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The U.S. Treasury Department is taking direct aim at a North Korean scheme that has been quietly placing fake IT workers inside legitimate American companies. These operatives use stolen identities and fabricated résumés to infiltrate businesses, siphoning income back to Pyongyang while accessing sensitive systems from the inside.
Turning to the world of code, GitHub is dramatically scaling its infrastructure, adding four million extra processing cores to keep pace with an explosion in demand driven largely by AI agents. The platform recorded seven point four billion code commits in September of two thousand twenty six, a fivefold increase from the year before, signaling just how aggressively automated development has taken hold.
And a story that touches the human side of labor and technology alike. Dolores Huerta, co-founder of what became the United Farm Workers union and the woman who gave the world the rallying phrase Sí, se puede, has died at the age of ninety six. Her decades of organizing on behalf of some of America's most vulnerable workers leave a legacy that still echoes in labor movements today.
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