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- July 29th
- 7 million homes to be connected to fibre in new joint venture network
- Microsoft successfully tests emission-free hydrogen fuel cell system for data centres
- Intel kills off Optane Memory business with $559m loss
- IT Pro News In Review: Rise in ransomware attacks, UK & South Korea 5G & 6G, IBM data breach report
- Microsoft announces Teams chat integration for Dynamics 365
- Australia’s biggest bank launches second software engineer training hub
- TD SYNNEX unveils new Independent Software Vendor experience
- Jack Ma cedes power of his company to avoid government pressure
- Cyber attack on US court system being investigated, DoJ confirms
- July 28th
- US doubles reward for information on North Korean cybercrime syndicates
- NCSC launches startup incubator to protect against national cyber threats
- TikTok to give researchers new API for insight, greater transparency
- Google reveals new office in Atlanta and $1 million in funding for local communities
- European company unmasked as cyber mercenary group with ties to Russia
- Google rolls out minor UI and search refresh for major productivity boost
- Google adds two universities to Australian quantum computing initiative
- ZoomInfo hires new First Chief Security Officer
- Wrike adds new Custom Item Types to its work management platform
- July 27th
- Equifax eyes increased fraud prevention capabilities with Midigator acquisition
- Fraud detection and prevention market to hit $176 billion by 2030
- Researchers uncover 'mysterious' Windows rootkit being actively exploited since 2016
- DataGrail hires former Shopify VP Cathy Polinsky as CTO
- Microsoft warns hackers turning to IIS exploits to create backdoors in businesses
- Ransomware now strikes one in 40 organisations per week, Check Point finds
- Western Digital and Kioxia to get £562 million funding in Japan
- Price hike for consumers as data breach costs rocket to all-time high
- July 26th
- Clinivate notifies customers of data breach
- Southern co-operative faces legal complaint for facial recognition CCTV
- Alibaba plans to list on Hong Kong stock exchange
- TSA amends cyber security requirements for pipeline operators
- T-Mobile to pay $350m to settle class action lawsuit
- Covision Quality joins NVIDIA Metropolis Partner Program
- Kaseya to build R&D centre in Dundalk and create 250 jobs over next three years
- Facebook business accounts hijacked by infostealer malware campaign
- Microsoft wins five-year digital transformation deal with Australia’s largest telco
- Android adds drag and drop features to tablet OS
- UK to collaborate with South Korea on 5G, 6G development fund
- July 25th
- Rogers Communication to invest C$10 billion in AI, oversight following outage
- Intel to produce chips for Taiwanese manufacturer MediaTek
- UK-based OneWeb and French Eutelsat officially discussing major merger
- McAfee and Visa offer 50% off antivirus subscriptions for small businesses
- 1.2m businesses now eligible for UK gov's software discounts
- July 22nd
- IT Pro News In Review: Slack ups subscription fees, ransomware attacks rise, Microsoft expands CRM capabilities
- Mysterious MacOS spyware discovered using public cloud storage as its control server
- Google Cloud joins rivals in opening new cloud region in Mexico
- Zoom adds end-to-end encryption to Zoom Phone and Breakout Rooms
- Cambridge crowned UK’s most AI-ready city
- Report estimates £84 billion mid-market opportunity for European IT service providers
- July 21st
- Hackers hiding malicious links in top Google search results, researchers warn
- Data on 69 million Neopets users stolen and listed for sale on hacker forum
- Dell’s XPS 13 Plus becomes first Ubuntu 22.04-ready laptop
- Samsung proposes 11 Texas semiconductor plants worth $191 billion
- Economic downturn now perceived a bigger threat to business than ransomware
- UK gov opens £12m innovation fund to tackle cost of living crisis, regional inequality
- Singapore relaxes its grip on data centre industry with sustainability pilot
- Nutanix accused of violating open source licence in object storage product
