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February 28
- Security expert dismisses RedDrop Android malware as "nothing new"
- Colt: Vendors have a moral duty to run green data centres
- Google receives 2.4 million right to be forgotten requests
- UK gov is making a "massive strategic error" on AI funding
- Microsoft brings Mac and Linux support to its Quantum Development Kit
February 27
- Asus Zenfone 5Z hands on: More than just an iPhone X lookalike
- Don't expect many AMD chips in our products, says Dell
- Why bots are the future of Facebook's enterprise platform
- Legacy IT and RoI fears limit public sector's cloud appetite
- Apple battery slowdown lawsuits to be heard in one court case
- Apple confirms iCloud is now a customer of Google Cloud
- GTT pays £1.7bn for Interoute's European fibre network
- PwC launches Tech She Can charter to boost women in tech
February 26
- Blockchain won't produce results until at least 2019
- Samsung DeX Pad hands-on: Turn your Galaxy S9 into your desktop
- New Ofcom proposals to bring full fibre to six million homes and offices by 2020
- Google creates tools to help businesses improve mobile site performance
- Intel didn’t warn US-CERT of Meltdown and Spectre until hacks were public
- N Brown Group moves Oracle apps into IBM Cloud
- Three, CA Tech and Volkswagen join forces to get kids interested in STEM
- Ericsson showcases potential for 5G to fuel digital transformation
- Samsung Max is a privacy-centric browser with data saving
February 25
- Nokia 8 Sirocco hands-on: Elegant, if outclassed
- Huawei MateBook X Pro hands-on: Interesting, but overpriced
February 23
- Global smartphone sales drop for first time since records began
- SAP HANA must navigate fears around licensing and skills
- Microsoft creates a bevy of Microsoft 365 tools to help handle GDPR changes
- Samsung breaks ground in extreme ultraviolet processor tech
- UK commits £1.8m to boosting airport security with AI
- HPE revenues rise fulled by server and network sales
- Major cities face ‘network gridlock’ without significant mobile infrastructure investment
- Intel will launch 5G-powered laptops in 2019
- Former Google engineer sues the search giant over Damore memo views
- De Montfort University launches a week of cyber security events
- SmilePass launches biometric security cloud offering
- Alibaba Cloud plays host to Red Hat Enterprise Linux
- 80% of customers don't trust chatbots for aftersales advice
February 22
- Cyber crooks are using SWIFT to launch new sophisticated attacks, security researchers warn
- WhatsApp co-founder Brian Acton is pouring $50m into secure messaging app Signal
- Elon Musk steps down from OpenAI board to dodge “potential future conflict”
- NHS calls for developers to submit digital healthcare apps
- Qualcomm unveils VR reference design based on Snapdragon 845
- Daisy 'to go on sale for £1 billion'
- Tesla's cloud hacked to mine cryptocurrencies
- Amazon seeks startups who can innovate around Alexa
February 21
- Hackers could 'weaponise AI', with devastating consequences
- Security teams turn to AI to fight hackers
- Vodafone will track and intercept drones with IoT
February 20
- A quarter of UK councils 'have been hacked'
- Google’s Project Zero discloses Edge browser bug after Microsoft didn’t fix it in time
- Facebook will send postcards to stop election interference
February 19
- Hackers target Jenkins servers for cryptocurrency
- Gartner: 25% of customer service operations will use chatbots by 2020
- Will Android P be called Pistachio Ice Cream?
