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October 31
- 126 million US citizens 'may have seen Russian Facebook posts'
- What is performance management?
- Microsoft cloud growth closes gap on AWS
- HCL partners with Red Hat on enterprise app development
- Extreme Networks buys Brocade's data centre business
- Microsoft: CIOs have a responsibility to dispel automation fears
October 30
- Banking CIOs dismiss blockchain's potential in Gartner survey
- Wildfire 'destroys' Hewlett Packard archives
- AWS continues to outpace Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure
- Heathrow airport investigates USB stick security breach
- Reaper IoT botnet 'only partially mobilised'
- US iPhone users will spend $88 per year on apps by 2020
October 27
- Artificial Intelligence outsmarts CAPTCHA security
- Microsoft developing a foldable tablet for digital note-taking - report
- OnePlus 5T might launch in November
- Microsoft hits $20 billion cloud services target early
- AWS unveils P3 instances for faster machine learning
- Twilio Programmable Video combines video with AR
- Virtual Instruments partners with Cisco
- Russia Today and Sputnik banned from advertising on Twitter
October 26
- Dell web address grabbed by a third party for a month
- Kaspersky claims pirated Office software was behind NSA exploit leak
- Uber sued for alleged sex and racial discrimination
- Over 30,000 businesses now use Facebook's Workplace
- Breached businesses just want the blue pill, says Brian Krebs
- Most workers would welcome an AI assistant
October 25
- Computer programming leads GDP growth
- 30% of CEOs have had their credentials leaked
- 'Bad Rabbit' ransomware found to be similar to NotPetya
- Microsoft follows Google's lead, adding Skylake to Azure
- Cisco buys cloud PBX provider BroadSoft
- Dell streamlines Windows 10 and PC deployments with PCaaS
October 24
- Plastic surgery clinic hit by hackers
- Why this missing piece of the UK's Data Protection Bill 'threatens consumer rights'
- Microsoft drops suit as US authorities limit data gag orders
- Cray and Microsoft bring supercomputing to Azure
- Thousands of Snap Spectacles sit unsold in warehouse
- Booking.com funds Oxford scholarships for women in tech
October 23
- IoT Reaper 'will be worse than Mirai'
- JP Morgan partners with AI data startup
- Rackspace kills discount cloud hosting for open source projects
- Police pursue cloud first IT strategy
- Intel invests $60m into 15 tech startups
- Cisco snaps up machine learning startup Perspica
October 20
- Google Play attempts to make Android apps safer through rewards program
- MongoDB shares close 34% higher in its IPO
- Canada's spy agency releases its own anti-malware tool to the public
- SoftBank to create new technology investment fund
- AI news: CBI urges creation of AI commission in 2018
- UK mobile phone networks overcharge customers by up to £38 a month
- Intel's Speech Enabling Developer Kit aims to spread Alexa voice control further
- TCO and integration concerns still clog cloud adoption
- Google brings data loss prevention to its cloud
- Southend to deploy smart city initiatives with Cisco
October 19
- Samsung brings Linux distros to the Galaxy S8
- Coalition Against Piracy fights online piracy
- BBC to develop new services based on machine learning
- Cloud spending soars at IT outsourcing's expense
- IBM and Docker ship workloads to the cloud in containers
- Google makes Gmail super secure - but not for most users
- Apple finds a new enterprise partner in GE
- Why being human still matters in the world of cyber security
- McAfee Investigator launched at MPOWER 2017
October 18
- EU seeks Privacy Shield changes in its first annual review
- UK oversight bodies 'were not aware' of spies' data-sharing
- Twitter unveils new measures targeting hate and harassment
- Data breach news: Banks prioritise security spending in light of data breaches
- Google Calendar's web app receives a long-awaited revamp
- IBM aims to ease your cloud migration
October 17
- Microsoft 'downplayed internal database hack'
- IBM wants to speed up global payments with blockchain
- Samsung and Amazon fail to meet Greenpeace energy standards
- Gartner predicts 2% growth in PCs, tablets and smartphones
October 16
- Cyber attack news: Pizza Hut took two weeks to warn payment card data leaked
- US v Microsoft: data privacy case heads to Supreme Court
- Was Iran behind Parliament's email hack?
