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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close August 29 – September 28, 2023 809 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 39 · Issue 271 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Landmark homeless lawsuit, The People vs. City of Sacramento, could impact policies statewide

The Sacramento County District Attorney's office is suing the City of Sacramento alleging the city failed to enforce the law and allowed the homeless crisis to become a public nuisance.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated September

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Problems with homemade billing systems

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Unity's Self-Combustion Engine

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Privacy Nightmare on Wheels’: Every Car Brand Reviewed by Mozilla

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 3 stories

  1. What are UAPs, and why do UFOs have a new name?

    CBS · 1 outlets

    A former intelligence officer-turned-whistleblower and two pilots testified before Congress about the strange, seemingly inexplicable objects.

  2. Pentagon launches website for declassified UFO information

    CBS · 1 outlets

  3. Consumers can face surprise bills from costly ambulance rides

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 33 stories

  1. My favourite API is a zipfile on the European Central Bank's website

    csvbase.com · 1 outlets

  2. I'm fed up with it, so I'm writing a browser

    adayinthelifeof.nl · 1 outlets

  3. The boiling frog of digital freedom

    gazoche.xyz · 1 outlets

  4. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Building an economy simulator from scratch

    thomassimon.dev · 1 outlets

  2. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    juxt.pro · 1 outlets

  4. Results of technical investigations for Storm-0558 key acquisition

    msrc.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

  5. Striking auto workers want a 40% pay increase–the same rate their CEOs’ pay grew

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. Spain cancels Pegasus spyware investigation because Israel is not co-operating

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. A literary history of fake texts in Apple's marketing materials

    maxread.substack.com · 1 outlets

  8. Investigation: 78% of carbon offset projects globally are “likely junk“

    power-technology.com · 1 outlets

  9. iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

    anfr.fr · 1 outlets

  10. EU fines Intel $400M for blocking AMD's market access

    neowin.net · 1 outlets

Sports 34 stories

  1. Microsoft is killing WordPad in Windows

    ctrl.blog · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: Unity like game editor running in pure WASM

    raverie-us.github.io · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. OpenRA – Classic strategy games rebuilt for the modern era

    openra.net · 1 outlets

  2. Rockstar is selling cracked game copies on Steam

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    blogs.windows.com · 1 outlets

  5. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

    nature.com · 1 outlets

Technology 629 stories

  1. FTC judge decides Intuit’s ‘free’ TurboTax ads misled consumers

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  2. The Terraform Registry Terms of Service have been updated

    stackdiary.com · 2 outlets

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

    404media.co · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Desalination system could produce freshwater that is cheaper than tap water

    news.mit.edu · 2 outlets

  2. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

    blog.kagi.com · 1 outlets

  3. Raspberry Pi 5

    raspberrypi.com · 1 outlets

  4. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

    cs.cmu.edu · 1 outlets

  5. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

    nothinghuman.substack. · 1 outlets

  6. The worst programmer I know

    dannorth.net · 1 outlets

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

    eff.org · 1 outlets

  8. NSO group iPhone zero-click, zero-day exploit captured in the wild

    citizenlab.ca · 1 outlets

  9. Is this Duplo train track under too much tension?

    puzzling.stackexchange · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

  1. Show HN: I automated half of my typing

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Nue – A React/Vue/Vite/Astro Alternative

    github.com · 6 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: ElectricSQL, Postgres to SQLite active-active sync for local-first apps

    electric-sql.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

    smolsite.zip · 1 outlets

  3. RyujinX – Open Source Nintendo Switch Emulator

    ryujinx.org · 1 outlets

  4. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

    japantimes.co.jp · 1 outlets

  5. Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics

    servethehome.com · 1 outlets

  6. Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

    tailscale.com · 1 outlets

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