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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close February 29 – March 30, 2024 805 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 13 · Issue 90 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Emma Hemming Willis says Bruce Willis' life is still "filled with joy"

She said she had been "triggered" by seeing a headline about her husband that claimed there was no more joy in his life.

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What dominated March

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    DBeaver – open-source database client

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    What does Alan Kay think about LLMs?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    The Shen Programming Language

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 27 stories

  1. Sam Bankman-Fried sentenced to 25 years in prison

  2. Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

  3. Commission opens non-compliance investigations against Alphabet, Apple and Meta

  4. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

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  1. Training LLMs from ground zero as a startup

  2. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

  3. Ex-Google engineer charged with stealing trade secrets

  4. Paris cycling numbers double in one year thanks to investment

  5. Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big

  6. Fishing for oil and meat drives defaunation of deepwater sharks and rays

  7. Intel Brags of $152B in Stock Buybacks. Why Does It Need an $8B Subsidy?

  8. New Federal Rule Caps Credit Card Late Fees at $8

  9. Boeing CEO Calhoun to step down at end of 2024

  10. US prescription market hamstrung for 9 days (so far) by ransomware attack

Sports 39 stories

  1. Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS

  2. WebSockets vs. Server-Sent-Events vs. Long-Polling vs. WebRTC vs. WebTransport

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  1. Downpour is the game creation tool I have been working on for the past few years

  2. Everyone is John: A competitive roleplaying game for three or more people (2002)

  3. Wintergatan Marble Machine (2016) [video]

  4. Microsoft again bothers Chrome users with Bing popup ads in Windows

  5. Parrots love playing tablet games. That's helping researchers understand them

  6. Cloudflare loses 22% of its domains in Freenom .tk shutdown

Technology 600 stories

  1. Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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

  3. Glassdoor updated my profile to add my real name and location

Show 9 more
  1. Apple restores Epic's account in the EU

  2. Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states

  3. Backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma leading to SSH server compromise

  4. U.S. sues Apple, accusing it of maintaining an iPhone monopoly

  5. DBeaver – open-source database client

  6. Spreadsheets are all you need

  7. Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

  8. Grok

  9. Vernor Vinge has died

Entertainment 57 stories

  1. Show HN: SatCat5, the open-source FPGA Ethernet switch

  2. French court issues damages award for violation of GPL

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  1. Show HN: We built the fastest spreadsheet

  2. Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

  3. Yuzu emulator developers settle Nintendo lawsuit, pay $2.4M in damages

  4. ShotSpotter: listening in on the neighborhood

  5. Facebook let Netflix see user DMs, quit streaming to keep Netflix happy

  6. Show HN: jnv: interactive JSON filter using jq

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