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North Korea is making headlines not for a cyberattack, but for prosecuting one. Pyongyang has arrested a group of hackers accused of breaching the country's own Central Bank, converting stolen funds into cryptocurrency, and funneling the cash through Chinese brokers using small transfers designed to slip past detection. It's a rare and striking moment of the regime turning on its own.
Shifting to a story about who controls your devices — Apple is facing renewed scrutiny over what critics are calling robo-repo, the company's ability to remotely disable or restrict hardware through software enforcement. The concern isn't just technical. It's about ownership, and whether buying a device still means what people think it means.
And in the world of software development, a conversation is picking up steam about what engineering management even looks like now that AI has dramatically reduced the cost of writing code. When generating software gets cheaper, the bottleneck moves — from building to deciding what to build, and from engineers to the managers and product thinkers shaping those decisions.
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