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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 21 – May 28, 2023 186 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 148 Get it by email ↓
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Scammers using text messages to drain bank accounts in new ploy

The growing trend led to a staggering $8.8 billion in losses last year, according to government data.

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  1. Surgeon General: Social media may pose risk to teen mental health

Business 8 stories

  1. UCLA computer grad constructs “crown jewel of cryptography”

  2. Binance commingled customer funds and company revenue, former insiders say

  3. €1.2B GDPR fine for Meta

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  1. AI boom could expose investors’ natural stupidity

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

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

  4. Container shipping has cratered, as ship owners try to avoid unprofitable trips

Sports 8 stories

  1. Kanboard: free and open source Kanban project management software

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  1. Don’t open the details in a modal window, have it be a separate page

  2. Following UK antitrust order, Meta sells Giphy to Shutterstock for $53M

  3. Show HN: I created a game to memorize the fretboard

Technology 147 stories

  1. Seattle Amazon workers plan walkout over return to office, layoffs

  2. Memory Allocation

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  1. PyPI Was Subpoenaed

  2. Everything you always wanted to know about mathematics (2013) [pdf]

  3. Why I Left Rust

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

  5. Scar tissues make relationships wear out (2013)

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. Tarkovsky's films online for free

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

  2. Show HN: Image background removal without annoying subscriptions

  3. Show HN: Open sourcing Harmonic, my Android Hacker News client

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