Proposed six-figure H-1B fee adds pressure to US technology hiring
After courts rejected an earlier levy, a proposed Homeland Security rule would charge $103,265 for many company-sponsored H-1B visas.
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Apple's new Siri architecture shows routes for third-party AI models
Private frameworks in Apple's latest operating systems point to model delegation and deeper inference-provider hooks, though neither route is generally open to developers.
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Dorset community B&B fights Airbnb trademark challenge over ‘bnb’ name
The six-room bnb-side guesthouse says changing its name would threaten a key income stream for the local b-side arts festival.
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Study questions whether lunar ice could sustain million-person Moon cities
Researchers estimate that even generous water reserves and near-closed-loop recycling would support a city of one million for only about a century.
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ScreenSize report finds 1920-by-920 leads its measured desktop viewports
The privacy-conscious dataset covers qualified visits to one website and explicitly does not claim to represent worldwide browser market share.
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Cohere chief challenges AI safety rules shaped by dominant labs
Aidan Gomez argues that independent testing and open standards should replace a regulatory model designed by a small group of leading AI companies.
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Nike to leave S&P 100 after steep five-year market-value decline
The sportswear group will remain in the broader S&P 500 as four technology companies join the blue-chip index in a September reshuffle.
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Researcher demonstrates OEM-focused Android exploit chains across major phone brands
The disclosed strategy combines manufacturer-specific sandbox escapes and kernel flaws to reach root privileges on recent Samsung, Xiaomi, Oppo, OnePlus and Realme devices.
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New reading list maps the fast-changing open-model AI debate
Interconnects has published a curated guide to open AI models, spanning business strategy, safety, adoption, regulation and competition between US and Chinese labs.
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Compression engineer challenges JPEG XL’s case for the web
A technical analysis argues that JPEG XL’s flexibility and lossless features do not outweigh AVIF’s current advantages for common browser images.
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Solar models point to a planet the young Sun may have swallowed
A peer-reviewed study proposes that ingesting a super-Earth could explain several persistent mismatches between solar models and observations.
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Matt Mullenweg says he has returned as Automattic chief executive
The founder’s reported reinstatement came two days after Automattic’s board placed him on paid leave and named its finance chief interim CEO.
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Revolut says impostor government requests exposed customer records
The fintech says a limited number of customers were affected after fraudulent data requests arrived from a legitimate government-agency email domain.
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US border supervisor charged over hardware removed from government PCs
Investigators allege processors, memory and drives were swapped out of 46 Homeland Security computers at three facilities in Maine.
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AI safety warnings meet sharper skepticism across Silicon Valley
Public alarms from current and former AI researchers are colliding with executives who question both the scale of the risk and the motives behind the warnings.
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Police stop reporter documenting installation of Flock license-plate camera
The Georgia encounter renewed scrutiny of public recording and privacy around a rapidly expanding automated camera network.
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Homebrew 7 adds vulnerability checks, stronger sandboxing and a native Mac app
The package manager’s major release also ends macOS Catalina support and moves Intel Macs into its least-supported hardware tier.
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JetKVM introduces smaller Mini remote-management devices starting at $39
The company says its Ethernet and wireless KVM-over-IP models use new open-source firmware, an ESP32-based design and the same browser interface as its existing hardware.
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Recurrent Looped Transformer proposal links every generated token in one continuing computation
A newly published architecture proposal combines a causal encoder with a recurrent decoder, aiming to extend a model's reasoning path as a sequence grows while keeping per-token work fixed.
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Apple Details Five-Model AI Family Built Around On-Device and Private Cloud Computing
The third generation of Apple Foundation Models uses on-device systems, Private Cloud Compute and specialized architectures while excluding private user data from training, Apple says.
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Researchers Observe Hexagonal Superionic Ice Under Extreme Pressure and Heat
Diamond-anvil and X-ray experiments produced a predicted atomic arrangement that may help refine models of Uranus and Neptune.
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Sergey Brin Contributions to California Tax Fight Reach $102 Million
State records cited by the Los Angeles Times show the Google co-founder financing a group backing two measures that could override a proposed billionaire tax.
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Compiler Optimizations Can Remove Security Protections From C Programs, Researcher Warns
A Black Hat discussion highlights how valid transformations can erase memory clearing or create timing gaps, reinforcing the need to test optimized release binaries.
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Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor Target Tech-Elite Power in New Book
In an interview about End Times Fascism, Klein describes the book's argument that concentrated wealth, crisis politics and private technology power are reinforcing authoritarian systems.
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