🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-11-30
Amid Friday's frenzy, discover the hidden gems you might have missed in slow news!
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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: How Tony Sayegh, head of public affairs at a major TikTok investor and an official in the first Trump admin, led the effort to win Trump's support for TikTok (Wall Street Journal)
From Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: ESET researchers find the first UEFI bootkit designed specifically to target Linux systems, marking a shift in bootkits that previously focused on Windows (Bill Toulas/BleepingComputer)
By Bill Toulas / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Q&A with cognitive scientist Gary Marcus on technical limitations and moral inadequacies of LLMs, constructing a regulatory framework for AI, and more (Steven Rosenbush/Wall Street Journal)
By Steven Rosenbush / Wall Street Journal. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Bluesky now requires parody or fan accounts to label themselves as such after a researcher found 44% of its 100 most-followed accounts have a doppelganger (Mariella Moon/Engadget)
By Mariella Moon / Engadget. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Ex-Meta crypto chief David Marcus says there was no legal or regulatory angle for the government to kill its Libra project and “it was 100% a political kill” (David Marcus/@davidmarcus)
By David Marcus / @davidmarcus. View the full context on Techmeme.
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