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In a rare confluence of events, all three branches of the federal government are weighing changes that would affect when and how personal data is accessed.

Uncle Sam wants your brain power, technical expertise and imagination to help defend the U.S. No enlistment required.

Microsoft has been on an open source binge lately.

It brought Red Hat Enterprise Linux to its Azure public cloud last year. Redmond database gurus opened up SQL Server to run on Linux earlier this month. And last week at the Open Compute Project Summit Microsoft announced SONiC – a set of open source software components that can be used to create networking equipment, such as switches.

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HTTPS is widely considered one of the keys to a safer Internet, but only if it's broadly implemented. Aiming to shed some light on how much progress has been made so far, Google on Tuesday launched a new section of its transparency report dedicated to encryption.

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Yeah, yeah, Google's really early preview of Android N boasts multi-window features, direct reply notifications and new battery-saving capabilities. But what we really want to know is, what cutesy nickname is Google going to give to the Android N mobile operating system?

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Institutions of higher education can often feel like self-contained worlds of their own, and their wireless networks are much the same – subject to unique demands and rules, the campus network is a distinctive challenge for the IT pro.

Collecting Wi-Fi data on pedestrians as they move around can provide analysis on infrastructure, to a depth that’s never been seen before, think scientists.

Remember that one time the cable you grabbed from the box was exactly the right length for the run from patch panel to server shelf?

The Intelligence Community’s (IC) IT budget is flat-lining. Like most other federal organizations facing successive years of budget constraints, the IC has been continuously challenged to do more with less. One former IC executive quietly implemented innovative solutions that yielded millions of dollars in government savings by basing his strategy on Joi Ito’s maxim: “If you want to be innovative, lower the cost of failure.”

To say the tech job market is competitive is an understatement. Companies are looking for any advantage when it comes to recruiting and retaining talent. Some of the smarter companies are actively creating communities of alumni, hoping that many top performers will choose to return to their organization.

Manufacturers are slowly warming up to the idea of putting portions of their complex ERP systems in the cloud, according a report by Technology Evaluation Centers (TEC).

If you keep doing what you’ve always done, the old adage goes, you’ll always get what you always got. And today’s outsourcing customers are still chasing cost savings with their IT services deals. However, they’re not necessarily getting them — at least not with traditional outsourcing deals, which are reaching a point of diminishing returns.

A war in low-cost computers could be in the making as a new $15 board computer that could challenge Raspberry Pi 3 finally ships.

I'm an amateur woodworker and, as such, am often to be heard reciting the woodworkers creed "measure twice, cut once". The idea goes that, rather than making annoying and time-consuming mistakes, it is best to measure a task more than once, and only when one is sure of the measurement to cut the piece once, and to the correct length.

At the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco, Jesse Schell, professor at the Carnegie Mellon University Entertainment Technology Center and CEO of Schell Games, made 40 predictions about the future of virtual reality.

It seems like we can buy almost anything as a service today. Servers, storage, applications and collaboration can all be purchased using an “as a service” model. Recently Sprint introduced both Workplace and Mobility as a service to add to the growing portfolio of consumption-based products. In our consumer lives the Amazon button turns consumer goods into a service. The one piece of technology that’s still difficult to buy as a service is the network.

So what do Chinese government-supported hackers turn to after China backed off on supporting economic espionage? Applying their APT skills to infecting companies with ransomware…at least that is the prevailing theory put forth by several security firms.

Microsoft announced Tuesday that it is on track to land a series of key certifications in its continuing effort to provide cloud services to the U.S. government.

In my last post, we discussed the latest habit of non-IT departments in organizations large and small: hatching rogue IT operations on the cloud, taking your company’s data for a spin in the Wild, Wild Web — unpatched, unprotected, and nearly undetectable.

Disney is trying to put a happy ending on a grim story.

Last year, Disney laid off about 250 IT workers after bringing in H-1B using contractors. Some of the employees trained their visa-holding replacements. The news struck a nerve nationally.

At Thursday's Republican debate in Miami, IT outsourcing at Disney was raised in a question. Some of the presidential candidates were critical of H-1B use at Disney and said the visa program was being abused and needed reform.

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AMD's Raja Koduri is a soft-spoken and mild-mannered man, but bring up the topic of virtual reality, and he's unstoppable.

Visions of the future clashed during South By Southwest (SXSW) Interactive in Austin, as some experts saw an uncertain future, some saw an unbounded future and some were frustrated by the present.

IT security consulting is an excellent way to grow as a security professional. In contrast to an corporate role, consultants are exposed to a variety of business situations and industries. Those who succeed in the consulting world find themselves equipped with greater skills and cutting-edge knowledge of new technologies.

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Ransomware is obviously analogous to kidnapping, and dealing with the perpetrators can feel much like negotiating with a jumper standing on the edge of high-rise roof. The Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology recently released a report that in part describes how to deal with criminals when they are holding your data hostage. The report talks of what to do once a breach has been found.

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Google DeepMind’s AlphaGo artificial-intelligence program won the last round in a five-game contest against top Go player Lee Se-dol, despite making a bad mistake during play.