For college seniors eagerly anticipating that first step onto the career ladder, reality is hitting like a brick wall. The tech jobs they studied for? Drying up. Entry-level finance and consulting gigs? Not what they used to be. Even internships are getting scarce. Blame a shaky economy, cautious employers, and a new coworker who doesn’t need coffee breaks: generative AI.
Openings for junior software engineers have dropped significantly, with large tech firms proudly touting AI’s ability to make human workers “more efficient” — a phrase that sounds suspiciously like “more replaceable.” Some companies have even flirted with slashing starting salaries, convinced that AI can shoulder a chunk of the workload previously reserved for fresh recruits.
Apple just pushed out emergency updates across iOS, macOS, and other platforms to squash two zero-day bugs that were actively being exploited. But before you panic: unless you’re someone Apple might actually send a holiday card to, you’re probably not the target. Their official language? These vulnerabilities were used against “specific targeted individuals.” Translation: celebrities, high-ranking officials, or people who pay someone else to clean their AirPods.
So… turns out one of the leading enterprise security products forgot the “security” part. More than 16,000 Fortinet devices exposed to the internet have been found carrying a persistent symlink backdoor—one that grants read-only access to sensitive files.