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How encryption keys could be stolen by your lunch

iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Heavy metal! Fingerprints! A kinda-sorta-maybe release date!

Happy Father’s Day, from the Father of Hyperconvergence

What the FCC’s new robocall rules mean for your company’s marketing efforts

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, June 19

Why SoftBank’s Pepper could become the iPhone of robots

Enterprises hesitant on SDNs

Cultural, legacy, business case issues create adoption gap with cloud providers

iOS gets a first in Microsoft’s OneNote: New to-do list feature

Google’s driverless car fleet to double as it prepares for new tests

Apple Watch 2 details leak: FaceTime camera and more planned

SAP Hana users warned of security vulnerability

NSA uses OpenFlow for tracking… its network

Spy agency uses SDN to keep tabs on IT inventory, simplify operations

Microsoft rented Elop for 14 months at $1.3M per month

Former Nokia CEO cost Microsoft at least $18 million, Redmond's part of Elop's exit package from the Finnish phone maker

Gartner tells enterprises to dump Windows 8.1 deployment plans

Shift migrations to Windows 10 even if that means delays, research firm urges

Google’s data centers grow too fast for normal networks, so it builds its own

Twitter’s Project Lightning will be a whole new way to track events

With Windows 10 imminent, Windows 8.1 sales demise clock to start tickin’

Few will miss the perception-plagued OS once its successor shows up

Google opens up on its SDN

For first time, hyperwebscale company details its data center network, offers it to developers

Lyft to pay $300,000, make insurance changes in settlement with New York

EU faces IT staff shortfall of 825,000, redoubles training

HP aims for quick switch to Windows 10 on PCs, tablets

Outlook for iOS, Android get enhanced management features

‘Tunable’ smart windows adapt to brightness, opacity

E-ink technology of the kind found in e-readers can be adapted to form the ultimate cheap window covering, with user-controllable brightness, privacy, and color temperature, say scientists.

VMware takes on Microsoft in the identity management space

After a number of strategic acquisitions, VMware looks to simplify identity management.

Microsoft shakes up the exec org chart as Myerson climbs, Elop falls

CEO Satya Nadella turns back the clock to 2012 by combining devices and Windows into one group under Terry Myerson

Top 4 revelations about SharePoint

The unveiling of SharePoint Server 2016 the Microsoft Ignite Conference put an end to speculation about the future of the on-premises version of the popular collaboration product, and pointed the way toward the future as well.

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, June 18

Samsung wants court to review damages in patent fight with Apple

Oracle profit slides 24 percent as customers move to the cloud

AT&T, WhatsApp get low marks from EFF for data disclosure policies

Microsoft needs SDN for Azure cloud

Couldn't scale without it, Azure CTO says

Google-owned Nest unveils a smart camera for the home

‘Scroogled’ architect Mark Penn to leave Microsoft

Benchmarking engine compares hospital performance data

Cisco to make $10 billion investment in China

Salesforce Marketing Cloud aims to blur the lines between marketing, sales and service

Apple Music effort may be thwarted by Indie labels

FCC to smack AT&T with $100M fine for choking “unlimited” data plan speeds

The Federal Communications Commission said it plans to fine AT&T Mobility $100M for severely slowing down data speeds for customers with unlimited data plans.

Startup touts safe sharing of Office 365 documents

Platform encrypts documents, enforces policies on who can decrypt, when and what they can do with the documents once they are opened

Xirrus takes aim at headaches of ‘guest’ Wi-Fi networks

Speedier 5.4-Gigabit Wi-Fi routers coming this year

Get ready for faster Wi-Fi routers.

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, June 17

Tired of sitting all day? Tech pros take a stand

Tech pros find ways to break the sitting habit

Google-infused storage startup Cohesity reveals itself

Armed with $70M in venture funding, Cohesity aims to streamline secondary storage mess

Free SSL/TLS certificate project moves closer to launch

Microsoft woos startups with $120K in cloud computing credits

How a bad keystroke can lead you to SpeedUpKit ‘scareware’

AT&T looking at white boxes as CPE

Carrier says customers can benefit from cost, flexibility of virtual networking gear

Can GitHub really be worth $2 billion?

Wi-Fi and LTE join up for gigabit mobile service in Korea