October 5, 2024

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-10-05

Caught up in Friday's info frenzy, I spotlight some low-key stories you may have missed!

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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.

Peak 🏔️ vs. Peek 👀

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: As Mark Zuckerberg aims to be politically “neutral”, some argue he's placating critics like Trump; source: Nick Clegg now makes most election policy decisions (Hannah Murphy/Financial Times)

By Hannah Murphy / Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Sources: China-linked “Salt Typhoon” hacking campaign potentially accessed US wiretap systems after breaching networks of US ISPs like Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen (Wall Street Journal)

From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Matt Mullenweg says 159 Automattic employees, or ~8.4% of staff, took “generous” severance after disagreeing with WordPress' direction and handling of WP Engine (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)

By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: A postmortem of HyperWrite's Reflection 70B model blames “a bug in the initial code for benchmarking”, after evaluators couldn't reproduce some claimed results (Carl Franzen/VentureBeat)

By Carl Franzen / VentureBeat. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Ben Horowitz says he and his wife plan to make a “significant” personal donation to Kamala Harris' campaign; Horowitz and Marc Andreessen endorsed Trump in July (Dan Primack/Axios)

By Dan Primack / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.

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