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The contrasting developments highlighted tensions between Washington’s push to prioritise American workers and its ambition to lead global technology innovation.
SiliconANGLE ·
The White House has barred Microsoft Corp. from further participation in a federal program that enables U.S. companies to apply for green cards for employees holding H-1B visas after accusing it of abusing the system to try and replace...
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Microsoft defended its foreign-worker hiring practices after a US suspension, saying most H-1B filings involved employees already on its payroll
Gizmodo ·
Vice President JD Vance announced that Microsoft and several other tech firms can no longer participate in a program to provide legal residency to skilled foreign workers.
Slashdot ·
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch: The Trump administration is suspending Microsoft, Adobe, and several other technology companies from a program that helps skilled foreign workers obtain permanent residency in the...
The Verge ·
Windows Search has been one of the most frustrating parts of Windows 11, and now Microsoft is addressing this with a significant overhaul. A new redesigned Windows Search is now in testing that is much faster, more capable, and a lot...
Wired ·
“There has been no company in the United States, unfortunately, that has abused this system more than Microsoft,” Vice President JD Vance said on Thursday.
Tech-Economic Times ·
The crackdown on Microsoft came under Vance's purview as the head of a fraud task force, but the targeting revealed the tension between the companies powering US economic growth and the administration's efforts to reduce immigration...
Engadget ·
Seven companies have been accused of fraud regarding the H-1B worker visas.
TechRadar ·
Efosa has been writing about technology for over 7 years, initially driven by curiosity but now fueled by a strong passion for the field. He holds both a Master's and a PhD in sciences, which provided him with a solid foundation in...
TechRadar ·
Microsoft's Surface Pro 2026 OLED 2-in-1 gets a huge $450 discount
GeekWire ·
The Trump administration suspended Microsoft from the federal program the company uses to help foreign workers stay in the U.S. permanently, accusing the tech giant of abusing the system. The announcement by Vice President JD Vance,...
Hacker News ·
The Verge ·
The Trump administration is suspending some tech companies, including Microsoft, from an immigration program that lets an employer hire foreign workers that can reside permanently in the US, as reported by Reuters . In a press...
Ubuntu security notices · · Medium severity
It was discovered that some AMD processors did not properly perform Reverse Map Table (RMP) checks when the IOMMU accessed certain host buffers. A local attacker with hypervisor access could possibly use this to trigger an out-of-bounds...
Ubuntu security notices ·
Several security issues were discovered in the Linux kernel. An attacker could possibly use these to compromise the system. This update corrects flaws in the following subsystems: - ARM32 architecture; - ARM64 architecture; - MIPS...
Hacker News ·
TechRepublic ·
Microsoft plans to end OneDrive updates for iOS 18 and iPadOS 18. Find out which iPhones and iPads are affected and what users can do before support ends. The post Microsoft Plans OneDrive iOS 18 Cutoff: Which Devices Cannot Upgrade?
Computerworld ·
Microsoft is giving Copilot greater control over Windows PCs, allowing the AI assistant to organize and make changes to local files, and run certain tasks using on-device AI models. The changes were announced at Microsoft’s Hybrid...
TechCrunch ·
The other firms being suspended from the program include Capgemini, Cognizant, HCL, Infosys, Tata, and Wipro.
TNW ·
The US is suspending eight technology firms from PERM, the labour certification step that precedes an employer-sponsored green card, citing alleged fraud. Capgemini is the only European company named, and North America is its...
Hacker News ·
The Register ·
ArtCraft has added alternatives to Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint to its growing collection of Rust applications, which it describes as "clean-room reimplementations" of proprietary software. The projects lean heavily on Claude...
TechSpot ·
At yesterday's big Microsoft-Nvidia launch event, Huang stated, with Nadella's strong endorsement, that the new Surface Laptop Ultra, along with all the new Windows-based PCs running Nvidia's RTX Spark chip, heralds the reinvention of...
TechSpot ·
Word, Excel, and PowerPoint remain industry standards, but a Microsoft 365 subscription may not fit your budget. With Microsoft Office Professional 2021, you get a one-time purchase that includes Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook,...
Tech-Economic Times ·
Italy's probe is aimed at Activision Blizzard, among other companies of the Microsoft group, the antitrust authority said in a statement, without naming the others
BleepingComputer · · Medium severity
Microsoft will soon introduce support for third-party deepfake detection solutions and impersonation protection in Teams meetings.
TechRadar ·
Microsoft promises to make Windows 11 search better — and it's about time
The Register ·
Microsoft launched some new devices last night, but the big news appears to be a rebrand of the Surface range as "Surace." The typo (we assume) appeared on a slide about the number of ports on Microsoft's expensive hardware. Pavan...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
Microsoft is transforming the Windows 11 Search Menu into a natural-language chatbot, allowing users to control their PCs and converse with AI directly from the Task Bar. Announced at the company’s fall Surface event in San Francisco,...
AlienVault OTX ·
In September, a phishing campaign exploited legitimate Microsoft Power BI domains to distribute rogue ScreenConnect remote monitoring tools. Attackers sent phishing emails with embedded links redirecting victims to fake reference...
Tahawul Tech ·
(L-R) Stephan Berner, Founder and CEO, CYBERAIQ AG & Ahmed Hamzawy, Chief Partner Officer, Microsoft. CYBERAIQ AG recently announced the establishment of an Advanced Agentic Security Center of Excellence, delivered on Microsoft ’s...
Innovation Village | Technology, Product Reviews, Business ·
At a hardware showcase in San Francisco, Microsoft provided a complete look at its flagship workstation notebook, the Surface Laptop Ultra . Previously teased as “the most powerful thing we’ve ever made,” the machine is engineered...
Ghacks Technology News · · Unconfirmed
Microsoft has started rolling out a redesigned Windows Search experience to Windows Insiders that can carry out actions, such as switching to dark mode or snapping windows, directly from the search box on the taskbar in Windows 11 . The...
Tech-Economic Times ·
Microsoft is pushing a "hybrid intelligence" future with a new Surface Ultra laptop that runs on Nvidia artificial intelligence (AI) chips and will cost more than $2,500, the company announced Wednesday. The new Surface Ultra will use...
Ars Technica ·
In its first live event in two years, Microsoft today announced its newest Surface laptop, outlined a host of changes coming to Windows 11, and shared a vision of how local-AI and agentic workflows could reshape personal computing for...
Gizmodo ·
The 140W, magnetic USB-C port matters way more than you think.
Phoronix ·
Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS. LiteBox leverages Linux virtualization security features and Rust language inherent benefits to provide the...
MacRumors ·
Microsoft today announced launch timing and pricing for the Surface Laptop Ultra that it unveiled earlier this year. The 15-inch Surface Laptop Ultra is priced starting at $2,599, undercutting Apple's $2,999 16-inch MacBook Pro , and it...
The Register ·
Microsoft released its first Surface notebook powered by Nvidia's RTX Spark system-on-chip (SoC) during an event in San Francisco on Wednesday. The Surface Laptop Ultra is one of several new Copilot+ PCs powered by the N1X chip that...
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