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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close April 15 – May 15, 2024 788 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 20 · Issue 136 Get it by email ↓
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Using new AI, grieving moms discover California lawmakers killed popular fentanyl bill by not ​voting

They fought for fentanyl legislation, but it was killed before lawmakers even got to vote. Four grieving moms wanted to know why. They're uncovering the truth using a new AI tool designed to help everyday Californians hold lawmakers accountable. They discovered powerful lawmakers killed the popular fentanyl bill by no…

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What dominated May

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Earth Online: non-stop satellite monitoring platform

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Technology

    FTC adopts a comprehensive ban on new noncompetes with all workers

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    GitHub Copilot Workspace: Technical Preview

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 1 stories

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

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 25 stories

  1. New startup sells coffee through SSH

    terminal.shop · 1 outlets

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

    consumerfinance.gov · 1 outlets

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

    abcnews.go.com · 1 outlets

  4. As private equity dominates wheelchair market, users wait months for repairs

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

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  1. McKinsey Under Criminal Investigation over Opioid-Related Consulting

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Online Cryptography Course (2017)

    crypto.stanford.edu · 1 outlets

  3. Takeaways from the Jane Street bond prospectus

    ft.com · 1 outlets

  4. Zoho is attracting the attention of African startup founders

    restofworld.org · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

  6. Boeing faces new US investigation into 'missed' 787 inspections

    theguardian.com · 1 outlets

  7. Financial market applications of LLMs

    thegradient.pub · 1 outlets

  8. Evidence of price-fixing in the oil industry?

    thebignewsletter.com · 1 outlets

  9. Vets fret as private equity snaps up clinics, pet care companies

    stateline.org · 1 outlets

  10. They thought they were joining an accelerator – instead they lost their startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Sports 25 stories

  1. Most of Europe is glowing pink under the aurora

    foto-webcam.eu · 1 outlets

  2. Leaving Rust gamedev after 3 years

    loglog.games · 1 outlets

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

    tonoko.notion.site · 1 outlets

  2. Proton Mail discloses user data leading to arrest in Spain

    restoreprivacy.com · 1 outlets

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

    balanc3dgame.com · 1 outlets

  4. NYU professors who defended vaping didn't disclose ties to Juul

    statnews.com · 1 outlets

  5. Hackers discover how to reprogram NES Tetris from within the game

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 627 stories

  1. Tesla to lay off more than 10% of its staff

    electrek.co · 4 outlets

  2. Stack Overflow and OpenAI are partnering

    build5nines.com · 2 outlets

  3. FCC fines largest wireless carriers for sharing location data

    docs.fcc.gov · 3 outlets

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  1. Second Boeing Whistleblower Dies in Less Than Two Months

    newshub.co.nz · 2 outlets

  2. Google Cloud accidentally deletes customer's account

    theguardian.com · 2 outlets

  3. GPT-4o

    openai.com · 1 outlets

  4. Meta Llama 3

    llama.meta.com · 1 outlets

  5. The man who killed Google Search?

    wheresyoured.at · 1 outlets

  6. Veo

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  7. Equinox.space

    equinox.space · 1 outlets

  8. Apple introduces M4 chip

    apple.com · 1 outlets

  9. This is a teenager

    pudding.cool · 1 outlets

Entertainment 47 stories

  1. Printing Music with CSS Grid

    cruncher.ch · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: An SQS Alternative on Postgres

    play.google.com · 6 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 · 3 outlets

  3. Inside the Super Nintendo cartridges

    fabiensanglard.net · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: A WireGuard Powered Remote Shell

    github.com · 3 outlets

  5. Show HN: Exploring HN by mapping and analyzing 40M posts and comments for fun

    blog.wilsonl.in · 1 outlets

  6. The USDA's gardening zones shifted, this map shows you what's changed

    apps.npr.org · 1 outlets

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