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You open your inbox and see a message titled "Payment order settled" with an official-looking invoice from Geek Squad. At first glance, it looks legitimate. It includes your email address and even a ...

When a software project stumbles—or ultimately fails—it can have a range of negative consequences, from lost and unrecoverable resources to a blow to team morale. It can be tempting to blame a failed ...

Jeff Werner is a software engineer and has been writing this column since 2007. If Santa was good to you this year, there’s a good possibility that you may be staring at a shiny new computer with a ...

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Marshall Gunnell is a Tokyo-based tech journalist and editor with over a decade of experience covering IT, cybersecurity and data storage. Alongside CNET, his work has appeared in ZDNET, Business ...

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The Department of Defense develops software factories to enable continuous integration and delivery of new applications amid its ongoing software modernization push. An assembly line comparison is apt ...

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CNBC put the AI threat to software companies to the test by vibe-coding a version of the tools from Monday.com. Silicon Valley insiders say the most exposed software names are the ones that "sit on ...