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The FBI is warning that hackers are increasingly targeting online learning as students get back to class after the holidays. While the success of remote work and distance learning have exceeded many people’s expectations, it has also provided new opportunities for hackers and bad...

“The acquisition today of Fiix is a really exciting one,” says Rockwell Automation CEO Blake Moret. “It spans the gap that’s traditionally existed between manually entered keystroke data and real-time data that’s coming from the equipment itself. This helps take maintenance and...

Engineers from Cloudflare, Apple and Fastly have worked together to create an improved DNS protocol that protects user privacy. DNS is the backbone of the internet, responsible for mapping domain names (such as WebProNews.com) to the IP addresses where the site and its content...

IBM has announced it is acquiring applications performance monitoring (APM) company Instana to aid in its hybrid cloud and AI strategy. IBM made headlines in October when it announced its plans to split itself into two companies. The legacy business will be split into a new...

iOS 14.2 features Just-In-Time (JIT) compilation, which should significantly speed up emulation app performance. JIT compilation involves compiling code while the application is running, as opposed to building the application ahead of time, as in Ahead-Of-Time (AOT) compilation....

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has established the 5G Fund for Rural America in a bid to close the digital divide. Because of the sprawling nature of the US and its large geographic footprint, there is a long-recognized digital divide between urban areas and rural...

Zoom has announced it will be rolling out end-to-end encryption (E2EE) beginning next week. Zoom quickly became the de facto standard for remote work and distance learning during the coronavirus pandemic. Unfortunately, the company made a number of security missteps early on,...

Microsoft has announced it is shifting its search engine branding from Bing to Microsoft Bing. Bing is currently in second place in the search market, far behind Google. According to Jordi Ribas, CVP, Microsoft Bing Engineering, the search engine does power a number of...

Commerce, advertising or something else: The smart speaker model hasn’t been figured out. By 2021, there will be more smart speakers in use than tablets according to a new global forecast from Canalys. The firm says that the worldwide base of smart speakers will grow from...

“We saw very strong enterprise growth in the last quarter,” says Box CEO Aaron Levie. “We grew our number of big deals, which we measure as deals above $100,000 in transaction value, by 60 from Q1 to Q2 of this year. We’re happy about the momentum that we’re seeing in the...