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March 29
- Five SMBS to benefit from £9m R&D injection into NHS initiatives
- ICO's regulatory Sandbox enters beta phase
- Microsoft deems Windows 10 October 2018 Update safe for deployment
- Slew of vulnerabilities detected in HTTPS
- Microsoft Azure doles out 500 patents to startups
March 28
- Trio of AI pioneers named winners of the Turing Award
- Huawei poses ‘significantly increased risk’ to UK network operators
- Cisco fails to fix two high-risk flaws in small business routers
- Salesforce sued over dealings with sex trafficking site
- Oracle cuts staff count as it tries to keep pace with AWS
- Virgin Media launches 1,000GB data plan for SMBs
- Google launches advisory board to help it develop ethical AI
March 27
- Mozilla claims EU "squandered" chance to modernise copyright laws
- AMP for Gmail launches in bid to boost productivity
- AWS makes double swoop for Volkswagen and Standard Bank
- Young women likely to have the coding skills employers want
- Thames Water splashes £1bn on digital transformation dive
- Fraudster pays $49.7m back to Facebook and Google
- Huawei ducks EU ban, but member states must probe 5G tech
- UK banking tech centre stage for Tech Nation’s Future Fifty programme
- Adobe plugs AI into its services suite
March 26
- Security industry will "implode" within the next two years
- Universities and colleges must pool together to boost digital skills
- Article 13 and Article 11 have been approved by European Parliament
- Government will open up bus data to improve rural services
- TalkTalk and Sky are 'failing' customers with poor broadband speeds and service
- Only 4% of businesses have signed up for Making Tax Digital
- Bristol tech projects will receive up to £50,000 in government funding
March 25
- Apple launches new TV, gaming and finance services
- Disaster victims' sensitive information exposed through FEMA data breach
- Unsecured MongoDB database exposes real-time locations of families
- Public sector to be probed over AI and data-driven tech use
- 36 vulnerabilities in LTE 4G standard could enable data interception
- UK welcomes startup tech talent from Africa
- Diversity not a company priority claim nearly half of women in tech
- Government tops up Welsh broadband contribution to £5,500
March 22
- Microsoft tech support scammer fleeces users out of $3m
- NCSC targets business leaders with cyber security toolkit
- The biggest tech companies have access to your health data
- Police Federation hit by seemingly random cyber attack
- Fraudsters hide auto-playing videos in Android apps to illegally generate revenue
- Finland to investigate Nokia smartphones after data breach
March 21
- Most business leaders view transformation as 'a waste of time'
- John McAfee ordered to pay $25 million over neighbour's murder
- Oracle extends Slack partnership with customer experience integrations
- Windows 7 security patches officially coming to an end
- Gartner predicts AI will consume 80% of project management tasks
- DDoS attacks could cost the UK £1bn
- Nvidia and SAS join forces to drive AI and analytics in business
March 20
- Is your weakest link really where you think it is?
- Nvidia unveils high-powered workstations geared towards data scientists
- DataWorks Summit 2019: Cloudera allays post-merger fears with ‘100% open-source’ commitment
- Avaya boosts contact centre service with Google's cloud and AI tech
- Mozilla unveils Firefox 66 update with a suite of tweaks
- FBI credited with global 85% reduction in DDoS attack size
- Google hit with €1.49bn fine for antitrust violations
- Kaspersky joins Spotify in the Apple antitrust allegations
- Vote Leave fined £40,000 for unlawful text messages
- Trello gains 13 enterprise features aimed at business productivity
- Gov launches investigation for potential bias in algorithms
- Toyota partners with NVIDIA to create the future of autonomous vehicles
March 19
- Aluminium manufacturer Hydro crippled by ransomware
- Apple launches surprise desktop iMac and iMac Pro upgrades
- Devastating Mirai variant is back on the hunt for businesses to infect
- A third of small businesses have no cyber security strategy
- Brexit to blame for fintech talent shortage, report finds
- Facebook offers insight into how the NZ shooter video spread
- ICO seeks expert input on AI regulation
- Microsoft researcher will lead UK's National Centre for Computing Education
- Government earmarks £1m to fund 5G R&D projects
- Birmingham Court fines pair over data breaches
March 18
- Microsoft to roll out Windows 10 'sandbox extension' for Chrome and Firefox
- MPs call for social media tax to fund mental health research
- Huawei revenue growth flies in the face of "external pressure"
- Apple owes Qualcomm for three infringements, jury finds
- London's top attractions besieged by more than 100 million cyber attacks
- Google adds pro-privacy search engine DuckDuckGo into Chrome
March 15
- Mercedes-AMG migrates to TIBCO for enhanced data analysis
- Microsoft open-sources Azure compression technology
- Google employee uses cloud to break Pi world record
- Head of now-defunct Mt. Gox found guilty of data manipulation
- NAO slams mismanaged national cyber security programme
- Top US general accuses Google of working to ‘directly benefit’ Chinese military
- Widespread network sharing touted as the means to spread 5G across the UK
- Zuckerberg loses two executives ahead of planned encryption shift
- SMEs poised to increase security budgets and recruitment in 2019
