🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-08-10
Uncovering tech news with a dash of humor - don't miss these Friday finds!
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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.
Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme
Techmeme: IOActive researchers detail “Sinkclose”, a vulnerability in almost all AMD chips dating back to 2006 that allows attackers to run code in System Management Mode (Andy Greenberg/Wired)
By Andy Greenberg / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: A researcher shows five proof-of-concept ways that Copilot can be manipulated by attackers, including turning it into an automatic spear-phishing machine (Matt Burgess/Wired)
By Matt Burgess / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Techmeme: Former Twitter board member Omid Kordestani, who helped oversee the sale of the company to Elon Musk, sues X for failing to cash out $20M+ worth of stock (Kate Conger/New York Times)
By Kate Conger / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Techmeme: The Irish Data Protection Commission says X has agreed to pause training Grok using millions of Europeans' public posts it collected between May 7 and August 1 (Clothilde Goujard/Politico)
By Clothilde Goujard / Politico. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Techmeme: A look at the US' Chips and Science Act two years after its enactment on August 9, 2022, as the Biden administration nearly finishes divvying up $39B in grants (Mackenzie Hawkins/Bloomberg)
By Mackenzie Hawkins / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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