As part of Meta’s latest round of job cuts announced in March, the company on Wednesday started laying off employees in technical roles like user experience, software engineering and graphics programming, CNBC reports.
Last month, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced in a post that the company, as part of its "year of efficiency," would lay off 10,000 more staffers, in addition to the 11,000 who'd already been laid off.
Amid mass layoffs industrywide, tech workers in the U.S. on H-1B visas are scrambling to find new roles. There are roughly 600,000 workers hired in the U.S. on an H-1B visa, Rest of World reports. If their employment ends, these workers have only 60 days to find a new job to retain their visa status, or leave the country.
The Discord leaks are foremost a national-security story, but they’re also a story about how information travels in 2023 as the relevance of traditional social media wanes, The Atlantic observers. The leaks tell a tale about the power, primacy, and unpredictable dynamics of the group chat.
When Google learned in March that consumer electronics giant Samsung was considering replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing as the default search engine on its devices, the company's reaction was “panic,” according to internal messages reviewed by the New York Times. AI competitors like the new Bing are rapidly becoming the most serious threat in a quarter-century to Google’s search business, which was worth $162 billion last year.
Could passwords could soon become a thing of the past? Quite possibly, a cybersecurity researcher writing on The Conversation says. Passkeys—digital credentials generated via public-key cryptography and stored on a phone or computer—are supported by Apple, Google and Microsoft, and soon could overtake passwords and password managers.
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