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You can’t have it both ways, esports.
You either are paid by the Saudi government to ignore women’s rights or you can be a legitimate proponent for those same rights.
People are tired of the two-faced bullshit.
Joel retweeted
Hey @HeinzTweets CEO, why do Europeans get the best-quality ketchup while Americans go without?
We tried to bring your superior European recipe (real sugar, incredible taste) to the U.S. Instead, you're pushing "Simply Heinz" — but it just doesn't taste as good.
Heinz is a great American brand. Why are you giving Europe a higher-quality product than the one you offer to your own home country?
Stop forcing us to look elsewhere for a replacement. Do the right thing for American diners. 🇺🇸🍅
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Anthropic: launched Fable 5.2.
Google: launched Gemini 4 Carbon.
OpenAI: launched a cybersecurity blog post.
We're turning our lessons from defending OpenAI into practical tools for our customers. On Thursday, join us at Cyber at the Frontier, a live keynote, for our latest cyber announcements.
Working with our frontier models, we've identified and resolved important vulnerabilities in our own code and infrastructure. That experience is informing the tools and playbooks we're building to help other security teams strengthen their defenses.
@gdb shares what we've learned and why security teams should keep putting the latest models to work as capabilities improve.
Tune in on November 12 at 10 a.m. PT: openai.com/cyber-at-the-fron…
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We rebuilt our mobile apps in Swift and Kotlin with agents. To keep pace and hold our quality bar, we built Reflex: an agentic-first architecture that lets agents build and verify app behavior across iOS and Android without needing devices or simulators.
Here's how it works, piece by piece:
shopify.engineering/reflex
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I don’t think any team partnered with the Saudi government in sportswashing human rights violations should be attempting to take some moral high ground.
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You can’t make this shit up. Imagine believing this
Opinion: If Canada wants economic security, it must tolerate a bigger government hand in business theglobeandmail.com/business…
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How do you spend the last 10 months telling your base that Visa fraud is rampant, turn around and approve 271,000 visas in 9 months and deny less than 3%?
Do you seriously expect me to believe that public universities sponsoring H-1Bs for assistant athletic coaches and parking assistants were all legit?
270,419 H-1B APPROVED IN 9 MONTHS. 97% ACCEPTANCE. ONLY 8,231 DENIED.
That is still an open door policy, guys.
USCIS approved 97% of the H-1B petitions it decided from October through June. And those totals are still growing. Another 156,404 petitions were pending on June 30.
Renewals are the backbone of this program. Only 86,346 approvals were for new employment. The other 184,073 went to workers already on an H-1B, covering renewals and job switches.
That is more than two renewals and transfers for every new hire.
Last year showed the same pattern. In FY2025, new approvals fell while continuing approvals rose 12.9% to 291,542. That was 72% of all approvals.
The cap fight gets the headlines. Renewals keep the workforce in place.
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Buy from @Shopify!
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Wait a sec...
A foreign Indian engineer for Microsoft was given access to sensitive government data, while Microsoft is under investigation for giving access to sensitive data to Chinese spies as well??
🚨BREAKING (EXCLUSIVE): National Security Concerns Leaked by MSFT Whistleblower
Leaked Microsoft screenshots show an India-based engineer received approval to view U.S. government cloud logs.
A Microsoft whistleblower contacted me and shared screenshots supporting allegations that Microsoft used its “escort” process to allow an India based engineer to access Government Community Cloud (GCC) systems. The whistleblower alleges the engineer is not a U.S. citizen.
Microsoft’s own published rules state that temporary elevated access to customer content in GCC requires verified U.S. citizenship. The escort model is the workaround the company uses so non-U.S. personnel can still direct the work.
The screenshots show Viraj Chokhany requesting and receiving approval for escort access to view logs in the DPRODMGD151 environment, which is part of Government Community Cloud Moderate — the cloud used by many federal, state, and local agencies.
In the escort process, a U.S. person is supposed to open the system while the India-based engineer guides the work.
The whistleblower believes this raises urgent national security concerns and may violate FedRAMP requirements.
Multiple Microsoft employees have reviewed the screenshots and confirmed they appear authentic. Viraj, has been confirmed to live in India-- Where he also attended and graduated college.
