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September 29
- Tay scandal taught us to take accountability, says Microsoft CEO
- Government pushes for teen-oriented social media jargon-buster guidelines
- Microsoft joins the Open Source Initiative
- BlackBerry is back in the black thanks to a strong licensing strategy
- Intel rolls out first 5G public test in Europe
- EU presses tech firms to eradicate online hate speech
- White House launches official investigation into use of personal email accounts
- Whole Foods is hacked, exposing credit card details
- Google Cloud IoT Core wants to manage your device data
- Could you worship an AI god?
- Virtus outlines plan to build London's biggest data centre site
September 28
- Airport check-in delays caused by 'network issue'
- AI identity firm raises $30m from backers including Microsoft and Salesforce
- Google buys ID management specialist Bitium
- Amazon launches the brand-new Echo, Echo Plus and Echo Spot
- Not ready for the cloud? Here's Office 2019, instead
September 27
- Trainline's new API wants to take the pain out of your business trip
- Google 'to separate shopping service' to comply with EU demands
- Google Cloud Platform brings per-second billing to compute
- HP, Acer and Lenovo take aim at businesses with Windows 10 S devices
September 26
- Bill Gates: I've switched to Android
- NGO director guilty of denying police his device passwords
- New optimisation plugin could speed up SQL Server by 30%
- Microsoft Teams subsumes Skype's voice and video features
- ARM 'may launch bid for Imagination' if Chinese sale falls through
September 25
- HPE brings software-defined approach to Azure Stack
- Deloitte suffers major cyber attack
- SAP brings identity management to Hybris with Gigya acquisition
- TalkTalk branded worst broadband provider by Which?
September 22
- IT contractor guilty of interfering with US Army database
- Uber 'not fit and proper' to run in London, TfL decides
- Insider threats make up 74% of business cyber security incidents
- Avast: CCleaner malware similar to China's APT17 attacks
- Google launches public beta of its Cloud Dataprep data wrangling tool loaded with Trifacta tech
- Microsoft and Facebook’s Marea subsea cable is finally complete
- HPE plans to slice 5,000 jobs to cut costs
- Unsecured AWS bucket 'left Viacom open to hackers'
- Cisco opens accelerator in Manchester to help startups scale-up
- Gov accuses Whatsapp of creating security 'black hole'
September 21
- EU: Tech firms pay half the tax of traditional businesses
- Seven in 10 firms plan to increase use of contractors to plug skills gap
- Barclays ex-CEO's fintech startup 10x raises £34 million
- SEC victim of hacking, filing system breached
- Google confirms buyout of HTC's Pixel team for $1.1bn
September 20
- Toshiba to sell chip unit for $18 billion to Bain-led group
- Over 75% of UK councils hit with malware over the past year
- 20% of Manchester police rely on Windows XP
- Skills gap could leave firms exposed to security vulnerabilities
- Theresa May wants terrorist material on the web removed in two hours
September 19
- TechUK: It's time for Wales to seize its digital opportunity
- Startups highlight the future of Wales at Digital Festival
- AWS moves to per-second billing for EC2 and EBS
- Hackers spread hidden malware to 2.27 million people via CCleaner
- Microsoft is still trying to fix its Outlook outage
- IT teams form strong business partnerships in the UK
- Oracle's Sparc M8 is 'twice as speedy' as Intel's x86
September 18
- Welsh property startup raises £450,000
- Slack hits $5 billion valuation on its journey to IPO
- Pirate Bay ropes visitors' PCs into mining cryptocurrency
- Digital Festival brings 2,000 innovators and investors to Cardiff
- Cisco wants to put superfast Wi-Fi on trains
September 15
- Government-as-a-platform is 'dead' declares former GDS head Francis Maude
- iPhone 8 Plus hands on: Apple makes its latest phablet look positively cheap against the iPhone X
- Google's Chrome browser will start labelling insecure FTP sites
- OurMine leaks 3.12TB of Vevo files
- Malicious WordPress plugin installed backdoor on thousands of websites
- Google is being sued for paying female employees less than their male counterparts
- ExpensiveWall malware running big bills for Android users
- HMRC appoints new CDIO
September 14
- UK moves to mirror GDPR with Data Protection Bill
- Firms warn of data centre skills gap
- Oracle joins the Kubernetes club
- Github brings IDE automation features to Atom
- IBM makes breakthrough in quantum computing
September 13
- VMware CEO: We have partnerships Dell isn't comfortable with
- Jeremy Hunt calls for NHS to go digital
- Samsung Galaxy Note 8 release date, specs and rumours: Samsung's next-gen phablets could feature folding screen
September 12
- VMware: Brexit isn't a challenge for us
- Rackspace buys public sector specialist Datapipe
- LinkedIn's co-founder is investing in a UK startup hub
- Vodafone helps move VMware workloads to IBM Cloud
- Reddit's ban on hate groups leads to far less abuse
- Citrix creates EU cloud region for European enterprises
September 11
- UK to re-invest £645m into 'superfast' broadband rollout
- Investigatory Powers Tribunal escalates lawsuit to the EU
- Deutsche Bank CEO: Robots will replace thousands of jobs
- Brexit 'could damage' UK tech firm valuations
- UK gov departments will share digital records to clamp down on immigration
September 8
- BMJ uses Datapipe's cloud expertise to expand in China
- Dell Boomi gives wallet startup a cloudy boost
- Google Cloud announces Dedicated Interconnect to aid cloud migration
- EU war game simulates cyber attack on military operations
- Google launches Drive File Stream to replace Google Drive on desktop
- EU investing in technology and diplomacy to ward off cyber attacks
September 7
- IBM and MIT team up to launch an AI lab set to make Watson even smarter
- How digitisation can combat the climate threat
- How Trainline can predict the price of your ticket
- Alexa, Siri, Cortana vulnerable to "silent hacking"
- Huawei overtakes Apple to become the second largest smartphone company
- EY to bring blockchain to the marine insurance industry
- Microsoft pledges legal support for its Dreamers
- Power stations under attack from long-running hacking campaign
September 6
- HPE to acquire Cloud Technology Partners to plan customers' cloud roadmaps
- WhatsApp reveals enterprise app in its monetisation push
- 26,000 unsecured MongoDB servers hit by ransomware
- Critical Apache flaw 'puts over 50% of Fortune 100 at risk'
- ECHR scales back businesses' powers to snoop on staff's private messages
September 5
- Should the internet be regulated?
- UK universities deny research data was compromised in hacks
- Interpol: Dark web hacking tools are fuelling cybercrime
- Huddle confirms Turn/River buyout
- Met Police chooses Box to spur evidence sharing
September 4
- Lush is building a virtual assistant on Google Cloud
- Data from 'six million' Instagram accounts leak online
- TUC: AI workers should help reverse pension age increase
- Google tries to make TV techies less white and nerdy
- Businesses to get 1,000 Mbps broadband in £10m pilot
- Nottingham County Council fined £70,000 for data leak
September 1
- Free Trojan kit includes a backdoor that spies on hackers
- US judge rules that Yahoo must face litigation by data breach customers
- This female startup invented a fake male CEO to expose the sexism of business
- SanDisk unveils world's largest microSD card
- HPE completes $8.8bn software spin off to Micro Focus
- Canadian university loses $11.8m in email phishing scam
- Wikileaks 'hacked' by OurMine
- Apple defends net neutrality in open letter to FCC
- Walmart creating own cloud with Nvidia
- Google forced to undo update after major outage
- Okta and Palo Alto Networks team up on security platform
- NHS needs to make better use of data and AI