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W3C support of DRM will hurt Web experience, critics say

Despite risk of aiding hackers, experts favor disclosing vulnerabilities

Source code and 2.9 million accounts raided by attackers in Adobe breach

Solving Healthcare’s Big Data Analytics Security Conundrum

CSOs face ongoing paradoxical challenges, according to report

LG hopes curved displays will attract smartphone buyers

LG Display's flexible OLED panel is only 0.44 millimeters thick

Report: FBI can’t access Silk Road owner’s $80 million in Bitcoins

Although the FBI has seized Ross Ulbricht's Bitcoin wallet, its encryption is keeping them from funneling out its estimated $80 million contents.

Big data storage doesn’t have to break the bank

IT leaders who (literally) keep the lights on

Career Watch: Where job interviews are really tough

Deja vu all over again: Microsoft warns of Surface 2 sell-out

Same message as last year, when Surface RT pre-order inventory emptied, but sales ultimately disappointed

Toshiba’s first cloud service has a built-to-order twist

Users can customize the remote desktop hardware in Toshiba's first-ever cloud service

Samsung camera module focuses on improving image stabilization

The camera module will go into production at the beginning of next year.

Twitter’s IPO risks include ads, users and financial losses

Social network cites about 55 risks to potential investors in Twitter IPO

Microsoft wants to make one operating system for all devices

Fujitsu won’t cede the Unix market to IBM

Stanford builds computer with carbon nanotubes

Ellison skips speech, angers users

NoSQL database vendor MongoDb raises $150M in new funding round

Funding reflects growing enterprise interest in alternatives to traditional relational databases

SDN pioneers share their secrets

Training, planning and testing are key to SDN rollouts

802.11ac ‘gigabit Wi-Fi’ starts to show potential, limits

Vendor tests, early adopters bring 11ac performance, applications into clearer focus

Your best ‘Gigabit Wi-Fi’ resources

Overseas, Twitter cites access, privacy and Kakao among its biggest challenges

Twitter reveals the difficulties of monetizing its service internationally

Facebook networking chief: No more secret ASIC commands

Social networking giant uses software defined networking (SDN) to wrest more control of its network gear from vendors

Report: NSA has little success cracking Tor

The agency has attacked other software, including Firefox, in order to compromise the anonymity tool, according to documents

Wall Street Beat: Business as usual for tech, but gov’t crisis casts shadows

A month-long stoppage would impact U.S. tech spending, a debt default could have disastrous consequences

HTC’s first net loss in a decade could spell its collapse in two years

U.S. supercomputers haven’t been affected by gov’t shutdown — yet

National labs have money to keep HPC up and running, but theres a limit

Apple makes good on vow, appeals e-book price-fix ruling

Simon & Schuster, one of five publishers that settled out of court earlier, also appeals to the Second Circuit

ExtraHop mines the network to glean operations intelligence

An Amazon set-top box would be cheap, might streams others’ content

It's not clear Amazon can launch the device in time for the holidays

U.S. ranks fourth in Internet freedom as surveillance grows worldwide

The U.S. still cracks the top five in global Internet freedom, as surveillance appears to be a common trend.

Shutdown affects government sites, but Weather.gov remains up as storm looms

A weather forecast has a tropical storm or hurricane headed for the U.S. Gulf Coast

Web hosting firms at risk from critical vulnerability in WHMCS billing and support system

WHMCS developers released security updates to close publicly disclosed SQL injection vulnerability

Switching IT Outsourcing Providers Easier (and Less Costly) Than Ever

Chip makers advancing in-car entertainment

More advanced processor and networks about to make travelling by car less boring

Apple seeds ‘gold master’ of OS X Mavericks to devs

Past practice hints that Oct. 23 is the upgrade's likely launch date

Turns out pretty much everybody is cheating on Android benchmarking tests

Shameful stuff from some of the biggest names, plus further skullduggery from Samsung, possible specs for the Nexus 5

With IPO looming, Twitter takes on losses, wary investors

In wake of Facebook's tumultuous IPO, Twitter needs to come out strong

Microsoft dings Ballmer’s bonus over Windows 8, Surface RT struggles

The penalty is equivalent to half the cost of a cup of coffee at McDonalds to the average American

Snapchat seen overmatched in fight with Facebook

Social startup's new Stories feature mimics Facebook's popular News Feed

Samsung execs may have peeked at secret Apple info

The information may have included documents on Apple's patent licenses

Samsung’s sales and profit on a roll

The smartphone maker's sales are up 13 percent in the third quarter

US indicts 13 Anonymous members for DDoS attacks

The 13 persons were alleged to have been involved in DDoS attacks as a part of Anonymous' Operation Payback campaign

10 tidbits from Twitter’s IPO filing

Who owns the company and the sources of its revenue are among the details disclosed

Twitter appears to have dodged Facebook’s mobile problem

65 percent of Twitter's ad revenue comes from mobile devices

Hackers steal information on 2.9 million Adobe customers

Source code for some Adobe products also was stolen

NSA Leaker Snowden May Have Had Help

Twitter IPO reveals a company that’s growing fast but losing money

The company reported strong revenue gains in 2012, but also losses over the last several years

Next generation of carrier systems going virtual

The latest version of NSN's operations software is designed to make mobile carriers more efficient and agile