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Moore’s Law at 50: The past and future

Size matters in mobile, but Nokia may find bigger isn’t better

IBM unbolts vast threat database to fight cybercrimes

IBM opens up its threat data as part of new security intelligence sharing platform

Hewlett Packard Enterprise just released its new logo, and it’s really boring

New Hewlett Packard Enterprise logo symbolizes simplicity

Google takes on real-time big data analysis with new cloud services

Forever 21 denies pirating Adobe software, strikes back

Data breach notification bill could weaken consumer protections

Sophos takes rare step of citing Microsoft flaw as a must-fix

Any software tapping into the Microsoft HTTP stack could be used to create a network worm

Bad cell service? Just start your own telco

GSM spectrum is getting assigned to community use in some places.

Antivirus competitors join arms to take down a huge botnet

Microsoft, Trend Micro, and Kaspersky Labs banded together to take down the SIMDA botnet, which is believed to have infected more than 700,000 machines.

Meet the new leader of Debian open source project

Neil McGovern works for open source consultancy, has been Debian developer for 10 years

New malware program Punkey targets point-of-sale systems

Using a private cloud to keep the coffee on at Dunkin Donuts

National DCP's CIO details how following a merger, IT systems and data were integrated using Verizon's private cloud

IT pros in retail are sold on these 6 products

When we asked IT pros to name their favorite products, six respondents from the retail industry weighed in on their go-to tools.

Go-to storage and disaster recovery products

IT pros find peace of mind through hybrid cloud storage and enterprise backup and disaster recovery technologies.

The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Thursday, April 16

Facebook-backed Internet.org loses some Indian partners over net neutrality

Nokia/Alcatel-Lucent just as John Chambers predicted

Cisco CEO said there would be " brutal" consolidation coming

Yikes: 10,000 IRS impersonation scam calls are placed every week

IRS imposter fraud lands on Capitol Hill

Will containers kill the virtual machine?

As container hype sweeps across technology, what does it mean for VMs?

Twitter turns its home page into a news and information hub

Microsoft makes debugging PHP less painful with new Azure tool

Transition to IP network creates cybersecurity challenges for FAA

FAA needs to bolster cybersecurity of Nation’s air traffic control system

Resilient Systems arms security teams with automated incident responses

Action Module makes mitigation steps happen faster and with certainty

For Microsoft, hardware and OS consistency key in Surface 3

Huawei’s P8 and P8max get all-metal designs, improved camera

Six net neutrality lawsuits: What are the complaints about?

Inside AZ Labs, a facility ‘certified at the highest level’ of cybersecurity

In this unique rental office space, networks are protected with firewalls — and guards, and Faraday cages.

How smartphone sensors can make expensive weather-monitoring equipment obsolete

Collecting weather data, performing earthquake early warnings, and issuing flooding advisories are all tasks that can be crowd-sourced by smartphones.

BYOD leading to increasingly risky behavior among employees

With more employees at more organizations using their own mobile devices in the workplace, security is fast approaching Threat Level Midnight.

Boston Marathon runners warned not to overshare on social media

Bib number scandal in 2014 forces Boston Marathon officials to warn about posting to Facebook, Instagram, etc.

Nokia to buy Alcatel-Lucent for $16.5B in deal that unites fixed, mobile broadband strengths

HTC ‘working closely’ with Microsoft on a Windows 10 smartphone

An HTC executive confirmed that the company is working on a new Windows 10 smartphone. Will it abandon this one too?

Four new lawsuits challenge FCC’s net neutrality rules

With latest patches, Oracle signals no more free updates for Java 7

The company released patches from 98 security issues in its products, 14 in Java

Illumio goes to the well for $100 million more in venture funding

Latest infusion from A-List investors goes to R&D, broadening customer base

Europe reportedly ready to file antitrust charges against Google

Microsoft Patch Tuesday: The patches just keep coming

The future is now: You may already be using IPv6

Apple’s ResearchKit is here, now open your iPhone and say ‘ah’

Lessons from Altoona: What Facebook’s newest data center can teach us

How can Facebook's data center design apply to your data center plans?

Web app attacks, PoS intrusions and cyberespionage leading causes of data breaches

U.S. business group urges China to loosen data-storage policies

US Navy researchers get drones to swarm on target

US Navy, Air Force, DARPA all looking to get small drones act as a swarm

Three new lawsuits challenge FCC’s net neutrality rules

MIT alums celebrate 10th anniversary of bogus CompSci paper generator with cheeky new tool

Creators of SCIgen computer science paper generator return with SCIpher tool for sending phony calls for papers from fictitious conferences

Update: That shocking video about ESD

GreenPages targets organizations looking to go digital

U.S. gets 233,000 H-1B petitions, a new record

Odds of winning visa lottery drop to 36%