March 23, 2025

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-22

This edition highlights overlooked stories making waves on a Friday news peak.

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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: Perplexity proposes to buy TikTok, says it wants to open source the algorithm and that it is “singularly positioned to rebuild” it “without creating a monopoly” (Kylie Robison/The Verge)

By Kylie Robison / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Report: North Korea is launching Research Center 227, a cybersecurity research unit focused on AI-based hacking for stealing information and digital assets (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)

By Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Source: US Senators Dick Durbin and Lindsey Graham plan to introduce a bipartisan bill with wide support that would make Section 230 expire on January 1, 2027 (Paris Martineau/The Information)

By Paris Martineau / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: A look at LibGen, one of the largest online pirate libraries, with 7.5M+ books and 81M+ research papers, allegedly used by Meta and OpenAI to train AI models (Alex Reisner/The Atlantic)

By Alex Reisner / The Atlantic. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Micron Q2: revenue up 38% YoY to $8.05B, vs. $7.89B est., net income up 100% to $1.58B, data center revenue up 200%, and offers better-than-expected Q3 guidance (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)

By Ashley Capoot / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

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