🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-07-20
Unveiling overlooked tech news with a sprinkle of satire.
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🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-07-20
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. Or, in the case of a long holiday week.
This week was dominated by one story, Crowdstrike, that happened on a Friday.
Techmeme: CrowdStrike says a sensor configuration update to Windows systems triggered a logic error that resulted in a system crash and BSOD on impacted systems (CrowdStrike)
From CrowdStrike. View the full context on Techmeme.
Of course, other stories need to be seen too.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: Oracle agrees to pay $115M to settle a lawsuit accusing it of invading people's privacy by collecting their personal information and selling it to third parties (Jonathan Stempel/Reuters)
By Jonathan Stempel / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
Techmeme: Huawei sues MediaTek in China over alleged infringement of its intellectual property patents; filing: MediaTek says the lawsuit would have no significant impact (Nikkei Asia)
From Nikkei Asia. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
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Techmeme: Xbox says an outage affecting Xbox Store and subscriptions is now resolved; the outage lasted for about five hours (Jay Peters/The Verge)
By Jay Peters / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: Microsoft says it fixed an Azure configuration issue behind a Microsoft 365 outage, and “all previously impacted Microsoft 365 apps and services have recovered” (Simon Sharwood/The Register)
By Simon Sharwood / The Register. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: Venture funding to cybersecurity startups grew to $4.4B in Q2 2024, up 144% YoY; funding in H1 2024 was $7.1B, up from $4.7B in H1 2023 (Chris Metinko/Crunchbase News)
By Chris Metinko / Crunchbase News. View the full context on Techmeme.
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