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December 22
- Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year
- Alphabet's executive chairman steps down
- Long Island Ice Tea renames itself Long Blockchain, shares to rocket
December 21
- Zanco tiny t1 is the world's smallest phone measuring the same size as a USB drive
- Experian data on 120 million users found in leaky AWS bucket
- GCHQ has "over-achieved" at developing state hacking tools
December 20
- Nike's ex-CFO joins Dropbox's board
- Fintech startup Tandem given approval to buy Harrods Bank
- BlackBerry to axe BBOS app store
- Slow broadband to be outlawed as government pledges 10Mbps minimum
- NHS ransomware: UK government says it's North Korea's fault WannaCry happened
December 19
- The Twitter purge has begun: Site bans Britain First accounts as part of clamp down on abusive and hateful users
- France: WhatsApp has no legal basis to share data with Facebook
- Christmas remains a hot time for phishing attacks
- Oracle eyes cloud-based process management success with latest acquisition
December 18
- Amazon may face €10m fine for alleged 'abuse' of market dominance
- Firefox angers users with alarming Mr Robot plugin
- NIC calls lack of 4G coverage in UK 'deplorable'
- Oracle's bet on the cloud pays off as revenues soar
- Government boosts digital skills drive with £170m Institutes of Technology
- Alphabet's X aims to use light beams to bring broadband to rural India
December 15
- More than a million UK properties don't have access to 'decent' broadband speeds
- TRITON malware threatens industrial machinery with physical damage
- US regulator kills net neutrality with rule repealing vote
- Natwest changes website security following heated exchange with cyber experts
- Microsoft infuses Office 365 with AI capabilities
- NASA and Google AI have found a hidden eighth planet circling star Kepler-90
- A third of IT pros will seek new roles in 2018
December 14
- Apple's iMac Pro goes on sale today starting at £4,899
- 99% of businesses haven't built anything with blockchain
- UKIP appeals against the ICO's demand for election data details
- Mirai: Trio confesses to creating the world's most powerful DDoS botnet
- Box now wants to drive your digital initiatives
- Financial firms are gearing up for a 2018 cloud shopping spree
- BP doubles its R&D supercomputer power
December 13
- York becomes the third UK city to reject Uber
- Facebook to make sweeping changes to how it pays tax
December 12
- SEC chairman warns investors to be wary of ICOs
- FCC to hand ISP oversight to FTC as net neutrality repeal looms
- IBM wants to make it easy to code bots
- Awards celebrate 2017's women in tech
December 11
- Keylogger discovered in hundreds of HP laptops
- John Lewis Partnership CIO Paul Coby prepares to hand over the reins
- Hybrid cloud fuels spike in server spending, says Gartner
- Cisco furthers multi-cloud mission with Cmpute.io acquisition
- EU intervenes in Microsoft and US's data privacy battle
- Cyber security spending will hit $96bn in 2018
- Qualcomm and Baidu join forces to work on Snapdragon-powered AI tech
December 8
- Hilton embraces IoT smart home technology in its hotel rooms
- UK government "reckless" over lack of Brexit border IT investment
- Apple rapidly squashes iOS 11.2 HomeKit bug
- Nvidia reveals Titan V, its AI-focused graphics card
- Deep learning startup Chattermill raises £600k
- VMware adds management tool to cloud platform
December 7
- Judge dismisses a gender pay gap lawsuit against Google
- Google's DeepMind AI masters chess, beating expert software
- 'Tens of millions' exposed to hackers by banking app security flaw
December 6
- OpenStack prioritises container security with Kata
- Microsoft Azure deploys latest AMD chips for storage workloads
December 5
- Ireland to start collecting Apple's €13 billion tax bill
- Task force silences massive Andromeda botnet
- 90,000 UK firms source their office kit from Amazon Business
December 4
- The UK Cloud Awards 2018 are open for business
- 'Sobering' diversity figures in IT must improve, says BCS
- Facebook's new London office will host a startup incubator
- Qualcomm wants the iPhone X banned over Palm patent infringement
- Google brings AI camera tools to the Raspberry Pi
December 1
- Morrisons found liable for staff data breach
- HPE partners with industrial robotics firm ABB
- Google Chrome soon to shun third-party software
- UK cops to lose access to Europol's cyber crime resources after Brexit
- UK police to lose data snooping powers
- Colt touts technical prowess having been certified as AWS competent
- Box revenues grow 26%, despite shareholder worry
- HPE unveils OneSphere multi-cloud management platform
- Intel's Diane Bryant named as Google Cloud's COO
- AWS brings Amazon Alexa voice commands to the office