🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-10-26
Fridays bring both a news peak and sneaky updates you won't want to miss!
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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: Sources: Elon Musk has been in regular contact with Vladimir Putin since late 2022; Putin asked Musk to not activate Starlink in Taiwan as a favor to Xi Jinping (Wall Street Journal)
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: UnitedHealth says over 100M people had their data stolen in the February ransomware attack on Change Healthcare, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)
By Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Engineers, developers, and researchers say OpenAI's transcription tool Whisper hallucinates chunks of text or even entire sentences, including racial commentary (Associated Press)
From Associated Press. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: LinkedIn says it has verified 55M+ users for free, the most verified individual human identities of any social network, to combat AI-fueled misinformation (Salvador Rodriguez/CNBC)
By Salvador Rodriguez / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Delta sues CrowdStrike, saying the July 19 outage caused mass flight cancellations, disrupted travel plans of 1.3M customers, and cost the carrier over $500M (David Shepardson/Reuters)
By David Shepardson / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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