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The SecTor cybersecurity conference concluded in Toronto last week, drawing its largest crowd yet with attendance up 22% over the prior event. Industry experts used the gathering to discuss emerging security risks facing organizations.
The Trump administration accused Microsoft of abusing the H-1B visa program and said it is cutting off the company's access to it. Microsoft responded that 80% of its roughly 6,000 H-1B applications last fiscal year were to extend or change status for existing employees rather than hire new workers, and that new-employee filings equaled just 1% of its U.S. workforce. The company said all H-1B employees are paid comparably to other staff in similar roles.
An Entrepreneur opinion piece argues that business costs, already elevated due to years of supply chain disruption, are being further strained by a resurgence in union membership. The author notes union membership reached a 16-year high in 2025, fueled largely by younger and minority workers joining organized labor.
A project called BootLife implements Conway's Game of Life entirely within a 512-byte x86 boot sector, using VGA memory to display the simulation grid. It's shared on GitHub as a Show HN post, built with NASM and runnable via QEMU, with source code and a Makefile provided for building and testing.
In an essay titled 'What Will Become Scarce,' economist Alex Imas argues that as AI takes over most economically necessary labor, the jobs that remain for humans will center on relationships rather than skills or output. He compares this shift to pre-industrial economies, where goods and services were inseparable from the social bonds of the people providing them.
Work For America launched as a career-matching platform aimed at helping federal employees who lost their jobs transition into state and local government positions. The service has since expanded to welcome all job seekers, including those with no prior public sector experience, functioning much like a LinkedIn tailored specifically to government careers.
Blizzard Entertainment revealed a new StarCraft game at BlizzCon 2026, marking the franchise's first mainline entry since 2015's Legacy of the Void. The open-world, story-driven shooter is directed by Dan Hay and takes place in the Koprulu Sector seventy years after the previous game's events, with a targeted 2030 release.
For over a decade, computer science was seen as the surest path to a lucrative tech job, fueling a nearly 500% surge in CS degrees since 2008. Now, as artificial intelligence automates many coding tasks and shrinks entry-level tech hiring, some observers argue that math degrees may offer better long-term career security than CS.
A commentary argues that government contracts, grants and procurement rules for frontier technologies—space, AI and quantum computing—are quietly locking in dominant suppliers rather than fostering open competition. The authors point to the space sector, where repeated launch contracts to the same firms like SpaceX build data and performance advantages that make it harder for rivals to break in, and warn similar patterns are emerging in AI and quantum funding decisions.