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Trump admin says tech companies are abusing H-1B visas, slaps $100k a year to allow entry

Sat, 2025-09-20 01:14
It will hit outsourcing companies hardest

On Friday, President Trump signed a presidential proclamation to sharply raise the cost of employing H-1B workers by restricting entry unless employers make a $100,000 payment with the petition.…

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Zuck has the power! Meta applies to sell excess electricity

Fri, 2025-09-19 21:25
With new electricity sources for AI datacenters, the company will have some juice left over

AI model training and serving require vast quantities of power, but not necessarily all at once. With the first of several gigawatt-scale datacenters due to come online next year, Meta is looking at ways to offload excess energy capacity by selling it on the wholesale market.…

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ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

Fri, 2025-09-19 18:20
Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete?

ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.…

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Sorry, but DeepSeek didn’t really train its flagship model for $294,000

Fri, 2025-09-19 17:48
Training costs detailed in R1 training report don't include 2.79 million GPU hours that laid its foundation

Chinese AI darling DeepSeek's now infamous R1 research report was published in the Journal Nature this week, alongside new information on the compute resources required to train the model. Unfortunately, some people got the wrong idea about just how expensive it was to create.…

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Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says

Fri, 2025-09-19 17:23
Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets

An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.…

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Microsoft insists Copilot+ PCs are 'empowering the future' – reality disagrees

Fri, 2025-09-19 16:02
Latest marketing blitz for a solution seeking a problem... and a killer app

Comment Microsoft suspects that a "transformative shift" is being driven in personal and enterprise computing by its Copilot+ PCs and an expanding Windows on Arm ecosystem.…

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Turns out Hayabusa2's next asteroid target isn't much bigger than the probe itself

Fri, 2025-09-19 15:15
It's also spinning twice as fast than thought, making a tricky rendezvous even trickier

Japan's Hayabusa2 probe faces a tougher mission after new measurements revealed its target asteroid is nearly three times smaller and spinning about twice as fast as originally estimated.…

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Ding ding: Fortra rings the perfect-10 bell over latest GoAnywhere MFT bug

Fri, 2025-09-19 14:30
Outside experts say the vulnerability has probably already been exploited

Budding ransomware crooks have another shot at exploiting Fortra's GoAnywhere MFT product now that a new 10/10 severity vulnerability needs patching.…

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