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January 31
- Make social media firms liable for harm to children, MPs say
- Microsoft blames Intel for drop in Windows sales
- Tech startup focused business school launches in the UK
- Apple strips Facebook of enterprise certificates after ‘Research’ app furore
- Airbus suffers security breach with personal information stolen
- Kwik Fit hit by malware, knocking out IT systems
- IBM looks to improve facial recognition tech with one million faces
January 30
- Google turns its hand to fighting election abuse
- Google launches redesigned Gmail for iOS and Android
- SAP reveals impressive Q4 results, but still considers restructure
- Cisco reveals new tools and networking products for IoT
- Global Microsoft outage leaves users unable to login
- Sluggish China market cuts into Apple's profits
- San Francisco legislation could ban facial recognition in the tech-centric city
- Rubrik security slip-up exposed masses of its corporate clients' data
- HR and finance teams on the lookout for ways to better collaborate
- A third of businesses don't think they comply with GDPR
January 29
- Businesses urged to register now or lose out on EU research grants in no-deal Brexit
- US files charges against Huawei
- British SMBs to benefit from fresh £2m government tech fund
- Mozilla details anti-tracking policies released with Firefox 63
- Major FaceTime privacy bug allows unauthorised eavesdropping
- The Irish Data Protection Commission has questions for Facebook
January 28
- Canada fires its Chinese ambassador for weighing in on US's aim to extradite Huawei's CFO
- Government launches £70 million challenge to ‘design out’ cyber threats
- Facebook looks to stay ahead of regulators
- ICO myth-busts on the flow of data post Brexit
- Cyber crime surges as victims lost £35 million in six months
- Japan law will allow government to hack civilian IoT devices
- Microsoft buys Citus Data to boost open source database in the cloud
- Government boosts cyber skills fund to drive diversity in security
- MIT research finds ethnic and gender bias in Amazon Rekognition
January 25
- Lloyd's bank to advance digitisation by transferring accounts away from legacy IT
- Tech Nation names 30 UK startups to watch
- Calls for Facebook to be split up sent to US FTC
- Poland may snub Huawei 5G tech amid spying concerns
- Apple forecasts climate change catastrophes will fuel iPhone demand
- Microsoft Office 365 goes down across Europe
January 24
- Police officers say IT system glitches responsible ‘for letting criminals off’
- Wales could be left behind in 5G adoption if critical investment isn't made
- Heathrow trials AI controlled runway with £2.5m 'digital tower laboratory'
- O2 and Vodafone to expand network sharing deal to cover 5G
- Gartner: government CIOs will focus IT spending on data analytics and security in 2019
January 23
- John McAfee goes on the run from the US government - again
- Google quiz challenges users to identify phishing emails
- Universities migrating to the cloud faster than other public sector bodies
- GoDaddy authentication vulnerability exploited for phishing campaigns
- The UK's airport drone craze is now wreaking havoc in the US
- Trojans lead siege on businesses for second year running
- Oracle underpaid women and minorities by more than $400 million, says US government
- Huawei warns it will go "where we are welcome" in response to Western restrictions
- Silver Peak rolls out SD-WAN to Google Cloud customers
- Ministry of Justice rushes to fix network outage
- Kingston University and Pangea team up on 5G tech to help emergency services
January 22
- Tech firms challenged to collaborate in effort to build a national ‘digital twin’
- IBM bolsters business defences with intense cyber security training facility
- France issues Google with the heaviest GDPR fine to date
- LORCA startups to benefit from New York partnership
- Privacy activist slams Apple, Amazon, YouTube and Spotify for GDPR violations
- AI implemented in some form by 37% of organisations
- Facebook and TUM create joint AI ethics research centre
January 21
- Epic's battle royale game Fortnite used to launder money
- Facebook to help protect EU elections
- Cumbria NHS trust hit with 'extraordinary' amount of cyber attacks in past five years
- Microsoft sets end-of-life date for Windows 10 Mobile
- Oracle accused of underpaying its female staff by $13,000 per year
- BlackRock leaks personal data of thousands of clients
- Article 13 and Article 11 talks break down
- Sony prepares for no-deal Brexit with Dutch HQ register entry
- Kaspersky Lab: 30 million cyber attacks hit the UK at the end of 2018
- Google faces another hefty EU antitrust fine
- HM Land Registry head touts potential of blockchain and geospatial data
January 18
- Oracle CEO: All cloud apps to include AI as standard by 2025
- Critical flaw in Amadeus booking platform affected 141 airlines
- Cloud security products uninstalled by mutating malware
- Oxford Uni blocks Huawei donations amid security concerns
- Tech firms reject no-deal Brexit and pivot towards ‘people’s vote’
- Activist groups win right to challenge immigration data exemption
- Vodafone teams with IBM to drive next wave of digital transformation with 5G
- Microsoft launches $20,000 Azure DevOps bug bounty programme
- Unsecured server reveals years worth of FBI investigations
- Apple's Tim Cook calls upon US FTC to allow consumers to track and delete personal data
- Microsoft will purge Cortana from Windows 10 search box
January 17
- Veeam receives cash injection from Insight Venture Partners to speed up growth
- Oracle unveils Java Card 3.1 for securing IoT devices
- Massive Collection #1 leak exposes 773m unique records online
- South Korea's weapon servers compromised by unknown hackers
