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June 30
- Microsoft Azure Digital Twins previews new features
- Uber reportedly in talks to buy Postmates in $2.6 billion deal
- University of California gets fleeced by hackers for $1.14 million
- Fivetran is now worth $1.2 billion thanks to new funding
- Twitch suspends President Trump’s account for “hateful conduct”
- Australia announces $1.35 billion investment in cyber security
- CSA and ISSA form cyber security partnership
- Facebook dark mode has entered mobile user testing phase
- Area 1 Security raises $25 million in growth funding
- The VIC-20 returns after almost 40 years
- Lenovo DCG bolsters executive team with two new senior hires
- AWS launches CodeGuru to identify 'most expensive' code
- Future Fund now supports UK startups headquartered abroad
- Hackers primed to exploit CVSS 10-rated flaw in Palo Alto's PAN-OS
- UK gov urged to overhaul "unfit for purpose" Computer Misuse Act
- Microsoft releases Windows File Recovery app
June 29
- Sigma Computing appoints Orla Clifford as VP of Operations
- Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian leaves Initialized Capital
- Facebook ad boycott is ready to go global
- iPhone 12 models won't include EarPods or power adapter in the box
- 8 developers take home Apple Design Awards
- TikTok launches TikTok for Business for marketers
- Sources say federal and state Google antitrust probes nearly done
- TikTok caught secretly spying on millions of iPhone users
- Comcast and Mozilla strike major privacy deal
- UKCloud signs MoU with the Crown Commercial Service
- Northern Ireland to launch own contact-tracing app
- Windows 10 business users face new update restrictions
- UK gov buys "wrong" satellites in £500m blunder
- NHSX offers £3m tender to phase out pagers
- UK government launches £200m package for R&D SMBs
June 26
- Mobile banking apps are exposing user data to attackers
- Verizon joins Facebook advertising boycott
- Bipartisan PACT Act aims to reform Section 230
- Donut Robotics debuts connected face mask
- Brandcast Content Studio offers a web content system anyone can use
- Microsoft to permanently close all physical stores
- Google vows to help one million UK SMBs remain open
- Zoom hires Salesforce security executive as CISO
- Databricks acquires data visualisation firm Redash
- Amazon snaps up driverless car startup Zoox for $1.2 billion
- IBM Cloud suffers second global outage this month
- NCSC received one million scam email reports in just two months
- 'Largest ever' DDoS attack targets European bank
June 25
- Salesforce Anywhere streamlines remote work
- Rank One Computing to address misuse of its facial recognition technology
- Most malware came through HTTPS connections in Q1 2020
- Netflix is making it easier to hide what you’ve been watching
- Nvidia driver update will boost game performance
- Facebook Forecast app can predict the future
- Dell considers spinoff of $50 billion VMware stake
- Apple acquires enterprise security company Fleetsmith
- AWS launches Amazon Honeycode for code-free app building
- Google will automatically delete user activity data after 18 months
- Virgin Media is suffering a London-wide outage
- Slack attempts to replace email with Slack Connect tool
- Apple's ARM-based Macs won't support Windows virtualisation
June 24
- Senators propose a bill aimed at ending warrant-proof encryption
- Twitter restricts President Trump's tweet for "abusive behavior"
- Square is withholding up to 30% of customer funds
- Windows 10 update is causing forced reboots
- Phishing attacks target unsuspecting Wells Fargo customers
- Trump administration wants to enhance the security of .gov sites
- Navisite appoints Peter Berry as CTO
- Trump signs executive order freezing popular tech visas through 2020
- Company launches end-to-end encryption service for the federal government
- Microsoft is shutting down Mixer and teaming up with Facebook
- 84% of Brits worry contact-tracing data will be misused
- Palo Alto CFO Kathy Bonnano joins Google Cloud
- Zoom use skyrocketed 20-fold during UK lockdown
- Amazon launches accelerator for UK startups and SMBs
- HPE continues cloud push with new GreenLake services
- Facial recognition tech used by UK police "breaches privacy"
- Facebook dealt data collection blow in landmark antitrust case
June 23
- Mastercard announces acquisition of Finicity
- Fact-check information now added to Google Images
- Amazon launches $2 billion climate technology fund
- Apple shuts down some US stores after rise in coronavirus cases
- Windows 10 21H1 update may include user interface changes
- Twitter alerts business customers after flagging data breach
- HPE launches Ezmeral software portfolio – but is it just SBS in disguise?
