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

UPDATED 11/13/2024 -- 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

Nov 13, 2024

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4h 30m Read

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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

Nov 12, 2024

2 Min Read

What Can Computing Win or Lose at the Ballot Box?What Can Computing Win or Lose at the Ballot Box?

byNetwork Computing

Nov 5, 2024

1 Min Read

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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

Nov 5, 2024

4 Min Read

Cyber Resilience

Iranian Threat Actors Ramp Up Ransomware, Cyber Activity Iranian Threat Actors Ramp Up Ransomware, Cyber Activity

byCarrie Pallardy

Nov 5, 2024

7 Min Read

Illustration of a hacker targeting a video conference call.

Cyber Resilience

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

Oct 29, 2024

3 Min Read

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

Machine Learning & AI

Nvidia CEO Teases ‘Revolutionary’ AI PDF Reader Release

Nvidia CEO Teases ‘Revolutionary’ AI PDF Reader Release

Internet Data Protection

Cyber Resilience

Internet Archive Cyberattack Saga Continues

Internet Archive Cyberattack Saga Continues

byCarrie Pallardy

Gladwell at Gartner Event: Look out for Radical Problem Superspreaders

Gladwell at Gartner Event: Look out for Radical Problem Superspreaders

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

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

Gartner analysts Mary Mesaglio (left) and Hung LeHong delivered the opening keynote at Gartner’s IT Symposium/Xpo 2024.

Gartner Keynote Bites into AI ‘Sandwich’

Gartner Keynote Bites into AI ‘Sandwich’

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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

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Cyber Resilience

Big Breach Sends National Public Data to Bankruptcy

Big Breach Sends National Public Data to Bankruptcy

byCarrie Pallardy

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Cyber Resilience

Cyberattackers Unleash Flood of Potentially Disruptive Election-Related Activity

Cyberattackers Unleash Flood of Potentially Disruptive Election-Related Activity

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Machine Learning & AI

NYT Sends Perplexity Cease-and-Desist Letter Over AI

NYT Sends Perplexity Cease-and-Desist Letter Over AI

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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

Software & Services

DOJ Floats Google Breakup, Other Remedies in Antitrust Case

DOJ Floats Google Breakup, Other Remedies in Antitrust Case

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

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Cyber Resilience

Overtaxed State CISOs Struggle With Budgeting, Staffing

Overtaxed State CISOs Struggle With Budgeting, Staffing

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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

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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

Innovating with Open AI: A Silhouetted Man Holds the Key to AI Advancements

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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