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Apple wants court to rule if it can be forced to unlock an iPhone

Apple said it has received more requests that are similar to the one before the court

iPhone 5se and iPad Air 3 will go on sale on March 18

iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Modem madness, another speaker & a snazzy new concept design

Will Qualcomm's powerful new Snapdragon processor/modem make its way into the iPhone 7?

Belizean law enforcement, FBI reportedly question John McAfee’s ex-girlfriend

Upgrading to SAP Hana? This new tool can help prepare your code

Gekkobrain's 'Hanalyzer' aims to remove the pain associated with updating custom code

Most enterprises plan to boost cloud use this year

Companies are increasingly turning to private and hybrid clouds

Federal agencies struggling with digital transformation, study says

A report says government departments want 'digital' but say they can't afford it. They know 'more digital is better,' yet they're feeling stumped about how to adopt it.

GitHub apologizes for ignoring community concerns

An open letter outlines how the code-sharing site intends to make amends to developers

White-hat hackers key to securing connected cars

Federal regulator warns of security and privacy risks in connected cars, calling on manufacturers to partner with white-hat hackers to seek out flaws and vulnerabilities.

AT&T to run field trials of 5G wireless in Austin this year

Move is well ahead of industry standard for faster 5G

Five sue Apple over Error 53 and bricked iPhones

Lawsuit requests class-action status

FTC reminder: ‘Spread the word about government imposters’

Intel SSDs may get speed, capacity boost with new Micron chips

SSDs for PCs could reach capacities over 10TB with Micron's 3D NAND chips

How the network performed at Super Bowl 50

Super Bowl 50 at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, saw a new record in mobile data used at the big game.

Pwn2Own contest puts $75,000 bounty on VMware Workstation bypass

Bad timing for users after VMware laid off Workstation developers in January

Wayerz launches global payment network to provide real-time payment tracking

For anyone who needs to send or receive international payments, Wayerz announcement this week is sure to be good news.

Hertz cuts IT jobs as it shifts to IBM

Some workers will get IBM offers, but not all

ENCRYPT Act co-sponsor learned tech ropes at Microsoft

Rep. DelBene sees good chance of passage for measure to preempt state encryption laws

Apple’s iPhone sued for infringement of touch feedback patents

Carrier AT&T has also been named in the complaints filed

Is the road to machine learning paved with API providers?

Can companies use services that democratize machine learning while staying abreast of the law?

Need data-science skills? Now your team can learn together

DataCamp has added a group feature for university classes and enterprise teams

Hackers of two Ukrainian utilities probably hit mining and railroad targets, too

The attacks may have been test runs for the devastating power-company hacks

Qualcomm hopes a gradual approach to server market will pay dividends

It's still early days for the ARM-based server chips

VMware’s new management tools are hybrid, hybrid, hybrid

VMware wants to manage your data center and the public cloud

Google execs defend tax deal to UK legislators

Google's EMEA president Matt Brittin explains the numbers but tells legislators he didn't know his own salary

Older versions of IE are now at risk

Two-thirds of the vulnerabilities patched this week in IE11 and Edge likely exist in now-retired IE7 and IE8, definitely in semi-obsolete IE9 and IE10

Hacking Slack to keep your house in order

Some interesting uses for today's most popular messaging and collaboration service.

VMware narrowing SDN gap with Cisco

Not quite 2:1 adoption rate for ACI like last fall, but close

With new startup, Check Point Software co-founder bets on perimeter-less security

Will Cato Networks be able to convince enterprises to trust its cloud with their data?

What’s next for IBM’s enterprise social business

Enterprise Social Solutions GM shares thoughts on Project Toscana, cloud vs. on-premises and more at IBM Connect event

Ex-Cisco execs’ NFV start-up opens software

RIFT.io combines open source with ETSI standards under Apache 2.0 for virtualized service development

Apple’s software is becoming a laughingstock

Users may love its hardware, but the software that comes with it is another matter.

Schneier: terrorists will switch to more secure alternatives to avoid encryption backdoors

Study says there are 546 encryption products that lie outside US law, maybe more

Stock-market jitters have rocked network spending, Cisco says

Some enterprises waited to buy new campus gear when they saw things get shaky in January

Indegy finds out when industrial controls go bad (think Stuxnet)

Appliance gives insight into the control plane of programmable logic devices that run power grids and factories

Google gives more ground in battle against Europe’s ‘right to be forgotten’

Critical VPN key exchange flaw exposes Cisco security appliances to remote hacking

Firewalls running Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software can be compromised remotely with malformed UDP packets

Qualcomm’s new chips target low-cost smartphones with premium features

Qualcomm's new Snapdragon chips have PC-class graphics, faster LTE and better camera support

SCO vs. IBM legal battle over Linux may – finally – be finished

Breach-of-contract and copyright lawsuit dragged on for about 13 years

Microsoft lets cautious users try more of Windows 10’s leading edge

The new Release Preview ring lets users get new features without the risk of computer-breaking bugs

Bill filed in Congress would ban encryption backdoors

The proposal would make it so states couldn’t write their own laws about technology to decrypt private messages

U.S. intelligence chief touts IoT as a spying opportunity

Stating the obvious, James Clapper says the U.S. government could use the IoT for surveillance.

Networking company name change madness is upon us

Do the networking company names Ligado, Fuze or Apteligent ring any bells?

A new IoT gateway design could be Bluetooth’s ticket to the cloud

The Bluetooth SIG's gateway toolkit is designed to link Bluetooth networks with the wider Internet

Healthcare CIO: Legal issues are most difficult cloud migration challenge

Boston healthcare organization BIDMC readying to move business critical systems into the public cloud

Microsoft’s Surface is the lone bright spot in a poor tablet market

Overall tablet sales are slumping, except for Surface, thanks to good hardware and Windows 10.

Drugs, guns, and hitmen more common on dark web than religious extremism

Drugs, hitmen, and money laundering are among the trove of iffy material on the dark web, a research group has found. Surprisingly sparse was extremist religious propaganda.

SAP slaps patch on leaky factory software

A flaw in SAP Manufacturing Integration and Intelligence (xMII) allows attackers to extract information without authorization

KDE’s new Linux distro: Terrible idea, or simply a huge mistake?

KDE's recently announced Linux distro, KDE Neon, seems like a questionable move that has the potential for disaster.

Google offering extra free 2GB of data storage until Feb. 11 if you do Security Checkup

Free 2GB of Google storage is yours, for about 2 minutes of your time to lock down your account security