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The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close June 15 – July 15, 2024 831 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 29 · Issue 197 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Dharmesh Patel, driver accused in Devil's Slide plunge, released to outpatient treatment instead of trial

Instead of facing trial for attempted murder, the Pasadena doctor accused of trying to kill his wife and kids by driving their Tesla off a cliff​ was released on Monday.

CBS · 1 sources

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What dominated July

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Using SIMD for Parallel Processing in Rust

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  2. Technology

    Google Gemini tried to kill me

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

  3. Entertainment

    Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 9 stories

  1. US job growth slowed in June, latest employment data shows

    CNN · 1 outlets

    Live coverage of the June jobs report has now ended. The US economy added 206,000 jobs in June and the unemployment rate rose to 4.1%, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.

  2. Dare to bare: 24 of the world's best nude beaches

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. Glastonbury Festival fashion history: Remember when Kate Moss wore rain boots?

    CNN · 1 outlets

  4. Case dismissed against teenage cousin of Uvalde school shooter for allegedly threatening school shooting

    CNN · 1 outlets

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  1. When Social Security mistakenly overpays benefits, you might get a bill | 60 Minutes

    CBS · 1 outlets

  2. The planet is getting hotter fast. This is what happens to your body in extreme heat

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. The Juneteenth flag is full of symbols. Here's what they mean

    CNN · 1 outlets

  4. June 18 2024: US heat wave news

    CNN · 1 outlets

  5. 'I know it happens': Boeing chief admits the company has retaliated against whistleblowers

    CNN · 1 outlets

Business 44 stories

  1. Watch Financial News Now - BNN Bloomberg

    BNN · 1 outlets

    BCE Inc (BCE:CT): Stock Price, Quote and News  BNN Bloomberg

  2. Ladybird Web Browser becomes a non-profit with $1M from GitHub Founder

    lunduke.locals.com · 1 outlets

  3. Chat Control: Incompatible with Fundamental Rights (2022)

    freiheitsrechte.org · 1 outlets

  4. Spending 3 months investigating a 7-year old bug and fixing it in 1 line of code

    lemmy.world · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Nevada’s public employee pension fund invests passively and beats peers (2016)

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

  2. Python toolkit for quantitative finance

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. I'm funding Ladybird because I can't fund Firefox

    jackkelly.name · 1 outlets

  4. Wc2: Investigates optimizing 'wc', the Unix word count program

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. An interview with AMD CEO Lisa Su about solving hard problems

    stratechery.com · 1 outlets

  6. Reining in America's $3.3T tax-exempt economy

    taxfoundation.org · 1 outlets

  7. Majority of sites and apps use dark patterns in the marketing of subscriptions

    icpen.org · 1 outlets

  8. Federal whistleblowers are entitled to damages of missed future pay, court rules

    govexec.com · 1 outlets

  9. Microsoft's Xandr grants GDPR rights at a rate of 0%

    noyb.eu · 1 outlets

  10. Why AI Infrastructure Startups Are Insanely Hard to Build

    nextword.substack.com · 1 outlets

Sports 32 stories

  1. Microsoft removes documentation for switching to a local account in Windows 11

    arstechnica.com · 2 outlets

  2. Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free

    nbcnews.com · 1 outlets

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  1. I am using AI to drop hats outside my window onto New Yorkers

    dropofahat.zone · 1 outlets

  2. Show HN: I made a puzzle game that gently introduces my favorite math mysteries

    rahulilango.com · 1 outlets

  3. My Windows Computer Just Doesn't Feel Like Mine Anymore

    howtogeek.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: I am building an open-source Confluence and Notion alternative

    github.com · 1 outlets

  5. Internet Archive forced to remove 500k books after publishers' court win

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  6. Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game

    wheybags.com · 1 outlets

Technology 608 stories

  1. Claude 3.5 Sonnet

    anthropic.com · 2 outlets

  2. Firefox 128 enables "privacy-preserving" ad measurements by default

    mstdn.social · 2 outlets

  3. Making the Kinopio source code public

    pketh.org · 2 outlets

Show 9 more

  1. Hackers Steal Phone, SMS Records for Nearly All AT&T Customers

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  2. Microsoft charged with EU antitrust violations for bundling Teams

    apnews.com · 2 outlets

  3. Brazil's Supreme Court decriminalizes marijuana

    washingtonpost.com · 4 outlets

  4. FTC sues Adobe for hiding fees and inhibiting cancellations

    ftc.gov · 2 outlets

  5. Reverse engineering a restaurant pager system

    conduition.io · 2 outlets

  6. Why is Chile so long?

    unchartedterritories.t · 1 outlets

  7. Safe Superintelligence Inc.

    ssi.inc · 1 outlets

  8. Chat Control Must Be Stopped – Now

    stackdiary.com · 3 outlets

  9. We need visual programming. No, not like that

    blog.sbensu.com · 2 outlets

Entertainment 34 stories

  1. Show HN: Radius – A Meetup.com alternative

    pikimov.com · 4 outlets

  2. Show HN: SQLite Database Explorer

    docs.murexrobotics.com · 6 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: I built an indie, browser-based MMORPG

    github.com · 2 outlets

  2. Show HN: A Modern Palletization App

    satyrn.app · 3 outlets

  3. Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript

    dgerrells.com · 3 outlets

  4. Bytecode Breakdown: Unraveling Factorio's Lua Security Flaws

    memorycorruption.net · 1 outlets

  5. Show HN: Voice bots with 500ms response times

    0x.tools · 4 outlets

  6. Show HN: From dotenv to dotenvx – better config management

    dotenvx.com · 1 outlets

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