- Google Maps may soon help you connect to mass transit
- Apple to remove thousands of unlicensed iPhone games in China
- Presidential campaign apps serve as data collection tools
- MaxLinear targeted by Maze ransomware attack
- Microsoft acquires IoT security platform CyberX
- IT vendor layoffs, pay cuts and furloughs to continue, says GlobalData
- ARM-fitted supercomputer now the most powerful in the world
- Google staff demand firm cancels police contracts
- Apple doubles down on privacy with iOS 14 and macOS 11
- Safe Documents sandbox tool released for Microsoft 365
June 22
- WWDC 2020: Apple unveils macOS Big Sur, iOS 14 and more
- Remote employees pose a security risk, says IBM Security
- Cyber criminals use Elon Musk’s name in a giveaway scam
- Apple starts accepting Mac trade-ins at retail stores
- Google takes another stab at social media with 'Keen' app
- HPE announces new services from Pointnext to help businesses get back to work
- Fujitsu announces AI monitor that tracks hand-washing
- Toshiba to offload memory chip unit
- Huawei to build £400 million R&D facility in the UK
- Employees are overlooked in digital transformation processes, study claims
- Activists publish 269GB of hacked US police force data
- Businesswoman sentenced for illegally deleting company files
- Microsoft backs calls for an antitrust review of Apple's App Store
June 21
- Back up your files with these top NAS drives
June 19
- Searching for a new job? That LinkedIn job offer may be fake
- Colin Kaepernick to join Medium as board member and columnist
- Trump tweet hit with a manipulated media warning label
- Boston Dynamics announces commercial sales of Spot Robot
- Windows 10 2004 bug breaks Storage Spaces
- Businesses could ditch passwords for new cryptographic key system
- Facebook buys street-level mapping start-up Mapillary
- IT Glue survey reveals COVID-19 impact on MSPs
- Malicious extensions target Chrome users
- Intel reveals 3rd-gen 'Cooper Lake' Xeon Scalable processors
- Microsoft acquires data model provider ADRM
- China behind cyber attacks on Australia, government sources claim
- ‘Severe’ Cisco WebEx flaw grants hackers access to meeting data
- AWS claims to have blocked the largest DDoS attack in history
June 18
- Civil rights groups call for a Facebook advertising boycott
- Watson Works helps employers make informed decisions about workplace re-entry
- Google Duo launches web video chats for up to 32 people
- Savvy threat actors can recover conversations using lightbulbs
- Facebook to share more about privacy updates and changes
- UK gov abandons contact-tracing app in favour of Apple-Google API
- iPhone “I’m getting pulled over” shortcut is gaining popularity. Here’s how to get
- IBM patches "highly dangerous" Maximo Asset Management flaw
- Intel appoints former HP CEO to board of directors
- MSPs enjoy green shoots despite coronavirus, Datto claims
- Slack invested in a recruitment startup without ever meeting its CEO
- Businesses put AI innovation on hold to avoid public backlash
- Coronavirus contact-tracing app to be launched in winter, minister reveals
- Google to invest $175 million in racial-equality projects
June 17
- Google Meet is now available on Android and iOS devices
- Bose shuts down its augmented reality program
- Schneider Electric extends partnerships with Lenovo, AVEVA and Stratus
- Oracle revenues miss analyst expectations
- Microsoft Teams update focuses on distance learning
- 80% of Americans distrust tech companies’ content moderation
- EE and Nokia to build "industry-first" Air-to-Ground 4G network
- Eurostar will use biometrics to power ‘contactless travel’
- Google and Parallels bring native Windows apps to Chromebooks
- Zoom U-turns on end-to-end encryption policy
- Dropbox launches a password manager and secure file vault
- CIA Vault 7 leak blamed on "woefully lax" attitude to cyber security
- Agilitas adds Fortinet security solutions to channel offering
June 16
- Amazon to use AI to enforce social distancing
- Netflix donates $5 million to support black organizations
- US companies can work with Huawei on 5G standards
- Cisco unveils tools to service the post-coronavirus workplace
- Cisco releases SecureX platform free-of-charge for existing customers
- Dell Technologies heads for the edge with PowerScale
- Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos ready to testify in House antitrust probe
- Microsoft might release the dual-screen Surface Duo next month
- EU fires warning shot to UK over post-Brexit US data-sharing
- Former eBay employees charged with cyber stalking
