KnowBe4 recently disclosed that a remote software engineer that it hired was a North Korean hacker who was able to make it through the interview process and pass a background check. KnowBe4 detected that the hacker's Mac immediately started loading malware. The employee refused to take a call with the team and then became unresponsive, which led KnowBe4 to contact the FBI and Mandiant.

Ivan Zhao, co-founder of Notion, reflects on the company's decade-long journey to realize its vision of creating "LEGOs for software."

This shift raises questions about user response, with ad-tech experts predicting the end of cookies will now be driven by consumer preferences. Google's Privacy Sandbox, intended to replace cookies, has faced scrutiny and mixed results. The details of Google's user prompts and opt-out mechanisms remain unclear, but their impact on third-party cookies could be substantial.