Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000; California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun

[Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life] | [Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden] [Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000] [Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life] [California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun] [Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden] ['Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada] [Student Hacker Faces 10 Years in Prison For Spyware That Hit 16,000 Computers] [Node.js's npm Is Now The Largest Package Registry in the World] [Amateur Scientists Find New Clue In D.B. Cooper Case, Crowdsource Their Investigation] [Hamas 'Honey Trap' Dupes Israeli Soldiers] [Headphone Users Rejoice: Samsung Reportedly Not Killing the Galaxy S8's Headphone Jack] [SpaceX Accident Cost it Hundreds of Millions] [Moon Express Raises $20 Million In Series B-1, Fully Funds Trip To The Moon] [Someone Is Trying to Sell Those Stolen Three-Screen Razer Laptops in China] [Drone Maker Lily Robotics Faked Promotional Video, Gets Sued For False Advertising and Misleading Business Practices] [D-Wave Open Sources Its Quantum Computing Tool] [Congress Will Consider Proposal To Raise H-1B Minimum Wage To $100,000] From the adjusted-for-inflation department An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: President-elect Donald Trump is just a week away from taking office. From the start of his campaign, he has promised big changes to the US immigration system. For both Trump's advisers and... [Millennials Earn 20 Percent Less Than Boomers Did At Same Stage of Life] From the times-they-are-a-changing department According to a new analysis of Federal Reserve data by the advocacy group Young Invincibles, millennials earn 20 percent less than boomers did at the same stage of life, even though they are better educated. Their median household income is... [California's Bullet Train Hurtles Towards a Multibillion-Dollar Overrun] From the train-troubles department schwit1 quotes the Los Angeles Times: California's bullet train could cost taxpayers 50% more than estimated — as much as $3.6 billion more. And that's just for the first 118 miles through the Central Valley, which was supposed to be the... [Petition With Over 1 Million Signatures Urges President Obama To Pardon Snowden] From the deal-or-no-deal department An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNET: More than 1 million people signed onto a petition asking President Barack Obama to pardon Edward Snowden, proponents of the pardon said Friday. The campaign began in September, when Snowden, his... ['Superbug' Resistant To 26 Antibiotics Kills A Patient In Nevada] From the immortal-infections department An anonymous reader quotes UPI: A Nevada woman in her 70s who'd recently returned from India died in September from a "superbug" infection that resisted all antibiotics, according to a report released Friday... The U.S. Centers for Disease Control... [Student Hacker Faces 10 Years in Prison For Spyware That Hit 16,000 Computers] From the write-a-keylogger-go-to-jail department An anonymous reader quotes Motherboard: A 21-year-old from Virginia plead guilty on Friday to writing and selling custom spyware designed to monitor a victim's keystrokes. Zachary Shames, from Great Falls, Virginia, wrote a keylogger, malware... [Node.js's npm Is Now The Largest Package Registry in the World] From the delivering-packages department Linux.com highlights some interesting statistics about npm, the package manager for Node.js. "At over 350,000 packages, the npm registry contains more than double the next most populated package registry (which is the Apache Maven repository). In... [Amateur Scientists Find New Clue In D.B. Cooper Case, Crowdsource Their Investigation] From the hunting-for-hijackers department Six months after the FBI closed the only unsolved air piracy in American aviation history -- after a 45-year investigation -- there's a new clue. An anonymous reader quotes Seattle news station KING: A band of amateur scientists selected by the... [Hamas 'Honey Trap' Dupes Israeli Soldiers] From the soldier-social-media department wiredmikey quotes Security Week: The smartphones of dozens of Israeli soldiers were hacked by Hamas militants pretending to be attractive young women online, an Israeli military official said Wednesday. Using fake profiles on Facebook with... [Headphone Users Rejoice: Samsung Reportedly Not Killing the Galaxy S8's Headphone Jack] From the contrary-to-popular-belief department An anonymous reader writes: Contrary to previous reports, Samsung's upcoming flagship Galaxy S8 smartphone will come with a headphone jack, unlike the new iPhone 7 and 7 Plus and several other Android smartphones. The news comes from both... [SpaceX Accident Cost it Hundreds of Millions] From the profitable-maybe department Elon Musk's SpaceX lost more than a quarter of a billion dollars in 2015 after a botched cargo run to the International Space Station and the subsequent grounding of its Falcon 9 rocket fleet, The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday. From a... [Moon Express Raises $20 Million In Series B-1, Fully Funds Trip To The Moon] From the to-infinity-and-beyond department The company competing in the Google Lunar X-Prize, Moon Express, has raised $20 million in funding and announced that they have now fully financed their mission to the moon. The company made history last year as it became the first private company... [Someone Is Trying to Sell Those Stolen Three-Screen Razer Laptops in China] From the bad-money department Just a few days ago, Razer's awesome Project Valerie laptops -- the one with three 4K displays -- were stolen. Now it looks like whoever stole them is trying to sell them. From a report: It turns out that the thief (or thieves) didn't just nab one... [Drone Maker Lily Robotics Faked Promotional Video, Gets Sued For False Advertising and Misleading Business Practices] From the coincidence-I-think-not department Dotnaught quotes a report from The Register: Lily Robotics says its decision on Thursday to shut down and return pre-order payments for a never-delivered drone, which came on the same day that San Francisco District Attorney George Gascon charged... [D-Wave Open Sources Its Quantum Computing Tool] From the code-for-qubits department Long-time Slashdot reader haruchai writes: Canadian company D-Wave has released their qbsolv tool on GitHub to help bolster interest and familiarity with quantum computing. "qbsolv is a metaheuristic or partitioning solver that solves a... Follow us on [Facebook] [Twitter] [Google+] [Submit a Story to Slashdot!] You are subscribed to this Resource Newsletter as {EMAIL} . 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