- Spending on enterprise infrastructure falls during first quarter
- WhatsApp rolls out digital payments service
- Apple faces two EU antitrust investigations
- Niche dating apps expose almost 1TB of user data
- Microsoft and SAS join forces for cloud-based analytics and AI
- HPE says the future of 5G is enterprise services
June 15
- Android TV may soon recognize individual voices
- Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 update is wreaking havoc on printers
- Acronis expands access to Acronis Cyber Protect
- Microsoft Teams adds background effects and live captions
- Novetta buys software engineering firm WaveStrike
- Encrypted messaging site Privnote cloned to steal Bitcoin
- IBM acquires compliance security company Spanugo
- NatWest to replace passwords with behavioural biometrics tech
- Snapchat partners with a meditation app
- Biden campaign publishes an open letter to Facebook
- NHS strikes landmark IT deal with Microsoft
- Google experiments with shorter URLs to combat phishing
- GitHub to retire 'master' label to erase slavery connotations
- Zoom blocking feature will allow China to censor individual users
- Windows 10 May 2020 Update is causing major Chrome issues
- Microsoft 365 learning platform opens UK data centres for compliance
June 12
- Senators introduce the Protecting American Intellectual Property Act
- City of Knoxville faced with ransomware attack
- Twitter discloses removal of state-linked information operations
- Apple and YouTube announce $100m initiatives to support black communities
- Google to introduce rules banning discriminatory job adverts
- Tech's big five lose $260bn in wake of fresh coronavirus cases
- Microsoft and NTT team up to create new digital capabilities
- Microsoft joins list of companies banning facial recognition sales to US police
- OpenAI launches language tool once deemed ‘too dangerous to make public’
- Chip design guru Jim Keller leaves Intel
June 11
- Lawmakers propose $22.8B in semiconductor funding
- Postman closes $150M Series C on $2B valuation
- Codat raises $10M in venture funding
- Just Eat Takeaway to purchase Grubhub for $7.3B
- Apple bringing workers back to HQ in mid-June
- UK's coronavirus contact-tracing app faces delay over complications with Bluetooth
- LG commissioned to build ‘stretchable’ displays by 2024
- Avanade awarded first GitHub advanced services accreditation
- CityFibre to create 10,000 jobs to power government's 2025 full-fibre pledge
- UK's post-Brexit data deals 'will go further than EU ever could'
- Amazon halts police use of its facial recognition tech
- UK gov awards £10 million to cutting-edge security-by-design projects
June 10
- M1 Finance raises $33M in Series B funding round
- FCC awarding $16B to address rural broadband gap
- Signal on iOS allows you to securely transfer data to new device
- Vodafone warns ditching Huawei will cost the UK its 5G leadership
- Michael Seibel to replace Alexis Ohanian on Reddit board of directors
- 8 tips for writing a great IT resume
- UK tech sector in a position of strength as lockdown lifts
- Lenovo devices hit by Windows 10 May 2020 Update issues
- Epson senior SVP appointed as MD of UK and Ireland
- Nintendo hack was twice as big as first reported
- IBM Cloud suffers major global outage
- Babylon Health admits to leak of GP video consultations
- WhatsApp exposed users' phone numbers in Google search results
June 9
- Study calls for Facebook to stop outsourcing content moderation
- Aruba overhauls its business with ESP
- Ingram Micro joins Red Hat Certified Cloud and Service Provider program
- Maze ransomware targets numerous high-profile organizations
- Tony Blair calls out government's failure to adopt new tech
- Apple abandons Intel in favour of custom Arm-based Mac CPUs
- Apple gets patent for synthetic group selfies
- Google rolls out new Maps features to aid the post-lockdown commute
- Wipro teams with IBM to develop hybrid cloud offering
- Open source vulnerabilities more than doubled in 2019
- Honda suffers suspected ransomware attack
- Amazon sues former AWS VP over new Google Cloud role
- Conduent targeted by Maze ransomware attack
- AI news: Europe lags behind on AI patents as Samsung dominates
- IBM to kill its own facial recognition technology
- Rackspace rebrands for major multi-cloud push
June 8
- Google Chrome team to use racially neutral code
- Alexis Ohanian steps down from Reddit board
- Full-fibre could create 1.2 million skilled jobs by 2025
- Check Point warns of resume-themed malware threat
- Fake ransomware decryption tool double-encrypts user files
- Brave apologises for redirecting users to affiliate links
