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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 16 – May 23, 2023 186 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 143 Get it by email ↓
The week's top story

Disney to close its "Star Wars" hotel that opened last year

The final guest stay will be September 30, so anyone who booked a reservation for beyond that date should contact Disney.

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Business 7 stories

  1. Venture Predation

  2. €1.2B GDPR fine for Meta

  3. AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity

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  1. UK’s GDPR replacement could wipe out oversight of live facial recognition

  2. iPhone maker Wistron quits, saying Apple didn't let it make a profit

  3. WeWork has frittered away $46.7B in value as the stock sinks below ¢50

  4. With new trade deal, Big Tech wants to be above the law

Sports 6 stories

  1. Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days

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  1. I wrote a GameBoy emulator for my hobby OS (2022)

  2. Windows XP Activation: Game Over

  3. I Still Use Windows 95 (2008)

Technology 153 stories

  1. Don Knuth plays with ChatGPT

  2. Drag Your GAN: Interactive Point-Based Manipulation of Images

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  1. Memory Allocation

  2. Sam Altman goes before US Congress to propose licenses for building AI

  3. Same Stop: Life after 26 years as a programmer for Apple

  4. Orb Farm

  5. What happened with ASUS routers this morning?

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: Beepberry – a portable e-paper computer for hackers

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  1. Leaked government document shows Spain wants to ban end-to-end encryption

  2. Show HN: YouTube Full Text Search – Search all of a channel from the commandline

  3. Linux tool to show progress for cp, mv, dd

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