🔮 Sneak Peak Saturday for 2025-04-26
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
Leaked letter: Ed Martin, the interim US Attorney for DC, accused Wikipedia of allowing foreign manipulation and propaganda, threatening its tax-exempt status
By Gabe Kaminsky / The Free Press. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Ceiling Cat Meme
A US DOJ official says Tyler Buchanan, a 23-year-old from Scotland, and an alleged Scattered Spider cybercrime group member, was extradited from Spain to the US
By Margi Murphy / Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert We’re All Trying To Find The Guy Who Did This Meme
Deel sues Rippling for alleged defamation, libel, and deceptive trade practices, says Rippling placed an insider within Deel, is not tax compliant, and more
By Dan Primack / Axios. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert That Wasn’t Me, That Was Patricia Meme
Google says it will end support for 1st- and 2nd-gen Nest thermostats on October 25, and won't launch new models in Europe due to its “unique” heating systems
By Chris Welch / The Verge. View the full context on Techmeme.
Insert Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Meme
Sources: XAI Holdings, the newly combined entity housing xAI and X, is in talks to raise roughly $20B, or possibly more, valuing the company at more than $120B
From Bloomberg. View the full context on Techmeme.
