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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 1 – March 2, 2024 797 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 09 · Issue 62 Get it by email ↓
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.

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    The web just gets better with Interop 2024

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    The Claro Programming Language

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    A steep rise of Hacker News in Google rankings

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

Business 34 stories

  1. Airfoil

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

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

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

Show 10 more
  1. Bluesky announces data federation for self hosters

  2. I turned my open-source project into a full-time business

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

  4. iMessage with PQ3 Cryptographic Protocol

  5. YC: Requests for Startups

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

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

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

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

  10. 'Mathematically perfect' star system being investigated for potential alien tech

Sports 27 stories

  1. Apple to wind down electric car effort after decadelong odyssey

  2. How video games use lookup tables

Show 6 more
  1. Sudo for Windows

  2. Tailwind color palette generator

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

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

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

  6. Ollama is now available on Windows in preview

Technology 610 stories

  1. Private company landing on the moon today

  2. It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU

  3. Sora: Creating video from text

Show 9 more
  1. I designed a cube that balances itself on a corner

  2. Sent – Simple plaintext presentation tool

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

  4. Alexei Navalny has died

  5. Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution

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

  7. Elon Musk sues Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and OpenAI [pdf]

  8. Keep your phone number private with Signal usernames

  9. Gemini and Google's Culture

Entertainment 46 stories

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

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

Show 6 more
  1. Nintendo is suing the creators of Switch emulator Yuzu

  2. Show HN: Improve cognitive focus in 1 minute

  3. Show HN: I made an app to use local AI as daily driver

  4. TSMC to build second Japan chip factory

  5. Show HN: Pages CMS – A CMS for GitHub

  6. Show HN: Multi-monitor KVM using just a USB switch

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