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May 31
- Researchers uncover new exploits in voice-powered assistants like Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant
- More than half of organisations remain unprepared for IT outages
- The 10 worst excuses for male-dominated company boards
- Intel accused of age discrimination after worker layoffs
- GCHQ helps England team avoid Russian hackers at World Cup
- IoT revenue opportunity to exceed $1 trillion by 2025
May 30
- Microsoft becomes more valuable than Google
- Give DCMS responsibility for GDS, urges think tank
- EU sinks UK hopes for post-Brexit role for UK in developing data protection laws
- UK to impose drone laws, with tech set to boost GDP by £42bn
- Kaspersky spots spike in World Cup phishing scams
- Finally, the PC market is growing more stable
May 29
- Schrems strikes again, filing GDPR complaints against Facebook and Google
- Russia demands that Apple removes Telegram from App Store
May 25
- PGP isn't broken and you don't need to disable it, says inventor
- NHS launches data-sharing 'opt-out' tool for patients across England
- ICO 'inundated' with SMB calls asking for GDPR guidance
- Box Zones now supports multi-zone storage for regulatory peace of mind
May 24
- Meetings make people less productive, study finds
- Local government slow to adopt cloud services, research shows
- Champions League final 'faces hacking threat'
- Philip Hammond promises full fibre connections for 15m premises
May 23
- Firms need to prep for the data 'gold rush'
- Zuckerberg sails through European Parliament's questioning
- Blockchain and IoT are "irreconcilable" with GDPR
- London hospital to use AI to cut A&E waiting times
- Satya Nadella: Microsoft will build ethical AI
May 22
- Spec 2018: Slack lets developers build and test apps inside desktop client
- Samsung is opening a new AI centre in Cambridge
- Google and Microsoft discover new Spectre variant
- University of Greenwich fined £120,000 for breach of sensitive data
- Dell rules out sale, but still considers reverse spin-off with VMware
- 25% of organisations lack confidence in cloud storage
May 21
- Microsoft buys conversational AI startup Semantic Machines
- Microsoft to take on the iPad with 'cheaper Surface range'
- UK government draws up new laws after social media firms spurn abuse talks
- NHS to improve cancer treatment by applying AI to its wealth of data
- Roaming Mantis malware is now 'spreading across the globe'
- Mobile banking to 'overtake online services' by 2019
- Three kills off 3G mobile phones
- Intel finally reveals 10nm Cannon Lake processors
May 18
- Rackspace releases its own managed Kubernetes service
- Chrome continues HTTP phase-out by removing 'secure' icon from HTTPS sites
- UK households receive half the broadband speed they pay for, report reveals
- NHS England’s £330m cost-cutting deal with Capita 'put patients at risk'
- Ocado strikes US deal to roll out online shopping tech
- Trump's Iran nuclear deal withdrawal could spark cyber war, experts warn
- PayPal snaps up iZettle to boost in-store payments
May 17
- WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins wants phone transcript suppressed
- UK tech industry growth outpaces the rest of Britain's economy
- EE and BT to converge 4G and fibre networks
May 16
- US Senate saves net neutrality – for now
- Kaspersky to relocate infrastructure to Switzerland for transparency
- Researchers create world's smallest ever nano-drone with AI capabilities
- John McAfee goes “on the run” from the SEC
- Facebook allows advertisers to target users based on sensitive data
- MPs in a muddle over GDPR and storing voters' personal data
- Citrix quietly ditches Xen and NetScaler brands days after Synergy 2018
- Meet Google One, the cloud giant's new paid storage tier
May 15
- Salesforce launches Innovation Centre for customers and partners
- NHS to trial 'video selfies' to verify patient identities
- 4 million Facebook users' details 'exposed by Cambridge academics'
- Salesforce appoints a data protection officer
- Facial recognition technology is "dangerously inaccurate"
- HP boosts premium PC and laptop lineups
- NCA complains that encryption hampers crime fighting
May 14
- Facebook suspends hundreds of apps for misusing user data
- Facebook faces class action lawsuit for Android call and message data scraping
- Malware hiding Android apps return to Google Play after a simple name change
- HSBC claims first trade transaction with blockchain
May 11
- NHS Highland hospital trials IoT enabled medical beds
- First AI undergraduate degree launches in the US
- One year on from WannaCry and UK firms are exposed to cyber threats more than ever
- Apple's iPhone Messages app falls foul to 'Black Dot' Unicode iOS bug
- Ryanair flies away from Microsoft and into AWS cloud
- Moneyball author Michael Lewis calls for better use of big data at Citrix Synergy 2018
- Apple abandons Irish data centre amid planning delays
May 10
- Apple given permission to use drones to improve Apple Maps
- Condoleezza Rice warns against threat of cyber warfare at Citrix Synergy 2018
- Government unveils GovTech £20m competition to tackle Britain's social problems
- BT is slashing 13,000 jobs and plans to leave central London
- Windows-based CLI susceptible to process injection attack
- StubHub selects Google Cloud and Pivotal for digital transformation drive
May 9
- Intel won’t patch new Spectre-like chip vulnerabilities for another 12 days
- MPs urged to reject migrant clause in Data Protection Bill debate
- Red Hat teams up with IBM, Microsoft to streamline hybrid cloud app development
May 8
- Industry collaboration was the "silver lining" of Meltdown and Spectre
- Microsoft wants to make Azure your AI destination
May 4
- Australian information watchdog slammed for keeping tight-lipped over lost banking data
- Instagram starts trialling in-app payments
- Amazon adds money making to Alexa skills
- Twitter alerts users after squashing password revealing internal bug
- Microsoft can't commit on Cortana and Alexa integration deadline
May 3
- Dell simplifies thin client portfolio with new Wyse 5070
- Scammers are using GDPR email alerts to conduct phishing attacks
- Up to 270 women 'may have died' due to breast cancer screening IT error
- Gartner data shows CIOs aren't fussed about blockchain
- Cambridge Analytica closes but ICO investigation rolls on
- BMW, Ford and General Motors steer towards blockchain tech to reinvent mobility industry
May 2
- Virtustream to launch blockchain-as-a-service offering
- True cloud and your business
- Apple reveals $100bn share buyback despite iPhone surplus
- Uber's license revoked in Brighton over data breach handling
- Facebook misses MPs deadline to answer data privacy questions
- Facebook F8: Facebook launches Clear History tool at its annual developer conference
- Great Western Railway website falls over, angering customers
May 1
- Dell launches new data centre hardware for AI and big data workloads
- Facebook reimagines Workplace as an automation tool
- UK FinTech faces major skills shortage by 2030
- Opera kills off mobile VPN
- WhatsApp’s Jan Koum cuts ties with Facebook amid claims of clashes over data privacy and encryption
- Fitbit and Google announce cloud collaboration to boost digital health and wellbeing
- Almost one million Brits still suffer with appalling broadband speeds, Ofcom report finds