- Freshworks expands unified customer record architecture with Freshchat
- Oracle and Microsoft announce Oracle Database Service for Azure
- July 20th
- Thales and SAP partner to secure data in public cloud
- Google and Oracle data centres hit by issues amidst hottest ever UK day
- Sophos announces new X-Ops unit to streamline defence against cyber attacks
- (ISC)2 offers free cyber security certifications to one million people
- Oracle adds new capabilities to Smart Construction Platform
- Microsoft announces simulator for autonomous aircraft development
- Romanian man extradited to US over Gozi virus hacking charges
- Microsoft launches Digital Contact Center Platform
- GPS tracker exploit puts the world's most high-value individuals in real-world danger
- Pax8 teams up with Nord Security to bolster security offering
- July 19th
- Verizon expands 5G UWB coverage with new spectrum
- Chinese authorities to fine Didi $1 billion following cyber security review
- Flipkart’s Cleartrip suffers “massive” data breach
- CISA chooses London for its first-ever overseas office
- Meta begins encrypting Facebook URLs, nullifying tracking countermeasures
- Apple hit with class action suit for stifling rival tap-to-pay options
- Slack to increase subscription prices for the first time
- Microsoft confirms Exchange outage that affected users globally is now fixed
- July 18th
- Google fined $971k for litigation misconduct in privacy suit
- Global ransomware activity surges again following a short decline in Q1
- FTC to keep a close tab on VPN providers amid Roe v. Wade ruling uproar
- FCC to consider huge update to minimum broadband speed
- Botched IT upgrade inadvertently cuts pay for Next employees
- UK gov invites experts to contribute to its overhauled AI regulatory approach
- Roblox hacker posts stolen documents online
- July 15th
- FCA sets out stall on crypto regulation
- Ericsson gets green light for $6.2 billion Vonage buyout
- Microsoft bifurcates channel chief role following partner backlash
- Taiwan considers fining Foxconn over China investment
- Morgan Stanley fined $200m for "unapproved" WhatsApp use
- Government launches Defence Centre for AI Research
- Samsung debuts industry-first 24Gbps GDDR6 DRAM
- Chinese authorities summon Alibaba executives over data breach
- Intel warns customers to expect price hike for certain chips
- Kyndryl to modernize IT Infrastructure for Honda's US subsidiary
- How to protect against 'endemic' Log4j vulnerabilities
- July 14th
- Most IT buyers experience high levels of regret
- BAE Systems lands $699 million US army HPC contract
- ID.me pushes for US-wide privacy legislation
- Google Cloud launches first Arm-based virtual machines
- UK government puts Online Safety Bill 'on ice'
- ICO crackdown on AI recruitment part of three-year vision to save businesses £100 million
- Bandai Namco finally confirms massive cyber attack as ransomware outfit claims responsibility
- Amazon gave police departments Ring footage without permission
- Microsoft testing fresh UI for the Windows 11 taskbar
- July 13th
- Apple cuts ties with Jony Ive after 30 years
- Microsoft unveils wide-scale phishing campaign that circumvents MFA
- BT to hire 1,800 new roles in Bengaluru and Gurugram in India
- Retbleed hardware-level flaw brings overhead woe to Intel and AMD
- Actively exploited zero-day and four 'critical' vulnerabilities fixed in Microsoft's July Patch Tuesday
- Red Hat appoints Matt Hicks as CEO
- Australian university suffers data breach of 47,000 students
- Procore grips AWS’ IoT TwinMaker for streamlined construction operations
- FTC fires warning against sensitive data misuse
- STMicro, GlobalFoundries invest €5.7 billion in French semiconductor production
- Intel rolls out Open Source AI Reference Kits for enterprises
- Cyber attackers strike flood monitoring system in Goa, India
- TikTok launches programme to help SMBs with social media marketing
- July 12th
- Deloitte launches Zero Trust Access for enterprises
- Thales acquires OneWelcome to boost identity and data privacy management
- Microsoft makes Windows Autopatch generally available to enterprise users
