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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 7 – September 6, 2023 798 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 36 · Issue 249 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Pentagon launches website for declassified UFO information

The site aims to serve as a "one-stop shop" for publicly available information related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UAPs, according to the Pentagon.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Entertainment

    Fake town built exclusively for filming TV and movies

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    What do I think about Community Notes?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

    CBS · 1 outlets

    Americans are protected from most surprise medical bills by the No Surprises Act that took effect last year. But there's one key item the legislation left out.

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 28 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried is going to jail

    cnbc.com · 3 outlets

  2. The boiling frog of digital freedom

    gazoche.xyz · 1 outlets

  3. HashiCorp adopts Business Source License

    hashicorp.com · 1 outlets

  4. Griffin – A fully-regulated, API-driven bank, with Clojure

    juxt.pro · 1 outlets

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  1. Hugging Face raises $235M from investors including Salesforce and Nvidia

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  2. If you're interested in eye-tracking, I'm interested in funding you

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  5. The feds asked TikTok for lots of domestic spying features

    gizmodo.com · 1 outlets

  6. Federal study links testicular cancer to ‘forever chemicals’

    undark.org · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

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

    tokio.rs · 1 outlets

  9. The Federal Helium reserve is for sale

    gsa.gov · 1 outlets

  10. Bankman-Fried used $100M in stolen FTX funds for political donations, US says

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 37 stories

  1. A video game where you are an operating system

    plbrault.com · 1 outlets

  2. How a startup loses its spark

    blog.johnqian.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  2. Microsoft is using malware-like pop-ups in Win11 to get people to ditch Chrome

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

  3. Windows 11 system components use the default browser to open links in Europe

    blogs.windows.com · 1 outlets

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

    darkreading.com · 1 outlets

  5. Windy.com: global weather website with live filters

    windy.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Just intonation keyboard – play music without knowing music

    ad8e.pages.dev · 1 outlets

Technology 616 stories

  1. Ts_zip: Text Compression Using Large Language Models

    ai.meta.com · 3 outlets

  2. Your computer should say what you tell it to say

    techpowerup.com · 3 outlets

  3. Record labels hit Internet Archive with new copyright lawsuit

    blog.archive.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. GNU Parallel, where have you been all my life?

    stackdiary.com · 4 outlets

  2. iFixit wants Congress to let it hack McDonald’s ice cream machines

    404media.co · 2 outlets

  3. SUSE to go private

    suse.com · 2 outlets

  4. LK-99 isn’t a superconductor

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  5. Chandrayaan-3 Soft-landing [video]

    isro.gov.in · 1 outlets

  6. OpenTF announces fork of Terraform

    opentf.org · 1 outlets

  7. The first conformant M1 GPU driver

    rosenzweig.io · 1 outlets

  8. The worst programmer I know

    dannorth.net · 1 outlets

  9. ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is

    eff.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Factorio: Space Age

    factorio.com · 1 outlets

  2. Block YouTube ads on AppleTV by decrypting and stripping ads from Profobuf

    ericdraken.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I automated half of my typing

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. The ReMarkable Streaming Tool v2: Elevating Remote Work Efficiency

    blog.owulveryck.info · 1 outlets

  4. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

    ryujinx.org · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    news.gallup.com · 1 outlets

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