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Gartner’s dark vision for tech, jobs

In a world where smart machines do most of the work, expect high unemployment, unrest, and tumult, analysts warn

Goodbye, tracking cookies? Don’t celebrate just yet

Microsoft and Google are both rumored to be working on replacement ad-tracking technologies, but maybe cookies are the lesser of two evils

Complex clouds must be managed with automation

Native cloud interfaces don't scale in real-world business deployments -- so spring for a cloud management system

Tech sector shrugs as shutdown drags on

The silence by most tech giants is puzzling given the industry’s high stakes in government IT

Ubuntu 13.10 review: Is it a worthy upgrade?

Today in Open Source: SJVN reviews Ubuntu 13.10. Plus: Firefox OS speed improvements, and six Android keyboard apps

Why MongoDB is worth $1.2 billion

Oracle's surprising role in elevating a NoSQL startup to the big league

Cisco patches vulnerabilities in some security appliances, switches, and routers

If left unpatched, the vulnerabilities could enable denial-of-service, command execution, or authentication bypass attacks

Where you can’t (and can) get government data during the shutdown

Here's a rundown of what major government data sources are still offline and how to work around some of them

Google to pay rewards for open-source code security fixes

The program aims to improve critical open-source tools widely used across the Internet

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