Gates Repeats Request for More H-1B Visas

The U.S. is driving away the world’s best engineers and computer scientists by putting limits on H-1B visas and other immigrant worker programs, Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates told U.S. lawmakers Wednesday.Gates repeated his past calls for more H-1B visas, the controversial program used by technology and other companies to hire foreign workers for up to [...]

Password-Stealing Hackers Infect Thousands of Web Pages

Hackers looking to steal passwords used in popular online games have infected more than 10,000 Web pages in recent days.The Web attack, which appears to be a coordinated effort run out of servers in China, was first noticed by McAfee researchers on Wednesday morning. Within hours, the security company had tracked more than 10,000 Web [...]