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FBI warns Russian hackers are phishing Signal users for backup recovery keys, giving persistent access to message history.
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OpenAI and Anthropic May Be Rivals, but Investors Aren’t Picking Sides
OpenAI and Anthropic have battled for workers, customers, and public attention. The rival AI labs have been on opposite sides of policy proposals, and their CEOs were the only ones not to link hands among a dozen industry leaders at a business summit earlier this year. But they do have one big area of overlap: their investors.
About 90 venture capital firms and other money managers have invested in both OpenAI and Anthropic over the past few years, according to a WIRED analysis of data from PitchBook, a platform that tracks startup investments. OpenAI shares about 42 percent of its overall investors with Anthropic, according to the data. Roughly a third of Anthropic investors are also OpenAI backers, including major firms like Sequoia Capital, Greylock, Founders Fund, Redpoint Ventures, Emerson Collective, and Sound Ventures.
Just last week, Anthropic made a fundraising announcement that named 31 investors—at least 13 of which have stakes in OpenAI, according to the PitchBook data and WIRED reporting. The number of common investors may be an undercount, because collecting information about private investments is challenging. WIRED identified at least a couple of investors missing from OpenAI’s roster in the PitchBook data, including Amazon.
The amount of overlap is astonishing for two fierce competitors that began their fundraising within a couple of years of one another. Three experts who study the venture capital industry described the commonality as unusual, or even unprecedented. The phenomenon reflects the recent evolution of the venture capital industry, the emergence of two extraordinary companies that have raised unheard-of sums of money, and the wide-open competition among them and others in AI.
“The ownership structure you are seeing right now is a real insight into how sophisticated investors are viewing this market, and the answer seems to be that few are convinced this will be a winner-take-all market, or if it is, who the dominant player will be,” says Tom Nicholas, a Harvard Business School professor and author of VC: An American History.
The intersection of investors is also notable as Anthropic and OpenAI aim to make their stock market debuts this year. Initial public offerings are often a chance for investors to realize gains in their ownership of a startup. But last year, just two-thirds of IPOs attracted a significant pop in value. With bets in both OpenAI and Anthropic, investors may be doubling their odds of success.
“Rather than looking at these companies as overlapping technologies, what these large investors are doing is protecting their ability to create returns,” says Kyle Stanford, director of venture capital research at PitchBook.
OpenAI and Anthropic didn’t respond to requests for comment. Several venture capital firms that invested in OpenAI and Anthropic also declined or didn’t respond to requests for comment about why they decided to back both.
A few would speak only on the condition of anonymity to avoid jeopardizing industry relationships, and each called the dueling investment opportunities with OpenAI and Anthropic unlike any circumstance they had encountered before.
Historically, venture capital firms have concentrated their bets on one company in an area of competition to avoid conflicts of interest, Stanford says. Companies sometimes share proprietary information with investors or lean on them for advice or governance, and having stakes in rivals invites awkward conversations.
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The FBI and CISA have warned that Russian intelligence hackers are now targeting Signal users’ backup recovery keys, an escalation of a phishing campaign that has already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide. The updated advisory, published Thursday, says that handing over the key once gives attackers the ability to restore an account’s backup, read its entire private and group message history, and take over the account.
The key keeps working even after the victim changes phones. If a target creates a new account on the same phone number, the old recovery key can still be used to access future backups, the advisory warns. The only fix is to generate a new key in Signal’s settings, which invalidates the old one for future downloads but cannot recover anything the attacker has already pulled.
The advisory, designated PSA I-062626-PSA, adds two public tracking names the FBI’s March notice did not include: UNC5792 and UNC4221. The bureau ties the activity to multiple Russian Intelligence Services groups, including FSB officers embedded with the FSB Border Guards and others working for the Russian military. The campaign targets both Signal and WhatsApp, though the recovery key tactic is specific to Signal.
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The targets are individuals the FBI describes as being of “high intelligence value,” including current and former US and international government officials, military personnel, political figures, journalists, and officials in Ukraine. The March advisory said the broader campaign had already compromised thousands of accounts worldwide.
