February 22, 2025

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-02-22

This Friday, I'm sharing overlooked stories and meme moments from a busy news week!

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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: the US NHTSA is losing ~10% of its workforce via firings and buyout offers, including nearly half of a small team that regulates autonomous vehicles (Ian Duncan/Washington Post)

By Ian Duncan / Washington Post. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Arkham says ZachXBT submitted proof that North Korea's Lazarus Group is behind Bybit's $1.5B hack, which is the largest single theft in crypto history (RT Watson/The Block)

By RT Watson / The Block. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Sakana AI walks back claims that its new AI CUDA Engineer can speed up AI training by up to 100x, after complaints about worse-than-average training performance (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)

By Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Coinbase says the US SEC agreed “in principle” to drop its 2023 case against the company, calling it “righting a major wrong” and a “huge day” for crypto (Jesse Pound/CNBC)

By Jesse Pound / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Source: the US Marshals Service is struggling to come up with a rough estimate of its bitcoin holdings, complicating plans for a US Bitcoin reserve (Tom Carreras/CoinDesk)

By Tom Carreras / CoinDesk. View the full context on Techmeme.

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