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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close May 18 – June 17, 2024 822 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 25 · Issue 169 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Lawmakers demanding answers about Caltrans denied damage claims

In response to a CBS News California Investigation, California lawmakers are demanding answers from Caltrans and considering legislation to fix Caltrans' damage claim process.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated June

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Technology

    Voyager 1 Resumes Sending Science Data

    3 of 30 days · 3 articles

Top Stories 11 stories

  1. June 13, 2024 Israel-Hamas war

    CNN · 1 outlets

    The US-backed Gaza ceasefire proposal doesn't meet Hamas' demands for an end to the war, a senior official has told CNN. Osama Hamdan also said that "no one has an idea" how many of the hostages held…

  2. Supreme Court maintains access to abortion pill in unanimous decision

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. Confessions of a 1980s flight attendant

    CNN · 1 outlets

  4. Biden and Zelensky lay out new US support for Ukraine

    CNN · 1 outlets

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  1. Feeding Our Future audit finds Minnesota Dept. of Education's oversight "created opportunities for fraud"

    CBS · 1 outlets

  2. Trump in Washington for meetings with Republican allies

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. Are California's mental health courts successful? That depends on who you ask because there's no reliable data.

    CBS · 1 outlets

  4. House GOP votes to hold Attorney General Garland in contempt

    CNN · 1 outlets

  5. As Equals: Frequently Asked Questions

    CNN · 1 outlets

  6. News on the European election results 2024

    CNN · 1 outlets

  7. Five out of seven defendants in Feeding our Future fraud case found guilty of multiple counts

    CBS · 1 outlets

Business 31 stories

  1. FBI raids Atlanta corporate landlord in probe of rental market price fixing

    entrepreneur.com · 2 outlets

  2. Jury Finds Boeing Stole Tech from Electric Airplane Startup

    seattletimes.com · 2 outlets

  3. I sold TinyPilot, my first successful business

    mtlynch.io · 1 outlets

  4. Hacking millions of modems and investigating who hacked my modem

    samcurry.net · 1 outlets

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  1. Microsoft Chose Profit over Security, Whistleblower Says

    propublica.org · 1 outlets

  2. Signal: Will leave the EU market rather than undermine our privacy guarantees

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  3. Banana giant Chiquita held liable by US court for funding paramilitaries

    bbc.com · 1 outlets

  4. The Weird Nerd comes with trade-offs

    writingruxandrabio.com · 1 outlets

  5. Indian startup 3D prints rocket engine in 72 hours

    spectrum.ieee.org · 1 outlets

  6. AMD CEO Lisa Su reminisces about designing the PS3's infamous Cell processor

    tomshardware.com · 1 outlets

  7. Ultrasonic investigations in shopping centres

    windytan.com · 1 outlets

  8. Spotify won't open-source Car Thing, but starts refund process

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  9. The Moral Economy of the Shire

    nathangoldwag.wordpres · 1 outlets

  10. The Nonprofit Industrial Complex and the Corruption of the American City

    americanaffairsjournal · 1 outlets

Sports 33 stories

  1. Windows Recall sounds like a privacy nightmare

    doublepulsar.com · 3 outlets

  2. I learned Vulkan and wrote a small game engine with it

    edw.is · 1 outlets

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  1. AeroSpace is an i3-like tiling window manager for macOS

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    ntnbr.com · 1 outlets

  3. I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game

    martincmartin.com · 1 outlets

  4. WinDirStat – Windows Directory Statistics

    windirstat.net · 1 outlets

  5. Sam Altman is showing us who he really is

    slate.com · 1 outlets

  6. Microsoft's official Minesweeper app has ads, pay-to-win, and is hundreds of MBs

    tech.lgbt · 1 outlets

Technology 622 stories

  1. Google Search Is Now a Giant Hallucination

    sparktoro.com · 11 outlets

  2. The OpenAI board was right

    businessinsider.com · 3 outlets

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

    twitter.com · 2 outlets

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  1. Microsoft's Recall AI feature is now indefinitely delayed

    blogs.windows.com · 3 outlets

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

    bbc.co.uk · 2 outlets

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

    daylightcomputer.com · 1 outlets

  4. TTE: Terminal Text Effects

    chrisbuilds.github.io · 2 outlets

  5. Silicon Valley's best kept secret: Founder liquidity

    stefantheard.com · 1 outlets

  6. Leaked OpenAI documents reveal aggressive tactics toward former employees

    vox.com · 1 outlets

  7. Lynn Conway has died

    en.wikipedia.org · 1 outlets

  8. After 6 years, I'm over GraphQL

    bessey.dev · 1 outlets

  9. Gordon Bell has died

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

Entertainment 42 stories

  1. Show HN: Revideo – Create Videos with Code

    toaster.llc · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: ChatGPT UI for rabbit holes

    delve.a9.io · 2 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Every mountain, building and tree shadow mapped for any date and time

    shademap.app · 1 outlets

  2. How actors remember their lines

    thereader.mitpress.mit · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: Markdown HN profiles at {user}.at.hn

    at.hn · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Route your prompts to the best LLM

    grooved.okat.best · 4 outlets

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

    plsfix.co · 1 outlets

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

    github.com · 1 outlets

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