- LG taps Altair for AI-based product development simulation platform
- Oracle to build sovereign cloud regions in the EU for 2023
- US PC market facing successive quarters of double-digit decline
- Microsoft confirms VBA macro backtrack is only "temporary"
- ICO calls for gov review into use of WhatsApp and other private communication channels
- Kaseya denies Datto benefits cuts
- July 11th
- July 8th
- US seeks to ban shipments of chipmaking tools to China’s SMIC
- Engage with tech giants on foreign policy or risk national security, MPs tell government
- DISH hits back over SpaceX claims that sharing 12GHz spectrum would 'kill Starlink'
- EU inches closer to blocking Meta from sending personal data to US
- SoftBank under pressure over links with 'blacklisted' Chinese facial recognition firm
- Web3 projects lose over $2 billion to hacks and exploits in 2022
- 'This is a terrible idea': Security experts bemoan Microsoft’s backtrack on blocking VBA macros
- SHI malware attack causes major disruption and forces staff offline
- Kaspersky appoints new territory manager for UK&I
- July 7th
- CMA probe into Microsoft’s Activision Blizzard merger might derail company strategy
- Intel teams with Google Cloud to optimize HPC performance
- Ice Norway taps Nokia for 5G network expansion
- Maui ransomware actively targeting US healthcare organizations
- IBM snaps up data observability specialist Databand.ai
- MI5 and FBI warn businesses over mass Chinese IP theft
- US unveils next-gen encryption tools to withstand quantum computing attacks
- Apple launching Lockdown Mode with iOS 16 to guard against Pegasus-style spyware
- July 6th
- Microsoft identifies sophisticated Hive ransomware variant written in Rust
- Southwest Health Center hit by data breach
- Marriott hit by data breach through social engineering
- Amazon's use of third-party seller data to be investigated by CMA
- Nokia and Contela successfully conduct Korea's first private 5G interoperability trial
- Online Safety Bill: Messaging apps 'forced to scan messages' for child abuse content in fresh amendment
- EU votes to implement Digital Markets Act
- Xerox snaps up Go Inspire to boost digital services business
- Russia-linked state-sponsored hackers launch fresh attacks by abusing latest red team tool
- UK signs first post-Brexit data pact with South Korea
- Google Cloud and Vodafone announce AI Booster to energise next generation development
- July 5th
- Microsoft face claims of Azure capacity issues, regional limits
- EchoStar unveils the world's first pan-European LoRa IoT network
- Australian airports flag 5G interference warnings
- NCSC concerned for UK cyber experts burning out over Russia-Ukraine cyber war
- Sharp expands IT service offering with new Skykick partnership
- Google strikes $90 million settlement with US developers over Play Store dispute
- NICL taps Cognizant for streamlined digital transformation
- Cross-party MPs urge ban on two Chinese CCTV companies citing ethics and security concerns
- Japan’s second biggest telco finally fixes network after three-day outage
- Government and Deloitte-backed cyber security startup accelerator returns for second intake
- July 4th
- 59,000 Tesla cars recalled globally over software glitch
- Schneider Electric to exit Russia
- HackerOne employee fired for using position to steal bug bounties
- Latest LockBit ransomware strain 'strikingly similar' to BlackMatter
- Hackers claim to steal personal data of over a billion people in China
- Security experts 'concerned' over compromise of British Army's social media accounts
- July 1st
- Google to pay $90 million settlement over Play Store billing dispute
- Raspberry Pi launches next-gen Pico W microcontroller with networking support
- Google merges Chrome and Android password managers after community feedback
- Actively exploited server backdoor remains undetected in most organisations' networks
- SpaceX given FCC nod to provide Starlink Wi-Fi to moving vehicles
- The public sector will no longer face eye-watering data breach fines, ICO confirms
- Scality's new channel programme aims to simplify partner onboarding
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