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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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Software

Why developer review requires a hybrid strategy

“The hybrid of human review and AI review is going to prove to be the right way to build things in the future,” CSO tells us.

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Hardware

Apple steps up as AI infrastructure diversifies

“The power draw of a Mac Studio or Mac laptop is much less than a full server, a rack full of servers—it’s small enough to fit under my desk,” Tusker CIO tells IT Brew.

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Cloud

Agentic AI is raising more challenges—and opportunities—for tech infrastructure

CPUs are part of the story, but it’s GPUs, the powerful processors at the heart of AI infrastructure, which are key.

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IT Strategy

In New York, a data center moratorium sparks questions

“The goal should be to enable responsible development, not delay it,” tech industry advocate says.

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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.

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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.