🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-15
Friday brings peak news hustle, but don't miss these sneaky stories you might have overlooked!
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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.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Uber sues DoorDash, accusing it of anticompetitive practices like coercing restaurants to exclusively work with DoorDash for parts of their delivery business (Heather Haddon/Wall Street Journal)
By Heather Haddon / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: The doge.gov website tracking Elon Musk's cuts to the federal government pulls from a database that anyone can edit, say two sources who found the vulnerability (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
By Jason Koebler / 404 Media. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: Sources: Mark Zuckerberg cozying up to President Trump has made employees uncertain and is part of an effort to shift antitrust scrutiny off Meta and onto Apple (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
By Jonathan Vanian / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: Italy accuses Amazon of evading €1.2B in VAT payments; sources: the claim is linked to the sale of goods from China and other non-EU countries from 2019 to 2021 (Financial Times)
From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Sources: Dell is close to securing a $5B+ deal to provide xAI with servers containing Nvidia's GB200 chips in 2025 for xAI's supercomputer project in Memphis (Brody Ford/Bloomberg)
By Brody Ford / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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