The phishing messages pose as Signal support. Earlier waves asked for SMS verification codes and account PINs, or used doctored “group invite” links that silently linked an attacker’s device to the victim’s account. The updated version walks targets through turning on Signal backups, opening the recovery key screen, and pasting the key into the chat.
The FBI published two sample messages used in the campaign. One is disguised as a mandatory two-factor authentication rollout, and the other poses as an urgent “data recovery” fix for messages supposedly at risk of being lost. Both are social engineering attacks that exploit trust in a platform’s own interface rather than technical vulnerabilities.
The agencies are clear that none of these techniques break Signal’s encryption or the app itself. The attackers compromise individual accounts through social engineering, then walk in through a legitimate feature. It is a pattern that has become increasingly common across security products, where the weakest link is the person holding the device, not the cryptography protecting the data.
Alongside the advisory, the State Department’s Rewards for Justice programme is offering up to $10 million for information on UNC5792. The activity overlaps with earlier warnings from Dutch intelligence agencies AIVD and MIVD, Germany’s BfV and BSI, and France’s ANSSI. Google’s Threat Intelligence Group first documented UNC5792 abusing Signal’s linked-device feature in early 2025 and later observed the same tradecraft targeting WhatsApp and Telegram.
The campaign is a reminder that end-to-end encryption protects messages in transit but cannot protect users who are persuaded to hand over the keys themselves. Anyone who receives a message inside Signal asking for a recovery key, verification code, or PIN should treat it as hostile, regardless of how convincing the sender appears. Signal does not message users inside the app to request credentials.
There’s a deadly, record-breaking heat wave spreading east across Europe, reports the Washington Post — and it’s even worse than a dire earlier forecast:
The forecast was recorded in 2014 as part of a campaign coordinated by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) that invited about 60 presenters worldwide to imagine a weather report from the year 2050. In one clip, Ãvelyne Dhéliat from French television network TF1 presented a hypothetical scenario of high temperatures 36 years into the future — during a heat wave in a warmer climate in 2050… One of the maps that Dhéliat shared was lit up in shades of orange, filled with temperature predictions of 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit), reaching as high as 43 degrees Celsius (109.4 degrees Fahrenheit).
But it turns out, it didn’t take 36 years for those imagined temperatures to be reached — and even exceeded. The heat on Wednesday alone, when the temperature soared as high as 112.3 degrees Fahrenheit (44.3 degrees Celsius), exceeded the 2050 projections in 19 out of 34 locations across mainland France — far sooner than some may have expected. Some places surpassed those hypothetical future temperatures by more than 20 degrees Fahrenheit. It’s part of a dramatic shift in heat wave frequency across the country. Half of the heat waves observed since 1947 have occurred since 2010. “By 2100, heat waves could last up to two months continuously,” the country’s weather agency, Météo-France, said this week.
It was hotter in France on Wednesday than in Las Vegas and Phoenix and just two degrees Fahrenheit shy of what was observed in Death Valley, California. An estimated less than one percent of the planet was hotter than France’s hottest place… [T]he heat dome, which will linger into early next week, is only part of the story. This type of extreme heat is becoming more common as the planet warms, especially in Europe.
Climate scientist Robert Rohde said in a post explaining the heat wave’s causes that France and Western Europe should expect many more heat waves like this over the coming decades. “This isn’t a fluke, but simply part of the new normal,” he said.
Thanks to Slashdot reader fjo3 for sharing the news.
The recently released Valve Steam Machine is somewhat awkward in that it uses a custom, non-standard PCB and non-standard power supply. This fact apparently has irked some people who decided that it makes perfect sense to try and cram a Mini-ITX board, Small Form Factor (SFF) PSU and full-sized discrete GPU into an enclosure of the same size. Cue the SFF Mini-ITX Steam Machine Case project by [3DCatt] over at Printables.
This is apparently a project done in cooperation with AMD’s [Jacob Terkelsen], who showed off the 3D printed case stuffed full with the aforementioned parts, which includes a GeForce RTX 5060 GPU. Of note is that the Valve Steam Machine uses a different cooling configuration as it has both the CPU and GPU on the same PCB. These share the same massive heatsink, as can be seen in e.g. the [Gamers Nexus] teardown video.