- Intel faces 32 lawsuits over the Meltdown and Spectre flaws
- Church and state are set to use spires to boost rural connectivity
February 16
- Facebook faces massive fines over data collection in Belgium
- Autoglass harnesses AI to assess car screen cracks
- London still a 'major draw' for tech workers despite Brexit uncertainty
- 'BuckHacker' search tool lets users trawl through unsecure AWS buckets
- Google acquires LogMeIn's Xively IoT platform for $50m
- FedEx locks down unsecured Amazon S3 server that leaked customer data
- Google Chrome introduces automatic ad-blocker
- NotPetya ransomware: White House joins UK in blaming Russia for NotPetya cyberattack
February 15
- Researchers warn of nine vulnerabilities in Dell EMC's Isilon platform
- AWS lets users run SAP apps directly on SUSE Linux
- Intel ups bug bounty programme reward to $250,000 in light of Meltdown and Spectre
- Qualcomm unveils 'world’s first' 2Gps LTE modem, the Snapdragon X24
- Microsoft thinks blockchain can prove your digital identity
February 14
- How Adobe saved BT £630,000
- Google unveil test for chats with robots
- Facebook's Protect security feature is essentially Spyware
- Smart cities to become the norm by 2025
- Skype security flaw 'ignored' by Microsoft could allow hackers to gain access to users' computers
- 5G auction to proceed after Three's appeal court defeat
- ARM unveils processor design with dedicated machine learning capabilities
- Over half of IT workers are unhappy in their current job
- PowerON intros cloud device management and insight tools
- Hyperoptic super-charges broadband with 10Gb trials
February 13
- The 25 best books for IT leaders
- McAfee uncovers 'aggressive' Bitcoin-stealing phishing campaign by the Lazarus cyber crooks
- Flaw in Telegram app could spread malware
- Government unveils auto-blocking tool for extremist content
- 2018 smartphone sales to stagnate amid poor demand
- Oracle is integrating machine learning across all its platform-as-a-service offerings
- Court rules Facebook's privacy settings breached German data laws
February 12
- Uber vs Waymo: Uber settles Waymo lawsuit for $245 million
- Bitcoin-mining hackers hit government websites
- UK tech salaries trail behind the US amid Brexit uncertainty
- SSL-based cyber attacks surged 30% over the past six months
February 9
- Microsoft ditches passwords for Windows 10 S in test run
- Facebook to test the ‘down vote’ to tackle fake news and abusive comments
- Europe is the world's biggest target for DDoS attacks, F5 Networks claims
- PWC predicts a third of jobs could be lost to automation
- Apple plays down iBoot iOS code leak
- Social media 'as dangerous as obesity' claims Hunt
February 8
- Google is being sued for "knowingly" selling faulty Pixel and Pixel XL devices
- Aviva pensions platform falls over, as insurer stops taking support calls
- Ericsson enhances its 5G Platform for operators
- 76% of local government organisations suffered a cyber attack in the past year
- Google could be set to enter the video game business
- Intel re-issues Meltdown and Spectre patches with fresh code to rid users of performance issues
- Midcounties Co-operative moves all its data into Six Degrees cloud
- Workday creates startup fund for enterprise AI
- BT begins to share malware data with ISPs
- HP brings security and collaboration features to its latest hardware range
February 7
- Uber CISO: There was no justification for hiding data breach
- Microsoft will buy out your Box, Dropbox or Google contract
- Google Cloud upgrades Hangouts Meet hardware
- All 200 NHS trusts fail latest cybersecurity standards
- Lloyds Banking Group slashes CIO headcount
February 6
- Tablet sales decline for the 13th quarter in a row
- Apple and Cisco tempt businesses with cybersecurity discount
- 95% of data centre traffic will come from cloud by 2021
February 5
- British 'hacker' Lauri Love wins High Court appeal against US extradition
- NCSC blocks millions of cyber attacks launched against UK
- Gartner: By 2020, AI will create more jobs than it eliminates
- Dell weighs up IPO against VMware merger
- SAP confirms end date for mobile platform support
- Slack to ditch dedicated Apple Watch app
- EU accelerator Data Pitch ploughs €7.1m into 18 startups
- Microsoft says Office 2019 will only come to Windows 10
February 2
- Intel said to be selling majority stake in AR glasses business
- Google claims to be 'fastest growing' public cloud provider as revenue rockets
- ICO fines firm £300,000 for 8.7 million nuisance calls
- AWS revenues soar to help Amazon hit $3bn profit
- Zero-day flaw affects every version of Adobe’s Flash Player
- Cisco launches Kubernetes container platform
- UK firms prioritise private cloud over public cloud
February 1
- Microsoft Azure revenue up 98% as it closes gap on AWS
- Firefox users should update their browsers ASAP, security experts warn
- Openreach says it will connect 3 million premises by 2020 in new fibre pledge
- eBay dumps PayPal after 15 years together
- Surrey council digitises records with Box