How Arizona is training talent for its growing chip industry as suppliers fear tighter US immigration policy; Arizona has drawn $200B+ in investments since 2020
Nikkei Asia : Bluesky: @whortana Bluesky: Alice / @whortana : I am extremely suspicious about this due to the water scarcity concerns [embedded post]
Elon Musk says he will rehire a DOGE staffer who resigned following the exposure of his posts advocating for racism and eugenics, after Trump endorsed the idea
“Just for the record, I was racist before it was cool.” — “You could not pay me to marry outside of my ethnicity.” — “Normalize Indian hate.” — www.wsj.com/tech/doge-st... [embedded post] Ryan ...
Some conservative critics of Elon Musk allege censorship and claim they were stripped of their X verification badges after challenging his views on H-1B visas
The fight between Ketamine Boy and the MAGAts is definitely a time to root for injuries … David Ingram / NBC News : Elon Musk accused of censoring conservatives on X who disagree with him about immigr...
How H-1B workers from India and other countries help the US remain dominant in tech, as some on the new “Tech Right” discover MAGA's racial-nationalist bigotry
Can't say I did not see this coming, tbh. — x.com/LauraLoomer/... @thetnholler : In-fighting : “The new MAGA coalition has officially had its first internal debate - over H-1b visas. It started whe...
In addition to chip subsidies, the US must rethink its immigration policies to lure high-skilled workers and invest in STEM to become a manufacturing hub again
JOHNSTOWN, Ohio — Just 15 minutes outside of downtown Columbus, the suburbs abruptly evaporate. Tweets: @aliyabhatia , @scottlincicome , @ericmgarcia , @rkelchen , @klonkitchen , @calebwatney , @reimu...
The US should grant more green cards to retain tech leaders; Turkish MIT and Caltech grad Erdal Arikan, whose work led to Huawei's 5G lead, had to leave the US
What is the single most significant step the United States can take to sustain the technological predominance it has enjoyed since World War II? Tweets: @dkaushik96 , @siddarthpaim , @dotben , @zachar...
A profile of Peter Thiel, who plans to leave Meta's board to focus on politics, funding far-right MAGA candidates who peddle conspiracies and deny Biden won
NYT @rmac18 and @llerer 1st reported about his involvement yesterday — More details about the app on @axios: https://www.axios.com/... @nycsouthpaw : NYT profiles Peter Thiel, the billionaire aparthei...
Research: Toronto saw the biggest growth in tech jobs of any North American city over past five years, reflecting Canada's more welcoming stance on immigration
Joel Rose / NPR : Tweets: @npr , @nandinigupta201 , @johnjhorton , @usf_economics , @jay_hernandez , and @nprjoel Tweets: @npr : The tech industry across Canada is booming. And one of the biggest rea...
Leaked email from GitHub CEO shows the company will renew its $200K contract with ICE, despite stated opposition to child separation policies
seems fair that you'd protest selling software to ICE, but should Microsoft pull their Office 365 license too? Do you want a word processing software vendor making judgements about what words are proc...
The US government and airlines are scanning faces of people not suspected of crimes, normalizing faces as data that can be kept, tracked, and inevitably, stolen
What's face recognition at the airport really about? Immigration policy and efficiency. — NEW YORK — You won't need …