News Archive | July 2018

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July 31st
- Dixons Carphone's data breach hit 10 million customers
- Nokia to provide T-Mobile with 5G infrastructure
July 30th
- MPs to scrutinise whether GDS is fit for purpose
- Outlook rolls out 'Dark Mode' inverted colour scheme due to user demands
- Tech giants like Facebook should be made liable for fake news, DCMS committee says
- Google blocks cryptocurrency miners from Play store
- M&S offers staff data science training to drive digital transformation
- Government funnels £45m investment into rural broadband
July 27th
- AWS cloud growth rakes in $6.1bn for Amazon
- Government’s online safety council for children will now look after adults
- Intel's data-centric services drive record 15% revenue growth in Q2 2018
- UK police will have the power to take down drones
- Russia accused of trying to hack US senator
- Twitter: 'We do not shadow ban'
July 26th
- Identity theft protection firm 'exposes customers to phishing attacks'
- Intel's 9th-gen Core i7 chip specs leak online
- Homeland Security warns businesses of Oracle and SAP ERP vulnerabilities
- Google brings AI to edge devices
- Smart city spending to hit $158bn by 2022
July 25th
- Matt Hancock: NHS must use more apps
- Google's Cloud Services Platform seeks to cut cost of hybrid
- Google Cloud CEO: We defied analyst predictions on enterprise readiness
- Apple fixes the 2018 MacBook Pro's throttling problem
- Most CEOs steal IP from previous employers
- Openreach cuts wholesale broadband costs for providers
- Privacy group issues legal challenge to facial recognition
July 24th
- Alphabet overcomes Android fine to record $33bn in revenue
- People are more aware of their data rights than ever before, says ICO
- Rackspace expands Google Cloud Platform support
- Facebook doubles UK floorspace with King's Cross offices
July 23rd
- MoJ 'cut corners’ in £1.2bn digital transformation of UK courts system
- Government accidentally leaks counter-terrorism tools via Trello
- NHS to receive £500m cash injection for digital transformation
- Google, Microsoft, Twitter and Facebook make it easier to transfer your data between services
- Government prepares UK for 5G with full fibre rollout
- Cisco and UCL plan to build a £77m AI research centre
July 20th
- UK government 'lacks urgency' in tackling cyber security skills gap
- Trump slams EU's £3.8bn Android antitrust fine
- Salesforce in fresh row over US immigration policy after $250,000 donation is rejected
- UK gov: Huawei hardware could pose national security risk
- Google's Loon project delivers internet to Kenya - via balloon
- Microsoft rakes in $30.1bn thanks to strong cloud growth yet again
- Mark Zuckerberg under fire for Holocaust deniers comments
- Cloud and analytics help IBM exceed expectations
- Just Eat's hungry for talent, searching for 150 tech workers
July 19th
- First Vodafone and CityFibre Gigabit homes go live
- FanDuel, WANdisco and DevsOpsGroup founders join Tech Nation board
- HP unleashes 'powerful' new Z workstations
- Child sexual abuse inquiry fined £200,000 for exposing victims
- British Airways IT outage leaves travellers stranded
- Google offers 'Grab and Go' laptop programme to businesses
July 18th
- Google links US and Europe clouds with transatlantic subsea cable
- Tech pioneers vow not to develop AI-controlled weapons
- Walmart and Microsoft ink cloud deal in fight against Amazon
- Google brings its job search tool to the UK
July 17th
- Apple's new MacBook Pro aims to solve keyboard dust issues
- Amazon Prime Day rocked by outage
- Orange acquires Basefarm to boost European cloud services
- AI will cull and create millions of jobs
- Is AWS about to start selling network switches?
