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Twitter suspends 360,000 accounts for terrorist ties

The social network has suspended 235,000 in last six months alone, with rate of daily suspensions up 80%

The NSA’s hoard of cyber weapons makes some experts nervous

An alleged hack has raised questions about the agency's practices

DRAM will live on as DDR5 memory is slated to reach computers in 2020

The DDR5 DRAM specification will be finalized by the end of this year

Uproar: MariaDB Corp. veers away from open source

A new release of the MaxScale database proxy -- essential to deploying MariaDB at scale -- features a proprietary license

FCC won’t back down on broadband users’ privacy

Broadband providers argue they have consumers' interests at heart as they continue their fight against regulation as common carriers

Ending IT’s Game of Groans: the path to better control

Windows smartphone sales collapse

Sales fall by 76% in the June quarter, says Gartner

Free at last! PowerShell goes open source, heads to Linux

Microsoft believes that open-sourcing its command-line automation and scripting environment will drive its cross-cloud management platform and Linux-native apps

Video: The real story behind the H-1B visa program

The vast majority of people who work in IT did everything right. This is the story of how the H-1B visa program punished some of them anyway

Median IT wage is $10K higher for men than women

One in 10 IT workers telecommute, and one in five have at least a master’s degree, Census Bureau data also shows