President Signs EO Raising Fee on H-1B Visas to $100,000 All those foreign citizens that Silicon Valley hires (thousands or more for each large company). The NEW fee to file a visa application went from $215 to $100,000. It is designed to discourage the abuse of the program and only use it for exceptionally skilled […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I don’t know whether this is a slow news week or things are getting bad but check out all of these items this week: I could have easily listed twice as many hacks, but I stopped after a dozen. So you tell me – is this just a bad week or are the hackers winning? […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Supreme Court recently said that it was okay for AI companies to steal your copyrighted material to train the AI models. Not everyone thinks that is a wise decision. Cloudflare has had an option since late last year for website owners who are Cloudflare customers to manually block AI bots from scraping their content. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare DNS Goes Down Taking A Big Chunk of the Internet Down Good news and bad news. For companies like Shopify, League of Legends and Politico, among many others, Friday afternoon gave you a headache. You outsourced your DNS to Cloudflare and they had a burp. The good news is that because they are Cloudflare […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cloudflare, the company that helps web sites perform when under stress, including when under denial of service attacks, was the victim of a self induced cyber breach. For those who are not familiar with Cloudflare, it acts as a front end to a customer company’s web servers. With Cloudflare in front of a company’s servers, […]
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