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iPhone 6s: Say goodbye to bendgate

Mozilla’s latest Firefox plans may not make developers and users happy

Major changes to Firefox add-ons to improve interoperability and security could backfire

Former Google engineer revs up a new Linux filesystem

BcacheFS is the first Linux file system written specifically for solid state disks.

Buzzblog is on vacation

NASA touts real technologies highlighted in imminent ‘The Martian’ flick

“The Martian,” merges fictional and factual chronicles about Mars, building upon the work NASA and others have done exploring Mars and moving it into a future where NASA astronauts are regularly traveling to the red planet

Quantum computing breakthrough renews concerns of cybersecurity apocalypse

A new breakthrough in quantum computing could speed up the already ultra-powerful tech. With it, though, comes the exacerbated potential for a 'crypto-apocalypse' where existing computer security fails.

Plenty of fish, and exploits too, on dating website

The Plenty of Fish online dating website served a malicious advertisement to visitors

HP profit slides 13 percent as split nears

The company reported its 16th straight quarter of declining revenue

After three-day shutdown, HP now effectively two companies

HP is nearing 'the last of the restructuring mohicans,' said CEO Meg Whitman

Mother Nature teaches Google a lesson

Lightning strikes cause problems in 20% of data center cases

SEC CIO leads efforts to move agency to the cloud

Pamela Dyson is helping the nation's principal securities regulator optimize its IT infrastructure and shift toward the cloud, one application at a time.

Why corporate security pros should care about the Ashley Madison breach

Names of Ashley Madison customers are a treasure trove for spear phishers

iPhone 6s launch likely set for Friday, September 18

China group attacks India with Word exploit, then uses Microsoft’s WMI

The hacking group seeks geopolitical information

Latest Ashley Madison data dump reveals emails, source code for websites

Avid Life Media may have a hard time recovering from this one, according to a security expert

Mesophere assembles a software stack to analyze streaming data

Mesosphere Infinity integrates Apache Spark, Apache Mesos, Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka and Akka

Android Wear update brings Google Translate to your wrist

The update also will also let developers build interactive watch faces that can convey information without requiring a person to open an app

Microsoft fires back at Google with Bing contextual search on Android

"Snapshots on Tap" echoes a feature coming with the next version of Android

Intel to pilot cloud technology for sharing personalized cancer treatment

With the Collaborative Cancer Cloud, Intel hopes to remove barriers that keep personalized medicine from scaling

Here’s hoping no Amazon workers were harmed in the sending of this email

5 Problems with big data

Nate Silver says more data often mean more problems

Logentries launches Docker log management and analytics service

Another day, another example of a company jumping on the Docker bandwagon and supporting the latest, greatest in some way.

Samsung banks on classy looks and high performance with Galaxy Note 5 and S6 edge+

How low can you go? Kaminario announces sub-$1/GB all-flash storage pricing

Flash, the choice of a new (IT) generation and increasingly affordable. Vendor Kaminario claims to slice costs further than anyone else

Vulnerability in enterprise-managed iOS devices puts business data at risk

App settings deployed through mobile device management products can be read by other apps

Kim Jong Un has his own cellular network

Sanctions mean the North Korean leader has his own network for security

Intel’s five (not very) big announcements from IDF this week

New chips took a backseat to robots and 3D cameras

Operators and vendors join forces to push cellular IoT networks

The first networks will be rolled out next year

Google’s Project Ara phone failed the drop test

Google said it won't use electropermanent magnets to hold Ara's modules in place

Is the cloud the right spot for your big data?

Sorry, but there's no easy answer

Latest Windows 10 preview cripples 64-bit Chrome

Tuesday's build 10525 stymies Chrome; Google has logged the bug into the Chromium tracker

UK government inks fresh deal with Oracle

It's expected to deliver savings, but how that will happen remains unclear

Why big data isn’t always the answer

Qualitative data can provide deeper insight into customers, behaviors and trends

Microsoft issues out-of-band patch for critical Internet Explorer flaw

Hitting a specially crafted malicious website can give attackers the same rights as the logged-in user of the machine

Microsoft buddies up to Docker with Windows Server Containers

Microsoft has released a preview of the company's Windows container virtualization technology

Ravello delivers a virtual private cloud, on a real(ish) public one

Cue moans about complexity, but is Ravello's cloud-within-a-cloud a valid approach?

Why big data will be a big deal for the new HP

With big changes afoot at HP, big data will be a key to HP’s lofty software goals

3 things Cisco’s new CEO Chuck Robbins needs to focus on

As Cisco transitions from long-time CEO John Chambers to Chuck Robbins, here are three important goals for the networking leader's new era.

iPad Pro with Force Touch stylus set for 2015 release

In-ear computer improves noise-canceling technology

Ear augmentation company Doppler Labs' upcoming earbuds will let you control live, everyday sound. Settings will include 'screaming baby' mode, among others.

Amazon, Microsoft strengthen tools to store app and enterprise data in their clouds

Vendors race to appeal to IT departments that want to move from in-house systems

How Adblock Plus could work as malware protection

Payloads can't be delivered if you don't see them.

Silicon Valley’s ‘pressure cooker:’ Thrive or get out

Spotlight may be on Amazon, but tech jobs are high profit and high stress

How Google looked to the past to develop a network for the future

Telephone systems, not computer networks, provided inspiration for Google.

Parallels Desktop 11 lets Mac users say ‘Hey Cortana’

Update to popular virtualization software brings support for Windows 10, OS X El Capitan and more

Russian cyberspies targeted punk rock band Pussy Riot

Pawn Storm, known for international spying, also targets Russians, Trend Micro said

Intel’s RealSense 3D camera technology is already the star of IDF

Intel is promoting its computer vision technology hard at IDF

How the University of Wisconsin is closing the data science skills gap

When the University of Wisconsin asked businesses what they were looking for in employees, nearly all of them said, ‘data scientists.’ The university responded with an online data science master degree program to help bring more qualified data profes

Microsoft releases first beta for the next version of Windows

Build 10525 improves memory management and lets users make title bars more colorful

A spider made Wil Wheaton brick his phone