Meta will discontinue Workrooms, its VR space for workers, on February 16; Quest headsets and Horizon services will not be sold to businesses as of February 20 (Sean Hollister/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/863209/meta-has-discontinued-its-meta…
After two weeks without paychecks, SLC airport opens pantry for federal workers | News From The States
https://www.newsfromthestates.com/article/after-two-weeks-without-paychecks-slc-airport-opens-pantry-federal-workers
Spooked by AI and Layoffs, White-Collar Workers See Their Security Slip Away (Rachel Louise Ensign/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/economy/jobs/white-collar-workers-job-anxiety-d8f83885
http://www.memeorandum.com/251216/p152#a251216p152
What is Anarcho-Syndicalism and how we work: An Open letter to Media and all workers all over the world
https://iwa-ait.org/content/what-anarcho-syndicalism-and-how-we-work-open-letter-media-and-all-workers-all-over-world<…
Some of our members in Game Workers Unite Ireland were in Paris for a game union summit today and joined the STJV and other European game worker unions for a solidarity protest outside Take Two offices.
The blatant union busting firing of the Rockstar 31 workers can not stand. Reinstate them now!
Work in games in Ireland? Join us 👉 https://fs…
The latest info we have on the timeline of the murder of Renee Good is that she still had a weak pulse when city emergency workers first reached her. She still had a weak pulse.
Before emergency workers arrived, a doctor on the scene attempted to render first aid. ICE pointed their guns at the doctor and forced them back.
It is possible — we can never know, of course — but it is possible that doctor could have saved Good’s life. The ICE agents who forced back that doctor should also face charges. In a just world….
There has been an insane amount of high-profile cybersecurity developments since Friday morning, so check out today's Metacurity for what you might have missed over the weekend, including
--US issues seizure warrants for Starlink terminals in Myanmar cyberscam compounds,
--US citizens plead guilty to aiding DPRK IT worker fraud,
--$28B tied to cybercrime activity over the last two years,
--Princeton got hit by a data-stealing cyberattack,
--Anthropic's r…
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
Before you head out for the weekend, don't miss today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--Com members doxx DHS and ICE employees,
--DPRK hackers use EtherHiding malware to turn blockchain into C2 server,
--Trump buys Dominion Voting Systems to be "America-owned,"
--Trump's DoJ sues voting tech company Smartmatic amid defamation suit,
--MI5 points to new Chinese threat disruption,
--Hackers st…
Bengaluru-based edtech startup Emversity raised a $30M Series A led by Premji Invest, sources say at a $120M post-money valuation, up from $60M in April 2025 (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/01/14/indias-emversi…