🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-08
Catch up on the week's overlooked stories and memes before the weekend rush!
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By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line. It sometimes seems like we reach a fever pitch in news coverage throughout the week.
Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀
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.
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Techmeme: Filing: Kash Patel, Trump's nominee to head the FBI, received $1M to $5M in Shein shares in exchange for consulting services; Patel has no plans to divest them (Louise Matsakis/Wired)
By Louise Matsakis / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Sources: in a secret January order, UK security officials demanded that Apple create a backdoor to access all cloud content any Apple user globally has uploaded (Joseph Menn/Washington Post)
By Joseph Menn / Washington Post. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Trump issues an EO pausing the removal of the de minimis exemption on goods from China until systems are in place to “process and collect tariff revenue” (Jay Peters/The Verge)
By Jay Peters / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Kadrey v. Meta: unsealed emails show Meta allegedly torrented 81.7TB+ of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna's Archive, for AI training (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
By Ashley Belanger / Ars Technica. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Microsoft, Alphabet, Amazon, and Meta reported a combined $246B capex in 2024, up 63% YoY from $151B, and forecast that their 2025 spending could exceed $320B (Financial Times)
From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
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