Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-06-22
Unveiling overlooked tech news with a sprinkle of satire - get the scoop on the latest in a snarky style.
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Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-06-22
Unveiling overlooked tech news with a sprinkle of satire.
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.
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Techmeme: The California Public Utilities Commission rejects AT&T's request to end its landline phone obligations and urges AT&T to upgrade copper facilities to fiber (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)
By Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: In an interview, OpenAI CTO Mira Murati says “some creative jobs maybe will go away” due to AI, “but maybe they shouldn't have been there in the first place” (Kate Irwin/PCMag)
By Kate Irwin / PCMag. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: In response to plagiarism allegations, Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas says the company “is not ignoring” robots.txt, but does rely on third-party web crawlers (Mark Sullivan/Fast Company)
By Mark Sullivan / Fast Company. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: A look at Congress' absurd plan to ban DJI drones in the US, even as the company adds geofencing restrictions and other features to comply with FAA regulations (Jason Koebler/404 Media)
By Jason Koebler / 404 Media. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: OpenAI buys Rockset, an enterprise search and analytics startup that raised $105M, integrating both the tech and staff of an acquisition for the first time (Shirin Ghaffary/Bloomberg)
By Shirin Ghaffary / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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