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Bills, hearings, enforcement actions and the rules being written for software and silicon, covered by The Silicon Ledger.
The White House has moved to block Microsoft, Adobe and six other technology and outsourcing firms from sponsoring foreign workers for permanent US residency, with Vice-President JD Vance accusing them of exploiting immigration programs and undercutting American employees.
The Trump administration has suspended PERM labor certification privileges for major technology companies including Microsoft and Adobe, citing alleged fraud and abuse in the visa sponsorship system.
Finnish regulators have ordered Google to suspend work on two planned data centers after more than 740 acres of forest were cleared for the projects.
OpenSSH 10.6 weakens SSH compression and blocks special characters in command-line usernames to patch a plaintext leak and shell injection vulnerability, changes the maintainers made knowingly to close security gaps.
Florida's attorney general has announced a lawsuit against TP-Link, accusing the networking equipment maker of deceiving consumers about the safety of its routers and its relationship with China. Iowa, Nebraska, and Montana have filed similar cases.
David Robinson, who spent over three years leading safety efforts at OpenAI, has left the company arguing that the AI industry operates with inadequate safeguards and should adopt practices from fields like nuclear engineering and aviation.
An Anthropic Claude conversation flagged by the company's safety systems led to the arrest of a Lee County woman on charges related to threatening a mass shooting at a local law enforcement facility.
SailPoint's Navigate conference will examine how organizations can govern autonomous AI agents that operate at machine speed, raising fundamental questions about access control and accountability in an era of non-human identities.
