August 17, 2024

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-08-17

This edition covers the peak of news coverage throughout the week, including sneaky Friday news updates.

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Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀

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.

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: OpenAI removed a cluster of Iranian accounts using ChatGPT for an influence campaign targeting the US elections, and says the effort didn't gain much traction (Cade Metz/New York Times)

By Cade Metz / New York Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Background check service National Public Data confirms a breach after hackers leaked a stolen database with millions of SSNs and other sensitive personal info (Ionut Ilascu/BleepingComputer)

By Ionut Ilascu / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Google says it “missed the mark” after leaked screenshots showed a Team Pixel program agreement threatened influencers who didn't showcase the Pixel over rivals (Victoria Song/The Verge)

By Victoria Song / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Filing: AT&T and Verizon ask the FCC to deny SpaceX's request to waive rules, claiming Starlink's service with T-Mobile would interfere with existing networks (Jon Brodkin/Ars Technica)

By Jon Brodkin / Ars Technica. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: A YouTuber files a proposed class action against Nvidia, accusing it of scraping his content without consent to train AI models, weeks after also suing OpenAI (Justin Bachman/Legal Dive)

By Justin Bachman / Legal Dive. View the full context on Techmeme.

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