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IT workers brace for outsourcing, layoffs at health insurer

HCSC says it is moving to a ‘blended’ IT model

Apple commits to run off 100% renewable energy

Many of Apple's Chinese parts suppliers have also committed to use 100% renewable energy in the production of Apple products

Cisco moves on from Intercloud, will focus on cloud management instead

Intercloud was Cisco’s public cloud plan, but now it’s focusing on hybrid cloud management

Russia has previously tried to influence US elections, says spy chief

James R. Clapper did not charge Russia with recent hacks of the Democratic party

Larry Ellison says Amazon is ’20 years behind’ Oracle

Oracle CTO shows off benchmarks with his company's cloud database beating AWS.

D-Wave will ship a 2,000-qubit quantum computer next year

D-Wave's new computer will have double the qubits and up to 1,000 times the performance of its earlier model

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Terbium Labs' Matchlight product searches for stolen data that’s circulating on the black market

Black Friday 2016 tech ads will be leaking before you know it

With tablet sales tanking, you could get an iPad or Amazon Fire on the cheap

Apple delivers free macOS Sierra upgrade

Also releases Safari 10 browser for El Capitan and Yosemite

Oracle’s infrastructure business focuses on bare metal to go after AWS

The servers are beefy, but can Oracle gain customers and scale?

TLS 1.3 gets early adoption boost through CloudFlare

CloudFlare users will be able to enable the faster and more secure TLS 1.3 protocol on their websites

Stanford researchers invent tech workaround to net neutrality fights

A new technology would give broadband customers more control over what traffic gets priority delivery

SanDisk reveals world’s first 1TB SD card

The new SD card represents 16,000 times the capacity of SanDIsk’s first 64MB product.

Cisco CEO: Spin-in technologies aren’t dead at Cisco

Data hoarding site represents the dark side of data breach monitoring

LeakedSource, a giant repository online that stores stolen databases, can potentially make hacking easier

Researchers demonstrate remote attack against Tesla Model S

The researchers were able to remotely control the breaking system, sunroof, door locks, trunk, side-view mirrors and more

Triple-helix touted for tech growth

Obama administration rolls out policy for self-driving vehicles

President Barack Obama said automated vehicles have the potential to save lives

No phone is worth drowning over … or dying of embarrassment

Swift hopes daily reporting will help stem payment fraud

But the reports will arrive up to a day after the payments were made, leaving criminals with a window of opportunity

Dell-EMC positioned to take the lead in the HCI space

Dell-EMC, with its VCE group, is well positioned to become the hyper-converged infrastructure (HCI) market leader in a relatively short period of time

9 keys to having a HIPAA-compliant cloud

There’s no reason health care organizations can’t use the cloud

Industrial IoT is inching toward a consensus on security

The Industrial Internet Consortium has released an IoT security framework

Microsoft sues repeat software pirate who owes company $1.2M from prior case

Files third federal lawsuit since 2000 against activation key seller

Oracle pushes hybrid by letting customers rent cloud hardware

New Cloud@Customer machines bring the company's same cloud hardware into private datacenters

IBM targets x86 server territory with new Power servers

IBM's new Power E870C and E880C servers are made for the cloud

Microsoft adds SMB support to retail outlets

Microsoft Stores will have SMB Zones, offering products and services for small and midsize businesses

Oracle CEO Mark Hurd: We have the whole cloud stack

In an exclusive interview, CEO Mark Hurd offers the lowdown on Oracle's cloud strategy -- and the gamut of technologies it can bring to delivering cloud solutions

Oracle is also getting in on the chatbot revolution

New tools make it easier to create automated conversation partners with business data

Desktop use off 11% in past year. Winner: smartphones

Mobile use gains over desktop use at a 'rapid rate'

Cisco discloses PIX firewall, IOS software security holes

Cisco: IKEv1 exploit could make VPNs vulnerable

Google Allo AI-powered messenging app expected this week

Google Allo expected for Android, iOS devices

Boo! iPhone 7 hissing for some customers

Fingers being pointed at iPhone 7's powerful new A10 Fusion processor, but we're still at the conjecture stage

SAP woos SMB developers with an ‘express’ edition of Hana

The free download can be used to build apps on a laptop or desktop PC

Oracle is gunning for AWS with new infrastructure offering

"Amazon's lead is over," Larry Ellison proclaimed at Oracle OpenWorld

Oracle will acquire cloud security vendor Palerra

Palerra’s Cloud Access Security Broker will extend Oracle Identity Cloud Service

Salesforce is betting its Einstein AI will make CRM better

Machine learning, predictive analytics, and natural language processing are coming to all Salesforce's clouds

Why do people still camp out for iPhones?

FBI faces lawsuit because it’s stayed mum on iPhone 5c hack

In March, the U.S. government unlocked access to the iPhone through an unknown third party

Tech jobs that will get you the biggest raise next year

Data scientists, web developers and big data engineers have biggest raise potential

Remote Safe Mode attack defeats Windows 10 pass-the-hash defenses

To avoid their password extraction tools from being detected or blocked, attackers can remotely reboot computers into Safe Mode

Bank of England wants next payment system to be blockchain-ready

The bank is inviting comments on the roll of distributed ledgers in its next-generation real-time gross settlement system.

Small, low flying drones the target of newfangled DARPA defense system

DARPA system could ID, track low flying unmanned systems

IBM’s Watson IoT hits the skies with Aerialtronics drone deal

As drones get smart, a variety of applications will develop

FBI urges ransomware victims to step forward

FBI discourages users from paying ransom, but wants to hear from your whether or not you did

Free IoT data plans offered by T-Mobile

As AT&T shuts down its older 2G network, T-Mobile is offering free 2G data kits, plus the needed SIM cards

Buying an iPhone 7 or iPhone 7 Plus may be impossible today

U.S. consumer agency issues official Samsung Galaxy Note 7 recall

Feds point to 'fire hazard;' Customers can decide to get refund or replacement

Windows 10 haters: Try Linux on Kaby Lake chips with Dell’s new XPS 13

Dell's slick XPS 13 Developer Edition will be available with Ubuntu OS and 7th Generation Core processors on Oct. 10

The FBI could have saved money with this iPhone 5c hack

A technique known as NAND mirroring can bypass the phone's passcode limit