🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-06-07
This edition reflects on the Friday news dump and the art of sneaky news updates.
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Ah, the Friday news dump. By Friday, everything seems to be reaching the peak of getting news turned in before a deadline or dread-line.
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.
🤔 🤨 🧐 Just a couple that caught my technologist eye…
Techmeme: President Trump signs an EO scrapping or revising several Biden- and Obama-era cybersecurity programs, including for AI security and post-quantum cryptography (Eric Geller/Cybersecurity Dive)
By Eric Geller / Cybersecurity Dive. View the full context on Techmeme.
Techmeme: VA used a DOGE AI tool by Gumroad founder Sahil Lavingia that hallucinated contract sizes to cancel 24+ deals; Lavingia says “mistakes were made” (ProPublica)
From ProPublica. View the full context on Techmeme.
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