- Would you post your CV on Facebook?
- Government trials drones to sniff out chemical hazards
- OnePlus promises to hoover up less customer data
- Windows 10 breaches privacy, say Dutch regulators
October 13
- Computer education to improve with the Raspberry Pi powered Pi-top
- Gluon provides machine learning for AWS and Azure
- Samsung CEO quits claiming the company is going through an "unprecedented crisis" - but profits are up
- 17-qubit chip could shape next stage of quantum computing development
- Hyatt Hotels suffer second credit card breach in as many years
- Facebook has "an enormous responsibility" for Russian interference in US election
- IT firms are especially reliant on non-UK talent
October 12
- Qualcomm hit with $774m fine in yet another antitrust case
- 28% of young UK workers' jobs 'at risk of automation'
- Cloud Foundry unveils Cloud Foundry Container Runtime
October 11
- Five simple ways SMBs can fend off hackers and cyber attacks
- Accenture exposes 137GB of client data on unsecured AWS buckets
- Pornhub malvertising attack affects millions of users
- UK government considers social media levy to combat online abuse
- Worldwide PC shipments continue to fall
- ICO fines bank and ad firm £125,000 for spamming customers
- Box: Brexit won't impact UK access to tech skills
- CEO apologises following EE outage
- Workday brings data insights to finance and HR
October 10
- VMware CTO to head up new Dell IoT division
- Microsoft lets Cortana reply to your Skype messages
- Samsung Galaxy S8 owners say SMS messages go missing
- Surface kill date claims are just a "tabloid rumour"
- Uber's HR chief never discussed sexism concerns with whistleblowing engineer
- Nokia axes 310 jobs as it leaves the VR market
October 9
- BlackBerry to launch Android phone with no keyboard
- HMRC cracks down on deceptive websites
- Microsoft retires Windows Phone
- ARM hires 1,000 staff after SoftBank buy-out
October 6
- Autonomous cars may prompt the changing of Australian drink-driving laws
- Trump chief of staff's personal phone 'compromised'
- China approves HP's $1.1bn buyout of Samsung's printer business
- Google’s DeepMind poised to start making money from AI
- US security secrets stolen in Russian NSA hack: reports
- Online-only smartphone sales key driver for 4G device uptake
- Phone notifications have a negative effect on your mood
October 5
- Irwin Mitchell: Consent will be a 'weak legal basis' for data processing under GDPR
- AI 'golden age' at risk from misinformation
- Mozilla drops support of Firefox on Windows XP and Vista
October 4
- The future of cyber security
- Quantum computers key to life, the universe and encryption
- Samsung announces new VR headset
- EU to hit Amazon with a massive back tax bill
- TSB chooses Microsoft's cloud for enhanced collaboration
- Privacy International takes government to court over hacking
- Oracle plugs its AI enterprise bots into social apps
October 3
- Race a bigger factor in tech's glass ceiling than gender
- Rolls-Royce teams up with Google on autonomous ships
- NCSC: UK hit by 590 "significant" cyber attacks last year
- Databricks opens EMEA HQ in London amid AI boom
- Home secretary, here's some help with encryption
- Google and Apple see dramatic rise in requests for user data
October 2
- Oracle automates the cloud database
- Tories to reveal plans to make UK web the safest
- Uber's top UK exec quits
- Lost the remote? Use your cat
- British fintech startup partners with Xero for easier expense filing
- Former Oracle employees sue over pay discrimination
- Google to revamp security to fight political hacks
- Google flips focus from free news to subscription support
- Uber's ex-CEO appoints two new directors to its board
- FBI's iPhone cracking software to remain a secret
- Thousands of Macs exposed to EFI boot-up bug
- Oracle: Automated security would have prevented Equifax breach