May 3, 2025

🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-05-03

This edition dives into the chaos of Friday news dumps with a splash of memes!

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Ah, the Friday news dump. Let’s see the memes!

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.

Insert Let's See Who This Really Is Meme

Techmeme: An investigation finds 70+ content-farm YouTube channels using AI to produce cartoon content featuring gore and child abuse, featuring characters like minions (Laura Holliday/Wired)

By Laura Holliday / Wired. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Ceiling Cat Meme

Techmeme: A California man pleads guilty to illegally accessing Disney's Slack channels and stealing 1.1TB+ of data in 2024; he later posed as hacktivist group NullBulge (Lawrence Abrams/BleepingComputer)

By Lawrence Abrams / BleepingComputer. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert We're All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme

Techmeme: A hacking group called DragonForce takes credit for ransomware attacks targeting British retailers M&S, Harrods, and Co-Op over the past two weeks (Ryan Gallagher/Bloomberg)

By Ryan Gallagher / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert That Wasn't Me, That Was Patricia Meme

Techmeme: OpenAI shares details on how an update to GPT-4o inadvertently increased the model's sycophancy, why OpenAI failed to catch it, and the changes it is planning (OpenAI)

From OpenAI. View the full context on Techmeme.

Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme

Techmeme: Source: Anthropic offers to buy back shares from current and former employees, the first transaction of its kind for Anthropic, valuing the startup at $61.5B (Stephanie Palazzolo/The Information)

By Stephanie Palazzolo / The Information. View the full context on Techmeme.

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