July 16th
- US indicts 12 Russian agents over DNC hack
- Broadband providers blasted over "years of misleading" fibre adverts
- Large businesses are the most vulnerable to cyber attacks
- Google readies itself for 'record fine' in Android antitrust case
- GitHub now warns you about flaws affecting your Python code
- Facebook: We won't remove fake news
- PC shipments up for the first time in six years
July 13th
- Humans can code their way out of the AI economy, says ex-Google VP
- Sale to OpenText scared us, Documentum customer admits
- Dell launches new line of entry-level workstations
- UK government wants EU to acquiesce with its data safeguards even as Brexit looms
- Microsoft 365 gains smart video conferencing with automatic speech-to-text transcription
- Netskope acquires Sift to boost its Security Cloud
- 86% of companies are employing a multi-cloud strategy, report shows
- The NHS still owns - and uses - almost 9,000 fax machines
July 12th
- Obama-era CTO: Governments need tech experts so they can make better decisions
- Broadcom agrees to buy CA
- IBM Watson can predict just how productive you are
- Apple rumoured to refresh Mac line-up
- Mega data breaches cost megabucks, says IBM
- Apple car: Former Apple employee charged with stealing Apple's self-driving car secrets
July 11th
- Why your data is far more important than which AI you use
- Lethal US drone manual leaked on the dark web after IT security blunder
- iOS 11 release date and features: iOS 11.3 bug caused Chinese iPhones to crash when writing 'Taiwan'
- Toshiba smart glasses could help warehouse staff work more efficiently
- Nvidia and scientists teach AI to remove graininess from photos
- Facebook fined £500,000 by the ICO following Cambridge Analytica data scandal
- Oracle unveils Bristol accelerator contenders
July 10th
- DCMS gets new boss amid Brexit reshuffle
- National Infrastructure Commission calls for full fibre in the UK by 2033
- Microsoft announces the Surface Go – a budget Surface tablet perfect for back to school
- Apple releases iOS 11.4.1 to stop cops from cracking iPhones
- UK broadband down to to 35th fastest in the world
- Three moves forward with 5G network prep
- BAE Systems, Vodafone and others join forces to create security intelligence network
July 9th
- HPE supercomputer will help Swiss brain research project model mammalian minds
- UK gov commits £10m to boost digital skills in Western Balkans
- Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust injected with IoT tech to better manage inventory
- Box CEO Aaron Levie says Facebook data scandals could undermine trust in Silicon Valley
- London’s Met Police facial recognition trial proves to be a farce
- Timehop suffers data breach with 21 million users compromised
July 6th
- EU Parliament sets two-month deadline for Privacy Shield suspension
- Attackers targeting World Cup fans with 'Golden Cup' Android app loaded with spyware
- Ofcom reveals fixed wireless roadmap to support 5G adoption
- British banks must explain their IT outage back up plans
July 5th
- Keep off the cloud warns EU financial regulator
- Garry Kasparov: AI job losses are ‘the cost of progress’
- Failing government infrastructure projects on the rise, says watchdog
- Blockchain could save UK government £8 billion per year, right-wing think tank claims
- Facebook boosts smart tech with Bloomsbury AI buy
July 4th
- Government papers show post-Brexit customs systems will take up to five years to implement
- Gmail confirms private Gmail messages can be read by third parties
- 'Dumb' malware targets MacOS devices by getting cryptocurrency users to infect themselves
- Tech firms 'can stop Brexit, but only if they want to'
- IBM lands six major European cloud deals
- IoT and energy startups get £50m of government innovation funding
July 3rd
- Costa Coffee and Premier Inn hit by data breach
- NHS glitch led to 150,000 patients' data accidentally shared against their will
- HMRC takes down record number of malicious websites in scam crackdown
July 2nd
- Facebook's 750-page response to Congress repeats itself 437 times
- HP UK suffers 85% drop in profits
- Dell pays $22 billion to become a public company again
- Soon you'll be able to book GP appointments via an NHS app
- NHS asks IBM to boost its cyber security defences after WannaCry
- International Space Station to get an AI-powered robot crew member
- Most employees would happily take orders from an AI boss
- NHS Digital to create a 'de-identification' system to protect data shared across healthcare
- Biometrics Commissioner unimpressed by UK Home Office's strategy for the tech
- Cambridge Analytica: US Congress probes data firm set up by ex-Cambridge Analytica employee