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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

    Video generation models as world simulators

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Data structures as topological spaces (2002) [pdf]

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The first amateur radio station on the moon

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 41 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. OpenAI – Application for US trademark “GPT” has failed

    tsdr.uspto.gov · 1 outlets

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

    missionlocal.org · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. YC: Requests for Startups

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

  2. Big Pharma spends billions more on executives and stockholders than on R&D

    arstechnica.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 29 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 603 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. Sora: Creating video from text

    openai.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner

    willempennings.nl · 1 outlets

  2. Apple announces changes to iOS, Safari, and the App Store in the European Union

    apple.com · 1 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. Alexei Navalny has died

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  7. Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source

    zed.dev · 2 outlets

  8. Our next-generation model: Gemini 1.5

    blog.google · 1 outlets

  9. Almost every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret

    cep.dev · 1 outlets

Entertainment 45 stories

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

    scrollprize.org · 1 outlets

  2. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

    ign.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

    oneminutefocus.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

    fundingsimulator.com · 2 outlets

  3. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

    finance.yahoo.com · 2 outlets

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

    nightshade.cs.uchicago · 1 outlets

  5. We made an animated movie in 8kB

    ctrl-alt-test.fr · 1 outlets

  6. Science fiction authors were excluded from awards for fear of offending China

    nbcnews.com · 1 outlets

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