The labor market is in turmoil, and finding a job is becoming an increasingly impossible task.

Based on my observations, in Silicon Valley, California, age discrimination began to gain momentum after year 2000, and it took almost 20 years for this to become a significant problem. Finding a job after graduating from university or after the age of 50, if you've lost your job, is becoming incredibly difficult, not to mention after the age of 60.

Interestingly, government statistics cheerfully report the number of new jobs created, but discreetly remain silent about the salaries offered and the number of unemployed among young people after graduating from universities and among people who lost their jobs after the age of 50 or 60 and couldn't find new ones.

At the same time, starting in 2020, there has been a boom in AI, leading to mass layoffs(the role of the COVID-19 pandemic in this process should be noted), as well as the use of AI for filtering resumes and automating HR processes for recruitment.

I'm not even talking about the wage gap between companies like Google, Apple, Microsoft, Meta, Amazon, Roblox, Palantir and other companies, as well as startups that cannot afford to pay such high salaries.

All these factors are leading to an inevitable crisis and collapse of the labor market based on the latest technologies.

Naturally, the middle class is being destroyed, and baby boomers are being actively pushed into retirement, and the gap between the small percentage of wealthy people and the majority of the lumpen proletariat, who lived paycheck to paycheck, is becoming enormous, which is fraught with social upheavals, wars, revolutions, and naturally, mass genocide of the population of planet Earth.

If you find yourself on one of these malicious websites and do not detect the threat quickly enough, you risk losing accounts, credentials and data. This is worse when it comes to Chrome or Safari on your phone, where spotting threats is harder.

That’s the case with a new warning reported by Cybersecurity News: “Hackers are using the ‘rn’ typo trick to impersonate Microsoft and Marriott in a new phishing attack.” That tactic to use an ‘r’ and an ‘n’ to replace a “m’ in a URL on a small screen ”creates fake websites that look nearly identical to the real ones."

Homoglyph attacks(https://www.feroot.com/education-center/what-is-a-homoglyph-attack), where “attackers exploit visually similar characters to deceive users or systems, (are) used in phishing, domain impersonation, and software supply chain intrusions—often with high success rates. They’re dangerous because the fake often looks exactly like the real thing.”

Cybersecurity News says two recent attacks leveraging the “r+n” technique have targeted Microsoft and Marriott. Of the two, the Microsoft attack is clearly the more dangerous. Stealing those credentials or hijacking those accounts is invaluable.

“The security firm Anagram, highlighted a similar campaign targeting Microsoft users. Phishing emails in this campaign use the domain rnicrosoft.com to send fake security alerts or invoice notifications.”

While you can hover to check URLs before clicking through, most users don’t, The most critical advice is never to log into any accounts — Microsoft, Marriott or any other — via a link from any kind of message or email. Instead use your app or usual website.

You should also ensure passkeys and two-factor authentication are enabled on all key accounts, which certainly includes Microsoft.

Given this new warning, you should also be mindful of URLs with domains that start with or include the letter ‘m.’ It’s worth taking care given how hard this ‘r+n’ is to detect.

In additionally, if you’re anything like me, you spend a significant portion of your day typing—emails, documents, Slack messages, posts on Dreamwidth about your hyperspecific hobby—and a lot of that time is wasted deleting things character by character. Holding down the backspace key like some kind of caveman is inefficient and frankly beneath you. These keyboard shortcuts will help you delete entire words, or even lines, at once, which is especially useful when you change your mind midsentence or realize you need to start over. Here’s how to do it—and keep in mind that your cursor has to be after the word or sentence you want to delete.

Delete entire words:

On Mac: Press Option + Delete.
On PC: Press Ctrl + Backspace.

Delete the whole line:

On Mac: Press Command + Delete.
On PC: Press Ctrl + Shift + Up Arrow + Delete on Windows (yeah, I realize this isn’t the easiest hack).

Once you get these shortcuts into muscle memory, you'll never go back to pecking away at the delete key one letter at a time.