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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close March 27 – April 26, 2024 810 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 17 · Issue 117 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Americans lose millions to wire transfer fraud. Could banks do more to stop it?

"Their job is to protect our investments," said one man whose bank account was drained of $15,000. "Otherwise, what's the point of putting it with a bank?"

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated April

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    FAQ on the xz-utils backdoor

    5 of 30 days · 6 articles

  2. Technology

    What even is a JSON number?

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Tailscale SSH is now Generally Available

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

  1. Fentanyl test strips are sweeping college campuses. Our testing found they may not detect laced fake prescription pills.

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 31 stories

  1. The Arc Product-Market Fit Framework

    sequoiacap.com · 2 outlets

  2. Latest News - Yahoo Finance

    Yahoo · 1 outlets

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

    cnn.com · 1 outlets

  4. CFPB Takes Action Against Coding Boot Camp BloomTech and CEO Austen Allred

    consumerfinance.gov · 1 outlets

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  1. Airlines required to refund passengers for canceled, delayed flights

    abcnews.go.com · 1 outlets

  2. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    reuters.com · 1 outlets

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

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

  5. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

    restofworld.org · 1 outlets

  6. Tribler: An attack-resilient micro-economy for media

    github.com · 1 outlets

  7. A16Z blogs are just glorified marketing

    frankzliu.com · 1 outlets

  8. Hospitals that make profits should pay taxes

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

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

    androidauthority.com · 1 outlets

  10. Financial market applications of LLMs

    thegradient.pub · 1 outlets

Sports 24 stories

  1. I made an open source Windows app to rewind and search everything on screen

    tonoko.notion.site · 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. Summers: Inflation Reached 18% in 2022 Using the Government's Previous Formula

    forbes.com · 1 outlets

  3. 1.18k drawings of plant root systems

    images.wur.nl · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Balancing game for the mobile browser with increasing difficulty

    balanc3dgame.com · 1 outlets

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

    retrocomputing.stackex · 1 outlets

  6. Doom-htop: The classic DOOM game over htop

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 632 stories

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

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. Browse Self-Hosted Software

    stalw.art · 3 outlets

  3. German state moving 30k PCs to LibreOffice

    blog.documentfoundatio · 2 outlets

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

    openwall.com · 1 outlets

  2. Meta Llama 3

    llama.meta.com · 1 outlets

  3. The man who killed Google Search?

    wheresyoured.at · 1 outlets

  4. Equinox.space

    equinox.space · 1 outlets

  5. Mario meets Pareto

    mayerowitz.io · 1 outlets

  6. This is a teenager

    pudding.cool · 1 outlets

  7. Hardest problem in computer science: centering things

    tonsky.me · 1 outlets

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

    972mag.com · 1 outlets

  9. Obituary for a quiet life (2023)

    bittersoutherner.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 46 stories

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

    paulbupejr.com · 3 outlets

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

    github.com · 3 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Short Stack: World’s smallest Nintendo Wii

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: Building a GPS receiver

    axleos.com · 1 outlets

  3. The Hearts of the Super Nintendo

    fabiensanglard.net · 1 outlets

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

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  5. Xemu: Original Xbox Emulator

    icode4.coffee · 2 outlets

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

    sonauto.ai · 1 outlets

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