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Microsoft Azure thrown out of gear during a performance update

USB Armory is the Swiss army knife of security devices

Yahoo dethrones Google as default Firefox search tool

Wozniak still aims to simplify: Now, all of enterprise storage

US intelligence unit launches $50k speech recognition competition

Director of National Intelligence researchers at IARPA want speech recognition technology that can handle a variety of acoustic situations

Uber’s rider-controlled Spotify jams could cost drivers

Walmart brings Black Friday early to iPhone, iPad fans

Apple preps its website before Black Friday for iPhone, iPad and Mac shoppers, too

This is how Google is dealing with ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

Apple iOS App Store swaps out FREE for GET

Move seen as likely effort by Apple to make clear which iPhone and iPad iOS apps are really free, which include in-app purchases

Attackers trading malware for privilege

Access is everything to most criminals

Court shuts down tech support ‘scams’ targeted by FTC

New cruise ship a floating heaven for tech geeks

Why the Moto 360 is winning the smartwatch race

Market researcher Canalys reports another spike in wearables, Gartner predicts health and fitness wearables will disappoint in 2015.

Long-running Android botnet evolves, could pose threat to corporate networks

Open-source devs vote down anti-systemd measure, sponsor steps down

Ian Jackson resigns from technical committee after measure to slow systemd adoption fails.

FTC gets federal court to shut down $120M tech support scam

Priori digs deep to find the truth about mobile app stores

What it’s like living on a Chromebook, Part 2

Trying to tackle media editing on a Chromebook.

BitTorrent dismisses security concerns raised about its Sync app

Tesla Model X will feature dual-motor system and ability to tow

Uber and Google are abusing user data for fun

Recent revelations about Uber and Google suggest that web companies may have their own purposes for your data.

China’s Xiaomi makes $300 million investment in Baidu’s online video site

Next year’s DDoS attacks to come from Vietnam, India and Indonesia

Growth in Internet infrastructure, and susceptible users are a problem

The next great leap in supercomputing coming by 2023

That's assuming Congress allocates the money for it

Fidelity peers into the future of investing by building customers virtual cities

To ‘read’ this fashion magazine, fire up your image-recognition app

Jolla pitches Sailfish tablet against fleet of Android products

Blocked messaging app Line looks for comeback in China

US Senate fails to move forward on NSA reform bill

Now you can search every tweet that was ever sent

Prominent developers pulling out of Debian as voting deadline nears

Clashes over systemd continue, with final voting deadline in hours

How does a Windows bug go undetected for 19 years?

The disclosure of a two-decade-old bug in Windows exposes the realities about software development.

Business leaders of all ages in sync on tech

Millennial executives and Fortune 500 leaders share the same forward-looking views on disruptive technologies. They also agree that the capability to adapt to change quickly is a key to edging out competitors.

Apple’s remaining co-founders, Woz and Wayne, reminisce about early company relics

Ron Wayne, the little-known third co-founder, to auction off his collection of early-Apple documents

Microsoft releases emergency patch to stymie Windows Server attacks

Today's critical update was one of two delayed from last week

WhatsApp adding end-to-end encryption to message service

IBM’s new enterprise email aims to organize your day

AWS re:Invent(ing) IT, Business Models and Marketing

US Marshals auctioning $20M worth of Silk Road’s Bitcoins

Second multi-million dollar auction of Bitcoins from Silk Road closing

Swedish ISP to let users shield Internet activity from police

IBM taps Twitter’s data to drive business insights

IBM and Twitter say they will 'change the way business decisions are made' by pairing Twitter data with IBM's analytics tools and new apps for the enterprise. But CIOs won't buy in until the two companies can bring structure and context to the 500 mi

Cisco open sources security

OpenSOC framework intended to harness big data analytics for data protection

EFF, Mozilla back new certificate authority that will offer free SSL certificates

Extreme extends SDN products, partners

Extreme adds 72-port 10G switch, plus partners A10 Networks, NetOptics and Sanbolic

SkyKick promises simpler migration to Office 365

Mobile payments to tally just 1% of all U.S. consumer spending in 2019

Apple Pay limits its growth opportunities by not sharing spending data with merchants

No, Google Glass isn’t dead

Reports of its demise are premature -- but users and developers want Google to put up or shut up

Scammers move from Ebola phishing to fundraising

No topic is too taboo for criminals

Microsoft: ‘Nobody loves developers more than us’

Sharing? At Microsoft? It's more likely than you think.

Open source code contains fewer defects, but there’s a catch

Research suggests that software developed using open source code contains fewer defects than that built with proprietary code. On the other hand, open source code rarely benefits from security teams specifically tasked with looking for bugs.