IT News Digest #17: Samsung plans to create 80,000 new jobs, Apple boosts starting pay for US workers to $22 per hour, Сhinese hackers begin exploiting latest Microsoft Office zero-day vulnerability

Last week in news: New York says Amazon doesn’t accommodate pregnant and disabled workers, 100,000 NPM users' credentials stolen in GitHub OAuth breach.

Development:

• JEP 405: Record Classes to Extend Pattern Matching in Java.
• Java News Roundup by InfoQ: Structured Concurrency, Java Turns 27, Micronaut 3.5.0.
• Kotlin 1.7.0 Beta Enables Definitely Non-nullable Types.

Career and IT market:

• Twitter fined $150m for handing users’ contact details to advertisers. US regulators said social media firm gave advertisers information collected for security purposes.
• New York says Amazon doesn’t accommodate pregnant and disabled workers. The governor has filed a complaint listing several examples.
• Apple boosts starting pay for US workers to $22 per hour, a 45% jump from 2018 levels.
• Samsung plans to create 80,000 new jobs with $356 billion investment.

Online Security:

• ​​Chinese Hackers Begin Exploiting Latest Microsoft Office Zero-Day Vulnerability.
• Nearly 100,000 NPM Users' Credentials Stolen in GitHub OAuth Breach.