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Silk Road alternatives live on despite second FBI raid

History repeats itself in the world of law enforcement, especially for those who ask for it.

Companies use urban office locations to attract IT talent

Study: Internet sales tax would cost consumers billions

Docker gets some competition with new Joyent, Canonical containers

Microsoft plans monster security update for next week

'Whopping … overwhelming' slate is the biggest in more than three years

Next generation Geo-IP filtering can be fine tuned to vastly reduce unwanted and malicious traffic

More granular filters can cut some of the bad stuff off at the pass

Don’t burn CurrentC at the Apple Pay heresy stake just yet

A response to readers’ passionate defense of Apple Pay, which is advanced in comparison to the credit card industry’s glacial innovation.

TSA has seized an outrageous 1,850 guns on travelers so far in 2014

If you fly, why pack a gun? When “I forgot” doesn’t seem to cut it

Alleged operator of Silk Road 2.0 arrested, faces narcotics charges

Despite some reported Lollipop rollout delays, Nexus users should still get OS this month

Bug, now fixed in a Lollipop developer build, had sapped battery power

Microsoft Office advancements are a boost for BYOD programs

More platforms, more functionality for free promise to boost mobile productivity

Microsoft beefs up Office on iPhone with standalone apps

The company is also letting non-Office 365 subscribers do more with the Office apps on iOS and Android devices

Juniper Networks doubles down on virtualization

With a virtual offering of its flagship product, Juniper takes a huge step forward in network functions virtualization.

Chertoff: Cybersecurity takes teamwork

Former Homeland Security secretary tells Advanced Cyber Security Center audience in Boston that relying on prevention only spells ‘doom.’

Apple’s iWorm fix still leaves major hole

XProtect isn't protecting against everything

Apple mobile devices in China targeted by WireLurker malware

US net neutrality advocates plan Hungary-style protests

Wearable health tech in early days, but long-term benefits emerging

Wearable tech for monitoring health and fitness primarily remains a tool of those who are already active, but a recent PwC report suggests that the general public is beginning to understand the benefits.

Apple unveils new enterprise support plan

AppleCare for Enterprise part of the Apple-IBM partnership announced in July

Cisco patches serious vulnerabilities in small business RV Series routers

The flaws allow attackers to execute commands, overwrite files and launch CSRF attacks

Juniper virtualizes MX router to help companies more rapidly turn-up services

Edge router now a VM on x86 for NFV

FBI grabs a Most Wanted Cyber Fugitive

Suspect and co-conspirators charged with stealing the identities of 40,000 people, millions of dollars

The Document Foundation offers LibreOffice migration, training certs

Certs for training and migration to be offered by LibreOffice’s backer organization

Google: Move over cloud, the next IT disruption is upon us

Containers are the next big thing

Aruba embraces beacons for customized mobile experiences

How Aruba is using Wi-Fi and ad beacons to improve in-person customer experiences.

Windows XP’s user share plunge not real, just a data adjustment

Net Applications says XP dropped like a stone because the company yanked some Chinese websites from its tallies

Airbnb, Uber and problems with the digital-sharing economy

Sharing isn't always caring

IBM takes on enterprise cloud security

Windows 10 excitement growing among Dell customers

European startups are offering developers new ways to test code and apps

Verizon appears to soften its stance against net neutrality rules

The Internet of fishy things

Pacific Northwest National Lab’s sensor-packed fish evaluates hydropower facilities

Bitcoin Checkout app takes on Apple Pay

A Bitcoin app embraces NFC, but will it really challenge Apple Pay?

Oracle licensing practices lead to mistrust among customers, says survey

Google releases tool to test apps, devices for SSL/TLS weaknesses

French startups are taking a more privacy centric approach file sharing

Dell looks to wow clients with a new type of converged system

Riverbed is now a FORCE in hybrid WANs

At its FORCE user conference, Riverbed laid out its plan to adapt its optimization tools for the hybrid WAN.

Judge orders secrets revealed in Apple’s sapphire supplier bankruptcy

Documents Apple wanted kept under wraps to be filed in the public record on Friday

Cloud expected to make up three-fourths of data center traffic by 2018

Cisco predicts by 2018, a quarter of the world's population will use personal cloud storage

Xiaomi maintains its lead over Samsung in China’s smartphone market

Apple security checks may miss iWorm malware

Google and LG strike broad patent licensing deal

Michael Dell gets his payback, slams ‘turmoil’ at HP and IBM

Microsoft’s top legal gun decries privacy “arms race”

After criticizing it, Cisco joins Open Compute

Sixteen months later it looks to get "ahead of the game"

Facebook reports a 24 percent rise in government requests for user data

Google’s cloud courts enterprises with new networking features

But Google isn’t losing its developer roots either

The smartphone that knows when it’s been stolen

If your phone could get to know you, then it could learn to prevent access when someone else tries to use it.

Fugitive Pirate Bay co-founder arrested in Thailand

Fredrik Neij nabbed while attempting to enter country from Laos