Meta is the latest company to trim its workforce as a result of the growing use of AI within the industry. The company laid off 8,000 employees earlier this week, while also moving 7,000 more to AI-focused roles. “AI is the most consequential technology of our lifetimes,” Zuckerberg said in a memo that he sent…
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Regional routing for AWS access portals: Implementing custom vanity domains for IAM Identity Center
AWS IAM Identity Center provides a web-based access portal that gives your workforce a single place to view their AWS accounts and applications. With the recent launch of IAM Identity Center multi-Region replication, customers can replicate their IAM Identity Center instance across multiple AWS Regions to improve resilience and reduce latency for a globally distributed…
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Microsoft to offer voluntary retirement buyouts to about 7% of the US workforce
Microsoft will offer voluntary retirement buyouts to about 7% of its US workforce, or roughly 8,750 employees, in the first such program in the company’s 51-year history, as the technology industry restructures under the cost pressure of AI investment. The program, available to US-based employees at the senior director level and below, comes as large…
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Meta Will Lay Off 8,000 Employees in May: Memo
The company said the 10% workforce cut is needed to run more efficiently and offset other investments. It will also cancel plans to hire for 6,000 open roles.
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Microsoft Offers Buyouts to 7% of Workforce
The company is also changing how it awards bonuses and stock options as it reorganizes workforce around AI efforts.
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Newly Discovered PowMix Botnet Hits Czech Workers Using Randomized C2 Traffic
Cybersecurity researchers have warned of an active malicious campaign that’s targeting the workforce in the Czech Republic with a previously undocumented botnet dubbed PowMix since at least December 2025. “PowMix employs randomized command-and-control (C2) beaconing intervals, rather than persistent connection to the C2 server, to evade the network signature detections,” Cisco Talos
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Exabeam Confronts AI Insider Threats Extending Behaviour Detection and Response to OpenAI ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot
Applies behaviour profiling and analytics to the digital workforce, giving security teams full visibility into how users and AI agents interact across the enterprise
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Lawmakers renew push for Labor Department-backed cyber apprenticeship grants
With the country’s cybersecurity workforce still experiencing major shortages, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers is pushing to enlist the Department of Labor to help tackle the problem. The Cyber Ready Workforce Act would direct the DOL to establish a grant program that supports the “creation, implementation, and expansion of registered apprenticeship programs in cybersecurity,”…
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Cyber professionals urged to have their say on workforce future
Momentum is building behind efforts to strengthen Australia’s cyber workforce, with the consultancy – CyberPath: Paving the Way Forward for Cyber Professionals program with a national consultation series underway to help shape how the profession is recognised, supported and developed.
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Phantom Labs Analysis of BeyondTrust’s Identity Security Insights Data Finds Enterprise AI Agents Growing 466.7% Year Over Year
GUEST RESEARCH: BeyondTrust researchers warn of a rapidly expanding “shadow AI workforce” creating new identity security risks, based on data uncovered through Identity Security Insights® Some organisations operate well over 1,000 AI agents, many of which security teams were not aware existed within their environments
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OpenAI to double workforce, highlights growing demand for enterprise AI talent
OpenAI is planning to almost double its workforce from about 4,500 to 8,000 employees by the end of 2026. The move comes as OpenAI sharpens its focus on scaling and monetising ChatGPT for enterprise use amid intensifying competition from Anthropic and Google. Hiring is expected across product development, engineering, research, and sales, along with roles…
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Snowflake Research Reveals AI-Driven Job Creation Outpaces Job Loss across Australia and New Zealand, with 74% Reporting Workforce Gains
GUEST RESEARCH: AI’s workforce impact is more nuanced than headlines suggest, with 74% of A/NZ organisations reporting AI-driven job creation compared to 50% reporting job losses A/NZ workers were most likely to use Gen AI tools without company approval with 67% reporting use of non-approved tools, suggesting pent-up demand A/NZ organisations, more than any other…
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Deploy AWS applications and access AWS accounts across multiple Regions with IAM Identity Center
If your organization relies on AWS IAM Identity Center for workforce access, you can now extend that access across multiple AWS Regions with multi-Region replication. Previously, AWS access portal was only available in one Region, when you add an additional Region, users get an active access portal endpoint there. If the primary Region experiences a…
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Atlassian cuts 1,600 jobs to fund AI and enterprise expansion
Atlassian will reduce its global workforce by approximately 10%, eliminating around 1,600 roles, as the collaboration software maker redirects capital toward artificial intelligence development and enterprise sales. Co-CEO and co-founder Mike Cannon-Brookes disclosed the cuts in a blog post. The decision, he said, was made to “self-fund further investment in AI and enterprise sales” while…
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iProov secures hiring, access, and recovery by verifying the human behind every login
iProov the iProov Workforce Solution Suite, designed to protect enterprises from deepfakes and other identity attacks while improving operational efficiency. It enables organizations to verify genuine human presence and stop attackers. The suite supports remote hiring and onboarding, shared device access, step-up and privileged access, and account recovery. Enterprises have invested heavily in zero trust,…
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Why workforce identity is still a vulnerability, and what to do about it
Most organizations believe they have workforce identity under control. New hires are verified. Accounts are provisioned. Multi-factor authentication is enforced. Audits are passed. Then a breach happens, often through an account that was “properly secured.” But the problem can be traced back to the fact that identity verification, provisioning, authentication, and recovery operate as separate…
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Jack Dorsey’s Latest Far-Out Bet: An AI Future With Fewer Employees
Block—owner of payment apps, bitcoin and music streaming—grew its workforce to nearly 13,000 during the pandemic.
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AI adoption is surging – ‘but only 1 in 5 employees say expectations are very clear’
Findings suggest a growing need for clearer capability frameworks and workforce design to support AI-enabled roles Nearly 9 in 10 (87%) employees are using AI at work, but only 1 in 5 say leadership expectations are very clear 41% are concerned their role could be made redundant, while half feel pressure to work harder to…
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How CISOs can build a resilient workforce
With ongoing skills gaps, AI reshaping roles and workforce stress as standing concerns for many CISOs, ensuring the resilience of the workforce has become top of mind. But due to budget constraints, return to office mandates and teams struggling to keep up with the threat landscape, CISOs are faced with a real challenge. Stephen Ford,…
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ServiceNow plans automation of L1 Service Desk roles, promises more AI ‘specialists’ to come
ServiceNow plans to unleash the first member of its Autonomous Workforce, the Level 1 Service Desk AI specialist, next quarter. The agent will autonomously diagnose and resolve common IT support requests such as password resets, provisioning of software access, and network troubleshooting. It will base its actions on information from enterprise knowledge bases, historical incident…
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IAM Identity Center now supports IPv6
Amazon Web Services (AWS) recommends using AWS IAM Identity Center to provide your workforce access to AWS managed applications—such as Amazon Q Developer—and AWS accounts. Today, we announced IAM Identity Center support for IPv6. To learn more about the advantages of IPv6, visit the IPv6 product page. When you enable IAM Identity center, it provides…