog · 3 outlets

  4. John Carmack Leaves Meta

    facebook.com · 1 outlets

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

    support.apple.com · 2 outlets

  6. Thanks Dang, Happy Holidays

    news.ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. SBF Arrested by Bahamian Authorities

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  9. I still use Flash

    foon.uk · 1 outlets

Entertainment 52 stories

  1. John Travolta and Kirstie Alley: A love story

    CNN · 1 outlets

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

    CNN · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Riffusion – Stable Diffusion fine-tuned to generate music

    riffusion.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Obsidian Canvas – An infinite space for your ideas

    obsidian.md · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Infisical – open-source secrets manager

    mprimi.github.io · 2 outlets

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

    sqlfordevs.com · 1 outlets

  5. Facial recognition tech gets woman booted from Rockettes show due to employer

    nbcnewyork.com · 1 outlets

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

    imihajlov.tk · 2 outlets

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