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Eoin Higgins

Eoin Higgins is a reporter with IT Brew. His work focuses on cybersecurity, IT jobs, and government tech. Eoin’s work has appeared in outlets around the country and around the world, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Intercept, the Nation, MSNBC, and many others. His first book, on tech billionaires and the media, is available now. He lives in New England with his family.

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Cybersecurity

Apple’s OpenAI lawsuit offers lessons about company secrets

“It is up to the legal department to make sure that the people who are allowed to go and have these discussions are appropriately briefed and trained in intellectual property law,” TieTechnology COO says.

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IT Strategy

AI tooling sprawl continues to bedevil organizations

“There is a technology stack that builds up to a bit of a Frankenstein stack,” exec says.

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IT Strategy

Tech jobs numbers show positive growth for sector

“People are really embracing AI right now, and they know that they need technology professionals to do so,” CEO says.

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Cloud

Can on-prem solutions beat cloud in the age of AI?

“Any time automation comes in, machine to machine, you’re getting efficiencies, you’re going to be making things more productive,” Intel exec tells IT Brew.

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IT Strategy

Moving on: the C-suite in June

Meta moves, AI changes—corner offices saw some shuffling in June.

AI ethics
IT Operations

Shadow AI still a problem—but the solution isn’t punishment

“The pace and power of what we’re dealing with now is different,” PagerDuty CIO says.

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Cybersecurity

Election systems security presents challenges and opportunities

“Now the conversation we are seeing is more around, can the election system itself be hacked?” Appknox CSO wonders.

A portrait of Ed Zitron, CEO of EZ Primary Research, a media relations company
IT Strategy

‘Complete hogwash’: Ed Zitron on AI promises from Silicon Valley

“They desperately want people to think that this is like the dot-com bubble, and that this is useful infrastructure,” Zitron tells IT Brew.

Ed Zitron
IT Strategy

Ed Zitron on AI bubbles, government subsidies, and more

“I’m not convinced that this stuff is remotely essential to anyone,” Zitron says.

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Cloud

AI enterprise deployment has governance, security concerns

“It’s costing money, and it’s making people, in some cases, rethink how they want to go about doing things,” Kore.ai exec says.