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Execs know best? Not at these companies

IT expertise is no match for execs' stubbornness and agendas, even under dire circumstances

Kubernetes 1.6 scales to 5,000 nodes

Google's container orchestration platform can now scale to massive clusters

Night of the Living Dead Workloads

Excel for Windows finally gets real-time collaboration

Right now, it's in public beta for the company's most adventurous testers

Microsoft releases Win10 Creators Update—but proceed with caution

ISOs for build 15063 may be available, but users would be wise not to install them until they're ready for prime time

Linux kernel holds key for advanced container networking

The experimental open source Cilium project uses an existing Linux kernel feature to provide containers with fast, powerful networking

How to respond to device and software backdoors inserted or left by vendors

Here are the challenges to finding them, mitigating the easily infected openings, and responding to this hardware, software, and IoT-based dilemma

MIT researchers set out to create self-assembling chips

The technology is one way to continue Moore's Law, by cramming more features on smaller chip geometries

What IoT can learn from mobile management

The internet of things is a much more complex, proprietary world than mobile devices ever were, but an API- and policy-driven approach can still help

Apple wins China patent battle over iPhone 6 design

Apple prevails against patent claim by local company Shenzhen Baili