The new H1-B Visa fee is $100,000 a YEAR, so even if you somehow get away with paying your foreign worker peanuts (The minimum is apparently $60,000 a year) the numbers still aren't going to work out for any entry level jobs.

So.... what you're saying is that Microsoft would need to brib... er... "lobby" some higher level government officials to get this ruling changed? They've had no problem doing that in the past, but Austria is pretty small potatoes to their overall business model so they'll probably ignore this for now.

Nah, it won't come to that. Microsoft will just wait for them to get a new CTO, and then offer them a highly discounted Microsoft Office licensing package. We've seen this story before many times on Slashdot, it usually ends the same way every time.

They have to compete with Microsoft, who's been cramming CoPilot AI into all of their products whether you want it or not. Even using a Mac won't save you if you're using Office 365.

Hell... just today I pulled an old Windows 10 system out of storage, and one of the first things that I did was reinstall CoPilot on it even though I had removed it earlier. It's starting to feel like malware at this point.

Well... it will "Strengthen The Value" of my Wi-Fi network, anyway, because that will one less device that I'll allow to connect to it.

Yeah, I'm not buying it. Apple knows better than the play in the sub $800 laptop space, because there is no profit margin in it.

Plus, "Apple Intelligence" doesn't seem to play well on systems with less than 16 GB of RAM. It would be a bad look if the hot new software feature they're promoting doesn't work on all of their new devices.

Or, they could just be going back to the old 1990's playbook of blaming violent video games for school shootings.

I'm sure that that are still a few senators serving that are old and naive enough to think that Doom was the reason that the Columbine shootings happened.

What I find impressive is that there are many YouTube channels putting out weekly content that's better produced than most of the dreck that was released in the 1990's.

I think that Facebook's primary use case at this point is helping boomers share fake news and pig butchering scams with each other while they're looking at pictures of their grand kids that were cross-posted from Instagram.

I guess that's not totally fair... they also sell VR goggles that nobody uses a few weeks after buying them as well.

Well... the "Pro" models will probably get more USB Type C ports. The base model will probably just get 2 (with one of them being for charging), because they'll want you to upgrade to the Pro model to avoid using dongles or a hub to get more ports.

They weren't going to make it to Net Zero by 2030 anyway. The combined power usage for Google's datacenters can probably be measured in gigawatts, and there is no way that all of that is "clean" energy. I doubt that they could even afford enough carbon offset credits to make it net zero without royally pissing off their shareholders.

Yeah, the math doesn't work out. Thanks to inflation, I can't get a burger fries and a soda at Five Guys for under $25.

I can make enough burgers and fries for a family of 4 if I spent that $25 at my local grocery store instead.

What I find amusing is that I enabled TPM 2.0 in my BIOS and even though Windows 11 knows this, the beta still doesn't seem to recognize it.

It will be a cold day in hell before I reinstall Windows 11 just to play a game demo.

Well... considering that they're trying to use these AI assistants to cut down on head count and fire their co-workers, I wouldn't be shocked at all to learn that their friends are looking for way to exploit the system. If anything, Taco Bell's technology team should be expecting that.

Apparently electrocutions kill 1,000 people in the US annually as well. I'm sure that BP and ExxonMobil can sponsor a story showing how that number is going to go up if we all get electric cars.

Of course, you should be questioning that study just from reading who sponsored it... just like you should with this one.