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AI wants your job, China wants your data, Microsoft wants therapy

PLUS: Intel plays musical chairs with executives while SpaceX pays $17B to skip the regulatory line...

September 16, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 11 minutes

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Ah yes, it’ September 16… the time of year when your to-do list triples and your will to work halves. But at least, we're marking a historic day in tech history!

Exactly 40 years ago today, Steve Jobs resigned from Apple after losing a boardroom battle that’s basically just like getting voted off the island. But woah! Major plot twist: Exactly 12 years to the day later, he'd return as interim CEO, proving that sometimes the best comeback stories involve a little dramatic flair and a lot of NeXT-level innovation.

AI Won't Murder All IT Jobs, Just the Fun Entry-Level Ones

Well, well, well… Gartner just dropped their latest crystal ball reading, and apparently by 2030, every single IT task will involve AI.

That's right, folks. Not 99%, not most of them, but literally ALL** of them. It's like AI is that overachiever coworker who volunteers for everything and makes everyone else look bad (it’s probably you!).

According to their analysts, 81% of IT work currently happens without any AI involvement. By 2030, that’s estimated to be zero percent. That's a bigger transformation than Mark Zuckerberg's awkward transition from "connecting college students" to "accidentally destroying democracy while wearing a hoodie."

But don't panic and start hoarding ramen noodles just yet. Gartner insists there won't be an "AI jobs bloodbath" — which in translation, means that "only some of you will be replaced by robots." They're targeting entry-level positions specifically, because apparently AI has the same hiring philosophy as every startup: why pay for experience when you can automate the junior roles and make everyone else work twice as hard?

Only 1% of current job losses are AI-related, but 65% of companies are losing money on their AI investments. That's like paying premium prices for a personal chef who burns water and orders takeout.

Chinese Hackers Collect Domain Names Like Pokemon Cards

Remember Salt Typhoon? No, that's not a rejected Marvel villain… It's the Chinese hacking group that's been treating American telecom companies like their personal data buffet. Security researchers just uncovered 45 new domains these wannabe-Mr. Robots have been using since 2020, proving they're more organized than most people's “everything” drawer.

The domains are registered under fake personas with names like "Shawn Francis" and "Monica Burch" — because nothing says "legitimate business owner" like a name that sounds like it was generated by a 2003 spambot. These fictional characters all supposedly live in the US at addresses that don't exist, which is about as convincing as LinkedIn influencers saying “just be authentic.”

One domain appears to impersonate a Hong Kong newspaper, leading researchers to wonder if this is propaganda, psychological warfare, or just really committed method acting. Either way, the moral of the story here is that if a domain registration looks fishier than a gas station sushi combo, it probably is.

Microsoft's Anti-Spam Service Develops Trust Issues

Friendly fire in the email wars! Microsoft's anti-spam service decided to go rogue and start blocking legitimate links while quarantining innocent emails.

The issue began September 5th when Microsoft's spam detection started flagging URLs within other URLs as "potentially malicious.” Over 6,000 URLs got caught in this digital paranoia spiral, and Microsoft had to issue alerts with titles like "A potentially malicious URL click was detected involving one user" — even for URLs they'd already confirmed were safe.

This is Microsoft's fourth similar incident this year, suggesting their machine learning models have developed some chronic anxiety of the digital kind. They fixed a Gmail-flagging bug in May, an Adobe-email crisis in April, and various other false positive adventures throughout the year. At this point, Microsoft's spam detection is less "artificial intelligence" and more "artificial neurosis."

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👨‍💻 JOB OPPORTUNITIES

If you get excited about SOC2, FedRAMP, and GDPR like other people get excited about Marvel movies, this role's calling your name. You'll coordinate compliance activities, manage audits, and probably know more acronyms than a government contractor.

Join the Security Operations Center and protect critical infrastructure while probably consuming your body weight in coffee. You'll investigate incidents, use fancy security tools, and occasionally save the day when someone clicks on that obviously suspicious email attachment.

Yes, McDonald's needs cybersecurity architects, and no, this isn't about protecting the secret Szechuan sauce recipe. You'll define security requirements, conduct threat modeling, and ensure their digital upgrade doesn't end up as a case study in "what not to do."

Manage governance, risk, and compliance while developing policies that actual humans can understand. You'll conduct risk assessments, respond to security questionnaires, and probably become the person everyone asks about GDPR at company happy hours.

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Hey there, tech troubleshooters! Our community has been busy solving the mysteries that keep IT professionals up at night. Let me walk you through this week's most intriguing cases:

That’s it from us! Go lie to your calendar about how productive you were. See you next Tuesday. Same inbox, slightly different existential dread.

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