Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-06-29
Uncovering tech news and hidden gems with a touch of humor this Saturday.
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Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-06-29
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: Quora-owned AI chatbot platform Poe is providing users with downloadable HTML files of paywalled articles from outlets including NYT, Forbes, and The Atlantic (Tim Marchman/Wired)
By Tim Marchman / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman says content on the open web is “freeware” that anyone can copy or use to reproduce, due to the fair use “social contract” (Sean Endicott/Windows Central)
By Sean Endicott / Windows Central. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot seemingly drew on conservative misinformation to repeat a false claim about CNN's debate broadcast being on a “1-2 minute delay” (Ben Goggin/NBC News)
By Ben Goggin / NBC News. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Amazon is investigating Perplexity over whether the AI search startup is violating AWS rules by scraping websites that attempted to prevent it from doing so (Wired)
From Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Sources: Italy opened a probe into Google in December 2022 over €1B in unpaid taxes and penalties from 2018 to 2022, after settling another tax dispute in 2017 (Emilio Parodi/Reuters)
By Emilio Parodi / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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