The Windows 10 security falloff is coming

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Either way, today, October 29th, is the 55th anniversary of the first message sent over the Internet. UCLA student Charley Kline sent the word “lo” to a computer at the Stanford Research Institute. He was trying to send “login” but the server crashed; an hour later, the last 3 letters arrived. So it goes!

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📰 News Roundup - Microsoft to stop releasing security updates for Windows 10.

👨‍💻 Job Opportunities - AirBnB, Coinbase, Mozilla, and G2.

🛩 Industry Moves - VC investors are doing a lot less investing lately.

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📰 News Roundup

Lots of PCs are poised to fall off the Windows 10 update cliff October 14, 2025

In less than a year (October 14th, 2025), Windows will stop releasing free security updates for Windows 10. Yes, you read that right: Bill Gates himself will personally twist close the very faucet that security updates spring forth from. But don’t worry: businesses and individuals alike will still be able to purchase 3 years of updates from Microsoft, because money. Ars Technica reports that most users will have to spring for new machines entirely(!!!), as many Windows 10 PCs don’t have the system requirements to operate Windows 11, which has had a slow rollout. Windows 10 currently operates on 2/3rds of Windows systems… so this is an interesting decision from Microsoft to say the least.

National Public Data, the hacked data broker, files for bankruptcy

Florida’s very own National Public Data is filing for bankruptcy because of a wave of litigation due to a massive data breach that caused millions of Social Security numbers to get leaked. The parent company, Jerico Pictures, which is a film production company who’s sole output appears to be (we’re not making this up) a reality show called Country Daze, “faces substantial uncertainty facing regulatory challenges by the Federal Trade Commission and more than 20 states with civil penalties for data breaches” according to the CEO of Jerico Pictures (and erstwhile Country Daze star), Salvatore Verini. Could this get any more Florida? Yes, when you read that NPD published its own passwords and also when you see Salvatore’s acting reel. He’s not bad!

👨‍💻 Job Opportunities

Software Engineer II @ G2 Maybe you love peer-review sites. Maybe you’ve worked at a company that has been featured on G2. This, amigo, is your chance to ascend into the Matrix and work for G2! By all accounts, you’d be part of a solid team, and the company is growing faster than you can say “Series D funding.” Which is just three words, so you can say it pretty fast.

Senior Front-End Engineer, Firefox @ Mozilla Ever wanted to work alongside a giant flaming fox? Well, you’re in luck, because Mozilla is hiring a Senior Front-End Engineer which is a spectacular mid-career job for the right person. They’re the Patagonia of open source web browsers, don’t sleep on this.

Staff Software Engineer, Host Calendar @ Airbnb Before AirBnB, people just slept wherever. On the ground. In a tree. Thankfully, AirBnB figured the whole “sleeping elsewhere” thing out. They have a really sweet Staff Software Engineer position open that we think an EE member would absolutely slay at. Yes. EE said slay. It happened. Deal with it.

Software Engineer, Frontend (CB1) @ Coinbase Do your have lots of loose change these days? Neither do we. You can thank Coinbase for giving them all a place to be. (Googles what Coinbase actually does) Ohhhh, its a crypto company! Well. Anyway. This still looks like a great gig if you like (performs another Google search) tokens and blockchain.

 🛩 Industry Moves

VCs are getting v wary (see what we did there) 

VC investors are remaining cautious about making deals, despite the stock market doing great, with total closed deals amounting to nearly 32% lower than forecasted. This comes at a time when VCs are focused on AI, which appears to be underperforming as industry as nobody quite knows what to do with the technology beyond write newsletters with it wait backspace backspace backspace.

Leonardo looking at M&A for growth of Its cyber division

Italian defense company Leonardo is saying “fuggedaboutit!” to minimal growth and “eyyyy! I’m growin’ over ‘eeeere!” to investors, as it looks to acquire “about a dozen” companies over the next year. No word from any of the other ninja turtles. The company is set to have double digit growth by the end of the decade.

KKR-Owned BMC to separate

If you love acronyms and being perplexed by corporate branding decisions, this one is for you: KKR-owned BMC will split into two private software companies, one to be called BMC and the other called BMC Helix, with two-thirds of the current company’s $2.3 billion in revenue going to (the new) BMC.

💽 Data Upload

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