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A new wave of reports about the home surveillance cameras getting hijacked by creeps is painfully familiar.

A dozen injured, others reported missing in electrical fire aboard ship damaged by sinking dock.

Who should you ask for advice about getting a salary increase? Probably not your parents.

Getting past the hype and proving they can automate aspects of DevOps may be crucial in the coming year.

Sens. Graham and Feinstein show united front on blaming crypto for child porn.

A Gartner analyst suggests kilowatts can be "the perfect progress metric" for implementation of an enterprise cloud strategy. -- Data Center Knowledge

Same ransomware hit security firm; operators stole data for "leverage" on ransom.

150-person layoff despite Verizon touting gains in mobile advertising.

On kicking cable broadband to the curb, experts say "The answer is absolutely! Depending.”

In an ever-changing work environment, organizations are exploring new ways to keep tech experts happy in a non-management role.

As the countdown to January continues, it's up to executive teams to ensure their companies are complying and preparing for what's coming.

Reports about the toy store using cameras to track shoppers caused an uproar, but the companies behind the tech insist their systems are trained to ignore kids.

Five men face federal charges of bilking investors of $722 million by inviting them to buy shares in bitcoin mining pools. 

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Install fixes when they become available. Until then, don't sweat it.

As Louisiana recovers from Ryuk, another city gets knocked offline.

Yet another price hike of up to $10 for AT&T's dwindling TV-subscriber base.

A new attack called Plundervolt gives attackers access to the sensitive data stored in a processor's secure enclave.

A closed-door session with Andy Jassy bares some of Amazon's teeth in its legal fight over the $10B JEDI cloud contract.

Enterprises have been slow to move their pilot machine learning and AI projects into production, but now Amazon AWS is offering a host of new services to help.

The rural carriers who rely on Huawei are wary of a costly “rip and replace” effort.

Inspector general Michael Horowitz's report shows that the FBI's investigation of ties between Russia and the Trump campaign was both justified and without political bias.

Trump said "screw Amazon" and used contract as political weapon against Bezos, suit claims.

We look at 2019's most popular content on InformationWeek and put perspective around the technology areas that took off in terms of innovation and adoption.

There's a clear way to fill the ever-growing technical skills gap, and it starts with the hiring managers thinking a bit differently than they have in the past.

Help the military make spare parts for decades-old B-52 bombers and other planes.

Russian disinformation, a VC hack, vulnerable VPNs, and more are in the week’s top security news.

In-memory infection makes it harder for end-point protection to detect it.

AWS re:Invent reveals how Amazon broke boundaries on virtualization and the benefits Vanguard reaped from cloud migration.