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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 13 – April 12, 2024 821 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 15 · Issue 103 Get it by email ↓
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CBS · 1 sources

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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. Entertainment

    Maps that show time instead of space

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    It's not what the world needs right now

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Business 30 stories

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

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

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

    krebsonsecurity.com · 1 outlets

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

    ec.europa.eu · 1 outlets

  4. Emad Mostaque resigned as CEO of Stability AI

    stability.ai · 1 outlets

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

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  4. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

    frankzliu.com · 1 outlets

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

    momentummag.com · 1 outlets

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

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

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

    commondreams.org · 1 outlets

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

    pv-magazine.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

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

    rxdb.info · 1 outlets

  2. Avoid blundering: 80% of a winning strategy

    longform.asmartbear.co · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    ohmygit.org · 1 outlets

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

    rtwolf.github.io · 1 outlets

  3. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

    images.wur.nl · 1 outlets

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

    news.northeastern.edu · 1 outlets

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

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

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

    netcraft.com · 1 outlets

Technology 619 stories

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

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Going in circles without a real-time clock

    techcrunch.com · 5 outlets

  3. Browse Self-Hosted Software

    stalw.art · 3 outlets

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  1. Boeing's Dead Whistleblower Spoke the Truth

    abcnews4.com · 3 outlets

  2. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

    blog.documentfoundatio · 2 outlets

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

    openwall.com · 1 outlets

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

    nytimes.com · 1 outlets

  5. Mario meets Pareto

    mayerowitz.io · 1 outlets

  6. Spreadsheets are all you need

    spreadsheets-are-all-y · 1 outlets

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

    972mag.com · 1 outlets

  8. LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs

    justine.lol · 1 outlets

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

    bsky.app · 1 outlets

Entertainment 56 stories

  1. Show HN: I made a discrete logic network card

    paulbupejr.com · 2 outlets

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

    memories.gallery · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

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

    pricelevel.com · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    sonauto.ai · 1 outlets

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

    youtube.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: macOS Reminder Sync for Obsidian Tasks

    github.com · 2 outlets

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