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😲 North Korea IT worker scheme expanding to more industries, countries outside of US tech sector
https://therecord.media/north-korea-it-worker-scheme-expands-outisde-us-tech

North Korea IT worker scheme expanding to more industries, countries outside of US tech sector
Okta said their new research into the scheme revealed that North Korea has honed its skills on U.S.-based companies and has expanded into dozens of different countries and industries.

»Mullvad bringt WireGuard in Rust:
Mullvad hat eine neue WireGuard-Implementierung namens GotaTun vorgestellt, die in Rust statt in Go geschrieben wurde.«
Cool das von Mullvad die Rust Implementierung der WireGuard VPN durchgeführt hat. Ich werde dies mir bei Gelegenheit mal genauer ansehen und auch weil `Rust Go = NoGo` ist.
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Mullvad bringt WireGuard in Rust
Der schwedische VPN-Anbieter Mullvad arbeitet beständig an der Verbesserung seines Angebots. Gerade wurde eine neue, in Rust geschriebene WireGuard…

Internal Amazon documents and sources: executives believe Amazon is on the cusp of replacing 500K jobs with robots and aims to automate 75% of its operations (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/21/technology/inside-amazons-…

Inside Amazon’s Plans to Replace Workers With Robots
Internal documents show the company that changed how people shop has a far-reaching plan to automate 75 percent of its operations.

Hassett: We've Deported So Many Workers That People Are Going Back To Their Old Construction Jobs [VIDEO] - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/12/hassett-we-deported-so-many-workers-that-people-are-going-back-to-their-old-construction-jobs-video/

"Oil and gas workers offered cash to retrain, in major plan for future clean energy workforce"
#FossilFuels #Energy #Climate

Oil and gas workers offered cash to retrain, in major plan for future clean energy workforce
Unions welcome the new plan but warn funding for training does not equate to jobs, saying they won't materialise without further investment, nor measures to revitalise the country's dwindling manufacturing capacity.

I like when the #NYPost says the quiet part out loud. See, ending illegal labor practices and paying workers a living wage is "anti-capitalist." Being in favor of #capitalism means being happy crushing your workers and driving them into poverty.
If only they said that more…

Not good at all
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
#aibubble

This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
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This widely-linked story is, I think, much ado about nothing. Anyone who's seen the inside of an Amazon warehouse immediately thinks “Shouldn’t robots be doing this?” and that includes every Amazon biz and engineering leader, starting like 25 years ago. There is no doubt that the whole warehouse sector would love to replace humans with robots. It’s hard. So what’s new? Is it possible LLM fairy dust will solve the problem? Unconvinced.

Amazon hopes to replace 600,000 US workers with robots, according to leaked documents
Amazon is leaning into automation plans that will enable the company to avoid hiring more than half a million US workers, according to leaked documents.

Before you head out for the weekend (and if you're lucky for a long Thanksgiving break), check out today's Metacurity for a ton of top infosec developments you should know, including
--SEC drops ill-fated cyberattack lawsuit against SolarWinds, CISO,
--FCC gets rid of Biden-era reporting rules addressing Salt Typhoon intrusions,
--Cybercrime money laundering network active in the UK bought a bank,
--Russian intel services funded former Wirecard exec's spy r…

SEC drops ill-fated cyberattack lawsuit against SolarWinds, CISO
FCC gets rid of Biden-era reporting rules addressing Salt Typhoon intrusions, Cybercrime money laundering network active in the UK bought a bank, Russian intel services funded former Wirecard exec's spy ring, Salesforce probes another third-party cyber incident, NSO appeals judge's ruling, much more

Some Japanese stores are using robots from the startup Telexistence to restock shelves, piloted remotely by Filipino workers whose actions train AI models (Michael Beltran/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2025/philippines-offshoring-automation-tech-jobs/

Japanese convenience stores are hiring robots run by workers in the Philippines
Filipino tele-operators remotely control Japan’s convenience store robots and train AI, benefiting from an uptick in automation-related jobs.