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

UPDATED 12/20/2024 -- 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

Dec 20, 2024

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4h 45m Read

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Cyber Resilience

Ransomware Attack on Rhode Island Highlights Risk to Government Ransomware Attack on Rhode Island Highlights Risk to Government

byCarrie Pallardy

Dec 19, 2024

4 Min Read

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Data Management

EU Watchdog Fines Meta $263 Million for Data Breach EU Watchdog Fines Meta $263 Million for Data Breach

Dec 17, 2024

2 Min Read

Forrester’s Stephanie Balaouras moderates a discussion with Schneider Electric’s Mansur Abilkasimov at the Forrester Security & Risk Summit

Cyber Resilience

Forrester Award Keynote: Schneider Electric Deputy CISO on Managing Trust, Supplier Risk Forrester Award Keynote: Schneider Electric Deputy CISO on Managing Trust, Supplier Risk

byBrian T. Horowitz

Dec 17, 2024

5 Min Read

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Cyber Resilience

What Do We Know About the New Ransomware Gang Termite?What Do We Know About the New Ransomware Gang Termite?

byCarrie Pallardy

Dec 12, 2024

4 Min Read

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What Enterprise IT Predictions Actually Mattered in 2024?What Enterprise IT Predictions Actually Mattered in 2024?

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth

Dec 9, 2024

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Data Management

CFPB Presses Forward with Rule to Wrangle Data Brokers

CFPB Presses Forward with Rule to Wrangle Data Brokers

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

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Cyber Resilience

How Conflict With China Might Play Out in the Cyber Realm

How Conflict With China Might Play Out in the Cyber Realm

byCarrie Pallardy, Contributing Reporter

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Data Management

FTC to Ban Firms From Selling Sensitive Location Data

FTC to Ban Firms From Selling Sensitive Location Data

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

Note From the Editor-in-Chief

Note From the Editor-in-Chief

bySara Peters, Editor-in-Chief, InformationWeek

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Gelsinger Out as Intel CEO as Chip Giant Struggles to Regain Footing

Gelsinger Out as Intel CEO as Chip Giant Struggles to Regain Footing

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

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Cyber Resilience

Threat Actors Put $1 Trillion Shopping Season in Their Sights

Threat Actors Put $1 Trillion Shopping Season in Their Sights

byCarrie Pallardy, Contributing Reporter

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Data Management

Beyond Washington, DC: The State of State-Based Data Privacy Laws

Beyond Washington, DC: The State of State-Based Data Privacy Laws

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth, Senior Editor

Cyber Resilience

Does the US Government Have a Cybersecurity Monoculture Problem?

Does the US Government Have a Cybersecurity Monoculture Problem?

byCarrie Pallardy, Contributing Reporter

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Machine Learning & AI

The New Cold War: US Urged to Form ‘Manhattan Project’ for AGI

The New Cold War: US Urged to Form ‘Manhattan Project’ for AGI

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

Data Management

DOJ Urges Google Breakup, Targets Chrome, Android and Data Sharing

DOJ Urges Google Breakup, Targets Chrome, Android and Data Sharing

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

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Cyber Resilience

The SEC Fines Four SolarWinds Breach Victims

The SEC Fines Four SolarWinds Breach Victims

byLisa Morgan, Freelance Writer

Cyber Resilience

DHS Releases Secure AI Framework for Critical Infrastructure

DHS Releases Secure AI Framework for Critical Infrastructure

byDark Reading, Staff & Contributors

Meta Rebukes India’s WhatsApp Antitrust Ruling, Plans Legal Challenge to $25M Fine

Meta Rebukes India’s WhatsApp Antitrust Ruling, Plans Legal Challenge to $25M Fine

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

TSMC Secures $6.6B as Biden Administration Races to Dole Out CHIPS Act Funds

TSMC Secures $6.6B as Biden Administration Races to Dole Out CHIPS Act Funds

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

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Cyber Resilience

What Could the Trump Administration Mean for Cybersecurity?

What Could the Trump Administration Mean for Cybersecurity?

byCarrie Pallardy, Contributing Reporter

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Machine Learning & AI

Unicorn AI Firm Writer Raises $200M, Plans to Challenge OpenAI, Anthropic

Unicorn AI Firm Writer Raises $200M, Plans to Challenge OpenAI, Anthropic

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

What Can Computing Win or Lose at the Ballot Box?

What Can Computing Win or Lose at the Ballot Box?

byNetwork Computing, Contributor

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Is the CHIPS Act in Jeopardy? What the US Election Could Mean for Semiconductor Industry

Is the CHIPS Act in Jeopardy? What the US Election Could Mean for Semiconductor Industry

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

Cyber Resilience

Iranian Threat Actors Ramp Up Ransomware, Cyber Activity

Iranian Threat Actors Ramp Up Ransomware, Cyber Activity

byCarrie Pallardy, Contributing Reporter

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Cyber Resilience

Troll Disrupts Conference on Russian Disinformation With ‘Zoom-Bombing’

Troll Disrupts Conference on Russian Disinformation With ‘Zoom-Bombing’

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

Cyber Resilience

Beyond the Election: The Long Cybersecurity Fight vs Bad Actors

Beyond the Election: The Long Cybersecurity Fight vs Bad Actors

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth, Senior Editor

Machine Learning & AI

Nvidia CEO Teases ‘Revolutionary’ AI PDF Reader Release

Nvidia CEO Teases ‘Revolutionary’ AI PDF Reader Release

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

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Cyber Resilience

Internet Archive Cyberattack Saga Continues

Internet Archive Cyberattack Saga Continues

byCarrie Pallardy, Contributing Reporter

Gladwell at Gartner Event: Look out for Radical Problem Superspreaders

Gladwell at Gartner Event: Look out for Radical Problem Superspreaders

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang on Leadership, ‘Tokenization,’ and GenAI Workforce Impact

Nvidia’s Jensen Huang on Leadership, ‘Tokenization,’ and GenAI Workforce Impact

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

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Gartner Keynote Bites into AI ‘Sandwich’

Gartner Keynote Bites into AI ‘Sandwich’

byShane Snider, Senior Writer, InformationWeek

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Beyond the Election (Part 1): Preparing for New Tech Directives

Beyond the Election (Part 1): Preparing for New Tech Directives

byJoao-Pierre S. Ruth, Senior Editor

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Cyber Resilience

Big Breach Sends National Public Data to Bankruptcy

Big Breach Sends National Public Data to Bankruptcy

byCarrie Pallardy, Contributing Reporter

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Cyber Resilience

Cyberattackers Unleash Flood of Potentially Disruptive Election-Related Activity

Cyberattackers Unleash Flood of Potentially Disruptive Election-Related Activity

byDark Reading, Staff & Contributors

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