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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 19 – December 19, 2023 818 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 51 · Issue 353 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Custer County triple homicide suspect in custody

Three people are dead and another has been critically injured after a shooting Monday afternoon in Custer County, Colorado, over a property dispute.

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Moving from relational data to events

    6 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    Extracting training data from ChatGPT

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Godot: A Collaboration with Google and the Forge

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Business 27 stories

  1. Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI

  2. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

  3. We have reached an agreement in principle for Sam to return to OpenAI as CEO

  4. OpenAI researchers warned board of AI breakthrough ahead of CEO ouster

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  1. Database Fundamentals

  2. The Bond villain compliance strategy

  3. The feds' vehicle 'kill switch' mandate is a gross violation of privacy

  4. Broadcom lays off many VMware employees after closing acquisition

  5. Altman sought billions for AI chip venture before OpenAI ouster

  6. Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]

  7. Intel CEO: 'The entire industry is motivated to eliminate the CUDA market'

  8. Apple pulls plug on Goldman credit-card partnership

  9. OpenAI Committed to Buying $51M of AI Chips from a Startup Backed by Sam Altman

  10. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

Sports 51 stories

  1. HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

  2. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

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  1. Harvard gutted team examining Facebook Files following $500M Zuckerberg donation

  2. I hacked Magic the Gathering: Arena for a 100% win rate

  3. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

  4. Naev – open-source game about space exploration, trade and combat

  5. W4 Games raises $15M to drive video game development with Godot Engine

  6. Interviewing my mother, a mainframe COBOL programmer (2016)

Technology 596 stories

  1. OpenAI: Facts from a Weekend

  2. A secret deal let Spotify bypass Android's app store fees

  3. Large Language Model Course

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  1. The surprising connection between after-hours work and decreased productivity

  2. Demystifying Web Push Notifications

  3. If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing

  4. Reflecting on 18 Years at Google

  5. Gemini AI

  6. YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads

  7. Sam Altman, Greg Brockman and others to join Microsoft

  8. LLM Visualization

  9. Tiny volumetric display

Entertainment 43 stories

  1. Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android

  2. Show HN: How did your computer reach my server?

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  1. FFmpeg lands CLI multi-threading as its "most complex refactoring" in decades

  2. Show HN: A Dalle-3 and GPT4-Vision feedback loop

  3. Show HN: Trains.fyi – a live map of passenger trains in the US and Canada

  4. Stripe live dashboard

  5. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

  6. Show HN: Simulate 3D plants in the browser

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