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Trump Administration Begins Program to Increase Government's Tech Worker Ranks (Eileen Sullivan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/15/us/politics/trump-tech-workers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/251215/p87#a251215p87

How tech worker activism has grown more cautious as companies crack down and once-privileged workers realize they don't have much leverage (Noam Scheiber/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/26/busines

Despite Crackdown on Activism, Tech Employees Are Still Picking Fights
They increasingly see themselves as rank-and-file workers who have traditional gripes with their companies.

Bad Bunny halftime performer goes viral for sharing workout stats as sugarcane plant https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7036752/2026/02/10/bad-bunny-super-bowl-halftime-sugarcane-performer/

Several Indian tech workers say they are buckling under deadline pressure and worry about layoffs, with many fearing conditions will worsen with the rise of AI (Parth Mn/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Death of an Indian tech worker
A wave of suicides and widespread AI-fueled layoffs reveal a workforce under extreme pressure.

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https://restofworld.org/2026/india-tech-workers-crisis-suicide/

Why I always go pick the food up myself. https://mastodon.social/@amirbkhan/115826283829344704

Amir Khan (@amirbkhan@mastodon.social)
Attached: 3 images Nothing like starting the year with a WHISTLEBLOWER confession from a BURNED-OUT, disgruntled - and rightfully ANGRY - Big Tech developer. Disgraceful Product strategy. Might be legal but screams immorality! This is Big Tech’s playbook: dehumanize workers, manipulate customers, and call it ‘disruption.’ I don’t care how “good” the service feels. As a consumer and a worker, it’s time to choose and redefine BETTER! Original Reddit post: https://www.reddit.c…

A San Francisco jury finds former Google engineer Linwei Ding guilty of stealing trade secrets related to AI chip technology to build a startup in China (Isaiah Poritz/Bloomberg Law)
https://news.bloomberglaw.com/esg/ex-google-engineer-guilty-…

Ex-Google Worker Guilty of Stealing AI Tech for Chinese Firm (1)
A former Google engineer was convicted Thursday of economic espionage and trade secrets theft for taking hundreds of the company’s confidential documents on AI chip technology to build a startup in China.