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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

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What dominated February

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Groq runs Mixtral 8x7B-32k with 500 T/s

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    Dracula Theme for Hacker News

    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 40 stories

  1. Thanks FedEx, this is why we keep getting phished

    troyhunt.com · 1 outlets

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

    phoronix.com · 1 outlets

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

    fortune.com · 1 outlets

  4. Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

    bsky.social · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

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

    tsdr.uspto.gov · 1 outlets

  2. iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

    security.apple.com · 1 outlets

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

    missionlocal.org · 1 outlets

  4. YC: Requests for Startups

    ycombinator.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    edition.cnn.com · 1 outlets

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

    thebureau.news · 1 outlets

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

    stract.com · 1 outlets

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

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

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

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

    boardzilla.io · 1 outlets

  2. Tailwind color palette generator

    tints.dev · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    torrentfreak.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Gödel, Escher, Bach is the most influential book in my life (2022)

    philosophygeek.medium. · 1 outlets

Technology 604 stories

  1. Private company landing on the moon today

    intuitivemachines.com · 2 outlets

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

    theregister.com · 3 outlets

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

    english.elpais.com · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. The Apple Vision Pro’s missing apps

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  2. Sora: Creating video from text

    openai.com · 2 outlets

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

    willempennings.nl · 1 outlets

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

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  5. In loving memory of square checkbox

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

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

    eureporter.co · 1 outlets

  7. Alexei Navalny has died

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    zed.dev · 2 outlets

  9. Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero

    saveflipper.ca · 1 outlets

Entertainment 47 stories

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

    scrollprize.org · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: htmz – a low power tool for HTML

    leanrada.com · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Disney unveils the HoloTile floor

    ign.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

    oneminutefocus.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Startup funding simulator

    fundingsimulator.com · 2 outlets

  4. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

    finance.yahoo.com · 2 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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