For this angular imitation machine it would have been nice to use a blower-style GPU, to exhaust the hot air rather than dump it all into the case. This is also an issue that was raised by [Jacob], with more ventilation added to mitigate the issue. What the overall performance will be compared to regular compact Mini-ITX cases remains to be seen, but if you really want to live the Steam Machine life and have some parts kicking around along with a 3D printer, it might be worth a shot.
Every year, the U.S. sees about 100,000 thunderstorms across the country. They occur in every state and can happen day or night. Most common during the warmer months, thunderstorms require three ingredients: moisture, unstable air, and a source of lift. According to the National Weather Service, only about 10% of storms in the U.S. are considered severe, but that doesn’t make them harmless — they have the potential to wreak havoc on your electronics.
We know how to protect ourselves in the event of a severe storm: stay inside, away from windows, and avoid electrical equipment. You should also take steps to protect expensive or susceptible electronics. Even if lightning only strikes nearby and doesn’t hit your home, it can send a surge of electricity that may destroy anything that’s plugged in.
According to the National Centers for Environmental Information, the damage caused by storms added up to over $46 billion in the U.S. in 2024. Filing an insurance claim for storm-related damage is something many homeowners hope to avoid, which is why unplugging certain devices is a good idea. Here are five things you should unplug before a storm hits your neighborhood, including TVs, computers, and AC units.
TVs and gaming systems
We know, we know, this one may be a pain if you have cords hidden behind an entertainment center or even your wall. But your television and gaming systems likely represent a hefty investment. A power surge caused by lightning might not only fry electronics, but it may also void any manufacturer’s warranties that protect these products.
According to CNET, the average American expects to spend $1,177 on a new TV, so it’s likely one of the most expensive electronics in your home. Consoles aren’t cheap, either: A new Switch 2 currently costs $449.99 (and that price is going up by $50 in the fall), and a PS5 retails for at least $599.
When a thunderstorm is on the horizon, turn off your TVs and gaming systems and unplug them from the wall. If you want to make things a bit easier on yourself, you can invest in a power strip with surge protection, but most experts recommend that you unplug that power strip as well. If you’re not home to unplug your system, that surge protector may provide protection, and if you are home, it’s easier to unplug one thing than every device separately.
Desktop computers
Your boss may think you’re just dreaming up an excuse to take a break from work, but if you have a desktop PC at home, you should turn it off during a storm. If your boss gives you a hard time about prioritizing your safety during a thunderstorm, remind them that the CDC recommends that you do not touch anything connected to an electrical outlet during a storm, including computers! Laptop users are out of luck — it’s safe to keep using it as long as it’s not plugged into the wall.
To protect your desktop computer, shut down and then unplug all components, including the tower, monitor, keyboard, mouse, modem, router, and printer. If all items are plugged into a power strip, simply unplug the power strip from the wall. Your computer is susceptible to any power surges, even from an indirect strike, and while the damage may be repairable, it’s likely to be pricey. In the case of a power surge, items with delicate circuitry are most at risk, including the motherboard, and replacing the motherboard often carries other costs, such as a new power supply or processor.
Kitchen appliances
Your toaster or blender may be the last thing on your mind when severe weather strikes, but even small appliances contain complex electric components that may not survive a lightning strike or power surge. Major kitchen appliances like your refrigerator and stove can remain plugged in. You certainly don’t want your food to spoil, but if you’re evacuating due to a weather event, you should unplug larger appliances except the refrigerator until you get home.
When the thunder starts to boom, unplug smaller appliances like toasters, coffee makers, mixers, air fryers, and even microwaves. A power surge may affect the digital displays and internal circuitry. In fact, experts recommend that you unplug some small appliances when they’re not in use, including toasters and coffee makers, to reduce the risk of fire. You may be more worried about expensive electronics like your television, but small appliances don’t have the built-in protection that larger appliances boast, and are more vulnerable.
Smart home devices
While it’s easy to take modern conveniences for granted, the rapid integration of technology has almost entirely rewritten how we live. Most of us carry tiny computers in our pockets, wear smart devices on our wrists, use GPS when we drive somewhere unfamiliar, and meet virtually with people who may live thousands of miles away.
