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North Korean fake IT army of 100,000 nets Kim Jong-Un a cool $500 million a year — NK-aligned workers infiltrated in IT companies worldwide, feeding the nation's revenue generation (tomshardware.com)

2026-03-19 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Cybersecurity Training Kit → | tags: north korean, ibm x-force, blockchain technology

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KPop Demon Hunters is officially getting a sequel (engadget.com)

2026-03-12 | get KPop Demon Hunters Merchandise → | tags: netflix, sony pictures animation, kpop demon hunters

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What if the Apple ][ had run on Field-Sequential? (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-08 | get Macintosh → | tags: apple ii, field sequential color, cbs

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How to talk to anyone and why you should (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-03-02 | by Viv Groskop | get Self-Improvement → | tags: seoul, korean food, iphone

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The Clicks Communicator Will Have Keyboard Layouts in Arabic, French, German, Korean (cnet.com)

2026-02-27 | by See Full Bio | get Smartphone keyboard layouts → | tags: arabic, french, german

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Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft that helped North Koreans get jobs at US companies (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-20 | by Zack Whittaker | get Microsoft → | tags: didenko, korean, koreans

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Ukrainian man jailed for identity theft that helped North Koreans get jobs at US companies (techcrunch.com)

2026-02-20 | by Zack Whittaker | get Microsoft → | tags: didenko, korean, koreans

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Ukrainian gets 5 years for helping North Koreans infiltrate US firms (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-02-20 | get Smartphone → | tags: didenko, identities, korean

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South Korean ex president Yoon Suk Yeol jailed for life for leading insurrection (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-02-19 | by Raphael Rashid | get Nuclear reactor → | tags: court, korean, martial

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South Korean exchange's $40B Bitcoin mistake casts pall over country's fledgling crypto legislation — staffer fat-fingered 620,000 BTC instead of Korean Won (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-11 | by Bruno Ferreira | get Bitcoin → | tags: bithumb, exchange, korean

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A Bitcoin Blunder for the Ages: $40 Billion Accidentally Given Away (slashdot.org)

2026-02-10 | by Posted | get Cryptocurrency → | tags: bitcoin, bitcoins, bithumb

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Crypto disaster sends $44 billion in bitcoins to random users — exchange accidentally makes funds vanish thanks to a typo (tomshardware.com)

2026-02-07 | by Anton Shilov | get Bitcoin → | tags: bithumb, event, incident

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Microsoft's Maia AI chip ambitions might include an exclusive SK Hynix HBM3e memory deal (techspot.com)

2026-01-30 | get Maia → | tags: according reports, allegedly, bandwidth

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South Korean giant Kyowon confirms data theft in ransomware attack (bleepingcomputer.com)

2026-01-14 | get Nexa ransomware → | tags: attack, exposed, incident

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Samsung and SK Hynix are jacking up DRAM prices by as much as 70 percent (techspot.com)

2026-01-09 | get DRAM → | tags: according korean, ai driven, bubble

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Korean Air data breach exposes data of thousands of employees (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-29 | get Airplane → | tags: employees, korean, korean air

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Amazon blocks 1,800 job applications from suspected North Korean agents (feeds.bbci.co.uk)

2025-12-23 | get Amazon Echo → | tags: applications, job applications, korean

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Over 1,800 North Korean applicants flood Amazon — suspected illicit applicants blocked by the company since April 2024 (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-21 | by Jowi Morales | get E-commerce platform → | tags: amazon, applicants, korean

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Nvidia and SK hynix are building an AI SSD that could be 10x faster (techspot.com)

2025-12-21 | get AI SSD → | tags: according korean, announced, announced korean

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North Korean infiltrator caught working in Amazon IT department thanks to lag — 110ms keystroke input raises red flags over true location (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-18 | by Mark Tyson | get Smartphone → | tags: amazon, dprk, north

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Breach At South Korea's Equivalent of Amazon Exposed Data of Almost Every Adult (slashdot.org)

2025-12-17 | tags: coupang, korea, korean

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South Korea – A Cautionary Tale for the Rest of Humanity (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-11 | by Phoebe Arslanagic-Little | get Smartphones → | tags: children, fertility, korea

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CEO of South Korean retail giant Coupang resigns after massive data breach (techcrunch.com)

2025-12-10 | by Zack Whittaker | get E-commerce platform → | tags: breach, coupang, korean

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CEO of South Korean online retail giant Coupang resigns over data breach (cnbc.com)

2025-12-10 | by Lim Hui Jie | get E-commerce platform → | tags: breach, coupang, korean

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Wave of (Open Street Map) Vandalism in South Korea (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-06 | get Street View → | tags: accounts, didn, korea

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North Korea lures engineers to rent identities in fake IT worker scheme (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-02 | get Identity Thief → | tags: dprk, eldritch, interviews

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YouTuber exposes the most censored and surveilled Android phones in the world (androidauthority.com)

2025-11-24 | get Smartphone → | tags: access, apps, government

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5 plead guilty to laptop farm and ID theft scheme to land North Koreans US IT jobs (arstechnica.com)

2025-11-17 | get Smartphone → | tags: defendants, guilty, identities

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An official atlas of North Korea (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-11-17 | by Miguel García Álvarez | get Atlas → | tags: country, encyclopaedia, korea

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Five convicted for helping North Korean IT workers pose as Americans and secure jobs at U.S. firms — over 240 companies were victimized by the scam (tomshardware.com)

2025-11-15 | by Jowi Morales | get IT workers → | tags: korean, north, north korean