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• Treasury claims hacking attempts preceded Budget leak

  Budget leak followed hacking attempts that reportedly started on Sunday night

• IRS cut its cybersecurity staff by 11% over four years

  As headcount is falling, cybersecurity spending at the agency is increasing.

• H-1B employees crowd out other workers, says study

  A new paper found that winning additional H-1B visas has "an insignificant effect on patenting," and that "H-1Bs substantially crowd out employment of other workers."

• Data center consolidation pays off, feds find

  Republicans and Democrats in Congress rarely seem to agree on anything anymore, but top members from both sides Friday offered qualified support for efforts to ...

• Even crooks couldn't profit from Microsoft's Surface flop

  Ex-Microsoft finance manager sentenced to two years in prison for insider trading; partner in crime got 18 months

• Lenovo's Motorola, IBM server buys will likely get strict U.S. security review

  Any U.S. probe into the Chinese firm's plan to acquire U.S.-developed technology "is not going to be resolved any time soon," attorney says