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The week in reviewVol. 24 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 148 2024-05-27
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close May 20 – May 27, 2024 197 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 22 · Issue 148 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. Business Booms and Depressions Since 1775 (1943)

    fraser.stlouisfed.org · 1 outlets

  2. Advancing Our Bet on Asymmetric Cryptography

    blog.chromium.org · 1 outlets

  3. Golden Gate Claude

    anthropic.com · 1 outlets

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  1. xAI announces series B funding round of $6B

    x.ai · 1 outlets

Sports 9 stories

  1. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    windirstat.net · 1 outlets

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  1. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I built a game to help you learn neural network architectures

    graphgame.sabrina.dev · 1 outlets

  3. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

    techradar.com · 1 outlets

Technology 161 stories

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

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

  2. 'I was misidentified as shoplifter by facial recognition tech'

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

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

    daylightcomputer.com · 1 outlets

  2. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  3. Gordon Bell has died

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  4. ICQ will stop working from June 26

    icq.com · 1 outlets

  5. Cloudflare took down our website

    robindev.substack.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 10 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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