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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

    Dracula Theme for Hacker News

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    MobileDiffusion: Rapid text-to-image generation on-device

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

    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 42 stories

  1. AMD funded a drop-in CUDA implementation built on ROCm: It's now open-source

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

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

    fortune.com · 1 outlets

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

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

  4. OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

    tsdr.uspto.gov · 1 outlets

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

    missionlocal.org · 1 outlets

  2. YC: Requests for Startups

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    edition.cnn.com · 1 outlets

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

    thebureau.news · 1 outlets

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

    nbcnews.com · 1 outlets

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

    stract.com · 1 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  8. I applied for a software role at FedEx and was asked to take a personality test

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

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

    venturebeat.com · 1 outlets

  10. Amazon and iRobot call off their planned acquisition

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

Sports 27 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 610 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. I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner

    willempennings.nl · 1 outlets

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  1. Losing my son

    fortressofdoors.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple built iCloud to store billions of databases

    apple.com · 3 outlets

  3. In loving memory of square checkbox

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

  4. What's that touchscreen in my room?

    laplab.me · 1 outlets

  5. European Court of Human Rights bans weakening of secure end-to-end encryption

    eureporter.co · 1 outlets

  6. Flowblade: Open-source video editor for Linux

    zed.dev · 3 outlets

  7. Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

    cep.dev · 1 outlets

  8. Is something bugging you?

    antithesis.com · 1 outlets

  9. Infinite Craft

    neal.fun · 1 outlets

Entertainment 46 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 · 2 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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