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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close November 29 – December 29, 2023 805 stories · Vol. 23 · Catalogue 52 · Issue 363 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

Each year, about a million people are told they owe the Social Security Administration money because the agency miscalculated their benefits and paid them too much.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated December

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Now I can just print that video

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    OpenAI employees did not want to go work for Microsoft

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    The D Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 6 articles

Business 22 stories

  1. Figma and Adobe abandon proposed merger

    figma.com · 1 outlets

  2. Database Fundamentals

    tontinton.com · 1 outlets

  3. Sam Altman returns as CEO, OpenAI has a new initial board

    openai.com · 2 outlets

  4. Costs of running a macOS app studio business

    notes.alinpanaitiu.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Mozilla 2023 annual report: CEO pay skyrockets, Firefox market share nosedives

    lunduke.locals.com · 1 outlets

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

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  3. Fed court rules for retired engineer told by state to not talk about math

    wect.com · 1 outlets

  4. How can Santa keep his lists when the GDPR is around?

    worldbuilding.stackexc · 1 outlets

  5. Tohands – Smart calculator for small businesses

    smart.tohands.in · 1 outlets

  6. Greedflation: Corporate profiteering 'significantly' boosted global prices,study

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. Fedora Asahi Remix

    asahilinux.org · 1 outlets

  8. Quality of care declines after private equity takes over hospitals

    medicalxpress.com · 1 outlets

  9. Nikola founder to be sentenced for federal fraud charges

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  10. We investigated France's mass profiling machine

    lighthousereports.com · 1 outlets

Sports 49 stories

  1. Amazon Prime Video Will Start Showing Ads on January 29

    theverge.com · 2 outlets

  2. HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO

    github.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Epic vs. Google: Google Loses

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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

    live-whistleblower-aid · 1 outlets

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

    mayer.cool · 1 outlets

  4. Ousted propaganda scholar accuses Harvard of bowing to Meta

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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

    w4games.com · 1 outlets

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

    ezali.substack.com · 1 outlets

Technology 605 stories

  1. Large Language Model Course

    arxiv.org · 4 outlets

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

    slack.com · 1 outlets

  3. US ban on some Apple Watch sales now in effect

    reuters.com · 4 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    pluralistic.net · 1 outlets

  2. Gemini AI

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  3. LLM Visualization

    bbycroft.net · 1 outlets

  4. Tiny volumetric display

    mitxela.com · 1 outlets

  5. 4B If Statements

    andreasjhkarlsson.gith · 1 outlets

  6. Apple cuts off Beeper Mini's access

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  7. Voyager 1 stops communicating with Earth

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  8. DeskHop – Fast Desktop Switching

    github.com · 1 outlets

  9. ArXiv now offers papers in HTML format

    blog.arxiv.org · 1 outlets

Entertainment 38 stories

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

    beeper.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Heynote – A dedicated scratchpad for developers

    heynote.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Nuclear Reactor Simulator

    eia.gov · 2 outlets

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

    how-did-i-get-here.net · 1 outlets

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

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Rem: Remember Everything (open source)

    github.com · 2 outlets

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

    plant.max-richter.dev · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: I Remade the Fake Google Gemini Demo, Except Using GPT-4 and It's Real

    sagittarius.greg.techn · 1 outlets

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