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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close March 30 – April 6, 2024 196 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 14 · Issue 97 Get it by email ↓
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Fentanyl test strips are sweeping college campuses. Our testing found they may not detect laced fake prescription pills.

Fentanyl test strips used to be illegal in California. Now, state law requires them on community and state college campuses. We put fentanyl test strips to the test, and what we found could save someone you know.

CBS · 1 sources

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Business 5 stories

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Canoo spent double its annual revenue on the CEO's private jet

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  3. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

    frankzliu.com · 1 outlets

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  1. US Government funds pilot project for heated sand energy storage

    pv-magazine.com · 1 outlets

  2. GE Vernova Inc. (GEV) Stock Price, News, Quote & History - Yahoo Finance

    Yahoo · 1 outlets

Sports 7 stories

  1. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

    longform.asmartbear.co · 1 outlets

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  1. Intel discloses $7B operating loss for chip-making unit

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

  2. Apple Updates App Store Guidelines to Permit Game Emulators, EU Music App Links

    macrumors.com · 1 outlets

  3. A Japanese hikikomori released a game after 6 years of development [video]

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

Technology 165 stories

  1. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

    blog.documentfoundatio · 2 outlets

  2. Mario meets Pareto

    mayerowitz.io · 1 outlets

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  1. 'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza

    972mag.com · 1 outlets

  2. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

    justine.lol · 1 outlets

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

    bsky.app · 1 outlets

  4. Anatomy of a credit card rewards program

    bitsaboutmoney.com · 1 outlets

  5. The Wi-Fi only works when it's raining

    predr.ag · 1 outlets

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: I've built a locally running Perplexity clone

    github.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: OneUptime – open-source Datadog Alternative

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Plandex – an AI coding engine for complex tasks

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Libmui is a macOS Classic widget lib for Linux

    github.com · 1 outlets

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