January 25, 2025

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-01-25

Amid Friday's frantic deadlines, catch up on the week’s overlooked news gems 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: The FBI warns that North Korean IT workers are abusing their access to steal source code and extort US companies that have been tricked into hiring them (Sergiu Gatlan/BleepingComputer)

By Sergiu Gatlan / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: UnitedHealth says the ransomware attack on its Change Healthcare unit in February 2024 affected ~190M people, nearly double its previous estimate of 100M (Zack Whittaker/TechCrunch)

By Zack Whittaker / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: a16z is closing its London office and pulling back from its much-touted UK expansion, seeking to refocus on the US crypto industry following Trump's election (Financial Times)

From Financial Times. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Uber and Ola deny setting fares based on phone models in India after a government body alleged that the firms use differential pricing for Android and iOS users (Reuters)

From Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Mark Zuckerberg says Meta is planning to invest $60B to $65B in capex in 2025, will end the year with 1.3M+ GPUs, and plans to grow its AI teams “significantly” (Jaspreet Singh/Reuters)

By Jaspreet Singh / Reuters. View the full context on Techmeme.

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