Amazon’s head of AI, who is leading Project Dawn (to replace staff with AI) has accidentally emailed everybody about staff leaving.. before they’ve been informed they have been fired. They’ve had to try to recall the messages and meetings. https://www.reuters.com/business/world-at-work/amazon-bungles-wednesday-layoff-plan-with-misfired-internal-email-2026-01-28/?link_source=ta_bluesky_link&taid=69799a3082de260001e581cf&utm_campaign=trueanthem&utm_medium=social&utm_source=bluesky
The Washington Post is reportedly planning deep staff cuts, possibly more than 10 percent of the newsroom, but nobody really knows at the moment. Guess Mr. Bezos needs more money for his oh-so-profitable space ventures.
"A growing number of journalists and supporters of the Washington Post are imploring Jeff Bezos, the outlet’s billionaire owner, to stop massive layoffs that are expected to hit the news organization next month."
"The Post, according to multiple reports, is planning to dramatically reduce the size of its staff in the coming weeks and is reportedly considering making the steepest cutbacks to its foreign desk and sports department."
More here:
https://thehill.com/homenews/media/5708949-bezozs-washington-post-layoffs/
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/jan/26/washington-post-february-job-cuts-layoffs
PSA: If you're planning to do your taxes w/ TurboTax 2025 desktop software this year on a Windows 10 computer, you should know the software won't install, regardless of whether you took advantage of Microsoft's offer for an extra year of security updates for Windows 10. Yes, those customers can still use TurboTax Online at no extra cost, but that pushes users to a cloud product that probably a lot of people avoid for all kinds of reasons.
We've just hit a very important milestone - our XSS Cheat Sheet now has 1337 vectors!
Browse them here: https://portswigger.net/web-security/cross-site-scripting/cheat-sheet
Woopsie
Fortinet would like you to know that they've released a patch that let any forticloud account access any other fortinet device that used forticloud for authentication. You may express thanks now.
I didn’t realise just how US centric all of package management was until I made these tables 😅
The Dependency Layer in Digital Sovereignty: https://nesbitt.io/2026/01/28/the-dependency-layer-in-digital-sovereignty.html
On this day, forty years ago: 28 January 1986.
I was working on my astronomy PhD in the terminal room at the Royal Observatory Edinburgh.
Someone came in & told us the awful news. After so many launches & astronauts, we’d grown blasé & didn’t pay much attention anymore.
That changed in 73 seconds on that cold day & we learned again that space is hard.
I still remember their names:
Onizuka, Smith, McAuliffe, Scobee, Jarvis, Resnick, & McNair.
Ad astra, STS-51L Challenger crew ✨
