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The month in reviewVol. 23 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 276 2023-10-03
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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close September 3 – October 3, 2023 801 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 40 · Issue 276 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

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1Articles

What dominated October

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Problems with homemade billing systems

    4 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Everything I know about floppy disks

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Unity's Self-Combustion Engine

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 37 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. Amazon will invest up to $4B in Anthropic

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

  4. Building an economy simulator from scratch

    thomassimon.dev · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Insider trade on Splunk acquisition?

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

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

    msrc.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

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

    maxread.substack.com · 1 outlets

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

    power-technology.com · 1 outlets

  7. ChatGPT-4 significantly increased performance of business consultants

    d3.harvard.edu · 1 outlets

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 iPhone 12 withdrawn from French market for non-compliance with EU regulation

    anfr.fr · 1 outlets

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

    neowin.net · 1 outlets

  10. The New Godot Development Fund

    fund.godotengine.org · 2 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. Microsoft has not stopped forcing Edge on Windows 11 users

    ctrl.blog · 1 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. Open Source does not win by being cheaper

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize

    nature.com · 1 outlets

  5. I used a Game Boy camera for Facetime video calls in iPadOS 17

    macstories.net · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: RISC-V assembly tabletop board game (hack your opponent)

    punkx.org · 1 outlets

Technology 611 stories

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

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

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

    news.mit.edu · 2 outlets

  3. WiFi without internet on a Southwest flight

    jamesbvaughan.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Unlimited Kagi searches for $10 per month

    blog.kagi.com · 1 outlets

  2. Raspberry Pi 5

    raspberrypi.com · 1 outlets

  3. Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)

    cs.cmu.edu · 1 outlets

  4. The Tyranny of the Marginal User

    nothinghuman.substack. · 1 outlets

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

    citizenlab.ca · 1 outlets

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

    puzzling.stackexchange · 1 outlets

  7. A hacker's guide to language models [video]

    audio-video.gnu.org · 2 outlets

  8. Text editing on mobile: the invisible problem

    jenson.org · 2 outlets

  9. Snowden leak: Cavium networking hardware may contain NSA backdoor

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 35 stories

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

    github.com · 4 outlets

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

    electric-sql.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Host a Website in the URL

    smolsite.zip · 1 outlets

  2. Nobel Prize in Medicine awarded to Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman

    nobelprize.org · 1 outlets

  3. Studio Ghibli set to become subsidiary of Nippon TV

    japantimes.co.jp · 1 outlets

  4. Apple TV, now with more Tailscale

    tailscale.com · 1 outlets

  5. Efficient streaming language models with attention sinks

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Sony sends copyright notices to TV Museum about shows 40 to 60 years old

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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