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Employee onboarding is a busy time for IT teams. New starters need devices, accounts, access permissions, and passwords, all delivered within a tight timeframe. That usually means sharing a temporary “first-day” password so employees can access systems for the first time. The issue is that these passwords don’t always stay temporary. They may be sent over email or SMS, reused across accounts, or never changed at all, creating unnecessary risk during the onboarding process. For attackers, weak or poorly managed onboarding credentials can provide an easy route into corporate systems. To make the onboarding process more secure without slowing new…

The cuts reportedly affect around 8% of Shopee’s developer workforce worldwide Shopee has begun laying off hundreds of developers globally, including employees in Singapore, as the e-commerce giant restructures its workforce amid a broader industry push towards artificial intelligence (AI). The job cuts, which began this week, will affect approximately 8% of Shopee’s developer workforce worldwide, according to a Bloomberg report. When contacted by Vulcan Post, Shopee confirmed the layoffs, although it did not specify how many employees in Singapore were affected. “We regularly assess our staffing needs as we continually review our business operations. From time to time, departments…

Working from home has become a normal part of life for many employees since the pandemic, as it offers greater flexibility and control over where work gets done. However, new research suggests that this shift may also be playing a role in rising mental health challenges. Researchers writing in the journal Science analyzed data from five large surveys covering more than 580,000 U.S. workers between 2011 and 2024. Their findings suggest that the rise of remote work has significantly increased social isolation and may account for roughly one-third of the increase in mental distress observed since the pandemic. The study…

Get caught up on the latest technology and startup news from the past week. Here are the most popular stories on GeekWire for the week of June 7, 2026. Sign up to receive these updates every Sunday in your inbox by subscribing to our GeekWire Weekly email newsletter. Most popular stories on GeekWire ‘This cannot continue’: Microsoft Xbox CEO calls for reset amid reports of looming job cuts Xbox CEO Asha Sharma told employees that Microsoft’s gaming business will end the fiscal year at about a 3% profit margin, saying years of heavy spending without revenue growth “cannot continue” —…

My wife found this in a store and bought it for me a joke because it says “Manly man smell like tree” on the box—which, I mean, you have to buy that. Sometimes a thing that seems like a joke turns out not to be. Like this guide. The Last Call Shampoo bar is the same way—there’s a jokey element here and it’s fun, but it’s also a great bar of soap. Or shampoo. Or whatever you want it to be, really.I’m what you might call a minimalist when it comes to all things grooming-related. I have a beard; I…

Humanity may be scrolling its way out of existence.Across the globe, fertility rates are plummeting. In 2023, the average number of births per woman worldwide fell beneath 2.1 — the minimum level necessary for averting population decline (also known as the “replacement rate”). And this collapse is not concentrated in just a handful of places; more than two-thirds of all nations now have below-replacement fertility.While this crisis has been building for decades, its nature recently changed. In the 20th century, fertility fell primarily because couples started having fewer children. Now, it is falling mostly because fewer people are forming couples…

As enterprises scale initiatives, the cost of developing, deploying and operating generative artificial intelligence models rises significantly. The shift toward AI agents can further increase costs becausse of poor architecture, limited operational maturity and weak governance. Information technology leaders can adopt these 10 best practices for optimizing costs, enabling them to achieve quicker business value and operational efficiency: 1. Be objective about model accuracy, performance and cost tradeoffs For IT leaders, selecting the right model requires balancing accuracy, performance and cost. IT leaders must be objective on the tradeoffs among accuracy, performance and costs. A tailored approach can deliver better…

Attackers took over more than 400 packages in the Arch User Repository (AUR) this week and rewrote their build scripts to install a credential stealer on any machine that built them. The malware is a Rust binary built to harvest developer secrets. When it lands with root, it can also load an eBPF rootkit to hide itself. The AUR is Arch Linux’s community package collection, and it is separate from the official Arch repositories, which were not affected. If you installed or updated an AUR package on or after June 11, check it against the current affected-package lists before trusting…

Customers can order new joysticks, batteries, screens and more. Just because your Anbernic handheld has a broken joystick or a cracked screen doesn’t mean you have to trash it. Anbernic recently revealed a store page that’s dedicated to replacement parts for its gaming handhelds, ranging from its more recent RG Rotate to its older offerings like the RG350P. The store page has options to buy replacement shells, screens, conductive rubber pads, joysticks, batteries, motherboards and buttons for whichever handheld you’re trying to repair. Beyond ordering the specific part on the storage page, you have to specify the model and color…

Your dashboards promise a 4x ROAS, but why is revenue flat? Discover the marketing intelligence tools elite CMOs use to turn messy data into solid growth. Smaug, the great dragon of Erebor, slept on a literal mountain of gold. He knew every single coin, cup, and gem in his pile down to the exact ounce. If a thief stole just one single two-handled cup, Smaug knew it instantly. He was the ultimate data collector. But despite sitting on the largest dataset in Middle-earth, Smaug had zero understanding of why that cup mattered. He didn’t understand the logic of the people…