March 1, 2025

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-03-01

This edition highlights overlooked Friday news gems and meme madness amid deadline pressure.

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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: Spamhaus: Prospero, a notorious provider of abuse-friendly “bulletproof” web hosting for cybercriminals, is routing its operations via Kaspersky Lab's networks (Brian Krebs/Krebs on Security)

By Brian Krebs / Krebs on Security. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Sources: US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered US Cyber Command to stand down from all planning against Russia, including offensive digital actions (Martin Matishak/The Record)

By Martin Matishak / The Record. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Filings: CFPB employees say the agency's Trump-appointed leadership plans to fire nearly all its 1,700 employees while “winding down” the agency (Hugh Son/CNBC)

By Hugh Son / CNBC. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Teleperformance, the world's largest call center operator, rolls out AI startup Sanas' tech that softens English-speaking Indian workers' accents in real time (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)

By Benoit Berthelot / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

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Techmeme: Sources: General Catalyst is in the very early stages of considering an IPO, which would make it the first US VC firm to go public (Dan Primack/Axios)

By Dan Primack / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.

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