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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 3 – March 5, 2023 807 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 64 Get it by email ↓
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 March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The paper that made ChatGPT possible

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  3. Technology

    How to Start Your Blog in 2023

    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 42 stories

  1. Most data work seems fundamentally worthless

    ludic.mataroa.blog · 1 outlets

  2. AMD Grabs over 30% CPU Market Share as Intel Continues to Decline

    wccftech.com · 1 outlets

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

    frame.work · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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  1. YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

    engadget.com · 1 outlets

  2. Andreessen Horowitz and 'zero interest rate phenomena'

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. AMD CEO: The Next Challenge Is Energy Efficiency

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  4. Tech layoffs are feeding a new startup surge

    businessinsider.com · 2 outlets

  5. Big Tech lobbyist language made it verbatim into NY’s hedged repair bill

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  6. Dow said it was recycling our shoes. We found them at an Indonesian flea market

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  7. What I Learned Reading 1k Investor Reports

    collabfund.com · 2 outlets

  8. Does Google need a new CEO?

    om.co · 1 outlets

  9. North Korean hackers stole a record $1.7B of crypto last year

    economist.com · 1 outlets

  10. Revenue is easy, profit is harder

    edge.ceo · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. OpenAI is now everything it promised not to be: closed-source and for-profit

    vice.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Parallax wallpaper engine for Linux and Windows

    videovillage.co · 2 outlets

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

    techspot.com · 1 outlets

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

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

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

    kareem.substack.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Kuboble.com – Minimalistic sliding pieces puzzle game

    kuboble.com · 1 outlets

  6. I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle

    thefp.com · 1 outlets

Technology 603 stories

  1. Toxic gases connected to Ohio train derailment cause concern

    npr.org · 4 outlets

  2. The Online Safety Bill: An attack on encryption

    theregister.com · 3 outlets

  3. Open source implementation for LLaMA-based ChatGPT

    ai.facebook.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Bug identified after Alaska Airlines planes bump runway while taking off

    seattletimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. New Hulu movies: the biggest films to stream in February 2025

    TechRadar · 1 outlets

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

    theregister.com · 2 outlets

  4. Bing: “I will not harm you unless you harm me first”

    simonwillison.net · 2 outlets

  5. Visual design rules you can safely follow

    anthonyhobday.com · 1 outlets

  6. Nokia launches DIY repairable budget Android phone

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  7. A GPT in 60 Lines of NumPy

    jaykmody.com · 1 outlets

  8. Introducing ChatGPT and Whisper APIs

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  9. My daughter's school took over my personal Microsoft account

    jeffgeerling.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 39 stories

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

    github.com · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: AskHN

    patterns.app · 1 outlets

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  1. Nintendo Will Pay Its Workers 10% More

    gamespot.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Noya – A new kind of design tool

    screenstab.com · 6 outlets

  3. Google's Bard shows incorrect information in its launch ad

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Mox - Modern full-featured low-maintenance self-hosted mail server

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    techspot.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Glidesort, a new stable sort in Rust up to ~4x faster for random data

    github.com · 1 outlets

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