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August 31
- IT staff believe their own companies are keeping cyber attacks secret
- Firefox will block ad tracking by default in privacy revamp
- California bill gives net-neutrality campaigners new hope
- Email on your commute? That should count as work
- Apple snaps-up AR lenses startup
- Box developing AI to hunt for data breaches
- Box unveils AI-building toolkit
- Google, Facebook and Twitter to testify at US Senate
August 30
- Microsoft's AI-powered Sketch2Code can build apps from whiteboard sketches
- Passport details potentially lifted from Air Canada app
- Dell announces its first premium 2-in-1 Chromebook
- Institute of Coding launches £2.3m Future Projects Fund to boost digital skills
- UK gov to build a cyber centre in Kenya and tap into African tech potential
- Box's Activity Stream feature lets users see what colleagues are up to
August 29
- IBM Watson powers player analysis at US Open
- Microsoft adds automated transcription to OneDrive
- Flaw in Fiserv banking platform exposed personal data
- Intel's new Whiskey Lake and Amber Lake chips promise faster Wi-Fi, longer battery life
- Government faces legal challenge over immigrant data rights
- UK faces post-Brexit tech skills shortage
- VMware updates multi-cloud platform
- GDPR hasn't sparked rise in spam - so far
August 28
- These are officially the most hated email phrases
- Google denies Trump's claim that it's meddling with search results
- Vulnerability spotted in Fortnite Android installer
- GPs allowed to ditch paper prescriptions for digital
- DCMS commits £1.4m to boost diversity in the tech industry
- Slack developer creates Windows 95 app for MacOS, Windows, and Linux
- Google Drive vs Microsoft OneDrive head-to-head review
August 24
- Growing 'anti-vaxx' online debate pinned on Russian botnets
- Microsoft accused of 'bribery and corruption'
- West Ham accidentally leaks hundreds of supporters’ personal data
- LinkedIn update adds remote job searches and salary data
August 23
- Facebook pulls Onavo app after violating Apple's privacy rules
- Google tracks user data even when they go 'Incognito'
- ICO website knocked offline for more than 24 hours
- "Incredibly dangerous" RCE flaw found in Apache Struts 2
- M-Files releases M-Files Online to break down cloud barriers
- Companies 'ignore compliance risk in race to adopt cloud'
August 22
- Leaky API exposes Black Hat attendees’ personal data
- CEOs frustrated with company boards' short-termist view on digital transformation
- Superdrug warns customers to change passwords after hacking threat
- Three UK universities recognised for excellence in cyber security
- Slack now worth a whopping $7bn
August 21
- The NHS lost almost 10,000 patient records last year
- Is tech as addictive as drugs and alcohol?
- IBM launches AI travel platform
August 20
- Faulty cable takes out Gatwick Airport departure boards
- Half of the world’s most popular sites are 'at-risk'
- This live map of every London Underground tube train will make you appreciate open data
- AI will cause 'technological unemployment'
- EU will fine social media firms for failing to remove extremist material
- Superfast broadband gives UK businesses £9 billion boost
- Google hands over data centre cooling controls to AI
- Samsung creates 'world first' 6Gb/sec 3GPP 5G modem
- Intel snaps-up startup Vertex.AI
August 17
- Vulnerabilities in web applications at the heart of 73% of breaches, Kaspersky finds
- Australian teen 'hacked Apple mainframe', sparking FBI investigation
- Twitter kills support for third-party clients
- Google staff rally against censored Chinese search engine
- Imperva uncovers Google Chrome vulnerability
- Google One launch brings cheaper storage for US customers
- Worldwide security spending to exceed $124 billion by next year
August 16
- A-level results day 2018: University uptake for STEM subjects flat despite more A-level entries
- Basic Wi-Fi could be used to detect weapons and bombs
- M&S to replace call centre staff with an AI chatbot
August 15
- Samsung Galaxy Note 9 hands-on: To buy or Note to buy?
- Three new Spectre-style flaws revealed that affect Intel chips
- Digital transformation firm Shaping Cloud gets £1.4m boost
- Systems 'attacking each other by accident' the greatest risk of military AI
- Instagram users locked out by mysterious Russian hack
- Weetabix calls up Marval MSM for support services
August 14
- ICO unveils new tech strategy to tackle digital hurdles
- Nvidia reveals Turing GPUs, the chip at the heart of its series 11 cards
- Mobile apps now most common method of fraud
- DeepMind’s AI can detect eye disease as accurately as world-leading doctors
- Nvidia's new GPUs can handle real-time ray tracing
- Sainsbury's uses smart tech to launch till-free shopping initiative
- ALDO chooses Digitate's Ignio platform to automate its IT
August 13
- Vulnerabilities in fax machines could let hackers infiltrate a network
- GCHQ: 5G could open doors to 'cyber rogues'
- Butlins data breach hits 34,000 users
- Gov ploughs a further £780m into tech hub innovation drive
- Tesla chief engineer heads to Apple for a secret car project
August 10
- Smart city hacks could turn criminals into "supervillains"
- Mobile point-of-sale exploit exposes customers to card fraud
- Amazon moves to make Alexa available for all car makers
- New ‘facial recognition’ tool could help white hat hackers harvest social media profiles
August 9
- WhatsApp exploit lets hackers manipulate group chat messages
- Hackers take a swing at the Ryder Cup
August 8
- Meltdown and Spectre: Samsung Galaxy S7 vulnerable to Meltdown hack
- UK-based IT professionals twice as likely to moonlight as cyber criminals
- Elon Musk: Taking Tesla private is best path for the company
- OpenEMR flaws left millions of health records exposed
- TSMC cyber attack was apparently caused by WannaCry
August 7
- FCC admits net neutrality DDoS attack was work of fiction
- Facebook will revamp Pages for small businesses to fight declining organic reach
- Duo unravels massive three-tiered ‘crypto-giveaway’ botnet
- Gov to inject STEM centres with £13 million of funding
- Android Pie release date, features, and news: Google unveils Android Pie, but what is it filled with?
- AI considered 'silver bullet' for cyber security challenges
August 6
- SAP expands S/4HANA’s AI tools
- Avast pulls latest CCleaner update following privacy outrage
- Quarter of Brits worried about losing jobs to automation
August 3
- Arm acquires Treasure Data to boost Pelion IoT platform
- Cisco to buy Duo Security for $2.4bn
- Hackers use 200,000 insecure Brazilian routers to mine cryptocurrencies
- Apple becomes the world's first trillion-dollar company
- We're addicted to our phones, according to Ofcom
August 2
- Amazon apparently planning to ditch Oracle 'within two years'
- Amnesty International blames ‘hostile government’ after Israeli-made spyware targets staff
- US joint taskforce arrests three members of FIN7 cybercrime group
- Starbucks to use Alibaba to froth up presence in China
- Huawei pips Apple to second place in the smartphone market
- Reddit suffers massive breach as all user data before 2007 is compromised
- WhatsApp will start charging businesses to chat with customers
- Facebook cuts off user data access for thousands of apps
- Android P developers plot battery power boost
August 1
- Apple results: Tim Cook "thrilled" by sales of pricier iPhone X models
- Need a chief data officer? Maybe you should rent instead of hire
- Cloud spending now swallows 20% of IT budgets
- AI investment will soar to $232 billion by 2025
- Businesses urge government to roll out full fibre by 2025