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Microsoft fixes buggy browser in Patch Tuesday update

Study: Half of passwords are over five years old

Consumers still aren't changing their passwords, a new report has found.

Intel to invest $125 million in startups run by women, minorities

iOS 9 could be a step toward saving the tablet market

Split-screen multitasking on the iPad is a long-overdue improvement to tablet functionality—but much more is needed.

Adobe fixes Flash Player flaws that could lead to info theft, malware attacks

Two years after Snowden leaks, US tech firms still feel the backlash

Alibaba expands cloud to US to challenge Amazon, AWS

The international cloud battle is on

Cisco Live 2015: Chambers says goodbye, but asks ‘are you ready?’

Departing CEO John Chambers challenged IT to be ready for change in his final Cisco Live keynote.

Microsoft outlines Internet of Things plans for Windows 10

First efforts will be around heavy industries rather than consumer products.

Five things Apple is doing to please developers

Cybercriminals increasingly target point of sales systems

90% of Macs will be able to run OS X El Capitan (video)

And Apple holds 2014's line for iOS 9; even the iPhone 4S and iPad 2 are eligible for the upgrade

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Tuesday, June 9

US wants to collect bulk call records for six more months

Apple creates ‘Move to iOS’ app to pull Android users away from Google

With Apple Watch OS update, apps are about to get a whole lot more capable

CTIA sues over another cellphone radiation law

New iCloud Drive app will let iOS 9 users more easily manage files

How virtual reality could change your business

Cisco plans to embed security everywhere

Plan includes Campus, Branch, endpoints and sensors for Internet of Everything

Facebook letting more stores ping your phone when you’re inside

Apple to open source Swift programming language

Apple’s El Capitan OS X 10.11 to bring natural language search, other enhancements

Solar sailing cubesat spreads wings and flies

Planetary Society’s CEO Bill Nye “the science guy” solar sailing project finally unfurls

Startup service proxies Web, email to purge malware

Any executable code is stripped out and just a rendering of the content is delivered

Life gets tougher for alternative mobile OSes Tizen, Firefox and Ubuntu

Researchers seek to harvest radio waves for extra smartphone battery power

New technology promises to allow smartphones to run longer, not by improving battery tech, but by converting wasted radio signals into power.

New features go live in Microsoft’s Office 2016

Collaboration and file sharing are among the new features and functions.

5 ways Apple should reinvent the iPad

Five years since Apple created the tablet market, it's time to shake it up, for its own sake.

Memory scraping malware targets Oracle Micros point-of-sale customers

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Monday, June 8

UK spies sued over phone data collection scheme already banned in US

Five network trends challenging the enterprise

WWDC 2015 Rumors: What to expect from Apple

iPhone 7 rumor rollup: Feeling left out at Apple WWDC, but design concepts cheer us up

For its next feat, Google will try to make you eat your vegetables

Iowa presidential election caucuses will go high tech

Apple may reduce its cut of app store revenue for some developers

PayPal users may get break on unsolicited robocalls, texts

As PC interest wanes, Computex loses its luster

Hacker turns toy into tool that can open garage doors in seconds

Five new things we know about Skylake

DARPA spends $24M to smarten-up WAN edge

Midsize U.S. cities offer attractive alternative to offshoring IT

Companies take a second look at domestic outsourcing options as Syracuse, Jacksonville, Tampa and Lansing top the list of American hot spots for IT and business process services.

$154 or 58 cents — what’s the real cost of a breached data record?

Does a data breach cost an average of 58 cents a record -- or $154?

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Friday, June 5

Uber taxis seized in Delhi for running without license

Microsoft provides privacy dashboard ahead of Windows 10 launch

What outsourcing engagement model is right for you?

Cisco and IBM acquisitions show pressure is on to make OpenStack easier to use