Cybersecurity Dave

[Cybersecurity Dave @HeyHelpDeskGuy]

My new blog post!

Information Security in the US Firearm Industry

https://t.co/zh5yYEgrh1

[vx-underground @vxunderground]

> lay off a bunch of people
> replace with AI slop machine 9000 turbo edition
> everything breaks and implodes

wow its the future

[Cybersecurity Dave @HeyHelpDeskGuy]

@theeothermeee Yo Marc!

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️🚨 BREAKING: ServiceNow has been breached. Customers are reporting unauthorised access to their instances.

One customer states their security team reported this vulnerability to them, and they closed the case twice, saying they had already known since the 7th of April.

[Cybersecurity Dave @HeyHelpDeskGuy]

@PCLOfficialX @perrycaravello Extra well done... no sauce... no cheese
... anchovies from Dominoes...

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

>companies and investors pour trillions into AI
>build data centers nobody asked for or wanted
>mass layoffs so you can replace senior devs with AI
>turns out AI/maintenance costs are astronomical
>is actually cheaper to just hire junior developers
>re-invent entry level jobs

This is how mass adoption of AI is going.

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

FOREIGN-BORN SHARE OF THE U.S. IS HIGHER THAN THE 1890s IMMIGRATION WAVE

The foreign-born share of the population hit nearly 16%. Compare that to under 5% in 1970.

WHY IT MATTERS. Since early 2020, nearly 9 in 10 of America's net new jobs went to foreign-born workers. Native-born workers captured almost none of the growth.

Here is how the country got here.

THE 1890s PEAK. There were almost no federal immigration limits, and a booming industrial economy pulled millions out of Europe. The foreign-born share reached 14.8% in 1890.

THE 1970 LOW. The 1924 quota laws slammed the door. The Depression and the war kept it shut. For four decades almost no one came, and the share fell to 4.7% by 1970, the lowest on record.

TODAY. The 1965 Immigration Act reopened the gates, and the share has climbed every decade since. The legal pipeline adds about 1 million green cards and 85,000 new H-1B workers a year (capped) and up to 60,000 more (uncapped from universities, non-profits, etc.)... plus 1.5 million foreign students who can roll straight into U.S. jobs through OPT. Most of these renew indefinitely, as shown by the 94% approval rate of H-1B renewals and transfers. The 2021 to 2024 border surge then pushed the total to a record 53.3 million.

Where do we go from here?

The Trump administration’s policies have begun to make progress. Net international migration has plummeted (due to illegal policies, mostly), and the foreign-born share has declined from its January 2025 record high of 15.8%, the first sustained drop in decades. That said, the absolute number of foreign-born residents remains near historic highs, and legal high-skilled pipelines (H-1B, OPT, green cards) continue, albeit with new restrictions and higher hurdles.

It feels like we are at an inflection point.

[Charly Wargnier @DataChaz]

Rough week for the "AI is taking our jobs" narrative.

> Amazon just axed its AI leaderboard as costs soared with no clear payoff
> Starbucks' AI can't even count coffee cups right
> Uber burning a $3.4B AI budget in just 4 months with nothing to show for it

WE ARE SO BACK.

[The Random Recruiter @randomrecruiter]

We're in the weirdest job market of all time.

From 2020 to mid 2022, companies were hiring at a pace that made no sense.

Some teams grew 50%, some doubled. Everyone was afraid of missing out on talent, so they just kept adding headcount. If you could spell the word "javascript" you could land a remote role and a 25% raise.

Then the second half of 2022 hit and the hangover started. Layoff after layoff. Each wave was supposed to be "the last one."

Now in 2026 there are already over 130,000 tech layoffs and we still have another 6 months to go in the year.

The twist this time is AI.

Companies aren't just saying they overhired anymore.

They're saying AI is making them leaner. That they can do more with fewer people. It's become the convenient new reason that sounds strategic while making their stock pop.

But here's where it gets absurd.

More and more companies are admitting the AI math isn't working out. They can't find the ROI they promised their boards. The computing costs are massive. It's more expensive than they thought, not less.

So let me get this straight.

We're in a job market where companies fired their workforce to buy something they now say is too expensive and doesn't work as advertised.

And the executives responsible for those decisions? They're still collecting their bonuses.