- China hits back at DoJ's Huawei investigation
- LoJax rootkit used by Russian-linked Fancy Bear has been silently active since 2016
- IBM to put Watson Workspace out to pasture over lack of adoption
- SAS powers IFB's insurance fraud fighting detection platform
- Javascript still most popular coding language
January 16
- Ofcom research reveals tech advancements have disadvantages for disabled people
- A Raspberry Pi computer gets squeezed inside a mouse
- Google awards IBM MaaS360 with recommended accreditation
- Less than half of businesses can detect IoT data breach
- Google sets out roadmap for 64-bit requirement for Android apps
- Industrial remote control RF hack puts machinery at risk
- Lazarus hackers compromise Chile's ATM network through LinkedIn job advert
- Google snubs Russian online censorship demands
- Critical fund-stealing flaw delays major Ethereum upgrade
- MoD and Army rue errors in Capita recruitment contract
- DevOps salaries increase as businesses embrace new ways of working
- Microsoft signs big deal with Walgreens to harness patient data
January 15
- Tech Talent Charter: Micro-organisations leading the way for gender diversity
- M&A datacentre deals continue to grow
- Apple's drop in sales continues to affect suppliers
- HSBC uses blockchain to complete $250bn worth of trades in a year
- Startup receives $30 million from AWS and Samsung to fund new IoT tech
- Cloud spending surpasses traditional infrastructure expenditure for the first time
- AWS will be harnessed by SSE Enterprise and Tigerspike to drive smart city IoT platform
January 14
- NASA employee data exposed for at least three weeks due to misconfigured web app
- Briton sentenced for huge cyber attack on Liberian telco
- Apple demanded $1bn incentive payment from Qualcomm to use the chip maker's modems
- “Significant” data collection failings are harming children's mental health services
- Selective ransomware Ryuk nets $4m from big businesses
- South Wales town Ebbw Vale will host £20 million cyber security R&D centre
- Twilio appoints Google Hangouts innovator as chief product officer
- Siemens upgrades Digital Innovation Platform with Slack and Microsoft Teams integration
- Businesses investing in customer experience rather than back-office functions
- Lexar unveils 1TB UHS-I flash memory card for multimedia applications
January 11
- Slowdown in global PC shipments pinned on escalating US-China trade war and CPU shortage
- CES 2019: All the biggest announcements
- AT&T among mobile carriers to quit selling customers’ location data
- “Security concern” forces Reddit to lock users out of their accounts
- AI expert claims 40% of jobs could be automated within 15 years
- Microsoft Azure recovers from outage
- Court advisor says Google can limit 'right to be forgotten' to the EU
- NotPetya victim sues its insurance company
January 10
- Windows 7 users report network errors after January update
- AWS launches DocumentDB in a blow to open source
- NSA data thief caught by Kaspersky, not US officials
- Ransomware that uses a fake children's charity for phishing
- Thames Water advertises new big data contracts worth £10m
- Drone firms pitch security solutions to avoid government clampdown
- Zuckerberg to hold public discussions on tech
- Cambridge Analytica owner fined £15k for ignoring data access request
January 9
- IBM and WANdisco team up on relational database tech
- Phishing tool that bypasses Gmail 2FA released on Github
- Apple to cut iPhone production by 10% amid market downturn
- Cloud take-up growing 32% year-on-year
- Acquisition of Luxoft will boost growth, says DXC
- London still leads European tech investment by a long way
- UK's cyber security startup incubator announces new batch of hopefuls
- Mobileye and Ordnance Survey unite to improve autonomous car services
January 8
- T-Mobile pokes fun at AT&T for labelling its 4G service as 5G
- Coinbase halts trading of Ethereum Classic after attack
- The best passwords are the ones you can't remember
- Drone exclusion zones made bigger following Gatwick airport debacle
January 7
- Samsung warns of Q4 profit slump
- WhatsApp Gold scam returns with 'martinelli' malware threat
- Germany data breach: Teenager quizzed by police after house raid
- UK IT sector enjoyed a 4.3% pay rise in 2018
- "Cowardly" hackers infiltrate Australia's disaster alert system
January 4
- BitTorrent launches cryptocurrency that users can trade for faster downloads via uTorrent
- Microsoft is developing 'Bali', which aims to give users greater control over their data
- A TV licence phishing scam has driven over 5,000 complaints
- Angela Merkel's personal details leaked on Twitter
- Adobe releases emergency fixes for two critical Acrobat and Reader flaws
- Qualcomm enforces court order to ban iPhone sales in Germany
- Protecting elephants with Intel's AI-powered cameras
January 3
- Mozilla planning revamped Thunderbird for 2019
- USB-C to get security-focussed authentication program
- Microsoft 365 offers new bundles for cyber security and GDPR compliance
- Google's radar-based gesture sensor given the go-ahead
- Apple blames US-China trade war for first drop in revenue in over a decade
- Trump considers executive order to ban Huawei and ZTE
- Windows 10 is finally the world's most popular desktop OS
- Internet founding father Larry Roberts dies at 81
January 2
- Would you quit Facebook for $1,000?
- EU to fund bug bounties
- Google wins biometric data privacy case
- Matt Hancock says every GP practice must offer Skype appointments by 2024
- Hackers threaten to leak 9/11 litigation documents
- Cyber attack targets US newspapers, printing halted
- Privacy International claims most Android apps share data with Facebook without user consent
- Chrome OS takes steps to block ‘Rubber Ducky’ USB attacks