- Businesses don't understand how security can be integrated into DevOps
- Facebook in chaos as criminal probe follows mass outage
March 14
- Millions hit by major Android-based malware campaigns
- Spring Statement 2019: Hammond commits £200 million to tech investment
- Volkswagen to replace retirees with robots
- Businesses warned over a new breed of BitLocker attacks
- Aviation connectivity firm Gogo takes to the cloud with AWS infrastructure shift
- Bank of England's legacy systems and manual operations cost it heavily
- Google reportedly scaling back hardware focus in the face of stiff competition
- Windows 10 can automatically uninstall fault-causing updates
- IBM used Flickr photos to train image recognition tech without user consent
March 13
- Defra's no-deal Brexit IT systems may not be ready for 29 March
- Chancellor backs calls to curb tech giants' market power
- Bristol City Council launches phishing attacks against own staff
- Gmail, Drive and other Google services suffer international outage
- EU shelves plans to impose digital tax
- ICO wants to fix the data trust deficit
- ICO raids Birmingham and Brighton companies suspected of millions of nuisance calls
- Mozilla pushes out encrypted file sharing service Firefox Send to all users
- Phishing attacks hook half of UK organisations over the past two years
March 12
- Apple announces 25 March event, teasing streaming services
- Nokia 9 PureView hands-on review: A camera-heavy phone that's so last year
- Facebook helps Elizabeth Warren illustrate her stance on tackling big tech
- Google agreed $135m in payouts to execs accused of sexual harassment
- NatWest and RBS trial biometric bank card
- Government commits £30m to boost UK military battlefield app development
- Tim Berners-Lee wants us to build a better World Wide Web
March 11
- Virgin Media rolls out Intelligent WiFi to boost home networks
- NHS strikes robotics deal to automate back office functions
- Tech London Advocates slams French Digital Service Tax
- Coinhive closure could spell the end for ‘cryptojacking’ attacks
- Citrix security breach sees 6TB of sensitive data stolen
- Apple predicted to start making augmented reality headsets between 2019 and 2020
- Okta to buy automation startup Azuqua for $52.2m
- UK Army gets £66m to boost military robotic projects
- Vodafone warns against UK blanket ban of Huawei 5G telecoms tech
March 10
- New FOI data reveals how businesses blundered before GDPR
March 9
- Lords demand 'digital supervisor' to govern tech regulation
March 8
- Patched Chrome exploit worked hand-in-hand with critical Windows bug
- No-deal Brexit could drive down global tech market growth, report warns
- UK Courts face case backlog due to "not-fit-for-purpose" IT
- Email verification service takes itself offline after 800 million records get publicly exposed
- Male attitudes the biggest barrier to women in technology
- Dell calls on EU governments to invest billions in sustainable tech
March 7
- Home Office IT defects may lead to another Windrush scandal, MPs warn
- Amazon reveals funding scheme to get more women into tech
- Zuckerberg reiterates Facebook data sharing ambition despite privacy concerns
- Majority of UK police forces lagging behind on cloud
- Department for Transport partners with Google Cloud on rail network app
- Huawei sues US over "unconstitutional" product ban
- Microsoft opens first Africa Azure data centre
- Charity sector hamstrung by lack of tech support
March 6
- Government 'must focus on replacing legacy IT systems'
- Lancaster University adopts AWS chatbots to support student services
- Salesforce launches myTrailhead to drive skills and learning in business
- Quadriga's cryptocurency goes missing in fresh revelation to the saga
- 'Random' password 'ji32k7au4a83' used in 141 data breaches
- Chinese hackers target maritime military secrets and blitz other global companies
- Research unearths inadvertent GDPR business benefits
- UK Prisons trial facial recognition to stop drug smugglers
- Supreme court orders Oracle to pay litigation money back
- Banks and insurers underestimate digital transformation challenges, finds Capgemini
March 5
- Facebook set to expand Oculus VR headsets into the enterprise arena
- 90% of hacked CMS sites in 2018 were powered by WordPress
- NAO slams GDS for bungling its flagship Verify ID platform
- Google finds that almost half of its wage inequality can be attributed to new hires
- Government warns of cyber knowledge shortage at board level in the UK
- Half of top 12 major cyber security exploits target IoT devices
- Privacy watchdog calls for Windows 10 to stop uploading encryption keys to Microsoft
- USB 4 specification confirmed with Thunderbolt 3 capabilities
March 4
- Researchers link late-2018 'Sharpshooter' infrastructure attacks to North Korea
- Businesses' visitor management systems vulnerable to cyber attacks
- Raspberry Pi devices can be hijacked via Windows IoT hack
- Facebook's 2FA accused of violating user privacy
- Huawei's Meng Wanzhou to sue Canadian authorities over her arrest
- Cisco gets ahead of the herd with ‘connected cow’ app
- Teenage hacker makes $1m from bug bounty rewards
- IBM touts contingency plans as Brexit looms
March 1
- Six IT systems for Brexit border control at risk of failure
- Microsoft launches cloud-native security management tool Azure Sentinel
- Ofcom brings tougher broadband speed regulations into effect
- Workplace by Facebook hits two million paid users
- IT decision makers fail to implement proactive security strategies