- Fitness Depot notifies customers of data breach
- IBM releases toolkits for encrypting data while in use
- A third of Brits say their broadband has worsened during lockdown
- Huawei fights back against UK 5G criticism with open letter
- Apple releases open source tools for password manager developers
June 7
- Signal app use surges as protests spread
June 5
- Tips for writing a cover letter that'll help land the job
- Tech group challenges President Trump's social media executive
- Elon Musk calls for Amazon to be broken up
- Matt Gallatin joins Reltio as its chief financial officer
- Twitter disables Trump tweet due to copyright issues
- Apple’s iOS 14 to include a built-in translator for Safari
- DuckDuckGo suggests Google is destined for US antitrust action
- Tycoon ransomware discovered using Java image files to target software firms
- Slack and Amazon Web Services agree on a multi-year deal
- VMware ‘prepares to cut jobs’ after snapping up Lastline
June 4
- BRYTER completes $16M Series A funding round
- INKY announces $20M Series B funding round
- Apple confirms serious bugs in iOS 13.5
- Snapchat says it will no longer promote Trump’s account
- Keep yourself protected with our list of the best security suites
- Reddit communities protest the platform’s hate speech policies
- Best free ebook readers for Windows
- AMD virtual tour takes us inside Europe's Hawk supercomputer
- VMware appoints Carol Carpenter as new CMO
- Cyber attacks on anti-racism advocacy groups escalate amid protests
- Monzo to cut 8% of its workforce as the coronavirus takes its toll
- The UK looks to Japan and South Korea for 5G equipment
June 3
- Facebook launches Manage Activity for archiving and deleting old posts
- Microsoft issues warning about new PonyFinal ransomware attacks
- Amtrak Guest Reward suffers a data breach
- Twitter taps ex-Google CFO Pichette as board chairman
- Satirical websites target Mark Zuckerberg with fake news
- Brand-impersonation and form-based attacks are rising
- Software industry will be among first to recover from the pandemic, says PwC
- Apple is tracking iPhones stolen by looters
- US to challenge UK's "unfair" Digital Services Tax
- Zoom capitalises on high demand with 169% revenue surge
- Apple veteran plans to invest €80 million in pandemic-proof startups
- Google faces $5 billion lawsuit over 'private' mode tracking
- ESET unveils new channel Partner Programme
- WatchGuard wraps up Panda Security acquisition
- Ransomware collective claims to have hacked NASA IT contractor
- Google Cloud signs deal with the UK government
- BBC testing ‘Beeb’ AI voice assistant with Windows Insiders
June 2
- Parachute's Superlock feature keeps your phone recording in an emergency
- Facebook staff stage virtual walkout over firm's handling of Trump’s posts
- Android 11 leak points to new smart home integrations
- Argo AI closes $2.6 billion deal with Volkswagen
- Cisco and Sony postpone events due to ongoing protests
- Talkspace CEO says the deal is off with Facebook
- VMware adds SD-WAN solution to partner programme
- Dell Technologies launches new HPC systems to boost AI workloads
- Google postpones Android 11 launch amid US protests
- Tech industry calls for action over the death of George Floyd
- Wallpaper image crashes some Android phones
- Aruba reimagines the office for post-coronavirus work scenarios
- Smartphone market suffers "worst decline ever" in first quarter
- GitHub’s open source supply chain hit by Octopus Scanner malware
- UK government to protect tech firms from foreign takeovers
- Wipro appoints ex-Capgemini COO as new global CEO
- VMware Cloud Director exploit lets hackers seize corporate servers
- Privacy group to challenge UK over test and trace data retention
- Hackers revive years-old malware to exploit mass remote working
- Vodafone is offering free broadband to UK startups
June 1
- OTTO Motors raises $29 million to take its robots global
- Google rescinds offers to over 2,000 contractors
- Developer scores $100,000 bounty from Apple for exposing a critical vulnerability
- Businesses are building their future with 5G and Wi-Fi 6 in mind
- Hackers are targeting the education sector
- Hackers are wreaking havoc on Google’s Cloud infrastructure
- Lenovo launches new enterprise-focused VR headset
- Developer claims Microsoft "copied" his software with WinGet
- Tech Nation appoints ex-Sage CEO Stephen Kelly as chair
- Zoom will offer stronger encryption for paid accounts
- Western Digital accused of sneaking inferior SMR tech into NAS drives
- Microsoft to replace journalists with AI