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The week in reviewVol. 24 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 145 2024-05-24
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 17 – May 24, 2024 194 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 21 · Issue 145 Get it by email ↓
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Pothole damage claims on California freeways triple while Caltrans payouts drop by half. Why?

A CBS News California investigation finds Caltrans only approved 1 out of every 25 damage claims from potholes and debris in the first half of 2023.

CBS · 1 sources

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Business 4 stories

  1. Ex-OpenAI staff must sign lifetime no-criticism contract or forfeit all equity

    x.com · 1 outlets

  2. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

    fraser.stlouisfed.org · 1 outlets

  3. Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography

    blog.chromium.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Golden Gate Claude

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

Sports 12 stories

  1. Non-Euclidean Doom: what happens to a game when pi is not 3.14159 (2022) [video]

    media.ccc.de · 1 outlets

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  1. I organized a 20-acre game of Capture the Flag

    ntnbr.com · 1 outlets

  2. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    windirstat.net · 1 outlets

  3. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

    slate.com · 1 outlets

Technology 156 stories

  1. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  2. Statement from Scarlett Johansson on the OpenAI "Sky" voice

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Daylight Computer – New 60fps e-paper tablet

    daylightcomputer.com · 1 outlets

  2. Gordon Bell has died

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. Llama3 implemented from scratch

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Bend: a high-level language that runs on GPUs (via HVM2)

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. US Justice Department to seek breakup of Live Nation-Ticketmaster

    bloomberg.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 11 stories

  1. OpenAI didn’t copy Scarlett Johansson’s voice for ChatGPT, records show

    washingtonpost.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: Pls Fix – Hire big tech employees to appeal account suspensions

    plsfix.co · 1 outlets

  2. NoTunes is a macOS application that will prevent Apple Music from launching

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: HackerNews but for research papers

    papertalk.xyz · 1 outlets

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