Technology has also changed how we live in our homes. Doorbell cameras allow us to see who’s knocking without leaving our living room, and smart thermostats automatically adjust the temperature to keep us comfortable. Robot vacuums can do housework while we’re away, and voice-controlled systems allow us to easily check the weather. Even if you only have one or two smart devices, you should consider unplugging them during a storm. Devices that are connected to cable, internet, and even satellite systems are especially vulnerable, as power surges can pour through those pathways.
You may not be able to unplug your doorbell camera, but you can protect any smart hubs like Amazon Alexa, smart plugs, and your streaming devices. Even if the devices are turned off, they’re often still drawing some power, and a lightning strike could be disastrous.
Air conditioning units
Many of us have some form of air conditioning in our homes, whether it’s central AC or a few window units. It’s probably the last thing you want to do when a thunderstorm hits on a hot, muggy summer evening, but experts agree that both types of systems should be shut off during a storm.
Turn off your central air conditioning during a thunderstorm. In the event that lightning strikes your home, it can cause a power surge that could significantly damage the system. If it’s the compressor that gets damaged, replacing it might be almost as expensive as simply installing a new one in its place.
Debris can also damage the exterior portion of your unit and block airflow, causing additional damage to other areas of the system, while a power surge potentially causes heat spikes that melt plugs and components like control panels. Prevent all this by simply turning off the system at your thermostat.
If you have a window unit, you can leave it plugged in if it’s difficult to unplug, but you should turn it off. Window unit lightning strikes don’t happen often, so the biggest threat is a power surge that could damage the unit.
In an age when everyone seems to have their phone out at every imaginable event, Sky Yang still envisions a need for real photographers to capture the moment.
Yang is the founder of SnapMatePhoto, a Seattle-based digital marketplace connecting customers with photographers for graduation portraits, weddings, maternity shoots, and more.
An amateur photographer himself, Yang created his idea while a senior at the University of Washington. Friends kept asking him to take their graduation photos, and even offered to pay him for his services. He realized there were limited resources online for people to easily find an affordable photographer.
“A lot of people couldn’t afford a professional photographer, but I think they still deserve a nice graduation photo — because that’s an important moment in their life,” Yang said.
Yang started building the website while still at UW, initially focused on connecting students with student photographers looking to build their portfolios. The startup got into the UW’s Buerk Center for Entrepreneurship accelerator program.
Yang, who is originally from China and majored in economics with a minor in business, has since graduated and now works in logistics operations at Amazon. SnapMatePhoto launched last October and now lists more than 120 photographers in the Seattle area.
Photographers on the platform list their specialties, portfolio images, and rates — ranging from $35 to $700 — and customers can browse and book directly through the site. SnapMatePhoto handles payments through Stripe, charging roughly 15% from photographers and 11% from clients.
Yang sees the rise of AI-generated imagery as validation for his business, not a threat. He said he briefly experimented with AI-generated videos to promote SnapMatePhoto early on, but pulled them down within a couple of weeks after backlash from both photographers and customers, who called it AI slop.
“The real image, the real human connection is only going to be more and more important in this AI age,” Yang said.
The company is bootstrapped, with Yang raising a small amount from friends. Revenue has grown quickly — from roughly $3,500 in its first month to nearly $7,500 in May. Yang said the company is reinvesting heavily in marketing and advertising and is not yet profitable.
Yang mentions competitors in the space including Snappr and Flytographer, as well as Airbnb. The short-term property rental platform offers a photographer marketplace under its varied services, which Yang sees as another validation for what he’s building.
SnapMatePhoto operates with a small team — Yang, one developer, one designer, and a handful of UW interns focused on photographer acquisition and influencer outreach. Mentors with the Buerk Center accelerator advised Yang to focus on Seattle before expanding too soon, but he does have his eye on California.
For now, Yang is leaning into the grind of building a startup while working long days at Amazon, but he says the hard work genuinely makes him happy.
“Yesterday I was reviewing a photographer’s work for a wedding, and I see all the moments from the beginning to the end — the whole ceremony just brought me a lot of joy,” he said.
