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The month's top story

Kidnapped and threatened with dynamite, bank manager forced to commit $360,000 robbery to save her daughter's life

A look into the evidence from the 2000 hostage situation and bank robbery that changed a mother and daughter's lives.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    TIL you can de-obfuscate code with ChatGPT

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Reverse engineering an e-ink display

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Reclaiming History: Inside the 60 Minutes story as it unfolded in real time

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 38 stories

  1. Evidence that Adani Group has engaged in stock manipulation and accounting fraud

    hindenburgresearch.com · 1 outlets

  2. Now offering 2TB SSDs for Steam Deck in the Framework Marketplace

    frame.work · 1 outlets

  3. Stock market charts you never saw (2021)

    papers.ssrn.com · 1 outlets

  4. Some insects I found inside dried Turkish figs from Trader Joe’s

    colinpurrington.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Mercedes-Benz workforce to receive record profit-sharing bonus

    group-media.mercedes-b · 1 outlets

  2. Tech CEOs Should Be Held Accountable, or Even Fired, Amid Layoffs

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  3. Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend

    semianalysis.com · 1 outlets

  4. We invested 10% to pay back tech debt

    blog.alexewerlof.com · 1 outlets

  5. W3C re-launched as a public-interest non-profit organization

    w3.org · 1 outlets

  6. I lost $209k of my own money trying to start a business

    mostlymetrics.com · 1 outlets

  7. PagerDuty CEO Quotes Martin Luther King Jr. In Worst Layoff Email Ever

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  8. Jetnet Acquires ADS-B Exchange, a community-fed ADSB aggregator

    jetnet.com · 1 outlets

  9. Apple attempting to stop investigation into its practices involving browsers

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  10. Binance to suspend US dollar bank transfers

    old.reddit.com · 2 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. The window trick of Las Vegas hotels

    schedium.net · 1 outlets

  2. GitHub to lay off 10% and close all offices

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Bay 12 Games has made $7M from the Steam release of Dwarf Fortress

    bay12forums.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Filmbox, physically accurate film emulation, now on Linux and Windows

    videovillage.co · 1 outlets

  3. Windows 11: a spyware machine out of users' control

    techspot.com · 1 outlets

  4. I want to lose every debate

    sive.rs · 1 outlets

  5. De-Bloated Windows 11 Build Runs on 2GB of RAM

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  6. What I Think About LeBron Breaking My NBA Scoring Record

    kareem.substack.com · 1 outlets

Technology 574 stories

  1. AI Generated Seinfeld runs 24/7 on Twitch

    twitch.tv · 2 outlets

  2. Another UFO shot down over Canada by US

    cnbc.com · 4 outlets

  3. Google and Mozilla are working on iOS browsers that aren't based on WebKit

    theregister.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Visual design rules you can safely follow

    anthonyhobday.com · 1 outlets

  2. A cab ride I'll never forget (1999)

    kentnerburn.com · 1 outlets

  3. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

    jaykmody.com · 1 outlets

  4. Easter egg in flight path of last 747 delivery flight

    flightradar24.com · 1 outlets

  5. Stop the proposal on mass surveillance of the EU

    mullvad.net · 1 outlets

  6. Google to reduce workforce by 12k

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  7. Play Counter Strike 1.6, with full multiplayer, in the browser

    play-cs.com · 1 outlets

  8. Forking Chrome to render in a terminal

    fathy.fr · 1 outlets

  9. ChatGPT Plus

    openai.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 46 stories

  1. MusicLM: Generating music from text

    arxiv.org · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: A version control system based on rsync

    github.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I trained an AI model on 120M+ songs from iTunes

    maroofy.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Search inside 15,000 pitchdeck slides

    trigger.dev · 5 outlets

  3. The Shit Show

    furbo.org · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I'm a doctor and made a responsive breathing app for stress and anxiety

    lungy.app · 1 outlets

  5. NRC Certifies First U.S. Small Modular Reactor Design

    energy.gov · 1 outlets

  6. Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More

    gamespot.com · 1 outlets

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