The whistleblower is working on a public statement. I will release the whistleblowers statement when I receive it.
Attached images are some of the screenshots that I received from the Whistleblower.
@DHSgov @FBIDirectorKash @JDVance
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🚨 2 Microsoft employees have told me that U.S. government information requiring a security clearance is routinely exposed to foreign workers.
Employees told me that when they raise concerns, they are often ignored.
Allegedly, foreign workers (in foreign countries) are being added to email chains and meetings where cleared Microsoft employees are discussing and sharing sensitive U.S. government information.
The feds should definitely look into this. @realDonaldTrump @you POTUS @JDVance @FBI @DHSgov
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JUST IN: California rehab operators accused of supplying illegal drugs to recovering addicts to keep them hooked & collect over $210 million from insurers.
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I was Director of Engineering at AMEX a year ago. They are doing this so that they can rehire in India. The inside story is MUCH WORSE than that though.
Amex has been doing silent layoffs for years. As director, the VP told me to gradually increase expectations on engineers so that we could fire them “for cause” When you do this as a leader you get a backfill head to hire for. The caveat at AMEX? The backfill head was already decided for you - they were in India, and usually from a body shop firm.
Ask me anything about how AMEX is screwing over Americans in the replies.
@HarmeetKDhillon @andrealucasEEOC @USEEOC I am willing to testify/name names/do whatever is necessary to curb this anti American abuse.
American Express is cutting 5% of its headcount globally as Chief Executive Officer Steve Squeri seeks to keep a lid on the company’s rising costs. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Immigration policy must be driven by the present, not the past, and business leaders are too terrified of the left AND the right to acknowledge this.
Recent H1B discourse revolves around a longstanding immigration sleight-of-hand. H1B proponents point to exceptional people who came here decades ago as if they represent the current state of the program in the same way that advocates for low-skill/illegal immigration point to very favorable immigrant crime/welfare/education/etc statistics that do, in truth, have them beating native-born Americans on many fronts.
It is all a sham. The world that created those statistics, people, and businesses no longer exists. Brilliant but desperate Vietnamese fathers who fled communism have nothing in common with young men from Honduras, and the crime rates/economic acccomplishments/integration of the former should not be used to justify mass migration of the latter.
Nor should the accomplishments of people who managed to get an H1B visa in the 90s (when the program was capped to just 65,000 visas) be used to justify staffing agencies and tech companies using the program to replace American jobs for less money. The obvious abuse going on is politically suicidal and something that even the most ardent supporters of the visa should want to crack down on, no immigration program can possibly survive the obvious and widely known reality of what is going on. I am a longtime outspoken advocate for stealing the best people from other countries to make our own better, runaway abuse of existing programs robs the government of the worker trust required to do so.
Lots of people in the tech space know this. Even the dumb people are smart enough to see it. Nobody actually believes these are all incredible people with unique talents performing jobs no American can. Everyone knows the guy in Cubicle Bay 7 doing mediocre but functional web design for half the salary of his American peers is no savant and doesn't meet the statutory requirements for his H-1B visa.
Unfortunately, most people with power or profile are terrified that any public statement or acknowledgement will get them attacked by the right (You guys have been screwing over American workers for years with visa abuse, you damn hypocrite!) or the left (You are racist, sexist, misogynist, and sucking up to this fascist administration!). Or, more likely, both. I know too many tech execs in particular who feel trapped, like the only winning move is to stay silent.
JD is blowing the whole thing wide open by putting facts and stats front and center that nobody wants to engage with. Critics will talk about anything and everything else but these damning facts and this obvious truth, that H1B visas serve neither their original purpose, legal purpose, invented purpose, or the American people.
Vice President JD Vance breaks down the data:
"If you are working as an H-1B visa in the United States of America, you’re earning $20,000 less than an American citizen hired in the same position. If you were brought in by one of these foreign outsourcing firms, you’re making $48,000 less than an American citizen in a similar position. So I’m sure that everybody here understands the game that is being played. You bring in indentured servants from outside the country, you lay off American workers and, if you’re a corporation, you make a ton of money by under cutting the wages of American workers, replacing them with people who frankly shouldn’t be in the United States of America to begin with."