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Please state the nature of the medical emergency
NASA researchers are testing an AI clinical decision support system to help astronauts diagnose and treat medical symptoms during deep-space missions.
The Crew Medical Officer Digital Assistant (CMO-DA) is powered by a Red Hat-backed open source tool called RamaLama, designed to simplify how developers run, pull, and serve AI models. While it’s no Star Trek-esque Emergency Medical Hologram (EMH) quite yet, it could be a boon to ailing astros far from home.
Earlier this year, NASA decided to bring Crew-11 back from the International Space Station (ISS) early because of a medical concern. As missions venture further afield – to the Moon, Mars, and beyond – an early return may no longer be practical, while communication delays can rule out real-time consultation with doctors on Earth.
Red Hat says that CMO-DA started life as a proof of concept before moving from a cloud-dependent model to a fully disconnected edge deployment. It currently runs on a terrestrial twin of the HPE Spaceborne Computer aboard the ISS.
Inference is multimodal. “RamaLama provides the engine to run both large language models (LLMs) for complex medical reasoning and Vision Language Models (VLMs) for image-based symptom analysis,” Red Hat stated. “This allows the CMO-DA to process both text and visual data without needing a massive infrastructure footprint.”
CMO-DA runs locally on the device, which means responses do not depend on a connection to Earth.
That said, the system has yet to leave Earth. Testing on the Spaceborne twin allows the system to be refined before any potential deployment to the ISS. “Once validated on Earth, the CMO-DA will be demonstrated to NASA leadership so that they can evaluate its further use,” Red Hat said.
HPE’s Spaceborne project is on its third iteration aboard the ISS. Built from off-the-shelf components, the system is based on HPE Edgeline and Proliant servers and is more than capable of machine learning and AI workloads.
In the future, the team plans to integrate Red Hat Enterprise Linux AI for the next iteration of the CMO-DA.
Sadly, there appears to be no chance of a virtual Robert Picardo turning up to dispense medical advice to stricken astronauts. ®
People in Europe will soon lose access to Studio Canal movies they paid for on the PlayStation Store.
Sony has notified customers in a handful of European countries that they’ll soon lose access to some movies that they’ve purchased through the PlayStation Store due to the upcoming expiration of a licensing deal with Studio Canal. If you bought any of the movies on the list in affected regions, which includes hundreds of titles, “it will be removed from your video library” on September 1, according to the warning. It’s yet another frustrating reminder that paying for a digital product doesn’t actually equate ownership — when licenses expire or servers are shut down, your purchased content might go right with them.
The PlayStation Store posted the notice about the termination of Studio Canal movies on several regional pages, including those for UK, French, Italian and Spanish customers. Don’t get your hopes up for a refund, either. The notice doesn’t mention anything of the sort. The expiration date is still a few months away, though, so there’s still a chance things could change. The PlayStation Store was set to pull Discovery shows a few years back due to licensing issues, but it ultimately worked out a new licensing agreement so it could reverse course on their planned removal.
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Today’s NYT Connections puzzle is a fun mix of categories. Horse people and board-game players, you both get a category. Read on for clues and today’s Connections answers.
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Here are four hints for the groupings in today’s Connections puzzle, ranked from the easiest yellow group to the tough (and sometimes bizarre) purple group.
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Green group hint: Think Vogue.
Blue group hint: Straight lines.
Purple group hint: Neigh!
Answers for today’s Connections groups
Yellow group: Monopoly squares.
Green group: Components of a fashion show.
Blue group: Commonly striped things.
Purple group: Ending in horse gaits.
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The completed NYT Connections puzzle for June 27, 2026.
The yellow words in today’s Connections
The theme is Monopoly squares. The four answers are Boardwalk, Income Tax, Short Line and Water Works.
The green words in today’s Connections
The theme is components of a fashion show. The four answers are catwalk, collection, designer and model.
The blue words in today’s Connections
The theme is commonly striped things. The four answers are barber pole, billiard ball, credit card and crosswalk.
The purple words in today’s Connections
The theme is ending in horse gaits. The four answers are decanter (canter), envelope (lope), firewalk (walk) and foxtrot (trot).
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#5: Included “things you can set,” such as mood, record, table and volleyball.
