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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 Operations

Codio CEO Doug Hughes tells IT Brew that AI should be treated as a tool

“At this point, it’s a power tool, right? It’s got a lot of capability,” Hughes says of AI.

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Cybersecurity

Vercel breach indicates larger issue of outdated security

“T​​he world is changing really, really rapidly,” Polygraf AI CEO warns.

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Software

Vibe coding isn’t the problem, CTO says—it’s human oversight

“None of us are tenure experts in the vibe-coding field; it hasn’t been around that long,” Uneeq CTO says.

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Cybersecurity

Identity security comes for the agents

“Right now, there isn’t a single solution in the market,” Palo Alto exec says.

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Hardware

Maine’s data center moratorium suspends large projects—but leaves smaller ones in place

“We need to have this conversation all together. That’s the point of the bill,” Maine state representative says.

Data quality
Software

New observability platform shows need for AI visibility

Observability is an increasingly important concern for IT pros.

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IT Operations

AI: the job-cut decider this month

“We’ve started to see more and more tech companies directly attribute their job cut announcements to artificial intelligence,” Andy Challenger says.

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IT Operations

AI’s role in finance increases—and so do concerns

“If the AI ends up complicating things, I shy away from it,” finance CEO tells IT Brew.

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IT Operations

AI partnership is latest Nvidia foray into healthcare space

AI is “becoming an always-on capability that’s going to be core to hospital infrastructure,” Nvidia exec says.

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IT Operations

Tech platform supporting Washington Post tech and other publications loses staff

“It takes a long time to come up to speed in a way that would be quick to fix something if something was broken,” former staffer tells IT Brew.