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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close February 8 – February 15, 2023 190 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 07 · Issue 46 Get it by email ↓
The week'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.

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Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 7 stories

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

  2. Google employees criticize CEO for “dumpster fire” response to ChatGPT

  3. Does Google need a new CEO?

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  1. LocalBitcoins will discontinue its service

  2. A treasury of Zork maps

  3. WHO abandons plans for second phase of COVID-origins investigation

  4. Crypto exchange Kraken to shut staking service, pay $30M fine in SEC settlement

Sports 10 stories

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

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  1. GPU Video acceleration in the Windows Subsystem for Linux now available

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

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

Technology 143 stories

  1. Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

  2. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

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  1. What is ChatGPT doing and why does it work?

  2. Bing AI can't be trusted

  3. So what’s next (personal news from developer of popular CoreJS polyfill)

  4. Twitter restricted in Turkey in aftermath of earthquake

  5. “Open source” seeds loosen Big Ag’s grip on farmers

Entertainment 15 stories

  1. Show HN: MrScraper – A visual web-scraping tool

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  1. Why Steam Deck Is One of the Most Significant PC Gaming Moments in Years

  2. Show HN: boxxy – Control where Linux programs put files, without symlinks

  3. Turning a TV set-top box into a Linux computer (2022)

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