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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 3 – April 2, 2024 813 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 93 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 April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    What Monks Know about Focus

    6 of 30 days · 7 articles

  2. Technology

    DBeaver – open-source database client

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    Xz: A microcosm of the interactions in open source projects

    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. OpenAI removes Sam Altman's ownership of its Startup Fund

  5. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

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

  7. Post-quantum cryptography is too damn big

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

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

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

Sports 38 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. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

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

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

  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 611 stories

  1. Boeing whistleblower found dead in US

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

  3. Apple restores Epic's account in the EU

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  1. Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states

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

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

  4. DBeaver – open-source database client

  5. Spreadsheets are all you need

  6. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

  7. XZ backdoor: "It's RCE, not auth bypass, and gated/unreplayable."

  8. Difftastic, a structural diff tool that understands syntax

  9. Grok

Entertainment 50 stories

  1. Maps that show time instead of space

  2. French court issues damages award for violation of GPL

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  1. Show HN: I built an interactive plotter art exhibit for SIGGRAPH

  2. Show HN: Free Plain-Text Bookmarking

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

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

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

  6. Show HN: Dropflow, a CSS layout engine for node or <canvas>

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