Weirdest job market of all time.

[ℏεsam @Hesamation]

she's right, the industry seems to be in a state of mass psychosis. everyone is spending because everyone else is spending.
> Uber burned 12 months of budget in 4 months
> Meta used scoreboards for token usage
> Amazon told workers to "token max" on simple tasks
> Microsoft removed Claude access and forced Copilot
> Nvidia's token bill is bigger than employee payroll
tech executives are rewarding the size of the AI bill rather than the quality of its outcomes, and they're willing to cut loose the talented engineers who know every crack of their product to save money for this.

[Windscribe @windscribecom]

Around the globe, countries are enacting laws to remove privacy on the internet. Your ability to go online without the government looking over your shoulder is being eroded.
Right now, Canada is trying to push Bill C-22 through as fast as possible. In its current form, the language is broad enough to let them force basically any digital business serving Canadians, including us, into logging up to a year of metadata.
We cannot let the government treat all Canadians as suspects in the name of crime prevention.
For our fellow Canadians, OpenMedia has been busy fighting against C-22 and put together a letter to send to your Member of Parliament.
Contact your MPs before it's too late. The government needs to see that there is resistance from the citizens. Go here: https://t.co/LM4L0JX7SJ and send your message.

[officer_friend🌲 @AnonPresby]

Foreign workers have received 52% of American jobs since 2007

[Michael Ron Bowling @mrbcyber]

Signing a secret security agreement with a police state is not normal for a democracy. Especially when that police state has already been caught setting up illegal police stations in multiple countries.

[Mickey Kaus @kausmickey]

"All told, a remarkable two-thirds of the Valley’s nearly 400,000 tech jobs are now held by those born abroad, according to a 2025 report from the think tank Joint Venture Silicon Valley." https://t.co/HHzvP36k8f

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

SO WHAT'S THE DEAL WITH THE "STOP HIRING HUMANS" ADS AROUND THE WORLD, ANYWAY?

A 23-year-old from England raised $46.8M to put "Stop Hiring Humans" billboards in Times Square and San Francisco.

His product? An AI that sends cold emails. Users report sending 1,000+ with zero replies.

He still employs up to 190 humans.

Bernie Sanders called him out. His response: "Thank you for the free sponsored post."

Dystopian future, tone-deaf founder, or creative marketing campaign?

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

H-1B approvals by president.

6.1 million petitions filed since 2009. 93.8% approved. 990 per day.

Obama: 94.5%
Trump I: 88.4%
Biden: 97.6%
Trump II: 97.6%

Yes, this includes renewals. Yes, that matters because they are still here.

Left. Right. Irrelevant... 94% APPROVED.

[LayoffHedge @LayoffAI]

LEAKED AUDIO FROM META ALL-HANDS AHEAD OF LAYOFFS TOMORROW

Mark Zuckerberg, in his own words, told Meta employees their devices are being tracked to train AI models.

His reasoning? Meta employees are smarter than the contract workers the rest of the industry uses for data labeling. So instead of hiring outside help, Meta is turning its own workforce into training data.

"The average intelligence of the people who are at this company is significantly higher than the average set of people that you can get to do tasks if you're working through these contractors."

He wants the AI to learn how "really smart people use computers" by watching employees work. He says the content is "stripped out" and none of it is used for surveillance or performance tracking.

Then he admitted the rollout was botched but said Meta intentionally kept employees in the dark because leaking competitive AI strategy would help rivals.

"It is not strategically in your interest for us to communicate everything in all the detail that we normally would on this."

Translation: We're watching you, we told you as little as possible, and we did it on purpose.

AI is replacing the contractor. Then the employee trains the AI. Then the AI replaces the employee.

This story and this company keeps getting weirder.

[Cybersecurity Dave @HeyHelpDeskGuy]

Just hit the 750 streak on @tryhackme

https://t.co/9WPLvAG5b9 #tryhackme #thm

[Cybersecurity Dave @HeyHelpDeskGuy]

My new blog post!

Information Security in the US Firearm Industry

https://t.co/zh5yYEgrh1

[Globe Politics @globepolitics]

Major Canadian online privacy company plans to leave country if lawful access bill passes https://t.co/FPn2obVwSn