đź”® Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-12-14
As the news frenzy winds down, here’s a roundup of the week’s overlooked stories and memes.
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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: Document: Trump's transition team seeks to remove a crash-reporting rule opposed by Tesla and other car makers and “liberalize” autonomous vehicle regulation (Reuters)
From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Trump plans to appoint Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes to lead the President's Intelligence Advisory Board, which oversees the US intelligence community (Politico)
From Politico. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: The EU finds it breached its own privacy rules in a 2023 ad campaign on X that intended to sway opinion for a proposal to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
By Natasha Lomas / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: OpenAI says ChatGPT's three-hour outage on December 11 was caused by a new telemetry service configuration deployed to collect Kubernetes control plane metrics (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Broadcom's stock closes up 24.43%+ a day after the company reported Q4 results with strong AI revenue growth, pushing its market cap over $1T for the first time (Ashley Capoot/CNBC)
By Ashley Capoot / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
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