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The week in reviewVol. 24 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 236 2024-08-23
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The Mez Ledger · Weekly Close August 16 – August 23, 2024 189 stories · Vol. 24 · Catalogue 34 · Issue 236 Get it by email ↓
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August 23, 2024

CNN · 1 sources

1Outlets
1Articles

Business 5 stories

  1. Police cannot seize property indefinitely after an arrest, federal court rules

    reason.com · 1 outlets

  2. Linux desktop market share climbs to 4.45%

    ostechnix.com · 1 outlets

  3. Ex-Google CEO: AI startups can steal IP and hire lawyers to 'clean up the mess'

    theverge.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Banks Are Now Accused of Cheating Customers Billions

    franknez.com · 1 outlets

  2. ArcticDB: Why a Hedge Fund Built Its Own Database

    infoq.com · 1 outlets

Sports 8 stories

  1. MIT leaders describe the experience of not renewing Elsevier contract

    sparcopen.org · 1 outlets

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  1. Roblox is the biggest game in the world, but is unprofitable

    matthewball.co · 1 outlets

  2. Windows 0-day was exploited by North Korea to install advanced rootkit

    arstechnica.com · 1 outlets

  3. I spent 2 years building my own game engine (Rust, WASM, WebGPU)

    legendofworlds.com · 1 outlets

Technology 156 stories

  1. I've built my first successful side project, and I hate it

    switowski.com · 1 outlets

  2. Xapian: Open source search engine library

    zen-browser.app · 2 outlets

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  1. Toasts are bad UX

    maxschmitt.me · 1 outlets

  2. Calling All Hackers

    phrack.org · 1 outlets

  3. 13ft – A site similar to 12ft.io but self-hosted

    github.com · 1 outlets

  4. Google removed Organic Maps from the Play Store

    twitter.com · 1 outlets

  5. Data Exfiltration from Slack AI via indirect prompt injection

    promptarmor.substack.c · 1 outlets

Entertainment 12 stories

  1. Show HN: InstantDB – A Modern Firebase

    github.com · 1 outlets

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  1. Show HN: PgQueuer – Transform PostgreSQL into a Job Queue

    github.com · 1 outlets

  2. ShadPS4 – PlayStation 4 emulator

    github.com · 1 outlets

  3. Show HN: A Ghidra extension for exporting parts of a program as object files

    github.com · 1 outlets

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