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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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IT Strategy

AI threats and risk are changing how we see the technology—what does that mean for IT pros?

“The capabilities of these systems have been on an upward swing,” professor says.

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Software

How vibe coding is impacting business in the long term

“You still need to understand the stuff you’re building, the code you’re writing,” Quickbase CTO tells IT Brew.

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IT Strategy

Sticking with SaaS over AI—for now—is most realistic path, experts say

“We’re paying for it because it’s totally connected to all the other systems,” exec says of SaaS.

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IT Strategy

Tips and tricks for negotiating with AI vendors

AI vendors “range in where they’re adding value” across the tech stack or supply chain, executive tells IT Brew.

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Cloud

How to prepare for quantum decryption now to avoid danger later

“This stage of harvesting is not over,” COO says.

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IT Strategy

AI jobs drove August numbers

AI jobs continue to push the market forward.

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AI Strategy

Overbuild, under capacity: McKinsey data center study looks ahead

“We’re expecting a 5x growth over the next five or over the next 10 years of total data center demand in the US,” McKinsey partner tells IT Brew.

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IT Strategy

Federal shifts and health tech: August in the tech C-suite

A “triple-hatted” DHS exec leaves the agency and Delaware snags a new CTO.

IT Operations

Putting agentic AI to work

Are AI agents ready for primetime? Get the real story on agentic AI adoption, costs, and security risks.

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Cloud

Space data centers? They could be closer than you think

“It’s getting easier to deploy things in space and it’s getting harder to deploy things on the ground,” CTO says.