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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 12 – August 19, 2023 178 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 33 · Issue 231 Get it by email ↓
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Business 7 stories

  1. China’s property giant Evergrande files for bankruptcy protection in Manhattan

  2. Spotify looked to ban white noise podcasts to become more profitable

  3. Turmoil, a framework for developing and testing distributed systems

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  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

  2. Microsoft AI suggests Ottawa food bank as a “cannot miss” tourist spot

  3. A look into the finances of SpaceX

  4. How to access BNN Bloomberg’s business coverage as Meta blocks news in Canada - BNN Bloomberg

Sports 9 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

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  1. Following pushback, Zoom says it won't use customer data to train AI models

  2. Windows 11 will happily execute a binary compiled 30 years ago

  3. How do we save water: Stop growing alfalfa in Imperial County

Technology 142 stories

  1. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

  2. SUSE to go private

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  1. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

  2. Htmx is part of the GitHub Accelerator

  3. We reduced the cost of building Mastodon at Twitter-scale by 100x

  4. Ask vs. Guess Culture

  5. Azure ChatGPT: Private and secure ChatGPT for internal enterprise use

Entertainment 10 stories

  1. Show HN: LLMs can generate valid JSON 100% of the time

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  1. Show HN: Little Rat – Chrome extension monitors network calls of all extensions

  2. Mister Rogers had a point – routinely greeting six neighbors maximizes wellbeing

  3. Show HN: AI-town, run your own custom AI world SIM with JavaScript

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