#4: Included “one in a dozen,” such as egg, juror, month and rose.
#3: Included “streets on screen,” such as Elm, Fear, Jump and Sesame.
#2: Included “power ___” such as nap, plant, Ranger and trip.
#1: Included “things that can run,” such as candidate, faucet, mascara and nose.
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Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45% after it cut 1,100 jobs, and its CEO has a framework for who survives AI
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Cloudflare’s engineering team grew 45% even after mass layoffs, as CEO Prince says AI kills “measurer” roles while builders and sellers survive.
Cloudflare’s engineering headcount surged 45 percent in the weeks after the company cut 1,100 jobs in May, according to BNP Paribas data drawn from LinkedIn profiles. The finding, first reported by Business Insider, shows Cloudflare’s engineering staff grew from 1,308 to 1,894 even as its total workforce shrank by a fifth. CEO Matthew Prince confirmed the trend and offered a framework for understanding it: every company, he said, is made up of builders, sellers, and measurers, and AI is eliminating the third group.
Prince told Business Insider that the distinction is straightforward. Builders make the product, sellers bring in the revenue, and measurers track, report, and coordinate the work of the first two groups. The roles being cut at Cloudflare, and across the tech industry, fall overwhelmingly into the measurer category: middle managers, operations staff, finance analysts, and marketing coordinators whose work AI agents can now approximate.
“If you think about what AI is most effective at, it’s looking at data sets and summarizing them,” Prince said. He added that if his engineers become more productive with AI, he would hire more of them, not fewer. The logic is that AI amplifies the output of people who build and sell but replaces those whose primary function is oversight and reporting.
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The BNP Paribas analysis, which Business Insider says Prince reviewed and confirmed, could not be independently verified outside that report. LinkedIn profile data captures job title changes and may not perfectly reflect internal headcount. But the direction is consistent with Prince’s stated strategy: Cloudflare cut broadly and then invested heavily in the function it considers most valuable.
The pattern is not unique to Cloudflare. TrueUp, a platform that tracks tech hiring, reports that open technology roles are up 14 percent in 2026 compared with a year ago, with hardware engineering positions surging 52 percent. The gains are concentrated in technical and product roles, while openings in operations, human resources, and general management have declined.
Companies are hiring more people who build things and fewer people who manage the people who build things. GitLab followed a similar playbook in May, cutting seven percent of its workforce and stripping out up to three layers of management while reorganising its engineering division into 60 autonomous teams. CEO Bill Staples called it preparation for the “agentic era,” and the companies that have cut most aggressively are not shrinking their engineering capacity but concentrating it.
Prince’s framework carries an implicit warning for anyone whose job description centres on coordination, reporting, or process management. He was blunt about the trajectory, telling Business Insider that “a lot of the support roles are not going to be the roles that drive companies going forward.” If your work can be described as measuring what other people produce, the category you occupy is the one AI targets first.
The broader labour market data complicates the picture slightly. Tech CEOs have recently shifted from warning about AI job losses to insisting AI will create jobs, a pivot that coincides with approaching IPOs for companies including OpenAI and Anthropic. Prince’s framework sits somewhere between the two narratives: he is not claiming AI creates jobs across the board, but that it creates engineering jobs specifically, at the expense of everyone else.
Whether the builders-sellers-measurers model holds beyond Cloudflare is an open question. Not every measurer role is dispensable, and not every company can absorb a 45 percent engineering expansion while cutting a fifth of its overall workforce. The framework also assumes that AI tools are reliable enough to replace human judgment in oversight functions, an assumption that remains contested even among AI researchers.
What is not contested is the direction of hiring. Cloudflare’s Q1 2026 revenue grew 34 percent year over year to $640 million, and the company added a record number of enterprise customers even as it shed 1,100 roles. The restructuring was not driven by financial weakness but by a bet that the work those people did can now be done by software, and that the savings are better spent on engineers who write more of it.
Prince’s taxonomy gives a name to a shift that dozens of companies are executing simultaneously but rarely describe this clearly. The question for the tens of thousands of workers displaced across the tech sector this year is whether “measurer” is a temporary label applied to roles that will eventually return, or a permanent verdict on an entire category of work.
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