🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2024-12-21
Catch the weekend's overlooked news highlights and memes before the deadline rush!
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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: The US FAA publishes 22 temporary flight restrictions for drones over parts of New Jersey, as public hysteria over sightings of possible drone activity persists (Allyson Versprille/Bloomberg)
By Allyson Versprille / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: US hospital operator Ascension notifies nearly 5.6M patients and employees that their personal and health data was stolen in a May 2024 Black Basta cyberattack (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)
By Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: YouTube plans to start a crackdown on “egregious clickbait”, or videos where the titles or thumbnails make claims the videos don't back up, beginning in India (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
By Ivan Mehta / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: The US CFPB sues Zelle operator EWS, JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America, and Wells Fargo, alleging that customers lost $870M+ to fraud since Zelle's launch in 2017 (Hugh Son/CNBC)
By Hugh Son / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.
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Techmeme: Dealogic data: the global M&A activity in the tech sector in 2024 jumped 20%+ YoY to $534B, accounting for the largest share of the total $3.45T in M&A activity (Reuters)
From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.
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