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December 23
- US pushes for homegrown 5G to solve Huawei woes
- Arm looks to sell off loss-making security venture
- Twitter issues emergency security patch for Android
- EE joins TfL trial of 4G on the Underground
- XSS the most widely-used attack method of 2019
December 20
- Google fined €150m for anti-competitive behaviour
- Google services knocked offline after fibre cables cut
- UK Police lost 2,600 devices over the last three years, FOI reveals
December 19
- Meet Bill: The AI-powered bot BA plans to use at Heathrow in 2020
- EU-US data transfer tools used by Facebook ruled legal
- The UK should follow Finland's lead with it comes to AI training
- Avast and AVG extensions pulled from Chrome
- UK needs tougher rules to tackle online giants
- Amazon, Apple and Google join forces on voice for smart homes
December 18
- EE expands 5G to nine new UK towns and cities
- We're completely wrong about blue light filters, experts claim
- Mac Pro a "masterclass in repairability"
- Canadian laboratory advised to pay ransomware demand despite industry best practice
- 40,000 students forced to queue for new passwords after 'severe' cyber attack
- Facebook apps dominated this decade's mobile market
December 17
- Google Cloud gains fresh security partners and tools
- NHS Trusts keen on AI but are limited by poor access to data
- Intel spends $2bn on Habana Labs in AI data centre push
- Merkle in the middle of US and China over Huawei
- Businesses can block Chromium-powered Edge rollout
- Britain's South West cities are the best places to launch startups
- Microsoft, Apple and more accused of benefiting from child labour
December 16
- Open-source rivals considered suing Amazon over "strip mining"
- Microsoft unexpectedly extends Windows 10 Mobile support
- Chrome updates on Android paused after discovery of data-eating bug
- Thief swipes sensitive details of 30,000 Facebook employees
December 13
- Apple supplier Japan Displays to receive $829m bailout
- Google Transfer Service launched for those handling enormous data migrations
- Microsoft to scrap Security Essentials when Windows 7 reaches end-of-life
December 12
- Lloyd’s of London to plough £300m into digital transformation roadmap
- Hundreds of counterfeit shoe sites hit by Magecart credit card scam
- Campaigners block use of facial recognition and ICE access to data
- German telecoms firm slapped with €10m GDPR fine
December 11
- Latest Chrome release offers breach password check and tab freezing
- Google reveals UK’s most searched for terms in 2019
- Patch issued for critical Windows bug
- DfT seeks tech partner to help develop transport data mapping tool
December 10
- Microsoft launches Office 365 phishing campaign tracker
- Ex-Apple CPU architect accuses the firm of invading privacy
December 9
- Apple’s Mac Pro powerhouse available to order in December
- ORG claims voter profiles are inaccurate and illegal
- Ericsson shells out $1bn to settle bribery charge
- This exploit could give users free Windows 7 updates beyond 2020
December 6
- Apple admits iPhone 11 ‘overrides settings’ to track users’ locations
- UK-US post-Brexit data flow agreement could water down regulation standards
- 44 million Microsoft customers found using compromised passwords
- HackerOne bug bounty platform breached by its own user
December 5
- Industrial Wi-Fi 6 trial reveals blistering speeds
- Labour MP ‘targeted by Russian phishing campaign’
- Boris Johnson suggests UK will side with US over Huawei exclusion
- Proportion of women in tech roles ‘flatlining’
December 4
- Pablo Escobar's brother launches budget foldable phone
- Qualcomm announces latest line of 5G-ready smartphone chips
- Boris Johnson commits to UK tech tax despite US pressure
- Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin step down from Alphabet management
- Verizon unveils 5G edge compute service at Re:Invent
- AWS ramps up SageMaker tools at Re:Invent
December 3
- AWS plugs leaky S3 buckets with CloudKnox integration
- AWS goes all-in on quantum computing
- HPE takes on public cloud with GreenLake Central
- Europol seizes more than 30,000 counterfeit sites on Cyber Monday
- Huawei takes the US trade sanctions into its own hands
December 2
- Facebook lets users port photos and videos to Google
- Millions of text messages leaked through exposed TrueDialog server
- Intel: Qualcomm "forced" us to sell modem biz at a 'multi-billion dollar loss'
- Google's data collection to be scrutinised by EU antitrust investigators
- National Crime Agency brings down prolific Trojan marketplace