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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 223 2023-08-11
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 12 – August 11, 2023 815 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 32 · Issue 223 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Why an eye exam should be on your child's back-to-school checklist

Back-to-school season is a great time for kids to get an eye exam, doctors say, specially since school screenings can miss kids with vision problems.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Throw away your first draft of your code

    7 of 30 days · 8 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. "Glacial outburst" flooding destroys at least 2 buildings in Alaska

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 30 stories

  1. FedNow Is Live

    federalreserve.gov · 1 outlets

  2. Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity

    noahpinion.blog · 1 outlets

  3. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

    hashicorp.com · 1 outlets

  4. Founder of crypto lender Celsius Network arrested, charged with fraud

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Who employs your doctor? Increasingly, a private equity firm

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  2. Senators propose law that bans members of Congress from trading stocks

    wsj.com · 2 outlets

  3. Bookwyrm – A federated social network for reading books

    joinbookwyrm.com · 1 outlets

  4. Is technical analysis just stock market astrology?

    alicegg.tech · 1 outlets

  5. The US economy and the EU were the same size in 2008, the US is now nearly 2X

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. StabilityAI cofounder says CEO tricked him into selling stake for $100

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  7. Coming Soon: Fedora for Apple Silicon Macs

    fedoramagazine.org · 1 outlets

  8. Supermarket AI meal planner app suggests recipe that would create chlorine gas

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Wikimedia Foundation joins Mastodon and the Fediverse

    wikimedia.social · 1 outlets

  10. How the Rich Reap Huge Tax Breaks From Private Nonprofits

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. The U.K. government is close to eroding encryption worldwide

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  2. Semiconducting Transport in LK99 reproduction attempt

    arxiv.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Linux surpasses the Mac among Steam gamers

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Help the Library of Congress create games to improve public knowledge of civics

    blogs.loc.gov · 1 outlets

  3. Chicago95 – Windows 95 Theme for Linux

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. ‘No way out’: how video games use tricks from gambling to attract big spenders

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  5. Unconfirmed video showing potential LK-99 sample exhibiting the Meissner effect

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  6. The $1M shot that changed sports contests

    espn.com · 1 outlets

Technology 619 stories

  1. Web Environment Integrity API Proposal

    neelc.org · 10 outlets

  2. Zoom's TOS Permit Training AI on User Content Without Opt-Out

    explore.zoom.us · 4 outlets

  3. A room-temperature superconductor? New developments

    science.org · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work

    washingtonpost.com · 2 outlets

  2. Throw away your first draft of your code

    techpowerup.com · 8 outlets

  3. Overture Maps Foundation releases open map dataset

    newsroom.ibm.com · 3 outlets

  4. Vim's Creator Bram Moolenaar Dies at Age 62 – Slashdot

    groups.google.com · 3 outlets

  5. Kevin Mitnick has died

    dignitymemorial.com · 1 outlets

  6. Llama 2

    ai.meta.com · 1 outlets

  7. Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers

    stanforddaily.com · 1 outlets

  8. I would rather see my books get pirated than this

    9to5mac.com · 2 outlets

  9. Google is already pushing WEI into Chromium

    github.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 40 stories

  1. Show HN: I spent 2 years building a personal finance simulator

    projectionlab.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: San Francisco Compute – 512 H100s at <$2/hr for research and startups

    sfcompute.org · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Disney, Netflix, and more are fighting FTC's 'click to cancel' proposal

    businessinsider.com · 1 outlets

  2. Watch TV from the 90s and earlier

    my90stv.com · 1 outlets

  3. Depthboot – Your Chromebook, your way

    github.com · 3 outlets

  4. Show HN: Continue – Open-source coding autopilot

    invoicedragon.com · 4 outlets

  5. Sci-Hub founder receives EFF award for providing access to scientific knowledge

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Free AI-based music demixing in the browser

    ofrak.com · 4 outlets

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