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Tech Company Layoffs: The COVID Tech Bubble Bursts Tech Layoffs: The COVID Tech Bubble Bursts

UPDATED 10/12/2024 -- As COVID drove everyone online, tech companies hired like crazy. Now we are hitting the COVID tech bust as tech giants shed jobs by the thousands. Check back regularly for updates to our tech layoffs tracker.

byBrandon Taylor, Jessica Davis

Oct 12, 2024

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4h 7m Read

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Cyber Resilience

China Penetrated US Telecom Providers to Snoop on Wiretapping Systems China Penetrated US Telecom Providers to Snoop on Wiretapping Systems

byCarrie Pallardy

Oct 10, 2024

5 Min Read

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Software & Services

DOJ Floats Google Breakup, Other Remedies in Antitrust Case DOJ Floats Google Breakup, Other Remedies in Antitrust Case

Oct 9, 2024

3 Min Read

Hurricane Helene in the Gulf of Mexico on Thursday morning, September 26, 2024, before making landfall in Florida later in the day.

Hurricane Helene’s Catastrophic Flooding Tests IT Readiness Hurricane Helene’s Catastrophic Flooding Tests IT Readiness

Oct 4, 2024

5 Min Read

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Cyber Resilience

Overtaxed State CISOs Struggle With Budgeting, Staffing Overtaxed State CISOs Struggle With Budgeting, Staffing

Oct 3, 2024

1 Min Read

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Machine Learning & AI

Nvidia, Accenture Join Forces to Boost Agentic AI in Enterprise Nvidia, Accenture Join Forces to Boost Agentic AI in Enterprise

Oct 2, 2024

4 Min Read

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Machine Learning & AI

Newsom Veto Kills California AI Safety Bill

Newsom Veto Kills California AI Safety Bill

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IT Infrastructure

Infrastructure Sustainability and the Data Center Power Dilemma

Infrastructure Sustainability and the Data Center Power Dilemma

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth

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Cyber Resilience

Hurricane Helene Prompts CISA Fraud Warning

Hurricane Helene Prompts CISA Fraud Warning

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Machine Learning & AI

OpenAI’s Sudden Leadership Exodus Signals Doom for Non-Profit Mission: Report

OpenAI’s Sudden Leadership Exodus Signals Doom for Non-Profit Mission: Report

Cyber Resilience

What Did We Learn From CrowdStrike’s Congressional Hearing?

What Did We Learn From CrowdStrike’s Congressional Hearing?

byCarrie Pallardy

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Cyber Resilience

Mastercard's Bet on Recorded Future a Win for Cyber-Threat Intel

Mastercard's Bet on Recorded Future a Win for Cyber-Threat Intel

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Machine Learning & AI

FTC’s AI Washing Crackdown Hits Several Businesses

FTC’s AI Crackdown Hits Several Businesses

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Cyber Resilience

AT&T’s $13M FCC Fine Could Be Tip of Costly Legal Iceberg

AT&T’s $13M FCC Fine Could Be Tip of Costly Legal Iceberg

Cyber Resilience

23andMe $30M Data Breach Settlement: How Valuable Is Genetic Data?

23andMe $30M Data Breach Settlement: How Valuable Is Genetic Data?

byCarrie Pallardy

California’s New Deepfake Laws Await Test of Enforcement

California’s New Deepfake Laws Await Test of Enforcement

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth

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Cyber Resilience

FCC: AT&T Didn't Adequately Protect Customers' Cloud Data

FCC: AT&T Didn't Adequately Protect Customers' Cloud Data

CACI to Buy Tech Firm Azure Summit in $1.28B Deal to Boost Military Business

CACI to Buy Tech Firm Azure Summit in $1.28B Deal to Boost Military Business

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Cyber Resilience

US Puts Big Bounty Bullseye on Russian Hackers

US Puts Big Bounty Bullseye on Russian Hackers

byCarrie Pallardy

CIOs of PNC Bank, Bureau of Indian Affairs Talk ‘High-Performance IT’

CIOs of PNC Bank, Bureau of Indian Affairs Talk ‘High-Performance IT’

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Cyber Resilience

Cybersecurity Talent Shortage Prompts White House Action

Cybersecurity Talent Shortage Prompts White House Action

Forrester CEO George Colony addresses crowd at the company's Technology & Innovation Summit North America event in Austin, Texas.

Machine Learning & AI

Forrester CEO: Lessons for Executives to Implement AI Successfully

Forrester CEO: Lessons for Executives to Implement AI Successfully

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Machine Learning & AI

Could California's AI Bill Be a Blueprint for Future AI Regulation?

Could California's AI Bill Be a Blueprint for Future AI Regulation?

byCarrie Pallardy

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Forrester Speaker Sneak Peek: Analyst Jayesh Chaurasia to Talk AI Data Readiness

Forrester Speaker Sneak Peek: Analyst Jayesh Chaurasia to Talk AI Data Readiness

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth

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Machine Learning & AI

Dutch Agency Slaps Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI with $33.7M Fine

Dutch Agency Slaps Face Recognition Firm Clearview AI with $33.7M Fine

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Cyber Resilience

WANTED: US Offers $2.5M Bounty to Nab Belarusian Hacker

WANTED: US Offers $2.5M Bounty to Nab Belarusian Hacker

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Cyber Resilience

Halliburton Cyberattack Shows Pattern of Critical Infrastructure Disruption

Halliburton Cyberattack Shows Pattern of Critical Infrastructure Disruption

byCarrie Pallardy

Quantum cryptography the latest secure data transfer method

Cyber Resilience

What NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Bring to the Table

What NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Standards Bring to the Table

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth

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Machine Learning & AI

Is OpenAI Quietly Building a Media Content Empire?

Is OpenAI Quietly Building a Media Content Empire?

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Cyber Resilience

Examining the National Public Data Breach and Risks for Data Brokers

Examining the National Public Data Breach and Risks for Data Brokers

byCarrie Pallardy

Machine Learning & AI

Anthropic Hit with Copyright Lawsuit Over LLM Training

Anthropic Hit with Copyright Lawsuit Over LLM Training

Cyber Resilience

What Can We Expect from Election Hack Escalations?

What Can We Expect from Election Hack Escalations?

byCarrie Pallardy

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Cyber Resilience

UN Approves Cybercrime Treaty Despite Major Tech, Privacy Concerns

UN Approves Cybercrime Treaty Despite Major Tech, Privacy Concerns

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Outages Aftermath: What's Next for Microsoft and Its Customers?

Outages Aftermath: What's Next for Microsoft and Its Customers?

byCarrie Pallardy

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Software & Services

Could Google Lose ‘Verb’ Status After Antitrust Ruling?

Could Google Lose ‘Verb’ Status After Antitrust Ruling?

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