The Mez Ledger
Menu
The month in reviewVol. 24 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 215 2024-08-02
Monthly Close

Monthly Close

The Mez Ledger · Monthly Close July 3 – August 2, 2024 815 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 31 · Issue 215 Get it by email ↓
The month's top story

Doctor who drove family off cliff fuels legal debate: Should attempted murder defendants get treatment instead of trial?

A doctor who was released from jail after driving his family off a cliff is being called the "poster child" for and against a California law that allows attempted murder defendants to get at-home mental health treatment instead of standing trial for alleged crimes.

CBS · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

What dominated August

3 stories that ran all month
  1. Technology

    Google Search: Roboto Mono

    7 of 30 days · 10 articles

  2. Entertainment

    Show HN: SQLite Transaction Benchmarking Tool

    5 of 30 days · 5 articles

  3. Technology

    We need visual programming. No, not like that

    4 of 30 days · 4 articles

Top Stories 5 stories

  1. CNN Heroes Legal Disclosures 2024

    CNN · 1 outlets

    Eligibility: In order to be eligible for the CNN Heroes Awards Program (the "Awards Program"), nominees must be at least thirteen (13) years of age or older as of December 11, 2023.

  2. 3 alleged gang members and an associate charged in the fatal shooting of an off-duty LAPD officer

    CNN · 1 outlets

  3. What to do if your flight is canceled or delayed

    CNN · 1 outlets

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

    CNN · 1 outlets

Show 1 more

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

    CNN · 1 outlets

Business 48 stories

  1. Watch Financial News Now - BNN Bloomberg

    BNN · 1 outlets

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

  2. Panic at the Job Market

    matt.sh · 1 outlets

  3. CrowdStrike representatives issue trademark infringement notice to ClownStrike

    clownstrike.lol · 1 outlets

  4. Creativity fundamentally comes from memorization?

    shwin.co · 1 outlets

Show 10 more

  1. Europe is in danger of regulating its tech market out of existence

    foreignpolicy.com · 1 outlets

  2. Generating sudokus for fun and no profit

    tn1ck.com · 1 outlets

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

    wsj.com · 1 outlets

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

    jackkelly.name · 1 outlets

  5. Google-Wiz deal fizzles out, company will pursue IPO

    cnbc.com · 1 outlets

  6. Public toilets are vanishing and that's a civic catastrophe

    psyche.co · 1 outlets

  7. A search engine by and for the federal government

    search.gov · 1 outlets

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

    icpen.org · 1 outlets

  9. Startup Finance for Founders – Part I, Accounting (2016)

    rein.pk · 1 outlets

  10. Google Cloud now has a dedicated cluster of Nvidia GPUs for YC startups

    techcrunch.com · 1 outlets

Sports 31 stories

  1. CrowdStrike Update: Windows Bluescreen and Boot Loops

    old.reddit.com · 1 outlets

  2. Investigating corrupt Winamp skins

    jordaneldredge.com · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: Resurrecting a dead Dune RTS game

    wheybags.com · 1 outlets

  2. DB Browser for SQLite (Windows, macOS, and Most Versions of Linux)

    sqlitebrowser.org · 1 outlets

  3. Stop Killing Games – European Citizens' Initiative

    stopkillinggames.com · 2 outlets

  4. United States discloses nuclear warhead numbers; restores nuclear transparency

    fas.org · 1 outlets

  5. Courts Close the Loophole Letting the Feds Search Your Phone at the Border

    reason.com · 1 outlets

  6. Windows NT for Power Macintosh

    github.com · 1 outlets

Technology 574 stories

  1. Intel is selling defective 13-14th Gen CPUs

    community.intel.com · 6 outlets

  2. For advertising, Firefox now collects user data by default

    mstdn.social · 4 outlets

  3. The Making of Kino: You Can (Not) Build a Pro Video Camera App in Four Months

    Lux · 1 outlets

Show 9 more

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

    techcrunch.com · 3 outlets

  2. Open source AI is the path forward

    about.fb.com · 1 outlets

  3. Reverse Engineering for Everyone

    conduition.io · 4 outlets

  4. Anyone can access deleted and private repository data on GitHub

    trufflesecurity.com · 1 outlets

  5. My daughter (7 years old) used HTML to make a website

    naya.lol · 1 outlets

  6. AI solves International Math Olympiad problems at silver medal level

    deepmind.google · 1 outlets

  7. Run CUDA, unmodified, on AMD GPUs

    docs.scale-lang.com · 1 outlets

  8. Node.js adds experimental support for TypeScript

    github.com · 1 outlets

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

    blog.sbensu.com · 4 outlets

Entertainment 41 stories

  1. Maestro: Netflix's Workflow Orchestrator

    netflixtechblog.com · 3 outlets

  2. Kawaii – A Keychain-Sized Nintendo Wii

    bitbuilt.net · 1 outlets

Show 6 more

  1. Show HN: A modern Jupyter client for macOS

    satyrn.app · 3 outlets

  2. Show HN: Simulating 20M Particles in JavaScript

    dgerrells.com · 2 outlets

  3. Show HN: Haystack – an IDE for exploring and editing code on an infinite canvas

    haystackeditor.com · 1 outlets

  4. Show HN: Zerox – Document OCR with GPT-mini

    0x.tools · 4 outlets

  5. Show HN: Wat – Deep inspection of Python objects

    github.com · 2 outlets

  6. Translating All C to Rust (TRACTOR)

    darpa.mil · 1 outlets

the Monthly Close

You just read a month of news in four minutes.

Every Monday we rank what the world actually covered — by how many outlets ran it and how many days it stayed up — and send you the top of the pile. No takes, no ads.

One email a week. We confirm your address first. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell the list.

Browse every monthly close →