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Jaime Alanís died a day after a frenzied immigration raid of Glass House Farms in Ventura county
where authorities arrested at least 200 workers.
The 57-year-old, who was from the town of Huajúmbaro in Michoacšn, Mexico, is the first known person to die during the Trump administration’s enhanced immigration enforcement operations in southern California.
The federal government’s ramped up enforcement activities have brought chaos across southern California as Ice agents des…

The US holiday is a memory now, so time to check out today's Metacurity to get briefed on the most critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal COVID-19 vaccine
--Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack,
--Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors,
--OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections,
--DragonForce battles RansomHub,
--Cambod…

Italian cops arrest FBI-wanted Chinese hacker who tried to steal the COVID-19 vaccine
Brazilian cops bust IT worker connected to $100m banking systems hack, Call of Duty: WWII yanked offline after RCE rumors, OpenAI beefs up corporate spying protections, DragonForce battles RansomHub, Cambodia accuses Thai hackers of attacks, Trump's tax bill contains cyber money, much more

We in Game Workers Unite Ireland stand in solidarity with Animation Workers of Ireland, and the international trade union coalition happening to organise against the threat of AI in the animation industry, and we support their call to acton.
Join them Thursday 12 June at 14:00 at the Pâquier in Annecy!!
#Animation

Computers are the cold machinery of industrial despotism, tools of alienation imposed by capitalist power.
Junk no worker ever called for, standing in opposition to the free self-organization and creativity of the laboring masses.
#Capitalism #Computers

Donald Trump admitted on Truth Social that his mass deportations are hurting farmers and the economy.
Those removals are “taking very good, longtime workers away” from farms and hotels, Trump declared,
adding that those workers are proving “impossible to replace.”
To be clear, Trump was talking about his own immigration policies.
That’s a stunning acknowledgment that Trump’s forced mass removals are targeting hard-working folks and that those undocumented immigrants…

Trump Accidentally Reveals a Dark MAGA Truth—and Hands Dems an Opening
A little-noticed letter from vulnerable House Republicans acknowledges the flaw at the heart of Trump’s mass deportations. Democrats: Seize on this!

"The real threat posed by generative AI is not that it will eliminate work on a mass scale, rendering human labour obsolete. It is that, left unchecked, it will continue to transform work in ways that deepen precarity, intensify surveillance, and widen existing inequalities."
"The current trajectory of generative AI reflects the priorities of firms seeking to lower costs, discipline workers, and consolidate profits — not any drive to enhance human flourishing. If we allo…

Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?
In the years since Automation and the Future of Work first appeared, a new wave of technological enthusiasm has swept across the popular imagination. The catalyst this time has been the rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, spearheaded by companies like OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Meta. Once again, a c

https://www.axios.com/2025/06/05/openai-chatgpt-north-korean-it-workers
OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud

OpenAI blocks ChatGPT accounts linked to North Korean IT worker fraud
OpenAI blocked accounts used to create resumes that are likely tied to the long-running scam.

Countries are going to have to compete with one another in order to attract not just the most qualified doctors, engineers and things like that, but workers of all kinds.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/opinion

Opinion | The World’s Best and Brightest Are Moving, but Not to America
Immigration isn’t a crisis. It’s the future.

Metacurity is pleased to offer our free and premium subscribers a weekly digest of the best long-form (and longish) infosec-related pieces we couldn't properly fit into our daily news crush.
This week's selection covers
--Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware,
--Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation,
--VC money fuels worker surveillance,
--Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?,
--The Pall Mall Process and commercial c…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 5/31/25
Bashar al-Assad was toppled by spyware, Facial recognition threatens us all with deportation, VC money fuels worker surveillance, Will Trump launch offensive cyber ops on US networks?, The Pall Mall Process and commercial cyber intrusions, Self-confidence leads to GenAI skepticism, more

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
CEOs are saying that AI is coming for a lot of jobs, and soon
— perhaps as many as half of all white-collar workers.
That’s likely to show up first in entry-level jobs, where the basic skills required are the easiest to replicate,
and in tech, where the ability to rapidly adapt the latest software tools is itself an entry-level job requirement.
Sure enough, in recent years unemployment has risen…

AI is coming for entry-level jobs. Everybody needs to get ready.
AI may replace a lot of entry-level skills. So how will workers acquire more advanced ones?