Sneak Peak Saturday
Unveiling overlooked tech news with a sprinkle of satire.
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Sneak Peak Saturday
Unveiling overlooked tech news with a sprinkle of satire.
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Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
Yes, a play on words.
By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line.
Why Sneak Peak?
It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week. Then there is a trope, cliché, or bromide about slow news days and the quietly mentioned news updates sent on a Friday — to try and sneak it past wider coverage. Or, in a nutshell, peak patronizing publishing.
In that spirit, here are a few stories that you might have missed on the slow news of a Friday.
Insert “Spiderman pointing” meme
Techmeme: AI search engine Perplexity is republishing parts of stories by Forbes and others, with nearly identical words and inadequate attribution, on its Pages feature (Forbes)
From Forbes. View the full context on Techmeme.
Faux jingoism ahead
Techmeme: Sources: US VC firms are putting pressure on tech startups to cut ties with Chinese backers, as VCs anticipate tighter controls on foreign ownership from the US (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times)
By Eleanor Olcott / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert “This is fine” meme
Techmeme: A website for cybercriminals lists 500+ allegedly stolen Snowflake customer credentials, including for environments belonging to Santander and Ticketmaster (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)
By Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
Walking back the story of the week
Techmeme: Adobe clarifies its terms, saying it does not train Firefly Gen AI models on customer content and will never assume ownership of a customer's work (Ben Lovejoy/9to5Mac)
By Ben Lovejoy / 9to5Mac. View the full context on Techmeme.
GenAI crosses critical maturity level of Problematic Relative at Holiday meal stage
Techmeme: Google's Gemini and Microsoft's Copilot won't return results on any elections globally or historical US elections, and refuse to confirm that Biden won in 2020 (David Gilbert/Wired)
By David Gilbert / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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