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August 31
- 68 million Dropbox credentials leak online
- ARM shareholders approve SoftBank takeover
- What is Amazon Dash?
- Dell EMC deal will complete next week
August 30
- Corbyn’s digital manifesto makes high speed broadband a priority
- Intel unveils 7th-generation Kaby Lake processors
- Google asks Android users for micro-feedback
August 26
- Enterprises are the “ideal” target for Trident iPhone hack
- ICO investigates WhatsApp-Facebook data sharing deal
- iOS 9 release date, features and battery life: Apple issues Trident hack fix for businesses and consumers
- Everything you need to know about the Trident iPhone exploit
- GCSE results show STEM subjects are still lagging behind
- Android comes out victorious in failure report
August 25
- WhatsApp will let businesses chat with you in advertising push
- Linux celebrates its 25th birthday today
August 24
- British universities targeted by ransomware
- Hackers steal personal data of almost 200,000 GTA fans
- French submarines spring a security leak
- LoopUp raises £8.5m in ‘first’ post-Brexit tech IPO
- Blizzard experiences second DDoS attack this month
- Ransomware increases by 172% in H1 2016
August 23
- WikiLeaks ‘exposes people’s personal data’ in leaked files
- UK becomes the world's number two target for DDoS hackers
- Was an insider behind the NSA hack?
August 22
- Apple buys health data startup Gliimpse
- PowerShell goes open source, comes to Linux and MacOS
- Police crack-down on drone drug drops in prisons
- Why is Samsung selling pre-owned phones?
- BT and Nokia join forces to bring UK 5G
- iPhone sales decline 7.7% in Q2 2016
- Twitter suspends another 235k accounts to stop terrorism
August 19
- Bulk data harvesting essential to counter terrorism, according to report
- Cisco confirms Shadow Brokers vulnerabilities are real
- MIT researchers develop batteries with double the power
August 18
- A Level results day: ICT has lowest pass rate in UK
- Google's copyright victory should be thrown out, says Oracle
- Intel unveils wireless 'Project Alloy' VR headset
August 17
- Intel: Kaby Lake 7th gen Core chip will launch this autumn
- Ford to mass-produce driverless cars in 2021
- Intel unveils new 'Joule' Internet of Things developer kit
- Google launches video calling app
- CIOs need to lead on customer engagement
August 16
- Employees still falling for phishing scams
- AdaptiveMobile uncovers RAT mobile malware
August 15
- Tens-of-thousands of card details put at risk in hotel hack
- IBM: "Are you in danger of over-collaborating?"
- Government reveals more about apprenticeship levy
August 14
- Keyless car entry systems could be a huge security risk
August 12
- Tesla Autopilot 2.0 to feature three cameras and more radar sensors
- Trump resort will not be charged for breaching data laws
- Hackers steal 1.9 million Dota 2 gamers' data from chat forum
- Former business minister backs calls to split up BT
August 11
- UK tech industry suffers post-Brexit dip in confidence
- Google Chrome finally axes Flash - for good
- Microsoft moves to patch remote access bugs in IE, Edge and Windows
- Seagate unveils 'largest ever' 60TB enterprise storage SSD
- New ICO chief: UK can navigate post-Brexit data protection problems
- VR architect job searches increase as interest peaks
- Online gamers risking security attacks
August 10
- Majority of Brits distrust biometric security, study reveals
- Google: Android protects against three of four QuadRooter flaws
- Teenager gets 1m air miles for discovering United bugs
- SAP to power ThreatConnect threat intelligence system
August 9
- CMA orders development of open API for banking
- Russian hackers 'behind Oracle Point-of-Sale hack'
- Delta CEO apologises to customers following systems meltdown
- Bitcoin users will lose 36% of assets after hack
August 8
- Strider spying group targets Russia, China, Belgium and Sweden
- Tesla Autopilot takes driver to hospital
- Google and Dashlane launch YOLO password management
August 5
- Apple finally introduces bug bounty programme
- Brexit fallout ‘will test CIOs and their crumbling legacy systems’
- New head says GDS is "here to stay"
- MoJ wants "tech as good as you've got at home"
- Should we be worried about robot bug hunters?
- Firefox ditches 404s in favour of archived pages
- Intel recalls Basis Peak smartwatches
August 4
- Four major flaws found (and fixed) in HTTP/2
- Apple: We've eliminated the gender pay gap
- Microsoft adds more bots to Skype, including Spock
- People admit to using the internet way too much
- FireEye reveals 1,600 industrial vulnerabilities since 2000
August 3
- BlackBerry brings Hub+ to Android smartphones
- Google drone trials approved, as Amazon "horrifies" Brits
- Samsung Galaxy Note 7 hands on
- IoT could cause a worldwide catastrophe, warns Bruce Schneier
August 2
- 200 million Yahoo account details 'published on dark web'
- Websites can track your online activity via your battery status
- Of course HP isn't selling laptops for £2 (anymore)
- Google warns Android users of dodgy logins
- Pokémon Go developers explain tracking ban
- Credits becomes first G-Cloud blockchain PaaS
- Trend Micro helps Interpol uncover serial cyber criminal
- Tablet sales fall 16% in second quarter
August 1
- BBC iPlayer loophole finally ends: From September, you'll have to pay
- Russian government 'targeted by spyware'
- Uber 'to spend $500 million' on building its own mapping technology
- Barclays replaces passwords with voice authentication for telephone banking
- Yahoo fights hate speech with abuse algorithm