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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 12 – April 11, 2024 819 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 102 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor

    8 of 30 days · 9 articles

  2. Technology

    Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth

    3 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    It's not what the world needs right now

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 28 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. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announces new AI chips: ‘We need bigger GPUs’

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

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

  4. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

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

  6. Asus refunds Zenfone buyer for failing to provide bootloader unlock tools

  7. Lago, Open-Source Stripe Alternative, banks $22M in funding

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

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

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

Sports 33 stories

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

  2. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

Show 6 more
  1. Oh My Git: An open source game about learning Git

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

  3. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

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

  5. Why does part of the Windows 98 Setup program look older than the rest? (2020)

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

Technology 621 stories

  1. AI-generated sad girl with piano performs the text of the MIT License

  2. Going in circles without a real-time clock

  3. Browse Self-Hosted Software

Show 9 more
  1. Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth

  2. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

  3. Direct File officially opens in 12 pilot states

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

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

  6. Mario meets Pareto

  7. Spreadsheets are all you need

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

  9. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

Entertainment 57 stories

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

  2. Maps that show time instead of space

Show 6 more
  1. Show HN: We built PriceLevel to find out what companies pay for SaaS

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

  3. Show HN: Sonauto – A more controllable AI music creator

  4. Re-creating Disney's sodium vapor process [video]

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

  6. Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

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