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The month's top story

Why didn't Gov. Newsom's CHP detail stop that retail theft he witnessed at Target?

Also on Thursday, Democratic mayors are joining the fight to reform Proposition 47 despite California Gov. Gavin Newsom's opposition.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    How to delete your data from data brokers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

  3. Technology

    Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Workers who cut crushed quartz countertops say they are falling ill

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 38 stories

  1. Mozilla names new CEO as it pivots to data privacy

    fortune.com · 1 outlets

  2. Remote work doesn't seem to affect productivity, Fed study finds

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  3. 'Stupid,' 'shameful:' Tech workers on Y Combinator CEO Garry Tan's rant

    missionlocal.org · 1 outlets

  4. Finance worker pays out $25M after video call call with deepfake CFO

    edition.cnn.com · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. "Fake Chinese income" mortgages fuel Toronto real estate bubble: HSBC bank leaks

    thebureau.news · 1 outlets

  2. Alaska CEO: We found many loose bolts on our Max planes

    nbcnews.com · 1 outlets

  3. Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine

    stract.com · 1 outlets

  4. Thousands of small businesses are struggling because of R&D amortization

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Mistral CEO confirms 'leak' of new open source AI model nearing GPT4 performance

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  6. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  7. CEOs Are Using Return to Office Mandates to Mask Poor Management

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  8. Is Google Getting Worse? A Longitudinal Investigation of SEO Spam in Search [pdf]

    downloads.webis.de · 1 outlets

  9. I hacked a train toilet

    devever.net · 1 outlets

  10. Lossy CSS compression for fun and loss (or profit)

    blog.danieljanus.pl · 1 outlets

Sports 30 stories

  1. OpenAI scrapped a promise to disclose key documents to the public

    wired.com · 1 outlets

  2. Sudo for Windows

    devblogs.microsoft.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Modder re-creates Game Boy Advance games using the audio from crash sounds

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Boardzilla, a framework for making web-based board games

    boardzilla.io · 1 outlets

  3. Tailwind color palette generator

    tints.dev · 1 outlets

  4. Disney to take $1.5B stake in Epic Games

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  5. Netflix: Piracy is difficult to compete against and growing rapidly

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

  6. Quickemu: Quickly run optimised Windows, macOS and Linux virtual machines

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 599 stories

  1. Microsoft stole my Chrome tabs, and it wants yours, too

    theregister.com · 3 outlets

  2. Prisoners in the US are part of a hidden workforce linked to popular food brands

    english.elpais.com · 2 outlets

  3. Losing my son

    fortressofdoors.com · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

    apple.com · 3 outlets

  2. In loving memory of square checkbox

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

  3. What's that touchscreen in my room?

    laplab.me · 1 outlets

  4. Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

    zed.dev · 3 outlets

  5. I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

    amazon.com · 1 outlets

  6. Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

    cep.dev · 1 outlets

  7. Infinite Craft

    neal.fun · 1 outlets

  8. FCC rules AI-generated voices in robocalls illegal

    fcc.gov · 1 outlets

  9. Relativistic Spaceship

    dmytry.github.io · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. Vesuvius Challenge 2023 Grand Prize awarded: we can read the first scroll

    scrollprize.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I made a website to find best bus seat to avoid the sun while traveling

    sitinshade.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

    ign.com · 1 outlets

  2. On being listed as an artist whose work was used to train Midjourney

    catandgirl.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

    oneminutefocus.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

    fundingsimulator.com · 1 outlets

  5. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

    finance.yahoo.com · 2 outlets

  6. Nightshade: An offensive tool for artists against AI art generators

    nightshade.cs.uchicago · 1 outlets

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