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US government takes down major North Korean ‘remote IT workers’ operation
https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/30/us-government-takes-down-major-north-korean-remote-it-workers-operation/

US government takes down major North Korean 'remote IT workers' operation  | TechCrunch
US prosecutors indicated a total of 13 people involved in the fraudulent scheme to steal and launder money for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.

Some Chinese universities are using AI detection tools to screen papers, but false positives force students to "dumb down" content or pay for rewriting services (Peiyue Wu/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/ai-detector-software-workaround/…

Chinese students are using AI to beat AI detectors
As Chinese universities crack down on AI use, some students report false positives — and a booming industry of work-around tools is emerging.

Even in a long line of anti-labor GOP presidents, Trump stands out.
And while he may not succeed in completely destroying collective bargaining in America, he’s poised to strike terrible blows against organized labor.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labor-d…

Trump 2.0 is a disaster for workers
Don't be gaslit when he says "Happy Labor Day!"

Trump 2.0 is a disaster for workers (Paul Waldman/Public Notice)
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-labor-day-2025-disaster-for-workers
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p36#a250901p36

from my link log —
netbird: Connect your devices into a WireGuard overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
https://github.com/netbirdio/netbird
saved 2025-04-08

GitHub - netbirdio/netbird: Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls.
Connect your devices into a secure WireGuard®-based overlay network with SSO, MFA and granular access controls. - netbirdio/netbird

How California rushed to expand the state's film and TV production tax credits in eight months, uniting union leaders, lawmakers, top filmmakers, and workers (Katie Campione/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/08/california-tv-film-tax-credits-ne…

As California Dishes Out $256M In TV Tax Credits, Here’s How Lawmakers, Union Leaders & Production Workers United To (Hopefully) Revitalize Hollywood
As California dishes out $256M in TV tax credits, we dug into how lawmakers, union leaders and production workers united to help bring production back

No, #LaborDay is not simply Americans refusing to be like everyone else and celebrate May 1st. If you're looking for something on the holiday's #history in #Canada, Heron and Penfold's "The Workers' Festival&…

The workers' festival : a history of Labour Day in Canada : Heron, Craig : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
1 online resource (xviii, 340 pages) :

Trump Orders Have Stripped Nearly Half a Million Federal Workers of Union Rights (Eileen Sullivan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/01/us/politics/trumps-unions-federal-workers.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p64#a250901p64

TikTok lays off workers from the US division of TikTok Shop, the third round of layoffs for the team since April, after a year of missing internal sales targets (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-…

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
--The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power,
--Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise,
--China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive,
-- Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate,
--US has optio…

Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 7/26/25
The scary rise of a DOGE worker to the pinnacle of power, Conti was a well-oiled criminal enterprise, China uses cyber attribution to paint Taiwan as aggressive, Illusions can bypass moderation to spread hate, US has options to counter UK demand for encryption backdoors