TNW 389: How North Korea Infiltrates U.S. Tech Jobs - DPRK's Infiltration of U.S. Remote Jobs
Tech News Weekly (Audio)
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🗓️ 29 May 2025
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Dan Moren joins Mikah Sargent this week on Tech News Weekly! Apple is rumored to announce a major OS redesign and unified naming scheme at WWDC this year. How YouTube creators are competing against traditional television. Insights into research showing technology use and association with reduced cognitive decline. And how North Koreans have stolen over $6 billion in cryptocurrency through U.S. remote jobs.
- Dan Moren talks about how Apple is rumored to unveil an upcoming OS redesign and unified naming scheme later at WWDC this year, internally dubbed 'Solarium'.
- Mikah talks about YouTube creators and how they are building full production studios as they create more original content for the platform, as YouTube is slowly replacing channel surfing and more linear TV consumption.
- Mikah gets excited and dives into research showing how more technology use can reduce cognitive decline in older adults, showing that tech engagement strengthens cognitive function.
- And Mikah shares a story of how North Koreans are infiltrating U.S. tech jobs, recruiting workers in financial distress for tech support roles, to steal cryptocurrency through laptop farms, which has totaled over $6 billion to date.
Hosts: Mikah Sargent and Dan Moren
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on Tech News Weekly, Dan Moore of Six Colors joins me. |
| 0:04.0 | We kick out the show talking about how Apple is making some changes to its numbering system for its software, |
| 0:10.0 | plus loads more about WWDC. |
| 0:13.0 | Then we talk about how YouTube really is stepping into the big time, taking over the TV. |
| 0:19.0 | Afterwards, a look at how cognitive aging might be positively |
| 0:24.6 | affected by technology use, and we round things out with a story about North Korea infiltrating |
| 0:31.6 | the U.S. job market. Tune in for this episode of Tech News Weekly to hear about all these great stories. |
| 0:41.7 | Podcasts you love. From people you trust. This is Twitter. |
| 0:49.3 | This is Tech News Weekly, episode 389 with Ken Morin and me, Micah Sargent, recorded Thursday, May 29th, 2025. |
| 0:59.3 | How North Korea infiltrates U.S. tech jobs. |
| 1:03.6 | Hello and welcome to Tech News Weekly, the show where every week we talk to and about the people making and breaking the tech news. |
| 1:10.4 | I am your host of this, the |
| 1:13.1 | Tech News Weekly podcast. I am back. And this week on the fifth Thursday of the month, we are |
| 1:19.8 | joined by Six Colors East Bureau Chief and Jeopardy Champion. It's Dan Morin. How you doing, Dan? |
| 1:27.9 | I'm doing okay. |
| 1:28.9 | Micah, it's always nice to be here on the fifth Thursday. |
| 1:32.3 | It's so hard to say that. |
| 1:33.3 | It's like the fifth thirds day. |
| 1:34.3 | The fifth thirds, the day of fifth thirds. |
| 1:37.3 | No, the day of fifth thirds. |
| 1:39.3 | I don't know what that is. |
| 1:40.3 | I'm here. |
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