Another wild fear tactic being pressed on tech workers right now is the “permanent underclass.”

Idk anyone who’s is worried about this myself.

But to those who are worried about this:

Class struggles will not be fixed by getting “in” on AI. It’ll be fixed by collective action and labor rights.

So let me see if I have this right:

Not only did BlueSky accept $100 million in funding from a Bain Capital Crypto - an obviously crypto associated investment firm - but a few weeks ago the notably transphobic CEO stepped down, not to leave the company, but to allow an AI-boosting, investment fund asshole figurehead take over the CEO position while she continues to pollute the C-suite elsewhere?

Yeah.

Yeah, that sounds like it's going to turn out GREAT.

I am POSITIVE this is going to be the bastion of safety and community that people keep telling me it is. I'm sure NOTHING will go sideways.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-19-2026-series-b

https://bsky.social/about/blog/03-09-2026-a-new-chapter-for-bluesky

> The leak, which Meta confirmed, happened when an employee asked for guidance on an engineering problem on an internal forum. An AI agent responded with a solution, which the employee implemented – causing a large amount of sensitive user and company data to be exposed to its engineers for two hours.

lol and - furthermore - lmao

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/20/meta-ai-agents-instruction-causes-large-sensitive-data-leak-to-employees

The "Bluetooth Headphone Jacking" talk at #39c3 was awesome, too. They reversed a popular SOC that powers Bluetooth earbuds and headphones.

They found that (even without being paired to the headphone), they could dump flash and RAM from the device. Then they dumped a bunch of info from the device - e.g. the #Bluetooth address and "master" encryption keys used for the communication with paired devices (e.g. a #phone).

Then they impersonated the headphone from their laptop and connected to the phone (pretending to be the headphone).
The headphone (or the laptop impersonating the phone) has permissions to do some things on the phone, e.g. accept calls, increase/decrease volume, etc.

Then they started recovering access a #WhatsApp account via some account recovery mechanisms. That required some one-time security key which would normally be delivered via SMS, but that could be delivered via phone call as a fallback option, too. Since the phone thought it was connected to the Bluetooth headphone, phone call audio would go to the laptop via Bluetooth.

As the cherry on top, they escalated into the victim's #Amazon account.

Scary shit. #YouCannotBeParanoidEnough #security