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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 135 2023-05-15
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 15 – May 15, 2023 812 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 135 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Vice files for Bankruptcy

nytimes.com · 2 sources

Also covering this bloomberg.comVice files for Bankruptcy
2Outlets
2Articles

What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    ChatPDF – Chat with Any PDF

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    My shell setup with Fish and Tmux (2021)

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Google keeps failing its Nest customers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 38 stories

  1. Vice files for Bankruptcy

    nytimes.com · 2 outlets

  2. Bank Failures Visualized

    observablehq.com · 1 outlets

  3. JPMorgan Chase Bank Assumes All the Deposits of First Republic Bank

    fdic.gov · 1 outlets

  4. Google CEO: “can we change the setting of this group to history-off” [pdf]

    ia601707.us.archive.or · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. I'm never investing in Google's smart home ecosystem again

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

  2. Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Sundar Pichai received $226M compensation, boosted by a triennial stock grant

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. Driver adventures for a 1999 webcam

    blog.benjojo.co.uk · 1 outlets

  5. WebGPU Fundamentals

    webgpufundamentals.org · 1 outlets

  6. OpenAI’s CEO says the age of giant AI models is already over

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  7. Evidence.dev – Business Intelligence as Code

    evidence.dev · 1 outlets

  8. Intel Announces Layoffs After Paying $1.5B in Q1 Dividends

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  9. Mormon whistleblower says his church is a “clandestine hedge fund”

    cbsnews.com · 1 outlets

  10. Investigating Linux phantom disk reads

    questdb.io · 1 outlets

Sports 44 stories

  1. When you lose the ability to write, you also lose some of your ability to think

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. 100K Context Windows

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Three Companies Impersonated Millions to Influence Internet Policy

    ag.ny.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Netflix loses 1M users in Spain over password policing

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Windows 11 Trash Party

    birchtree.me · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I made a retro game archive for Polish games

    lost-at-sql.therobinlo · 2 outlets

  5. Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows on Btrfs

    lilysthings.org · 1 outlets

Technology 606 stories

  1. Finetuning Large Language Models

    magazine.sebastianrasc · 7 outlets

  2. GitHub Copilot Leaked Prompt

    twitter.com · 3 outlets

  3. Google Cloud Europe service disruption

    nytimes.com · 6 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. MRI brain images become 64M times sharper

    today.duke.edu · 2 outlets

  2. Google “We have no moat, and neither does OpenAI”

    semianalysis.com · 1 outlets

  3. Space Elevator

    neal.fun · 1 outlets

  4. See this page fetch itself, byte by byte, over TLS

    subtls.pages.dev · 1 outlets

  5. Automakers are starting to admit that drivers hate touchscreens

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  6. The EARN IT bill is back, seeking to scan our messages and photos

    eff.org · 2 outlets

  7. Clock

    oimo.io · 1 outlets

  8. Load Balancing

    samwho.dev · 1 outlets

  9. Datomic is Free

    blog.datomic.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 31 stories

  1. Show HN: Boring Report, a news app that uses AI to desensationalize the news

    boringreport.org · 1 outlets

  2. Steven Spielberg: ‘No film should be revised’ based on modern sensitivity

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Colorado governor signs tractor right-to-repair law opposed by John Deere

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: The HN Recap – AI generated daily HN podcast

    stretch15.com · 2 outlets

  3. Show HN: ScrapScript – A tiny functional language for sharable software

    scrapscript.org · 1 outlets

  4. Ed Sheeran demonstrates how copyright is destroying musicians

    techdirt.com · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Homemade rocketship treehouse – hardware to custom OS

    rocket.jonh.net · 1 outlets

  6. Netflix will end its DVD service after 25 years

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

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