AI Agents, Security Crises, and Workforce Upheaval Define This Week in Tech

See what you missed in Daily Tech Insider from Sept. 28–Oct. 2.
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Dems seek top-to-bottom assessment of CISA workforce

After the exit of around 1,000 CISA workers, legislation from three top House Democrats orders a force structure assessment like that more common to military branches.

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Databricks Bets $350M on Singapore as It More Than Doubles Local Workforce

Databricks is investing more than US$350 million in Singapore as it expands its workforce, technical team, and regional AI operations.
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Why judgment is emerging as cybersecurity’s defining skill

AI is getting better at much of what security teams have long spent time on: analyzing information, identifying patterns, and providing technically sound recommendations quickly. As those capabilities become more routine, they are changing what security practitioners spend their time on. Reaching a technically sound recommendation is also getting easier, which puts more weight on […]

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Arrested man allegedly impersonated NSA elite hacking unit, Supreme Court chief justice

Joshua Culver, aka “Maverick Young,” is accused of imitating the head of the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations unit during a time it wasn’t called that.

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AI Job Losses in Australia Explained: Why the Numbers Tell a More Complicated Story

AI isn’t causing mass job losses in Australia yet, but slower hiring and shifting employment trends reveal how the workforce may be changing.
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Lawmakers spring to save ID theft services for OPM breach victims, with expiration looming

Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., and Del. Eleanor Holmes Norton, D-D.C., hope to make the services permanent before they end next month.

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Program to rotate cyber personnel through federal agencies saw little use

The number of people who got approval to be in the Federal Rotational Cyber Workforce program was in the single digits, GAO found.

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Data From 21,000 Firms Reveals: AI Spending Is Creating Jobs, Not Killing Them

New data from Ramp and Revelio show that intensive Gen AI adoption is linked to higher headcount and more entry-level hiring, challenging fears that “AI kills jobs” and reshaping IT leaders’ strategies.
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Trump budget boss Russell Vought open to re-staffing CISA

DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin has been floating the idea of adding back 600 CISA personnel after deep Trump administration cuts.

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