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Why being a data scientist ‘feels like being a magician’

Three working data scientists describe what their jobs are like

Samsung to buy Viv Labs to challenge Google Assistant

AI startup Viv Labs was founded by the team that created Siri, and has a similar conversational interface

4chan finally feels the weight of economic reality

The Mos Eisley Spaceport Cantina of the internet is in financial trouble

Fujitsu considers selling its PC business to Lenovo

Lenovo snapped up most of the PC business of another Japanese company, NEC, in July

Phishing still fools people, but at least more are cautious

Carnegie Mellon CyLab challenges you to phishing detection test; NIST worries about security fatigue

Nokia buys small semiconductor company to land 5G tech

Microsoft Dynamics 365 will be unveiled later this month

New on-demand version unifies ERP and CRM capabilities

FBI arrests an NSA contractor suspected of stealing hacking tools

The Maryland man has been charged with stealing government materials, including top secret information

Happy 25th once again to Linux, ‘the little OS that definitely could’

On Oct. 5, 1991, Linus Torvalds officially released the first Linux kernel into the wild

Satya Nadella’s comp package slips 3% to $17.7M

Microsoft board dings CEO for missing Windows 10 target

What #MadeByGoogle really means

Google isn’t becoming a consumer electronics company despite its announcement of five new hardware products

Avaya takes network management to the cloud

Avaya Cloud Networking Platform provides full lifecycle management of wired and wireless networking devices

Level 3 blames huge network outage on human error

Level 3 says new prevention measures being taken; now on to Hurricane Matthew

Firefox to follow Chrome’s lead on Flash, PDFs

The company is working with Google Chromium projects for PDF and Flash capabilities in order to modernize its Firefox browser

One election-system vendor uses developers in Serbia

Election-system development is not unlike other software development

If the election is hacked, we may never know

Even if someone figures out that the voting machine firmware has been changed, the votes may need to be tossed

Hacked voter registration systems: a recipe for election chaos

Hacking a voter registration system could deny voters their ballots

3 nightmare election hack scenarios

Hackers could target e-voting machines' software update systems or simply try to delegitimatize the election

5 ways to improve voting security in the US

Voting officials can pump up their audits and hire white-hat hackers

US tech giants say they didn’t do Yahoo-style email spying

Yahoo's program may have been spying on hundreds of millions of users' accounts

Five questions about taking Google’s new phones to work

How will the Pixel and Pixel XL work with enterprise IT tools?

Windows 10 growth comes to screeching stop

Data shows new OS lost share in September for first time since launch

ITC probes Apple memory supplier for patent infringement

Netlist claims it has attempted to license its DRAM technology to SK hynix

5G will need small cells, so Nokia is sending in the drones

The completely wireless, solar-powered F-Cell can be delivered by a drone

New insulin pump flaws highlights security risks from medical devices

Attackers exploit flaws in the Animas OneTouch Ping insulin pump system to deliver dangerous insulin doses

Intel looks beyond x86, puts 64-bit ARM processor in new FPGA chip

Intel's decision to embrace ARM chips for the FPGA may show a thawing of the chilly relationship between the two companies

Amazon Echo and its competitors will be a $2.1 billion market by 2020

A new Gartner report predicts rapid growth for virtual personal assistant (VPA)-enabled wireless smart speakers

Yahoo may have allowed US government to search user emails

A secret software program has reportedly scanned hundreds of millions of Yahoo Mail accounts on behalf of government agencies

After Mozilla inquiry, Apple untrusts Chinese certificate authority

After an upcoming update MacOS and iOS will not trust new certificates issued by WoSign

Level 3 acknowledges network outage

Level 3 outage frustrating voice customers across United States

Compuware says there’s life left in mainframes

It feels like a return to the ark, but maybe Compuware’s assertions about mainframes are justified

Leading U.S. colleges for computer science

Ranking is based on the median pay of computer science graduates

STEM majors dominate salary-based college ranking

Petroleum engineering majors earn the highest salaries, followed by systems engineering majors, according to a new ranking from PayScale

You have one month to buy a Windows 7 (or 8.1) PC

After a two-year extension, Microsoft is finally ending legacy OS sales

These 5 states account for half of business R&D spending

Latest National Science Foundation figures show where bulk of United States R&D spending takes place

SoftLayer founder’s new company, StackPath, releases app security product

Well, that didn’t take long. A product release from Lance Crosby’s new gig: SecureCDN

Salesforce kicks off its conference with mobile, IoT updates and more

Dreamforce is also the launching ground for Einstein, its suite of machine learning-powered features

Review: ADATA’s waterproof SSD is small, rugged — and pricey

It can withstand a depth of about 5 feet in water for an hour, but falls short on speed and costs more than rivals

IoT botnet highlights the dangers of default passwords

The Mirai botnet used IoT devices to launch a massive DDOS attack

Google Fiber buys Webpass for wireless extensions to fiber network

Wireless approach considered faster and less disruptive during construction

Toyota’s cute Kirobo Mini robot will chat with you

The Kirobo Mini will engage in conversation with drivers and attempt to learn about its owner

IBM’s IoT blockchain service gets ready to set sail

The cloud-hosted blockchain creates tamper-proof ledgers of data about IoT events

What to expect from Tuesday’s big Google hardware event

Pixel smartphones, Wi-Fi router and more expected from Google

A few cool tech startups I came across at Boston’s HUBweek

Pilot Analytics, Analytical Space and Cake catch my eye; female entrepreneurs shine

Hackers find little demand for their stolen NSA hacking tools

The ShadowBrokers' auction for the hacking tools has so far generated little interest

Where’s the bottom for Microsoft’s Internet Explorer?

Losses continue to accumulate as another 33 million users desert IE or Edge in September

Microsoft points to a transition of Windows 10 Mobile to 64-bit

Switching Windows 10 Mobile from 32 bit to 64 bit is inevitable as memory capacity in smartphones goes up, Microsoft says

Microsoft follows AWS into France with plan for new Azure data center

French businesses will be able to access Office 365, Dynamics 365 and Azure services from local servers, Nadella says

Trump calls for US to use offensive cyberweapons

The country shouldn't be shy about attacking those that target its resources, he says

ICANN transition moves forward, despite last-minute attempt to block it

The legal fight over the transition away from US oversight may not be over, however