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Amanda Florian

Amanda Florian is a journalist who writes about tech, culture, and China's new media scene. When not chasing stories, she's exploring new places and sipping on Puerto Rican coffee.

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Hardware

Proposed rule means US could curb tech, AI investments in China

As China’s ‘Delete A’ aims to give American tech the boot, the US is advancing plans to limit tech and AI investments in China.

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IT Strategy

How AI will play a role in the upcoming 2024 Olympics

Officials say this kind of tech could help prevent an incident, such as “the bombing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta or the Nice truck attack in 2016,” according to Reuters.

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IT Operations

Meet the CEO of Black Girls Code

IT Brew caught up with Cristina Jones to chat about current initiatives and how the org is making moves to give Black girls “a real seat at the table”—or computer desk.

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Data & Analytics

Inside the data center that heats up a hospital in Vienna, Austria

IT Brew caught up with Rusbeh Rezania, project lead at Wien Energie, to chat about the project’s origins and what’s next.

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Cloud

What the proposed EU cybersecurity certification scheme means for cloud providers and big tech

More than two dozen groups across Europe penned a joint letter to EU countries, stating the labeling scheme shouldn’t discriminate against big tech.

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Cybersecurity

Pro-Russia hackers are targeting transportation websites

IT Brew catches up with Mandiant Senior Analyst Alden Wahlstrom to discuss why transportation and government-related websites have become a target.

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IT Strategy

How to create a cyber-savvy boardroom

Shamla Naidoo, co-author of The Cyber Savvy Boardroom, catches up with IT Brew to chat about workplace strategy, emerging tech, and mitigating cyber risk.

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IT Operations

What the heatwave means for IT infrastructure

Amidst heat warnings across the US, IT Brew catches up with IT pros to chat about the impact on hardware, infrastructure, and IT operations.

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IT Operations

Is SASE the new VPN?

IT Brew catches up with the CEO of a cloud security company to chat about cloud security and saying goodbye to legacy business VPNs.

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Cybersecurity

Mark Cuban’s Gmail was hacked by a threat actor posing as Google—here’s how to prevent it from happening to you

Entrepreneur and investor Mark Cuban said his Gmail account was hacked after a threat actor posing as a Google employee called him.