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White House Press Secretary says the $100K H-1B fee is not an annual fee and it is a “one-time fee that applies only to the petition” in the upcoming lottery — To be clear: 1.) This is NOT an annual fee. It's a one-time fee that applies only to the petition. 2.) Those who already hold H-1B visas and are currently outside of the country right now will NOT be charged $100,000 to re-enter. H-1B visa holders can leave and re-enter the
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| Erin Doherty / CNBC: |
Trump says Fox CEO Lachlan Murdoch “is involved” in the ownership group for TikTok US and “Rupert is probably going to be in the group” along with Michael Dell — President Donald Trump said in an interview that aired Sunday that conservative media baron Rupert Murdoch … | Elizabeth Chamberlain / iFixit News: |
iPhone Air teardown: clever use of space by placing the logic board above the 12.26 Wh battery, the same cell used in Apple's MagSafe Battery pack, and more — iPhone Air Teardown — To be honest, we were holding our breath for the iPhone Air. Thinner usually means flimsier, harder to fix, and more glued-down parts.
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| Katie Tarasov / CNBC: |
Interviews with Apple's Tim Millet, Arun Mathias, and Kaiann Drance on the new neural accelerators in A19 Pro GPU cores, C1X modem, N1 wireless chip, and more — iPhone Air is the big newcomer among Apple's latest lineup that went on sale Friday, but inside the slim phone's raised plateau …
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Diplomats say the EU is moving to exclude Meta, Apple, Google, and Amazon from the new Financial Data Access system to protect the bloc's “digital sovereignty” — Germany argues groups such as Apple and Meta are excluded to protect Europe's ‘digital sovereignty’| Melissa Heikkilä / Financial Times: |
Researchers suggest LLM-powered medical AI tools understate the severity of symptoms in female patients and show less “empathy” toward Black and Asian patients — Large language models reflect biases that can lead to inferior healthcare advice to female, Black and Asian patients| John Thornhill / Financial Times: |
A review of Tim Berners-Lee's new book This is for Everyone, while his startup Inrupt, which aims to commercialize the Solid web protocol, struggles to scale — The World Wide Web inventor criticises the ‘rage bait’ of algorithms and social media — and advocates tighter user control of personal data
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| The Guardian: |
Inside the Jaguar Land Rover cyberattack, which forced a shutdown of most systems and is likely to cost the company hundreds of millions of pounds — Being a carmaker where ‘everything is connected’ has left JLR unable to isolate its plants or functions, forcing a shutdown of most systems
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The FTC's 2023 lawsuit against Amazon goes to trial this week, alleging it used misleading tactics to entice people into Prime and made cancellation difficult — Trial begins this week on FTC allegations that e-commerce giant uses misleading tactics to entice and keep customers
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| Nikita Ostrovsky / Time: |
UK-based startup Mantic ranked #8 in the Metaculus forecasting cup that asks entrants to predict 60 geopolitical events, the first time an AI made the top 10 — Reactions to Kimmel's suspension, Trump publicly rebukes Putin, and more … For Vassalo, AIs' unfair advantage solves …
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| Matt Burgess / Wired: |
As carriers deploy protections against fraudulent texts, scammers are using “SMS blasters” that impersonate base stations to send fake messages to nearby phones — Scammers are now using “SMS blasters” to send out up to 100,000 texts per hour to phones that are tricked into thinking the devices are cell towers.| John Adoyi / TechCabal: |
Kredete, which helps Africans abroad build credit while sending money home, raised a $22M Series A and launches Africa's first stablecoin-backed credit card — Kredete, a Nigerian fintech that helps African immigrants build credit and access financial services, has raised $22 million in Series … | Rest of World: |
An inside look at Léon Thévenin, the only undersea internet cable repair ship permanently stationed in Africa, operated by the French telecom company Orange — Undersea internet cables are critical in today's hyperconnected world. The crew of the Léon Thévenin maintains one stretch of this global network.
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