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Oracle is making headlines for painful reasons. A new report from Time magazine paints a stark picture inside the company's mass layoffs, with workers describing a culture where people have been reduced to line items on a spreadsheet. It's a reminder that behind every AI transformation strategy are real careers being erased.
That human cost connects to a broader security concern worth watching. TechRadar is reporting that employees now represent a greater cybersecurity threat to companies than outside hackers. Whether through negligence, social engineering, or outright malice, the danger is increasingly coming from inside the building, and organizations are struggling to adapt their defenses accordingly.
On the crypto and finance front, Kraken's parent company Payward has closed its five hundred fifty million dollar acquisition of Bitnomial, giving it a complete CFTC-regulated derivatives stack in the United States. It's a significant regulatory milestone for the crypto industry, signaling that some major players are choosing to work within the existing regulatory framework rather than around it.
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